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

Labor Day weekend sees another installment of one of San Diego’s most unique annual events: the U.S. Sand Sculpting Challenge and 3D Art Exhibition. The marvelous bayside fun all goes down a stone’s throw from the Sofia!
From 9 a.m. on Friday, August 30 to 7 p.m. on Monday, September 2, some of the planet’s finest [...]

You’ve never fully experienced San Diego if you haven’t spent some time in its bustling, historic linchpin—the Gaslamp Quarter. This is a shopping and entertainment district of formidable heritage accessible on foot from the Sofia.
Shopping
The Gaslamp is a mecca for shoppers—and for anyone looking to access a bit of San Diego’s history via a neighborhood [...]

We’re fortunate to be living during an absolute renaissance of craft beer: a time when a slew of creative and devoted brewers take some inspiration from a rich international heritage, combine it with outside-the-box thinking and a playful, adventurous spirit, and come up with beverages of spectacular variety.
If you’ve got a room at the Sofia [...]

At once sobering and achingly beautiful, Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, just 10 miles west of the Sofia Hotel, is one of the metro area’s most rewarding destinations.
Set on Point Loma immediately north of Cabrillo National Monument—the site of the first European landfall on the West Coast—the cemetery marks the final resting place of about 100,000 [...]

One of the most beautiful sites in the entire San Diego region is an easy half-hour drive north from the Sofia Hotel—a journey through time, really, as you leave the urban hustle and bustle and cross a threshold into the realm of ancient, wild Southern California.
We’re talking here about the Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve, [...]