Hard Rock Hotel San Diego

Location is great for the sea front and city. The staff were so friendly.

Strange arrangement for breakfast with a restaurant accessible from the hotel and the street.

Location was very convenient for an Angels game (4 min walk) and great location to at the end of the Gaslamp District. We just parked the. And and walk everywhere. (15-18 min) walk to Seaport Village.

Check-In staff was not as professional and gave misinformation about the parking and that the elevators needing your room card to be scanned in the elevator in order to use the elevator. Ask the valet staff about the self park parking garage around the corner is much cheaper.

The location for a concert at the Rady Shell can't be beat. You just walk up 100 steps over the convention center and down 105 steps and you're almost there. There are many places to eat nearby. Baja Rick's Cantina just across the street of the front entrance was excellent. Meze Greek Fusion around the corner is also superb.

I normally don't like to complain, but there were a few items that needed help. Despite only one light on the bathroom mirror working, the general lighting in the bathroom was a bit darker in the shower. The full heavy glass door on the shower was a bit sagging out of from top hinge, causing it to not shut completely. The blowdryer cord was only about 3 feet when extended, so it was difficult to dry hair while leaning over the sink -- the outlet was surprisingly towards the back of the counter down lower. The poor bed platform was larger than the mattress, and although the corners were padded in the same dark brown finish, we would always give a shout every time the corner caught our foot. I'm not sure if it was designed for a larger mattress or if the general plan was to take out as many ankles as possible. Despite the well sound insulated double paned windows and nice darkout curtains, the incessant ringing of the Gaslamp Quarter Tram railroad crossing every 15 minutes (and another 15 minutes for the opposite direction tram) kept ringing in my head all night. I don't know if they run larger intervals at night, but all I heard all night was the bing bing bing of the railroad crossing.