San Diego, United States

Granger Hotel

Price per night from$220.84

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If you haven’t entered any dates, the rate shown is provided directly by the hotel and represents the cheapest double room (inclusive of taxes and fees) available in the next 60 days.

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Style

Wild-at-heart heritage

Setting

Gallery-lined Gaslamp Quarter

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In the 20th century, the historic building that’s now home to hip Granger Hotel was temporarily a zoo — you’ll find nods to its past in the lounge’s zebra-print sofas and bedrooms’ gilded bird lampstands. For a suitably contemporary traveler, though, this Gaslamp Quarter bolthole earns its stripes with a loved-by-locals café and gallery-like art studio. With help-yourself snacks on each floor and recommendations-armed staff that moonlight as bartenders, you’ll find that Granger is anything but a one-trick pony. 

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A welcome cocktail and after-hours art studio access, plus a room upgrade and flexible check-in and -out (subject to availability)

Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

96, including four suites.

Check–Out

11am; check-in, 4pm. Both are flexible, on request and subject to availability.

More details

Rates at Granger Hotel exclude breakfast, which is available for $27.95 each at 5th & Lox. There’s an amenity closet on each floor with free coffee and snacks, in lieu of an in-room minibar.

Also

There are five ADA-compliant rooms across the Granger City King, Granger Double and Gaslamp Corner Loft Suite categories, plus the communal areas of the hotel and public restrooms are accessible.

At the hotel

Art studio, charged laundry service and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: TV with streaming services, air-conditioning, mini fridge and Le Labo bath products; suites each also have a Marshall speaker, bathrobes and slippers.

Our favourite rooms

A pretty string of arched windows adorn the fourth floor of Granger Hotel’s over-a-century-old building — if you can bag the Gaslamp Loft Corner Suite on this level (FYI, it’s room 412), you’ll be rewarded with dual-aspect views of the lively downtown neighborhood.

Packing tips

A cobalt-blue chore jacket to look the part at your after-hours showaround of Walter Redondo’s on-site art studio; throw in a sketchbook too if you’re feeling extra creative.

Also

If a high step count from roaming the Gaslamp Quarter isn’t cardio enough for you, you'll get free access to hotel partner and nearby gym Anytime Fitness for round-the-clock workouts.

Pet‐friendly

Up to two dogs (of a combined weight of 40lb) are welcome to stay in any room at Granger Hotel for a one-off charge of $100. See more pet-friendly hotels in San Diego.

Children

Welcome, but this hip hotel is geared more towards grown-ups. The Granger Double and Gaslamp Loft Corner Suite both sleep up to four; the Two Bedroom Loft Suite accommodates eight. Breakfast is free for under-13s.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

On one of the low-slung sofas at breakfast for a leisurely opener to your day.

Dress Code

Pajamas could fly at 5th & Lox, as long as they’re a silky Sleeper set, otherwise come dressed for the day. At the Parlor Room and Lobby Bar, casual but cool is the aesthetic.

Hotel restaurant

There’s no formal restaurant, but you’ll find 5th & Lox, the hotel’s breakfast area that’s kitted out with lush plants and curated furnishings, in the far corner of the convivial first floor. A buffet spread is laid out each morning with fueling favorites such as overnight oats, fresh fruit, bagels and toast, bacon, eggs and a daily hot special. During the day, you can also pick up a craft brew and buttery pastry from Solana Coffee, set in the lobby’s Parlor Room — linger in the sociable space or take them to go.

Hotel bar

Start your stay with a welcome tipple at the Lobby Bar, which doubles as reception — staff here are also trained bartenders, conveniently. Dressed in velvet, marble and gilded furnishings, the Parlor Room is an intimate bar with classic cocktails and polished bar snacks. Soon-to-open Bond will be the hotel’s bottle shop and tasting room. 

Last orders

Breakfast at 5th & Lox is served daily from 7.30am to 10am. Solana Coffee opens from 7am to 4pm (from 7.30am, weekends); the space then becomes the Parlor Room from 5pm to 2am. The Lobby Bar opens 7am to 2am.

