Avoid these 20 Common Mistakes in San Diego!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 พ.ค. 2024
- These are the 20 most common mistakes and incorrect assumptions that tourists make when they visit San Diego, California. I’m joined on this video by expert photographer and travel guru Jeff Graham from @PhotowalksTV . We want to help you plan the best trip to San Diego, and that's a mistake free trip to San Diego!
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
1. Trusting “near an attraction” descriptions of hotels
2. Don’t come for 2 days and think you can do it all
3. Thinking the best Mexican Food is in Old Town San Diego
4. Don’t fall for the white and red awning for Italian food
5. Not renting a car
6. Not planning for traffic
7. Trying to park downtown on a Padres Baseball night
8. Not getting up early enough / Sleeping too much
9. Drinking alcohol on the beach
10. Trying to take a picture at the beach with the sunset behind you
11. Getting too close to the seals in La Jolla
12. Thinking you can go on the pier in La Jolla
13. Getting a tattoo after a night of hitting the bars
14. Thinking the weather at the beach will be the same as 10 miles inland
15. Driving to the beach on a summer afternoon
16. Ignoring the beach is closed signs
17. Trying to find good food near the beach
18. Not wearing sunscreen
19. Thinking San Diego Zoo Safari Park is near the San Diego Zoo
20. Leaving your passport at home and crossing the border into Tijuana without a passport
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Neat that you saw Tom Cruise at the Midway!
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@@YellowProductions I would visit San Diego but still trying to get to Honolulu.
I have lived here my entire life and this is the best advice video for SD I have ever seen. Funny to see you here after watching you travel the globe! I’ll be sending this to everyone who wants to come visit. Today I’m heading down for a run at Mission Bay (yay for free parking!) and then to Convoy for an Asian lunch like most weekends 😊
Awesome Amy!
THANKS FOR THE INFORMATION
great video. I always watch your videos before I go to on a vacation. When in San Diego, I go to Filippis for Lasagna and I buy some grocery items on the way out. The place reminds me of some of the mom and pop italian corner stores that were in the neighbourhood where I grew up.
Such an informative video! I appreciate the insider tips to avoid common mistakes in San Diego.
Thanks!!!
Really great information Thanks Chris
My pleasure!
Love the video! I’m going to San Diego on the summer. Thanks. But Jeff is right. You can rent a car at CBX. Avis,Hertz and Budget.
Awesome. Thanks Rocio!
Number 1 is so true. Hotels always take the best angle for a picture and super saturate images to look amazing. I have seen horrible hotels that looked amazing in the picture.
Las Quatro Milpas for the best Mexican food. I love Felippi’s, but I know the one in Little Italy can be busy.
What do you like at Fillipis Jeannified?
@@YellowProductions I love their pizza. It is very cheesy (something my son doe3s not like), and both the cheese AND crust are buttery, too! We also like that they give you a big loaf or two of bread, as well as their salad. The salad is very good, and their homemade Italian dressing is GREAT!!! We typically order all of that from the Imperial Beach location, and bring it home, and eat comfortably in our home, while watching TV. I like the Little Italy location the best for ambiance, though. Also, that Italian market, at the front of the restaurant is great! I need to go back there and pick up a big hunk of pecorino cheese and terrone!
Love your vids, and SD.
Thank you!
Hi Chris. Thanks to you and Jeff on the great info. We have the same situation where people try to pet the seal and ignore the beach closed signs here in Hawaii. Both of you take care.
They need to learn to read the signs! :)
@@YellowProductions one can't stop stupidity.
I live close to the beach and it’s an absolutely nightmare when I have to go downtown, I don’t drive there not even during the week 😂 parking nightmare, plus people walking everywhere.
Came over to like Chris's vid since I was over at Jefferson's . Great vid as usual!
