- San Diego, California is the seventh largest city in the United States, with 2.5 million residents.
- The Hotel del Coronado on Coronado Island is the largest wooden structure in the United States.
- San Diego, California is rimmed with seventy miles of beaches.
- San Diego's Zoo is home to a pair of giant pandas, and when Hua Mei was born here, she was the first baby panda born in the Western Hemisphere since 1990 (she is now in China).
- San Diego, California is famed for the best climate in the United States.
- San Diego, California is home of the first European settlement on the West Coast.
- Legal drinking age is 21. Across the border in Tijuana, it's 18.
San Diego, California Taxes
- Hotel tax is 10%
- Sales tax is 7.5% (A helpful hint: when calculating a 15% restaurant tip, all you have to do is double the tax!)
