La Jolla offers great views, great surfing, great food, and great shopping.
Check out the surfers at historic Windansea Beach. In November there are extreme low tides and the reef is accessible. You can walk way out onto the tide pools. It's a really great experience. Walk along the Cove and check out the caves. Visit the Museum of Contemporary Art. Take a stroll on Prospect St and check out the shops, galleries, and have some authentic Mexican food at Alfonso's. Then head to the Birch Aquarium at The Scripps Institution of Oceanography. It has a spectacular view of the bluffs over the Pacific Ocean.
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http://www.mcasd.org/
http://www.alfonsosoflajolla.com/
http://aquarium.ucsd.edu/
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Mission and Pacific Beach are your best bet for fun in the sun. Belmont Park has a vintage wooden roller coaster (one of two remaining seaside coasters on the west coast) as well as other rides. There is a boardwalk that runs the entire 3 mile length of both beaches. It's a great place to rent a bike or skates.
http://www.missionbeachonline.com/
http://www.belmontpark.com/
Some must see attractions are the world famous Zoo, Sea World, and Balboa Park. Balboa Park is the largest urban cultural park in the country. You can get a park passport which allows you entry to a dozen museums as well as the zoo.
http://www.balboapark.org/info/passport.鈥?/a>
http://www.sandiegozoo.org/zoo/index.php
My favorite museum in the park is the San Diego Model Railroad Museum. It has some of the largest model layouts in the world. It is really awesome and a real hidden gem. Kids get in free.
http://www.sdmrm.org/
Other attractions in the park are the Air and Space Museum, Ruben H. Fleet Science Center, the Natural History Museum, the Automotive Museum, the Hall of Champions, the Botanical Gardens, and the largest outdoor pipe organ in the world (free concerts on Sunday).
North County San Diego is home to the Zoo's Wild Animal Park. There are multi acre enclosures where herds of wild animals roam plus lots of hiking trails.
http://www.sandiegozoo.org/wap/index.htm鈥?/a>
The San Diego Botanical Gardens are in Encinitas
http://www.sdbgarden.org/
Take the trolley from Downtown to Old Town. There is a state park there that recreates life in the Mexican and early American periods of 1821 to 1872. There are also a lot of restaurants in the area. Pizza Bella has the best pizza in town as well as homemade Italian food.
http://www.oldtownsandiegoguide.com/
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The Old Point Loma Lighthouse at the Cabrillo National Monument offers great views of the downtown skyline, San Diego Harbor and the Pacific Ocean. On a clear day you can see all the way to Mexico.
http://www.nps.gov/cabr/
The USS Midway is an aircraft carrier turned into a museum
http://www.midway.org/
For nightlife, the Gaslamp Quarter offers dining, drinking and dancing. It's also the home of Petco Park and the San Diego Padres major league baseball team.
http://www.gaslamp.org/
Pacific Beach also has some great nightlife.
http://www.pubclub.com/sandiego/pacificb鈥?/a>
Check out these sites for discount coupons and other info
http://www.sandiego.org/nav/Visitors
http://thebestplacesinsandiego.com/
Bars? Try Top of the Hyatt, and maybe the Hotel Del Coronado.
Restaurants -- I'd go on 5th Avenue and see what you like... maybe Propect Street in La Jolla. There are a lot of options so it depends on what you like.
Nightclubs... maybe Cafe Sevilla when they do dancing.
It depends a bit too on how old you guys are and how much you're looking to spend.My husband and I are taking a 4 day vacation in San Diego in November, I need unique places to go...ideas?
Have a San Diego golf vacation on one of its famous golf courses, The Pala Mesa Resort Golf Course. Its place is accented with magnificent oaks, sycamores, and elms with spectacular mountain views. You could truly relax and feel the serenity in this place.
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