Thanks Knol
This is great information to know! Thankfully I avoided just about all of these when I went to San Diego for the first time last year. I remember having to park a couple blocks away from the main coastal road in La Jolla one afternoon (in the village area), but it wasn't too bad of a walk. It was a great way to work off that In-N-Out Burger! I did eat at one place in Mission Beach though. I went to a rooftop bar called Cannonball which had some really good sushi along with some nice views of the beach. However, I'm sure the sushi doesn't come anywhere close to the amazing sushi you can get in Japan!
Glad to hear you liked Cannonball... I was just in Mission Beach today :)
Always fun hanging with you Chris!
Most definitely!
Would you recommend the Hop On Hop Off Trolley for the downtown area, not sure how hard it is to find parking. Thanks, great video.
If you have a car already I'd just use it. Plenty of parking downtown as long as it's not the night of a baseball game. But yes, do expect to pay for parking
Thanks for this video, Chris. My hubby is half Sicilian and loves Little Italy. I agree with you about Filippis. I do, however, love the Italian cookies you can buy by the pound in the grocery section. What are your second and third recommendations after Mona Lisa?
I like Buon Appetito in Little Italy and Arrivederci in Hillcrest
I can’t wait to go to San Diego
There is good food by Moonlight Beach (Encinitas). It too has free parking that fills up quickly during the summer. This year Padres are so popular they are:"sort of " rationing the tickets so all of us can attend (still love my Dodgers too)
Loved the video.... I just wanted to add a couple of things:
1. Regarding "Beach City Food" being too touristy, I would say "it depends". Both Carlsbad and Encinitas have excellent restaurants within walking distance of the beach. Also, I love Mr. Bibi's Korean only a short walk from the Oceanside Pier. As a bonus, we just park near the restaurant first (very easy street parking) then do our walk on the pier and then come back. They now have a location of Handel's Ice Cream right next door as a bonus!
2. I think a mistake is people do not go inland. We live 4 miles from the beach in the La Costa area of Carlsbad. The canyons hikes there are fantastic, and not over congested and easy to do. So easy that you can do the hike in the afternoon, and still get to the beach for sunset. Double Peak Park has one of the best 360 views of the area and it feels more like you are in Colorado than California, until you see the ocean from up there, WOW!. Really changes your perspective (literally) of the San Diego County is.
3. Regarding sunset pictures, the last couple of versions of the iPhone allow you to simply touch the sun on your screen (so it no longer looks like a giant bomb) and then you no longer look like shadows in pictures.
4. There are non-descript strip malls (with low rent) that have family run places that are way better than you may think. I love Alice's (pronounced AL-LEE-CHE-Z) Italian and Super Donut #2 which are side by side and frequented more by locals, only 5 minutes away from the far more touristy "In and Out Burger" and "Crack Shack".
I mean, Carlsbad and Encinitas aren't San Diego, so it doesn't depend.
Filippi’s is great for pizza, so keep that in mind, that’s why there is a long line, their pizza is great.
Agree
Great collaboration! The video looked particular. Special camera?
Thanks Average Joe! Used the Sony A7SIII for the first half.. then my Samsung Galaxy S22 for the 2nd half
Go Padres!
as a person who lives in san diego, I approve and applaud this video :)
(except filipis is so worth it THE PIZZA IS SO GOOD 💞💞)
Thanks for your perspective on Fillipis 😀
Love the …BERTOS. Like baseball games at Petco Park, San Diego Comic Con (my favorite holiday) is a 4 day event; and you should plan way ahead for hotels and parking. You are right on with the good eateries Convoy, Hillcrest…All great information-thank you for sharing.
AVIS and HERTZ are at the CBX (Cross Border Xpress terminal). so you can rent a car when you land at TIJ and cross over the bridge to CBX
Thanks for the tip!
Are there many cruises down to Mexico running from San Diego Chris? I definitely want to visit this city but it feels like as someone from UK it would need to be coupled with another city (I've done LA already and regularly visit Vegas).
