This time of year, you can mix up the fine dining, theater- and concert- and museum-going, craft-beer tasting, historical sightseeing, and all the other cosmopolitan pleasures of San

The Sofia Hotel’s a short bike ride from one of San Diego’s most happening landmarks: the big, beautiful, and exciting Balboa Park.
Balboa Park is the perfect place to stroll and relax on one of those warm, sun-kissed days we specialize in here in Southern California, but there’s also a dense concentration of world-class educational and [...]

San Diego is one of America’s great cities, full of world-class urban charms. But there’s more to the town than great restaurants, theaters, theme parks, historical sites, and shopping districts: We’re also part of a unique Southern California ecosystem with its own miraculous—and primordial—happenings.
For example: One linchpin of the San Diego year is the spring-to-summer run [...]

One of the most exciting months in our neck of the woods is nearly here: It’s time again for the San Diego County Fair!
This year’s “Fab Fair” theme promises loads of new excitement alongside all the outrageous fun and fantastic entertainment this cherished event’s been delivering for better than a century.
Fab Fair Attractions
Fair visitors can expect [...]

It’s been a half-century since SeaWorld—now easily one of the world’s most famous oceanariums and theme parks—first opened its doors in our fair city, and this year the company’s celebrating that notable anniversary in a big way.
The Sofia Hotel is a short ride away from SeaWorld San Diego up on the edge of Mission Bay—we’ll make [...]

Feel like dancing in the street to the irresistible rhythms of a master accordionist, swooning over the soaring notes of an angelic-voiced soprano—or just trying your luck at a pasta-eating contest?
Such joys are to be had right here in San Diego this spring with the 21st running of the city’s spectacular (and free) Sicilian Festival—but a [...]