Aug
02
2008
Days Inn, Lombard Street, San Francisco: revisited! A REMINDER !
New owners doing their best to run service into the ground
Sometimes when you find a place, a little hole in the wall place, a place you can count on time and time again—it’s the right price, located in the right place even includes free parking and free Internet, you take for granted that it will always be this place. But nothing is forever… and once it stops being that place, it’s hard for it to ever recover. Because once trust is betrayed there is forever doubt…
This is a story of such a place that betrayed our trust. And because they made it so miserable for us, challenging us by saying things like, “tell whoever you want, we never want for business!” we would like to remind people that such betrayers of trust are defiantly out there! They think we the people are powerless against them and their poor service, that we don’t have choices, that our voices won’t be heard nor our warnings heeded! This event happened to us in 2006—I told you don’t cross us! We’ll tell the world about it!
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Jun
25
2008
Review Date: Mar 15, 2008
Liquor License: yes
Address: 1410 Rosecrans St., (between Fenelon St & Garrison St), San Diego, CA 92106
Open Since: 8/2007
Down to Earth, Up with Style – our prevailing “personality” is fun, easygoing and accessible. The Pearl reimagines a classic California hotel atmosphere, allowing the spirit of mid-century design to thrive anew through artwork, furnishings and architecture. Truly, this is a San Diego hotel borne of honest instinct and inspiration that’s a must-stay Southern California destination–for business, for pleasure, or for both.
Run, don’t stumble, to The Pearl in Point Loma, San Diego. They’ve completely redone an old sailor’s dive into a very hip, very funky little gem with a sense of humor. The rooms feature platform beds, fishbowl lighting fixtures with actual fish in them, 36-inch flat panel TV’s on the wall, free-standing showers, and very comfortable and happening furnishings. They also boast a Dive-In Movie, where they show movies on a huge screen on the second floor railing over the pool. There are huge beach balls floating all over the pool and poolside service. Omigod how I wished it were later in the year and the pool was heated. It is heated later in the year, but damn the luck for coming in February. We love this place and will be coming back.
The best part? If you stumble in after midnight, you can get any unsold room for $79. Beat that. Daddy-O.
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