Yup! 75 cruise ships stop in San Diego every year. Most of them are Mexico cruises
I live in San Diego county I have never done these mistakes at all
I’m coming for a few days,where should I stay? Beach 🏖️
The Manhattan Beach Pier is the oldest surviving Concrete Pier in California and is California State Landmark 1018.
I don;t believe Manhattan Beach is made of concrete. I see wood pilings underneath every day.
I am coming in April. I have been there before. All your tips are dead on. You are now my San Diego go to person. 1 question, who has the best lobster rolls?
Awesome Marisa. Lobster West is the one I hear the most about... but I'm not a huge lobster roll fan so I don't have a personal data point on that one
@Yellow Productions I will add it to my list ty.I have a million things planned in my 4 day trip
The sunburns are no joke! Learned that on a vacation the hard way.
Ooof!
#1 Should be stay away from DownTown San Diego, and Trolley Stations....
A few thoughts...
If you go to Cabrillo National Monument (where the lighthouse is that Jeff Graham referenced), especially in the winter months when the tidepools are exposed, parking at the tidepools will fill up early. You can take a ride share there, but the problem is that there is no cell phone service at the tidepools to summon a return ride share back to the city. Arrange with your ride share driver to pick you up at a certain time.
Sadly, the beach closed signs are up most every day at Imperial Beach and Silver Strand State Beach not necessarily because of waves, but because of raw sewage entering the ocean from Tijuana.
It's also a little disappointing to see you dismiss our public transportation out of hand. Is it on a par with public transportation systems in other larger cities? Of course not. But if you're staying downtown / Embarcadero / Convention Center area, it can be a good option that gets you to many of San Diego's key attractions / neighborhoods.
The trolley will take you to Little Italy, Old Town, Snapdragon Stadium, SDSU, and Mission San Diego Basilica de Alcala if you head north on the Green Line or Little Italy, Old Town, and UCSD on the Blue Line. Heading south on the Green Line, you can visit Seaport Village, the Gaslamp Quarter, Convention Center / Petco Park. On the Blue Line, you can go to Barrio Logan and all the way to the San Ysidro border crossing.
From the Santa Fe Depot, you can catch the Rapid 215 bus (limited stops) which will drop you off at the San Diego Zoo main entrance in about 25 minutes. The #3 Bus will take you from Broadway St. up west of Balboa Park on 5th Ave. into Hillcrest. The #7 bus will take you up Park Blvd past Balboa Park and the Zoo to University Ave. and into North Park. The #2 bus will take you down Broadway to 30th St. and through South Park on its way to North Park.
The Pronto app for your phone makes riding and paying the $2.50 fare easy. (The most you'll be charged in a single day is $6.00 for riding as many times as you want-a virtual day pass.)
I rode MTS daily using a Rapid Bus from Otay Ranch to Balboa Park, and i use the trolley to get to Padres games or VA Medical Center La Jolla. Yes, just like walking down the street, there were a few people you kept your eye on while on the trolley or bus, but I always felt safe riding both. Yes, taking the "milk run" routes (2, 3, 7) will be slower than driving, but taking MTS also solves some of the parking issues and driving in rush hour traffic that you brought up in the video, too.
Yes, if you want to go to places like Torrey Pines, La Jolla, Del Mar, Encinitas, Carlsbad, or Escondido, a car is definitely needed.
Thanks for the extra detailed tips!
I have a pic of the Scripps Pier hanging above my couch
Neat!
It’s also much cheaper to fly out of Tijuana airport to anywhere in Mexico, rather than a US airport
4-6p. Traffic. ?? Ohh no. Traffic gets baadd from 230p. Every day except Sun. Lol
Fillippi’s is pretty terrible, and it’s a mini chain actually (I have one within a two minute walk of my home in Scripps Ranch) and I’ve tried five different locations and they’re worse than Buca di Beppo
Glad Im not the only one that feels that way :)
I've found that the best (most authentic) Mexican food can be found at restaurants with the word "taqueria" in them. One exception, Tacos el Gordo.
