My son, hubby and I went jet skiing in San Diego at Luxury Jet Ski at the Harbor. I really love jet skiing. It’s been a passion of mine since I first went in 2016. Luxury Jet Ski purchases new jet skis every year so we were on 2020 skis. While I love everything about jet skiing, what I don’t like is before you can get to where you can jet ski without speed limitations it takes you approximately 8-10 minutes to get to that point. The first part of your jet skiing experience is at 5 mph. The skis will not go any faster to prevent you from getting a ticket. I can accept that. However, the jet ski company doesn’t really take this into account. They may tell you this at the beginning but then in the end, they are charging you an over the usage fee of $1.65 per minute. While the cost is $80 per hour, you don’t really get a full hour of jet ski rental. What you actually get is about 45 minutes and here is why. You can go pretty far out into the harbor. If you use your one hour and you are about 15 minutes away, then you are now over by 15 minutes. Let’s not forget that additional 8-10 minutes its going to take you to get through the 5 mph zone. For us, our $80 per hour rental ended up being $114.24 as we were charged the additional minutes.
After our jet skiing, we went back to the hotel to get cleaned up and changed so we could walk downtown and find dinner. The sad thing about downtown San Diego right now is there isn’t a lot of places open, even for take out. It’s definitely not the same experience before the pandemic. The homeless people and drug addicts have taken over and with no real security and or police down there to manage, restaurants are leery of opening. We did manage to try and couple of places as we could order margaritas, tacos, cuban and thai food to go. We did enjoy it but needless to say we didn’t stay too long but we did find some good food which we enjoyed at our hotel.
We stayed at the TownePlace Suites by Marriott which was downtown San Diego. The rooms were nice. A little cramped for four people but it was manageable. They also had a full kitchen in there but I’m not sure I would have wanted to cook with the stove and the beds being so close to each other. It just didn’t seem big enough or really sanitary. What I loved most about the place was the robot. If you wanted something from the snack area, a robot brought it to the door. It was cute. Also, the hotel is really nice and clean. Unfortunately due to the pandemic, nothing was opened. It was in a nice quiet area so we were able to walk around for a bit after hours. Also, there were quite a bit of food places and stores open if you wanted a late night beverage. We were able to park on the street and save on parking. I would definitely stay there again if it was just me and my husband.
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