Hotel Del Coronado, CA (3)

We are still just chilling at the "Del"  I keep learning more and more about this place.  Built in 1887/8 at it's opening it was the largest resort hotel in the world.  Today the property is owned by Blackrock, a private investment company and operated by the Hilton International as a Curio Property.  The original victorian building is definitely the backbone of the resort, but the area around the hotel is also being developed by those two companies with new villas a and cabana rooms.  The property is completely operation with the exception of their famous "Crown Room Brunch" which is still not reopened because of COVID.  This is both good and bad, good in that being closed probably saved me a lot of money, the bad being that I missed what is known as a truly epic eating experience.  No problem, we'll just have to come back. 

I spent the day looking at the ocean, reading, looking at the ocean, walking around the resort and through the "Old Town" of Coronado.  

Hotel Scenes.

The hotel shows up in many movies over the years.  One of them was "Some Like It Hot"  with Marilyn Monroe and this Dragon Tree

Scenes from around the town of Coronado

I am hoping this coven of witches were on there way to a Halloween event.  I'm hoping but this is California.

Sandy is finally embracing her pirate heritage (the MacNeils).  This particular pirate eerily resembles Elvis.

Beach-combing scenes.

And then the ice cream, there is always the ice cream.