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Coronado is a city in San Diego County in Southern California.

[edit] Understand

Located in the middle of the San Diego Bay, the northwestern half of Coronado is a Naval base "North Island", including a large Navy Air facility and the west coast's active fleet. The southeastern half of the peninsula is residential housing, hotels and small shopping areas. South of the Hotel Del Coronado, on the Silver Strand, are various Navy training facilities, including beach areas used by Navy SEALs and amphibious assault groups.

[edit] Get in

[edit] By car

Coronado is a peninsula, and there are two routes in and out: the Coronado Bay Bridge, from I-5 just south of downtown San Diego, or the Silver Strand, up the coast from Imperial Beach. The Bay Bridge is worth driving over just for the panorama. Though in the past the "Bridge" was a toll bridge it has since lost that designation.

[edit] By ferry

A pedestrian/bicycle ferry is available from the Broadway Pier in San Diego to the Ferry Landing Marketplace in Coronado.

[edit] Get around

[edit] By bicycle

One of the better ways to get around Coronado is by bicycle; bike paths and quiet streets (along with beautiful weather) make biking easy.

[edit] See

• Hotel Del Coronado's architecture and beach are a must-see.

• Central Beach Coronado has one of the best beaches in the world measuring over a mile long. The beach is made up of beautiful white sand and if you look closely you can read the name Coronado in the sand dunes close to the Hotel Del.

[edit] Do

[edit] Buy

[edit] Eat

• The Chart House just south of the Hotel Del, a former boathouse overlooking the southern San Diego bay.

• Clayton's Coffee Shop, 959 Orange Ave ( cross street is 10th ), +1 619 435-5425, Old style coffee shop, good food, mostly breakfast and lunch, very affordable -- around $8 per person.

• Hotel Del Coronado offers a Sunday Brunch; go for the atmosphere.

• Miguel's Cocina[1] offers delicious, if unauthentic, Mexican cuisine ranging from enchiladas to chimichangas to their rather unique fish taco. Seating is on a heated open-air patio.

• Loews Coronado, on the Silver Strand, also has a Sunday Brunch; go for the food.

[edit] Drink

Coronado Brewing Company small brewpub.

[edit] Sleep

• Best Western Suites Hotel Coronado Island, 275 Orange Avenue, +1 619 437-1666, Fax: +1 619 437-0188, [2].
• Coronado Island Marriott Resort, 2000 Second Street, +1 619 435-3000, Fax: +1 619 435-4183, [3].

[edit] Splurge

• The Hotel Del Coronado, built by hand by two railroad engineers, is a favorite locations for films and weddings; the architecture is remarkable, the lodgings less so.

[edit] Get out

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