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Seaport Village Review
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Seaport Village
- Address: Downtown, San Diego, CA | Map It
- Phone: 619/235-4014; 619/235-4013 events hotline; 888/387-3879 carousel information
- www.seaportvillage.com
- Category: Stores/Malls
- Location: Downtown
Fodor's Review:
On a prime stretch of waterfront that spreads out across 14 acres connecting the harbor with hotel towers and the convention center, the village's three bustling shopping plazas are designed to reflect the architectural styles of early California, especially New England clapboard and Spanish mission. A ¼-mi boardwalk that runs along the bay and 4 mi of paths lead to specialty shops -- everything from a kite store and rubber-stamp emporium to a shop devoted to left-handed people -- as well as snack bars and restaurants, many with harbor views; there are about 75 in all. Seaport Village's shops are open daily 10 to 9 (10 to 10 in summer); a few eateries open early for breakfast, and many have extended nighttime hours, especially in summer. (It must be noted that most of the eateries here serve only passable or even mediocre fare, while charging prices that rival or exceed those of the city's better restaurants.)
The Seaport Village Carousel has 54 animals -- lots of horses plus a giraffe, dragon, elephant, dog, and others -- hand-carved and hand-painted by Charles Looff in 1895. (This is a replacement for Seaport Village's previous historic carousel, also a Looff, which was sold to a private collector in 2004.) Tickets are $2. Strolling clowns, balloon sculptors, mimes, musicians, and magicians are also on hand throughout the village to entertain kids; those not impressed by such pretechnological displays can duck into the Time Out entertainment center near the carousel and play video games.
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