Photo Credit: Hotel Del Coronado
San Diego does luxury a little differently. Here, five-star stays come with ocean breezes, rooftop cocktails, and that sun-soaked, Southern California ease you can’t quite replicate. Whether you’re after a clifftop retreat in La Jolla, a Mediterranean-style hideaway in Rancho Santa Fe, or something sleek and social downtown, these are the hotels that define the city’s most elevated escapes—where the service is…