Room service

For all-hours munchies, each floor has a help-yourself amenity closet with free coffee and snacks. The hotel partners with local café Extraordinary Desserts — you can order their moreish cakes and sandwiches to your door via the QR code in your room.

Location

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Address
Granger Hotel
964 Fifth Avenue
San Diego
92101
United States

You’ll find Granger Hotel in the Gaslamp Quarter, a vibrant neighborhood known for its nightlife and theatres in downtown San Diego.

Planes

San Diego International Airport can be as quick as a 15-minute drive from the hotel, depending on the time of day.

Automobiles

Although there’s valet parking at Granger Hotel for $68 a night, you don’t necessarily need a set of wheels while in San Diego — taxis are easily arranged and the Gaslamp Quarter is best taken in on foot — unless you plan on venturing to the coast.

Worth getting out of bed for

There are many sides to San Diego and, at Granger Hotel, you’re well placed to get to know them all intimately. Your Gaslamp Quarter locale is an apt way to familiarize yourself with its cultural clout: find independent boutiques and buzzy bars along Fifth Avenue; swing by restored Balboa Theatre for a live performance; or pop into Sparks Gallery for contemporary artworks in a historic setting. Nearby Balboa Park is a sprawling space with the city’s main museums, several gardens — we like the cacti-clad desert one — and the Spreckels Organ Pavilion, which hosts outdoor concerts. 

Scenic trails through Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve, along Sunset Cliffs and up Cowles Mountain will deliver fresh-air fixes, as will days spent on locally loved La Jolla beaches, such as Windansea and Marine Street. Ocean Beach was a Seventies surfing hub, and still draws a crowd for its laidback vibe and eye-catching pier. 

Local restaurants

Buckle up for dinner at chophouse-slash-butcher-shop Cowboy Star, where wild-game dishes, craft cocktails and hand-cut steaks put a polished spin on Western classics. Sushi Maru authentically emulates a Japanese omakase restaurant, with its counter seating and seasonal set menus, which spotlight delicate nigiris and specialty ingredients such as snow crab and uni. Tijuana-style tortillas draw an in-the-know crowd to Tacos El Gordo, a fuss-free taquería that stays open till the early hours.

Local cafés

Start your day at terrace café Spill the Beans for breakfast bagels and freshly brewed coffee.

Local bars

You’ll need a reservation — and to find the door (hint: it’s in the back of Neighborhood bar) — to score entry to speakeasy Noble Experiment; smugness is your reward, as are expertly crafted cocktails and ‘caviar bumps’. A classic dive in Little Italy, Waterfront Bar & Grill is a cornerstone of San Diego’s hospitality scene: locals love it for its frozen-in-time interiors, sliders to share and jugs of beer. 

Reviews

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Anonymous review

By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this heritage hotel in the Gaslamp Quarter and unpacked their souvenir theatre tickets and bottle-shop buys, a full account of their polished city break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Granger Hotel in San Diego… 

With its marble-clad convivial spaces and contemporary art studio, Granger Hotel doesn’t exactly scream ‘former zoo’. But that’s what it was in 1904 — a temporary holding pen for animals before they were permanently housed in San Diego Zoo. Look a little closer at its luxuriant interiors and you’ll spot nods to its form with fauna: the hotel’s tiger-embossed logo, giraffe-shaped coat hooks, cat-adorned ‘do not disturb’ signs.  

Its city-gazing bedrooms are made for post-flânant hibernation, and when it’s feeding time at the (figurative) zoo, you'll find amenity closets with free coffee and snacks on every floor; you can order treats from a local café to your door, plus the lobby’s café and breakfast area provide further fuel. The Parlor Room and an opening-soon bottle shop are your on-site watering holes, or you could go on the prowl for dinner and drinks in the surrounding Gaslamp Quarter. It’s just the place to walk on the wild side. 

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