Hotel at a Glance: Carte Hotel San Diego Downtown, Curio Collection by Hilton

Carte Hotel San Diego Downtown is an upscale facility located in San Diego’s Little Italy. It features an exclusive rooftop bar and lounge, full-service restaurant, rooftop swimming pool, and large, comfortable rooms.

• The rooms: Equipped with a huge HD TV, mini-refrigerator, and in-room safe, they come with a view of the city through floor-to-ceiling windows.
• Watercolors: This sea-to-table restaurant uses locally sourced ingredients to create premium world cuisine.
• Above Ash Social: This rooftop bar and lounge with a magnificent view of the bay and Point Loma Mountains serves locally-inspired cuisine and handcrafted cocktails.
• Nearby attractions: Little Italy and its farmers’ market, Embarcadero waterfront, San Diego Zoo

San Diego, California: Electric Nightlife and Historical Attractions

San Diego’s sunny, comfortably warm weather and 70 miles of coastline have long attracted out-of-towners, but the city’s inland scene is no slouch, either. The Gaslamp Quarter is arguably the trendiest listing on the National Register of Historic Places. The area forms both the historic center of town and a hub of nightlife, with nearly 100 Victorian-era buildings occupied by high-end boutiques and gourmet restaurants.

A stroll through iconic Balboa Park takes you past 17 museums, as well as the world-famous San Diego Zoo. There’s also the vibrant Spanish Village Art Center, a living gallery where local artists produce pottery and oil paintings. In Old Town, shops in Mission-style stucco buildings sell colorful woven baskets and maracas. Nearby stands the Whaley House Museum, dubbed one of the Most Terrifying Places in America by the Travel Channel. Ghosts of former residents are said to inhabit the rooms, which are filled with Victorian furniture and eerie dolls.