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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here. Lafayette could work!

A friend from San Diego said it would be worth staying near the beach - La Jolla, Paciifc beach or ocean beach.

These look lovely, but are about 25 mins to zoo.

Any thoughts on:

Ocean Park Inn (pacific beach)

Grande Colonial La Jolla  (looks nice, but 30 mins drive and pricey)

Inn by the sea (la Jolla)

Would it be worth staying somewhere like that? Or closer in (La Quinta old town or Lafayette)? What is traffic like?

Thanks!

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I'm the pp who recommended the Lafayette.  I've been to San Diego a lot recently on family business, and I've stayed everywhere from the Lafayette to a condo in La Jolla to Ocean Beach.  I really like La Jolla, but it is a pretty quiet residential town, and isn't the first place I would take a child.  I enjoy Ocean Beach, but it is pretty funky, and there are some interesting characters that hang out there.  If you're alone with your daughter, you may feel more comfortable in Pacific Beach.  For what you want to do, and because of the length of your trip, I would recommend staying in either Pacific Beach or the Lafayette (I think I'd choose based on whether I wanted to spend more time at Balboa Park/Zoo or the beach).  I'm really not that impressed with "Old Town" San Diego area.

It's really not that far from Balboa Park to the beach area, and I've made that trip dozens of times and only encountered traffic right at rush hour (which is pretty short) and prime beach time on the weekends.  Even then, traffic isn't really bad at all by DC standards.  There's a bit of choke point where you get off the freeway for the turns onto the beach roads (near Sea World), but traffic still moves relatively smoothly.  If I had an appointment at the beach, I would allow 20 minutes to get there from the Balboa Park area, and I was never late.  [/quote]

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