Visit San Diego - The DON'Ts of Visiting San Diego, California

Wow! So much helpful info in just 15 minutes! Thank You!

You completely forgot PRIDE Comic con is fun but you forgot us

The "park" part of Balboa Park is across the bridge that goes over the freeway (Rte 163).

The San Diego Trolley goes to Old Town, La Jolla, East County, Tijuana, Chula Vista, Little Italy, and soon it will be going to San Diego International Airport.

I've lived in San Diego for almost 50 years. I commute to work every day, a drive that years ago took approximately 15 minutes, now can take about 45 minutes in rush hour traffic, maybe a bit more on some days. There's traffic from the Mexico border, Coronado bridge & Mission Valley to contend with. The commute is primarily a freeway/highway route. I have never sat in 2 hour traffic, not even when there's been an accident. I leave an hour early and I am almost always on time to work. If I wasn't, I would have been fired years ago. The traffic is much worse than it used to be, however, it's not generally at a standstill like some parts of the country.

Another tip: don't forget about the one way streets in the gaslamp district smh, we have bad enough drivers here as is please don't add to that lol

I came in by Amtrak, from Oklahoma.
Got off at old Town Station, Got a motel 2 blocks away in the mission District.
Used Yelp to find Mexican food... 2 5srar restaurants, one expensive and one cheap, " Hmm, 🤔 I could afford a taxi to the cheap one, for that price difference."
I was right across the street from my hotel.😂

Damn it's so weird watching tourism videos about my home city. Of everyone I've met in my life I've known very very few who live at the beach and only a few who even like the beach, yet that's the main thing about San diego for tourists.

As a local one great place for craft beer and just an overall good time in Smoking Cannon in Brewery, it’s a little bit of a drive from San Diego or maybe you’re staying a little further from San Diego in Escondido or Poway it’s a little bit of a drive, but Ramona especially is a great place to be good food And like I was saying smoking in Brewery has a bunch of craft beer that is made right there local on Ramona. also, if you’re staying in Escondido and want to try shooting for the first time, look up Escondido fish and games association.

Smoking cannon brewery

What were the dunes you mentioned ?

I know this video is five years old, but I would take issue with using the trolley. It gets you close to many of the attractions that visitors like to see. From South to North, these popular destinations are served by the lines indicated (Green Line or Blue Line):

San Ysidro Border Crossing - Blue
Barrio Logan Cultural District - Blue
Petco Park - Green (and Blue at the 12th and Imperial Transit center a few blocks away)
Gaslamp Quarter - Green
Convention Center - Green
Seaport Village - Green
Santa Fe Depot - Green and Blue with access to: USS Midway, San Diego Maritime Museum, Harbor and Whale Watching Cruises, Coronado Ferry; Transfer to the 215 Rapid Bus to Balboa Park and San Diego Zoo; Amtrak and Coaster trains
Little Italy - Green and Blue
Old Town Transit Center - Green and Blue with free Flyer shuttle to the airport and Old Town State Historic Park
Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcala - Green
Snapdragon Stadium - Green
SDSU - Green
UCSD - Blue (new extension all the way to University Towne Center)

Riding is easy and inexpensive ($6 day pass) if you download the Pronto app for your phone or do a one-time purchase of a Pronto card ($2 for the card).

I grew up in Coronado and it's always funny to hear what folks say. 😂

15 minute drives becoming 2 hours is a bit of an exaggeration. Maybe in the most extreme cases when there’s a bad accident. More common to see a 20 minute drive become 35-45 minutes during rush hour. But your point still stands avoid rush hour.

I’m going to be moving to San Diego in May in super excited!

Mark, you said San Diego has lots of crap beer?! 😂😅

I can tell this dude isn’t from SD haha thanks for the love though.

The main one... Don't visit San Diego. And definitely don't compare San Diego with Los Angeles, Los Angeles is better.🤣

#1 DON’T: Don’t forget to go home! Especially you L.A. heads. 😄

West/Coast #1

If you get lost hiking, hug a tree SD Sheriff's SAR Teams will find you safe.

PSA the zoo’s aren’t worth your money or time. Stick to Coronado, La Jolla, mission bay and downtown. Eat a lot of food

Traffic is awful in afternoons!

One thing that isn’t mentioned is the tragic epidemic of homelessness and drug use that is striking most Californian cities.

The East Village in San Diego is particularly bad with tents everywhere. Californian property is incredibly expensive, pushing people, even the elderly into the streets. It’s now more than 10,000.

East Village is not far from the Gas Light Quarter.

Number 22 don’t get old town San Diego mixed with old town National City

Don’t forget to visit Old Town also a great place lots of Mexican Food Mariachi music and the haunted Whaley House

Are there homeless?

Not if you’re walking.

Anzo Borriega zoo is east of San Diego. SALTON Sea is worth a visit!

Try walking around Lajolla? Cops will chase you out of the neighborhoods! They claimed they have sensors in the sidewalks+street! I wasn’t allowed to walk around after parking!!! Said they were going to arrest me if I didn’t get out of the area!!!

Laguna Beach was the best.

I was born in San Diego in 1961 never left but I've lived in Alpine since 1970. Downtown San Diego with possibly the exception I'm a Little Italy, that we basically just called India Street, is not my city anymore. It is completely designed for college students and convention goers. There are very very few places in San Diego or Pacific Beach that I feel even welcomed in. Partly because the clubs don't offer a senior night. I truly do miss my little sleepy naval and fishing town.

You remind me jon riggs

Sorry, but your video has absolutely nothing different than other 20 videos about SD. It all starts with Old town and boy, that's really boring .. Wish you the best in your next videos

If you plan it right and know what you want to do, the trolley can be totally helpful.

Eat mexican food, go to the beach, a brewery and catch a game at petco park

Go up i5 to LA for night life that doesnt exist in SD

Don't pass by a barber shop without getting a haircut.

Actually, our san diego vacation as a whole, is very expensive, at least for me. Family of 6 for 7 night with airfare is costing us about 12k in october 2024. 🤮

DON’T be from Arizona

The most San Diego thing is sitting in traffic on a seven lane freeway going between zero and ten miles an hour. Love living here but paradise has its down sides. Make sure you bring lots of money.

The Museum of Man has now been changed to “The Museum of Us” because feminists complained about the name (and trying to get them to understand that “Man” doesn’t mean “males” here but in short for “mankind” probably just led to accusations of “mansplaining.”)

It’s not a joke, this really happened.

45 minutes to the mountains??!! Maybe around Alpine. Try 2 hours if you want to got Julian.

I live in San Diego, and this is a great video with accurate advice. I recommend for hiking going to Cowles Mountain in Mission Trails Regional Park. Cowles Mountain summit is the highest point in San Diego, and offers amazing views of the city.
I also recommend San Diego Botanical Gardens in Encinitas which is about a 30 min drive north of Balboa Park.

My mom's sister lives in San Diego its a nice city

No Zonies, but welcome to SD everyone else!

I wish San Diego was the same as when I lived there. It looks like they went blue, and it's ruined now. It used to be the only area that did really well in the state during an economic downturn. Oh, memories. I guess that's where they belong...in the past 😢

Pacific Beach. PB= Protect Bicycles if you want to keep it! Locks dont make a difference

Nice place to visit, if you live there, don't leave anything outside. You'll lose potted plants, yard furniture, bicycles or anything whether valuable or not.

Me, looking for videos of my old home: ;-; I recognize that building... 😭 God I miss it

Don't expect people to know how to drive in rain. Any amount of rain someone's getting into accident.