Se San Diego

Wow

The place was amazing and the locations was in a centralized, minutes from almost anything. Great place

A great hotel if ...

Great location if you don't mind homeless people just outside. Great rooms if you don't mind waiting for the engineer to reset your TV... so you can watch! Great service if you don't mind waiting for the "Butler Service" to deliver ice... after you ask for it TWICE!!!

Identity Crisis?

The Se San Diego seems torn between wanting to be the coolest, hippest, craziest hotel on the one hand and knowing that it should grow up and be the luxury hotel it was designed to be on the other. The hotel itself is striking. Other than the hallways, the interior gets an A. The crowd, however, is what you might expect to find on college spring break. I started to get a taste of this upon arrival when I was told there was a celebrity in the house, and that she would be hosting the pool bash the next day. The "celebrity" was none other than Tila Tequila of MTV fame, and the hotel staff pumped up her pool party all weekend, claiming it would be bigger, wilder and crazier than the pool parties at The Ivy and the Pearl and any of the other hotels. Sure enough, hundreds of people paid to come party at the pool, and the hotel was rockin' out (and the entire building was literally shaking). Not exactly what you'd expect on a peaceful poolside afternoon at any given Mandarin Oriental or Four Seasons. Nor is the late night mayhem in the halls that seems to be biz-as-usual at the Se (couple screaming at each other, near fist fight, girl sobbing to her friends about some guy, etc etc). If you are seeking a peaceful relaxing vacation, Se San Diego is not for you. It has the elements to be a serious luxury hotel but, at least for now, it seems more focused on being the hotel of the moments and the hippest hotel on the block, and at that it succeeds.

Hated my stay

The hotel itself are nice and the rooms are awesome. But the night we went there was a major private party at the pool which rendered it useless to hotel guests. The amount of people, noise and the type of people (douchebags) that where there was offensive. The staff did nothing to alleviate our dissatisfaction. Furthermore, the Gaslamp District is an overrated tourist trap.

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great experience

great hotel. beautiful room. very modern. rooftop lounge by the pool is amazing. the only one thing that was weird was the bathroom has little/no privacy. there is only a sliding glass door that doesn't seal the door all the way. so u better be comfortable with the person you're staying with

rave party!

when we visited this "hotel" it coincided with an open pool party the hotel put on with a cover charge for non hotel guests. the party consisted of a bunch of low-life 21 year old kids with tattoos all over their bodies wearing hardly anything and drinking to get drunk. there was a dj with extremely loud music and go-go girls on stage dancing in bikinis with fur boots. i felt like i was at a fraternity/sorority party. if you wanted to lay out by the pool, forget it. not that day. the day before we were able to use the pool, but the "kids" that this hotel attracts were getting drunk, falling all over the place, and making out in the pool with each other. not a real classy place. the hotel is beautiful but the clientele and atmosphere is not what we expected or portrayed by the description. it was so loud that we couldn't sleep until the music stopped saturday night about 2 am. so the next day we were groggy and couldn't enjoy the rest of our vacation. next time we will stay out of the city where it is quieter and drive into downtown when we want. there is nothing i guess that the hotel can say or do to change the fact that we were obviously inconvenienced by not being able to lay out by the pool and sleep comfortably in a relatively low noise environment and thus ruining our mini vacation the following day.

Loved this Hotel and Very Relaxing

I booked this hotel for my boyfriend and I's anniversary. I always get concerned with pricey hotels b/c usually you have to pay for everything. However the internet was free in the buisness area, they have recording studios which benefits me in my profession. The pool area is free. Service is excellent. The room and bed is extremely comfy. Worth every penny

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This Hotel ROCKS!!!

The SE is a great hotel sets a new standard in customer service. From the valet to the maintenance personnel to the club security all were beyond attentive and courteous. We had an issue with our shower’s hot water and within 5 minutes maintenance was at our room to fix the problem. The misaligned shower knob aside this hotel is top notch.

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