As in Tacos El Gordo has good tacos.. or not because it's not a taqueria? 😉
@@YellowProductions Tacos el Gordo is the exception that has good tacos even though they don't have the word "taqueria" in their name.
The Tijuana airport has all the major car rental companies, among them Enterprise, Hertz, Avis, and Budget.
Thanks Jon!
Honestly as a native most of the ___-burtos places all have the same kind of bland, undercooked, not much variety of taste, too much dough/tortilla Mexican food. A few specific things are good from most of those places, one had a Cheetos burrito that was delicious, but you have to always to trial and error to find out what. I recommend The Taco Stand in La Jolla. It's the original location, where they wrap the burritos PROPERLY. Most stuff there is good, although I'll never understand most peoples love of Taco's from their which are small and don't stay together, constantly a mess, you have to eat most of your food off the plate after it's fallen out. I'd get either the Cameron or Al Pastor burritos, although the California is good too. Cleaner, MORE food inside, compact, awesome, and you can actually dip it in sauce.
Other than that, everything else in the video is true 100%.
go to amy mom and pip shop there everywhere
A lot of this stuff is amazing. I would say if you like beer and don’t make it to NPBC, that is a big mistake. A lot of tourists just go to stone and that brewery is average at best.
I jus passed by you at Belmont Park was gonna say wassup but my antisocial side said nahhh 😂😂
Right on. Hello ;)
NOT ALL taco shops ending in “bertos” are good. Also, I appreciate you for saying filipis is trash lol
Chris, Filippis isn’t that bad. I like their pizza. Also I think Little Italy is the biggest tourist trap in the city.
I think Filippis pizza is a love or hate kind of thing
There are car rentals at the CBX, no need to grab a taxi or Uber!
Thanks for the tip!
Imperial Beach has a parking lot that you have to pay for.
Plenty of free street parking though
filippis pizza india street is much better than mona lisa, been in sd since 81
I've been eating there since 1962.
@@boatdriver9533 I'm in Brooklyn now. Pizza terrible. Filippi's is the best, India st location, I cry when I eat it. Some red wine with it, I lived at 1555 8th and I'd pick up the pizza on my moped, had it bungee corded to the back of the scooter
I think you have to pay to park at Del Mar beaches
Yeah... Del Mar is one of the outliers
Tommie Hollywood hotel is in Hollywood
Park and walk into Mexico and within an hour see your possessions from your car on a sidewalk sale in Mexico.
Yes it happens all the time.
No it doesn't. I've been parking in border parking lots and walking across for well over 20 years and never had anything stolen.
@@BillGreenAZ you must be right. The people that got police reports were all lying
@@burtvhulberthyhbn7583 If you were right you could provide links to news reports of it "happening all the time". I'll wait.
@@BillGreenAZ the news doesn't report this stuff. I was doing crime reports for SDPD 20 years ago that never made the news. Americans heads found in TJ mailboxes. Bodies found in drums of acid on this side of the border. Cartel bodies in trunks of cars in Claremont I drove past at least 6 times and never knew it until a neighbor called in the stink.
You think an auto 10852 makes the news??
@@burtvhulberthyhbn7583 You can't even keep your story straight. First it was possessions. Now it's heads and bodies.
These guys don't even know the difference between Mexican food and Tex-Mex. A lot of this "advice" is not specific to San Diego but common sense for probably every city.
If you are there for a Padres game, you just park in the lot of a trolley station a ways away and take the trolley, DUH. The photographer doesn't suggest just using your flash to get selfie at sunset, and then he calls Scripps Pier La Jolla Pier. Look at how pale these two are. I doubt that they ever spend any time on the beach.
Well, at least they direct people away from the places I like to go to.
first mistake is going to san diego 🥶🥶🥶