Your pick for southern calif coastal - RCI or II

[Cathyb]

Dave no way!?

My favorite time of year to visit Southern California is the middle two weeks of September. Weather is still great, kids are back in school, crowds are down a bit (except on weekends), and it's a more relaxed pace.

I agree with CathyB about the Carlsbad resorts. Nice and close to everything. But if you expect to spend more time down south of there, San Diego has a number of great places to stay, and it's only about 30 miles away.

I enjoyed the convenience and location of Coronado Beach Resort so much when we stayed there a few years ago, I just bought a biennial week there. (Gotta love that eBay $1 winning bid...)

Dave

Did you really steal Coronado Beach -- what month and how big? You lucky guy! Check out Grand Pacific's exchange company (we own a sister resort, Carlsbad Inn) -- they have some good stuff that you can see online before you book it. Cathy in Carlsbad

 

[Cathyb]

CA water temperature

No, the waters off the CA coast never get warm. Our East Coast Atlantic beaches get warmed up with the Gulf stream, the Pacific doesn't have anything similar warming theirs up.

Another reason Southern California ocean waters don't get real warm is that our weather rarely gets to 90 degrees.

 

[Cathyb]

SoCal Weather

http://www.wunderground.com/NORMS/D...me=San_Diego&StateCode=CA&Units=none&IATA=SAN

Here is the historical weather for San Diego and it looks like Aug. and Sept. have the most consistently warm weather. The Oct. Avg. is 10 degrees lower.

Right on, Denise -- for most years. This year was weird. We had no warm months except one week was over 100 and our mid-October this year has given us lightning and thunder!!! Who knows, we may have a 'white' Christmas with this screwy weather

 

[ricoba]

Another reason Southern California ocean waters don't get real warm is that our weather rarely gets to 90 degrees.

Did you already forget that 113 we had here a couple of weeks ago!!!

(but just to ad, it's been raining here the last few days now)

 

[Luanne]

Did you already forget that 113 we had here a couple of weeks ago!!!

(but just to ad, it's been raining here the last few days now)

But luckily, that's not normal, nor did it last for days and days and days.

 

[BevL]

My favorite time of year to visit Southern California is the middle two weeks of September. Weather is still great, kids are back in school, crowds are down a bit (except on weekends), and it's a more relaxed pace.

I agree with CathyB about the Carlsbad resorts. Nice and close to everything. But if you expect to spend more time down south of there, San Diego has a number of great places to stay, and it's only about 30 miles away.

I enjoyed the convenience and location of Coronado Beach Resort so much when we stayed there a few years ago, I just bought a biennial week there. (Gotta love that eBay $1 winning bid...)

Dave

Okay, now if I see this one back on Ebay I may have to pull the trigger.

Congrats, an EOY really is a nice option and it's such a great location.


Bev

 

[BevL]

Welk?

If the beach is a must have, this won't work but we loved the Welk resort. Of course we are - ahem - older with no kids, but they have a great pool area, weather is great, easy drive to San Diego, doable to LA/Anaheim, maybe with an overnight stay.

One of our favourite timeshare stays.