This year's Boxing Day Bargain is San Diego! Day 3

We were awake again at about 0630 so we headed up to the gym. I did 15 mins of core (part of a 4 week programme I was completing) and a 30 minute cycle on the hotel peloton.

After we went to the little on site coffee shop where I got a chocolate croissant and peppermint mocha, Rob had a muffin and hot chocolate.

As we left the hotel they were setting up what appeared to be a ski slope – complete with ‘real fake snow’ which seemed very odd in California!

We then took the trolley to Santa Fe and walked over to USS Midway, we bought tickets online in the queue arriving at 1030ish (and saved a massive $2 each).

We skipped the photo on our way in and started looking around, we did see this character – I think he had a name but I am not sure and I can’t tell from my photo.

One of our first stops was an early lunch we both had chicken strips and fries with a soda.

We then spent about 5 hours touring the ship, we went up and down so much I think Rob’s watch tracked his ‘flights of stairs’ at something like 150 for the day.

Does anyone know what this says:

I'll post the guide below 

There were so many highlights, but we both really enjoyed the ‘island tour’ – we waited around 30 minutes for this but go to go up to the navigation room, and the bridge which was really interesting.

We also bought some bracelets made by the volunteers, which were available on a little table inside and the proceeds go to charity as far as I remember.

We finally left the ship at 1600, and walked back along the water.

We had originally expected to visit another of the maritime museums today but we just didn’t have time as we spent so long at Midway!

We took the trolley back from Santa Fe to fashion valley where we popped into Bath and Body Works to buy a few bits.

We had a rest in our room before dinner at Arlo, we had intended to try the Lapper (which is like a sports bar) but it was too noisy – there was some kind of games night being hosted.

I had a salad, Rob had a chicken dish and then I had a s’mores dessert while Rob had banana cake.

The total cost was about $105 inc tip.

After our long day we watched a bit of tv in our room again before bed 

This year's Boxing Day Bargain is San Diego - Day 2

Another early start today and we were in the gym at about 0645, I did a core class and then used the peloton bike to do a 30 min class plus a stretch  Rob made use of all the weight machines that we don’t have at home.

Once we were done we got ready and had breakfast at Arlo again.

As it was a weekend day they were serving a brunch menu rather than breakfast so slightly different choices today.

I had the Croffle (Croissant Waffle) and Rob had 2 eggs again but with toast instead of the biscuit.

Rob and I headed over to Old Town on the trolley, we arrived quite early and it wasn’t very busy so we looked around inc the market which I think is only there on Saturday/Sunday.

We were in need of a snack (it must have been 2 whole hours by now since breakfast) so we stopped at Mama Antonia’s for churros and Mexican mocha, we were also given chips and salsa for no extra charge and they were quite tasty. We did briefly see the others at Mama Antonia’s as they arrived while we were there.

We wandered around for a bit more and Rob got himself a new belt in the leather shop.

We then took the trolley to Santa Fe and walked to ferry and got ourselves tickets to Coronado Island.

We had a short wait before the ferry arrived but we were soon on our way across.

We walked to the hotel Del Coronado which was around 1.5 miles each way so that we could see the hotel that inspired the Grand Floridian. It was unsurprisingly very busy and the hotel was being refurbished externally so it was hard to get good photos that didn’t include scaffolding.

We had a walk along the beach and wondered if a future stay would be in our budget – we did look when we got back and the room Rob wants starts at around $1500 per night 

After a little while we walked back and it was starting to get chilly (as it tended to in the evenings so we got coffee and then in an alteration to our intended plan we decided to get dinner at Rotten Nicky’s which we had seen earlier (should have done dinner then coffee).

Rob had a burger and I had the grown up grilled cheese (which included ham), the food was good but far too big and I barely ate half of mine – the total cost here was $65 inc tip.

We picked up a T-shirt for Tom on our way back as we had sent him a photo and he confirmed that he would very much like it 

After a short wait we took the ferry back to the Convention Centre then walked to trolley station, we could have gone back to the other stop but it was a longer wait and we were chilly!

We then grabbed a ride on the trolley back to Fashion valley, before walking back via stabby alley and then we watched some tv before bed.