Hey fellow travelers, will be heading to San Diego soon and will be staying in the Little Italy neighborhood (close to DT)
Was wondering if I should rent a car to get around or just uber my way around (due to parking issues or other inconveniences)
Also any must do's while down there? Travelling with a 12 year old, first time for both of us.
Thanks in advance, and happy Friday!!!

Alex
Since your hotel is in little Italy, I suggest just get the service of uber/lyft. Having a car give you more liberty to explore more places. However, since your hotel location is in little italy, parking in hotel are expensive, plus the fact that you will overthinking that what if something happen to the car you rent
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1. Gaslamp quarter
2. Petro Park
3. USS midway
4. 2 hours cruise (beside the uss midway $20 for 2 hours cruise)
5. A $5 ferry fee to Coronado Island
6. Seaworld (20 mins by uber and Zoo are less than 2 miles)
7. San-Diego-Tour-Hop-on-Hop-off-Trolley (word hop on hop off)
8. The only far is Legoland.
9. You can rider the light rail train (even the last station is in the boarder of mexico (Tijuana)
Enjoy!

Alex wow lost of info! Thanks for your help!!!

Kevin your very welcome. Enjoy!!

San Diego has an excellent light rail transit system with a stop right next to little Italy. The city is also very walkable. When we visited we were able to either walk or take the train wherever we wanted to go. The food in little Italy was excellent too! The Maritime museum and the aircraft carrier are excellent places to visit.

uber for sure. We pretty much walked everywhere. One of the best places we have ever visited

San Diego zoo is one of the best zoos, but it is quite far and big in size so give it a day for a visit for sure. The Sea world is a good place for this age and has some rides if your child is into it. Legoland is not too far from SD, but it all gets quite expensive if to do it all in one trip. There is free stuff as well (e.g. just a walk in old town).

Little Italy great neighborhood. we Ubered it when we were there took a taxi a couple of times Miminos restaurant awesome pizza hop on hop off bus to tour the city

Trolly is fun. Balboa Park is great. Many beaches close by. Buy the San Diego City Pass... purchase at Costco before you go. We did a harbor cruise which was very educational and fun.

We rent cars when we travel simply because we like the freedom of going where we want to go and when, stay how long we want and leave when we want without having to wait for an uber, find the damn uber car etc. Plus some of our funniest memories seem to come from missed turns and off the gps plan

We did uber, buses and the light rail transit. It was great. No issues at all!!

uber. Parking is expensive.

Well the people spoke, uber/transit it is! Thanks for the help and tips! Will be def looking into your suggestions!

Consider using transit or walking - great way to explore a city!

We always rent a car AND use lyft...depends what we're doing. One of my favorite things when I travel anywhere is to get into the car and just drive. That's the best way to find the hidden gems !!! We get ourselves lost all the time and REALLY get to know a place... but if we're going somewhere with a parking fee or something and it was for the day and not here there everywhere we would lyft for that....and it's been my experience Lyft over uber

Pacific Beach area is awesome! A great beach and cool shops & restaurants to check out.
Powerhaus Pizza & Smoothies is a must there

Avoid Seaworld!!

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Go to hodads as many times as you can. It's in ocean beach.