{"id":2576,"date":"2021-10-27T18:05:06","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T01:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/traveltattler\/?p=2576"},"modified":"2021-10-27T18:05:06","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T01:05:06","slug":"health-kind-of-a-big-deal-at-san-diegos-westin-gaslamp-quarter-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/traveltattler\/golf\/lifestyle\/2576\/health-kind-of-a-big-deal-at-san-diegos-westin-gaslamp-quarter-hotel","title":{"rendered":"Health \u2018Kind of a Big Deal\u2019 at San Diego\u2019s Westin Gaslamp Quarter Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2578\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/traveltattler\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2021\/10\/unnamed-9.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2578\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2578\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2578\" src=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/traveltattler\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2021\/10\/unnamed-9.jpg\" alt=\"Westin Hotel San Diego\" width=\"640\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/traveltattler\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2021\/10\/unnamed-9.jpg 640w, https:\/\/theaposition.com\/traveltattler\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2021\/10\/unnamed-9-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2578\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Work up a sweat with a heavenly view in your own room as you soak up San Diego. (Photo by Harrison Shiels)<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">San Diego is swarming with Midwesterners who\u2019ve decided to move to \u201cAmerica\u2019s Finest City\u201d including James Tate, a native Ohioan who is sales and marketing director at the Westin in Gaslamp Quarter \u2013 a hotel that makes visitors feel at home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Westin\u2019s $17-million-dollar refresh has yielded a new version of their famed \u201cHeavenly Beds,\u201d 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\u2026or heaven forbid, the edge of a bed, as tempting as Westin makes them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cOur Westin \u2018Heavenly Bed\u2019 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,\u201d Tate told me as we talked in the bright, open Lobby Bar, soon to become the craft-led Bronze Bird Restaurant near the hotel\u2019s on-the-go Ingredients Caf\u00e9. 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. \u201cWestin wants you to \u2018feel well\u2019 the way you want to feel even if it\u2019s from the comfort of your room.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\">\n<div id=\"ad-slot-7103-mi-lansing-C1051-native-article_link-travel-2\" class=\"gnt_x_sl gnt_x_al\">But the seductive siren song of San Diego\u2019s sunlight, fresh-air and it\u2019s revered, 70-degree, year-round climate calls, so the hotel will lend you gear, including bikes for the bayside path, and also arranges for kayaks and harbor tours so you can move, play, work, feel eat and sleep well. The Westin\u2019s Gaslamp Quarter location means you can walk to the bay, Balboa Park, and the convention center and yet be only 2.5 miles from the airport.<\/div>\n<div class=\"gnt_x_sl gnt_x_al\"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<div class=\"gnt_x_sl gnt_x_al\">\u201cWhen you fly into San Diego you drop right down into a skyline full of energy and see beautiful water and palm trees. Gaslamp Quarter has lots of outdoor dining, bars and clubs,\u201d said Tate, \u201cand there is a lot of diversity in the different neighborhoods: Little Italy; Barrio Logan\u2019s arts district; Tijuana, Mexico is reachable by trolley; and just over the bay bridge Coronado Island has a lot of history.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"gnt_x_sl gnt_x_al\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gnt_x_sl gnt_x_al\">Coronado Island is the chosen home headquarters of Travelworld International Group, a Virtuoso-accredited, custom, luxury travel design company founded by Francis Contreras and operated, with her worldly, next-generation professional offspring Fabian Lebrija and Tania Lebrija Swasbrook (who founded her own Vgari Lifestyle). Travelworld International and Vgari love Coronado so much they\u2019ve chosen to send worldwide clients on dream vacations as far away as the stars via Virgin Galactic from right there on the Pacific. They\u2019re \u201ckind of a big deal,\u201d and Spartan fans will recall the big deal basketball game Michigan State played in 2011, with President Barack Obama courtside, blocks away on the deck of the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier docked at Coronado \u2013 where the Navy Seals train.<\/div>\n<div class=\"gnt_x_sl gnt_x_al\">\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Yet another of Michigan\u2019s favorite sons, Dick Enberg, moved to San Diego and, after his network sportscasting career, stayed home and called the Padre baseball games on television. The Detroit Tigers beat the Padres in the 1984 World Series. Enberg also called a number of Wolverine Rose Bowls on NBC, but it was in San Diego\u2019s 1984 Holiday Bowl that BYU beat Michigan to win the national title. Enberg wasn\u2019t the only Michigan broadcaster to relocate to San Diego: the morning radio team of \u201cJeff &amp; Jer\u201d went west from Detroit in 1987 and made it all the way to the National Radio Hall of Fame. \u201cThose guys are legends here in San Diego,\u201d said Tate. \u201cPersonalities like that help shape the city. It\u2019s a warm, inviting place and we have a sunny disposition.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\">\n<div id=\"ad-slot-7103-mi-lansing-C1051-native-article_link-travel-4\" class=\"gnt_x_sl gnt_x_al\">\u00a0Tate resisted describing San Diego as \u201cclassy,\u201d as Will Ferrell\u2019s Ron Burgundy on-air character did in the hit movie \u201cAnchorman.\u201d The pompous Burgundy also referred to himself as \u201ckind of a big deal.\u201d \u201cEveryone in San Diego loves that movie and people still quote it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><em>Contact Michael Patrick Shiels at<\/em><a class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" title=\"mailto:MShiels@aol.com\" href=\"mailto:MShiels@aol.com\"><em>MShiels@aol.com<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0His radio program may be found at\u00a0<a class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" title=\"http:\/\/protect-us.mimecast.com\/s\/Yi7lCn5mErSXYByBVS94zmw?domain=mibigshow.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spotlightmediastudios.com\/\">MiBigShow.com<\/a>\u00a0or weekday mornings from 9-noon on WJIM AM 1240<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Diego&#8217;s Westin in Gaslamp Quarter is a hotel that makes visitors feel fit and at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":2578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1871,1023749,1502],"class_list":["post-2576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-san-diego","tag-travel-california","tag-fitness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/traveltattler\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2021\/10\/unnamed-9.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/traveltattler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/traveltattler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/traveltattler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/traveltattler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/traveltattler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/traveltattler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2579,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/traveltattler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions\/2579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/traveltattler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/traveltattler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/traveltattler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/traveltattler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}