Residence Inn by Marriott-San Diego Downtown

Stayed two nights. Room was comfy and clean. Staff was friendly. The shuttle is very convenient. Good free breakfast. I will definitely stay again.

The value for money here is unbeatable! The staff here is great. Unbelievable customer service! Free beer and wine and appitizers daily at night and a. complimentary breakfast every morning! Not just some shabby food either. We are talking some decent quality aling with variety of food! That alone was awesome but the rooms are very spacious and clean. The bed was super comfortable and new. I also enjoyed the outside fire pit to sit aroumd and chat with friends. If i am ever un the area again, this will be a no brainer of where to stay!

For a relatively new hotel this one is very disappointing. Airconditioning/​Heat makes a lot of noise. My room has flees. Internet is sporadic an tv has digital signal problems. Without a doubt the worst free breakfast that I have encountered. Elevator up to 5 minuet wait on several occasions. Stay away from this one!

So far the stay has been wonderful; upon check in we received complimentary burgers and wine/​beer; the concierge Eric provided exceptional service in recommending places for us to go for the evening. We had a beautiful view of the bay, couldn’t be happier :)

I stayed at this hotel for an 8 week period due to work. No one is excited about living at a hotel, but my stay here was a great experience.
Maria the housekeeper always would go out of her way to add a few extra touches and provide me with enough amenities to last the rest of the week. She would also leave a note to enjoy my stay.
The Monday and Tuesday night social events are also great as they include free food and alcohol. It’s a nice opportunity to save some money with how expensive San Diego can be.
Everyone was very friendly and helpful during my stay. I’d definitely stay here again on business or leisure and would put Marriott at the top of my list for future stays as well. Very impressed.

Lauren and Eric are genuinely happy and friendly people. Very accommodating and open environment. Would stay here again, based on service alone.

5 stars for this Marriott location. The staff was more than friendly and helpful. They are so knowledgable on the area and the rooms were very clean. They recommended the best restaurants and the funnest activities especially since it was my family and I’s first time visiting the San Diego are. Location was perfect, right by the water but only a short walk from little Italy which had the best restaurants and coffee shops. Just a short ride to sea world and a complimentary shuttle bus anywhere within three miles of the hotel (including the San Diego zoo). Would ONLY stay At this hotel again if and when I return to the San Diego area.

Great location :)! Free shuttle every half hour to downtown which we didn’t know so that was awesome ! Breakfast is only until 930 but pretty good and coffee was really good idk why lol the beds were comfy and good size rooms, we had a studio suite it was perfect. We got home late Saturday and heard our neighbors partying so loud when we walked up and were worried we were going to get no sleep but when we went in our room. Silence. The walls are like soundproof we didn’t hear the loud people next door at all we couldn’t believe it so excellent place to stay if you need to sleep or have kids also!

Excellent service everyone was so friendly and helpful. Parking is 14 dollars a day which isn’t bad for others places around. Free shuttle service every 30 mins is awesome and drivers are very friendly. Free breakfast was bomb and coffee was excellent to bad ends a little early at 9:30. Rooms are silent and very sound proof and had a full kitchen and couch. Would go back for sure!!!

If I could give this 0 starts I would, this is the worst hotel I have ever stayed in before. Walking into the hotel ready for a good weekend with my family everything was fine then they booked me the wrong room. They switched my rooms, and walked me and my Family up to my room as we got there the guy turned around looked me in the eyes and told me «you do know this is a party free hotel, right?» Right then and there I knew that this was not a professional hotel. Getting settled down for bed me and my family heard a
Knock on the door telling us that we where being to loud when we where all in bed and that if they had to come up there again they where gonna call the cops. If I didn’t already pay for the rooms I would have left right then and there. The next Morning we checked out and the guy checking us out was telling us that they smelt the smell of marajuana coming from our room. Keep in mind that we are Catholics… We spoke to the manager, he was so disrespectful they ended up charging us 250 $ for finding a cigarette in our room somewhere. Blaming us for what we did not do. I will never come back to the hotel again or recommend someone to it. The workers here where so disrespectful to my family and I.

We stayed here for one night to celebrate our friend’s birthdays. We got a 2 bedroom suite and it was great and the price was reasonable. I only wish that one of the bathrooms was in the living room area because we had someone sleeping on the sofa bed and they had to come in our room to use the bathroom. I usually stay in Gaslamp but the über drive to Gaslamp was only $ 7 so it worked out well. Check out is at 12 which was really great and the front desk held our bags while we walked around.

Clean and very friendly, helpful staff at check-​in. Excellent location within walking distance of Little Italy, the Gaslamp Quarter, and Seaport Village. It is right on the railroad tracks, but we weren’t really bothered by the noise at all. One complaint is that I would really prefer a king size bed. This hotel only has queens.
I took two stars away, because after paying for for 13 nights here, apparently it was too much to ask the courtesy shuttle to take us down the street at 4:15. They insisted it can only be reserved at 4 or 4:30. We reserved it for 4 pm for 30 minutes, but told them we wouldn’t be here until 4:15 for the 5 minute drive. They sent it away at 4:15 even though we called the front desk at 4:15. I just paid more than $ 3000 for rooms here and 15 minutes is too big a deal for the front desk staff to handle. Unacceptable!

