About La Jolla, California

When you visit the Empress Hotel in La Jolla, (always "la-hoya") you will be creating vacation memories to last a life time. La Jolla in Spanish means "The Jewel." It is the Jewel of America's finest city, San Diego. La Jolla and the Empress Hotel are located 15 minutes from downtown San Diego. It has wonderful beaches, cultural activities and fine restaurants. La Jolla is an exquisite combination of a southern European resort atmosphere and Southern California fun.

A more pretentious air prevails in La Jolla, an elegant beach community just to the north that mystery writer Raymond Chandler once described as "a nice place - for old people and their parents." When you stay at the Empress Hotel in La Jolla, you can stroll La Jolla’s immaculate, gallery-filled streets, fuel up on some California cuisine at one of the many sidewalk cafés or visit the La Jolla site of the Museum of Contemporary Art which has a huge - and regularly changing - stock of paintings and sculptures from 1955 onwards, with California pop and minimalism some of the highlights.

On the seaward side of the museum lies the small, exquisitely tasteful Ellen Scripps Browning Park, named after the philanthropist whose Irving Gill-designed home now houses the museum. Where the park meets the coast is the popular La Jolla Cove, with clear waters perfect for snorkeling. La Jolla Cove is the north facing point on the seaward end of the cliffs that form a small deep water bay here. The cliffs are riddled with sea caves of special fascination to kayakers who paddle over from La Jolla Shores Beach.

Golf Digest named San Diego "One of the Top 50 Golf Destinations in the World". There are over 90 courses located throughout the San Diego region, from seaside settings to Desert Mountains to inland valleys. When stay in La Jolla, you will have many choices for a golf outing. With a wide range of courses, there is a course for every type of golfer and a range of greens fees that will fit every budget. Add in San Diego's temperate climate (average year-round temperature is 70-degrees) and year-round play is yet another benefit of this golfer’s paradise.

While La Jolla is known to be one of the most affluent communities in the United States, it has a down to earth sense due to the beautiful natural scenery and the helpfulness of its residents.

Reserve your room at the Empress Hotel to enjoy a vacation to La Jolla, California.

For additional or specific information on the area be sure and visit
The San Diego Convention & Visitors Bureau.