S� San Diego Offers West Coast's Largest Penthouse

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Dec 28th 2008 at 3:02PM

If you have $20,000 a night to spend on a hotel room you can bunk at the newly renamed Sé San Diego (formerly The Setai) in their ultra-luxurious suite which is said to be the biggest penthouse on the West Coast. The Grand Penthouse spreads over three floors and has a large kitchen, six flat-screen televisions and a rooftop patio. The hotel also offers rooms for an average of $500 a night. Sé has 184 rooms and a sumptuous exotic decor that includes Brazilian walnut flooring, stingray skin and bronze doors. The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that the hotel went through a name change after a legal battle with the Setai hoteliers in Miami Beach and New York.

The $150 million resort has a long list of amenities that include a concierge, European-style breakfast, a personal chef for the penthouses, a lobby bar, fitness center, infinity edge pool, spa, business center, twice-daily housekeeping and transportation in a luxury SUV with a five mile radius of the hotel.

It's not the ideal time to open a hotel, especially in San Diego where the crowded luxury hotel market is already struggling. As a nod to the economy Sé is offering lower introductory rates starting at $229.

Tags: california, hotel, luxury hotel, LuxuryHotel, se san diego, SeSanDiego

Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels

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M Dec 29th 2008 1:56PM

This hotel will be a flop.

Derek Washington Dec 30th 2008 2:32PM

Who the hell wants to spend that kind of money in San Diego?

If you have that kind of money you can afford a helicopter trip to Hollywood every night if you HAVE to be in SD during the day.

spritelike Dec 30th 2008 10:06PM

yeah right. I tried to make a reservation today and the standard rooms are already sold out this week. Friendliest and most helpful people I've talked to though and I've called a LOT of hotels. Luxury service will never flop... even in this shit of an economy. People pay for what they get and a lot of people are willing to pay that extra amount to get what they want.