Great place for kids! They gave my daughter a treat from their big treasure box when we checked in. I forgot how pleasant it is to stay here.
We were in a one bedroom suite facing the parking lot. It was quieter than in the back with the trains. Get a white noise machine/​app if you are sensitive to noises.
Plus, there is a cool park across the street that opened a while ago. Very cool!

I wasn’t sure quite what to expect based on the divergent Unilocal reviews, but I was pleasantly surprised and pleased by my one-​night stay here. I arrived a little after 7pm, exhausted after an afternoon of Comic-​Con. I was checked in very quickly and was asked if I needed transportation in the morning. Several other people had already signed up to take the Residence Inn shuttle to the convention center at 7:30. I needed to attend a breakfast in that vicinity at 8am, so that was perfect.
My room was on the first floor with windows facing the parking lot. The layout was pretty nice, with the bed situated in a place where I had no noise from the hallway. Actually, I had no noise issues, period, though I had made sure to pack earplugs because I had read other complaints about trolley chimes and planes.
If I had stayed for more than one night, the kitchenette would have been great. The TVs and the hairdryer worked just fine. Everything about the room was fresh and pleasant. The front desk even called after I had been in my room for a bit, just to see how I was settling in.
The hotel also offered a buffet breakfast starting at 6am. I checked out the offerings, though I didn’t need to eat there, and I was impressed by the spread.
My check-​out was quick and pleasant, and the shuttle driver left right at 7:30 as promised!
This is definitely a place I will keep in mind for when I make a return trip to San Diego.

Hands down the best deal in this area if you’re traveling with kids. For $ 219 a night during a holiday weekend, we got a 1 bedroom suit with FULL kitchen, free breakfast, swimming pool, and parking included. I was about to pay $ 100 more per night to stay at one of the Marina hotels, so glad I passed on that. The location of this hotel cannot be beat, it’s directly across from an amazing park with awesome playground equipment and really fun splash play fountain. My kids loved it! We also made a trip to the USS Midway Museum, which is just a 10 min. walk away from the hotel and had a blast there. The staff was super friendly and even let us check it at like 9am! The pool deck is modest, basic pool and jacuzzi, but perfect for a little family fun and packed with kids. The hotel is directly on the train tracks, both metro/​amtrak and trolley lines, but it didn’t bother us at all and it was actually entertaining seeing the trains pass by from the pool. Being able to walk into Little Italy for a fabulous family dinner was just another perk of this great hotel. Bottom line, this place is a great deal, no it’s not the Ritz, but the for price and location, it’s a great deal! Can’t wait to go back.

As a platinum Marriott member, the worst Marriott to stay at. This place is terrible. Only received about 5 hours of sleep toss and turned all night. The pools filtering system is extremely loud, the trains pass about every 10 minutes and then there are the air plane’s landing/​take off. I do not recommend this place if you are trying sleep in on vacation.

It’s your regular ol’ Residence Inn; clean, dependable, but nothing extravagant, however, what sets them apart & prompted my 5 star rating was the service. The girls behind the front desk were so polished & So, So helpful & genuinely sweet! You could tell that they actually cared about their job & their customers which was so refreshing for someone who trains customer service. They went above & beyond giving recommendations for dinner & things to do — loved it & thank you so much ladies!!!

Best deal in town … Great location when traveling with kids, 15 side street mins to seaworld, walking distance to uss midway museum, and 5 walking minutes to large kids playground. Good service, free breakfast (s.eggs, bacon, pancake, waffle, bagels, cereals, and more.)free wine, beer & food during social hour (5 to7pm) like I said best deal in town, consider ur breakfast n happy hour paid for, that save u atleast $ 20 a person.
One and only negative is that the walls are very thin. hallway & outside noise radiates in the room like the wifi signal .Four bars all the time, enough to get ur attention but not enough to wake you up.

We (my wife, teenage son & daughter, and mother-​in-​law) came to San Diego for a family wedding, and were looking for a nice hotel that all of us could fit in. We came across this property and, from the good reviews, decided to book it.
I’m glad we did. While the price was high (high summer season), the suite was very well suited. Two nice sized bedrooms, each with a full bath, a living area with a sofa bed, and a fully stocked kitchen, complete with stove, microwave, coffee maker and full sized frig.
We were only in town for one night, so I can’t speak for longer term stays, but ours was very nice.
The suite was very clean and comfy, although the kids did say that the sofa bed mattress was not real comfortable. My bed, on the other hand was very comfortable.
The stay included breakfast in the morning, which was fresh and had many options; scrambled eggs, fried potatoes, sausage patties, (really good) biscuits and gravy, fresh fruit (mostly gone when we got there), hot & cold cereal, make-​your-​own waffles, yogurt, juice and coffee. Not bad at all; I’ve had much worse at these comp breakfast deals.
The property is in a great location, walking distance to Little Italy, the Gas Lamp district, convention center and Petco Field.
All in all, I would definitely look to stay here again. Although I suggest booking early to get good rates.
Other reviewers mentioned noise from the train, but honestly, I don’t remember hearing any. Maybe we had a good room location, but we were towards the rear of the property, and it wasn’t a problem.

Over all I liked this place. The rooms were clean and very nice to relax after a long day at work. They have a breakfast and evening reception that varies on the day.
Only thing I have to say is that $ 14 a day is kind of steep, but that’s just my opinion.
It’s fairly close to downtown and at least oneside has a nice view, the other view is of the train tracks.