San Diego hotel question

Gaslamp district is awesome - lots of reasonably priced options, too. It's downtown-ish.

If you want the beach, it's not your best option, but it'll likely be cool in April. Pacific Beach isn't too expensive, lots of restaurants, but a young crowd. La Jolla is a little more expensive, but prettier and nicer.

You won't need a car in any of these places, either.

san diego is a town that you really need a car to get around in.  what do you want to do during your 2 day stay?  last time i went there i stayed in hillcrest - great restaurants, right on balboa park, so a decent walk from the zoo.  but, you have to drive for nightlife, beach, and coronado.  gaslamp is fun for restaurants and partying - and the padres play there now if you want to catch a baseball game.

so if you DON'T have a car, you should stay near what you want to see.  if it were me, i would stay on coronado if i couldn't go anywhere else.  nothing in san diego compares.

I'm learning that Gaslamp is the right "area" for us, although I am not able to find anything in our price range.  Even with Hotwire...

I ended up booking a hotel in Old Town, the Best Western, which appears on the map to be conveniently located.  My hope is we can use the Trolley, etc, to get where we need to be. 

I did find a pretty good option on Coronado in our price range, but it seems a bit small/quiet for two gals-about-town.

We don't have a lot of expectations since we'll have about 1.5 days total.    So, just walking around, shopping, eating, etc.

I can always change the registration, though, if another good idea crops up. 

Thanks! 

And yeah, don't worry, that's not a part of Mexico I need to visit (again).