travel42 Hotel Review: Hotel del Coronado, Curio Collection

Hotel del Coronado, Curio Collection travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

This hotel, 10 minutes by car from downtown, is the most historic hotel in San Diego, deemed a National Landmark, and its conical red-tile roof and starched-white facade have been the face of the West Coast's privileged beachfront lifestyle since Del's debut in 1888.

Already a house of hallmarks, among The Del's many superlatives, it boasts being the world's largest wooden structure, a wedding cake of a place full of turrets and dormers culminating in tha...