Health ‘Kind of a Big Deal’ at San Diego’s Westin Gaslamp Quarter Hotel

Work up a sweat with a heavenly view in your own room as you soak up San Diego. (Photo by Harrison Shiels)

San Diego is swarming with Midwesterners who’ve decided to move to “America’s Finest City” including James Tate, a native Ohioan who is sales and marketing director at the Westin in Gaslamp Quarter – a hotel that makes visitors feel at home.

Westin’s $17-million-dollar refresh has yielded a new version of their famed “Heavenly Beds,” personal Pelotons in WestinWORKOUT guestrooms, and even high-top tables in the rooms for more versatile work and social situations. Such a table is better for meeting a professional colleague for a glass of wine while looking over a spreadsheet instead of a sitting on a couch…or heaven forbid, the edge of a bed, as tempting as Westin makes them.

“Our Westin ‘Heavenly Bed’ was an industry game-changer when it was introduced and we now offer the 2.0 version with cooling technology for an even better sleep,” Tate told me as we talked in the bright, open Lobby Bar, soon to become the craft-led Bronze Bird Restaurant near the hotel’s on-the-go Ingredients Café. I explained to him that the in-room Peloton bike beckoned me, even for short bursts while taking a call or watching television, as an active alternative to the bed. “Westin wants you to ‘feel well’ the way you want to feel even if it’s from the comfort of your room.”