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After a volatile spring and early summer, San Diego’s hotel market has stabilized, closing out peak season with performance closely aligned to 2024. Notably, however, room demand should be higher than last year due to the addition of the Gaylord property. A new convention center event generated several thousand room nights last week—an uplift not seen during the same week in … [Read more...] about Weekly Hotel Performance Update – August 17-23, 2025

San Diego County hotel performance continues to underwhelm. New supply—the Gaylord in particular—has weighed on occupancy without a commensurate number of additional room nights sold. Leisure continues to look softer than last year. Weekend room night demand for the week was down 2.4%, while weekday demand was down a less severe 0.7%. Even so, ADR was down around 3% YoY for … [Read more...] about Weekly Hotel Performance Update – August 10-16, 2025

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Hotel performance across the county followed expected seasonal trends last week, with particularly strong results over the weekend. Occupancy reached or exceeded 90% on both Friday and Saturday in every submarket within the city. Preliminary daily data for July indicates a slight year-over-year decline in overall demand (1.7M room nights; -0.4% YoY), ADR ($261; -1.1% YoY), … [Read more...] about Weekly Hotel Performance Update – July 27-August 2, 2025

San Diego’s hotel performance continues to be middling—neither bad nor outstanding. This is especially true given that the Gaylord is fully operational. Theoretically, San Diego County should be generating more room nights compared with 2024, but the expected boost hasn’t yet materialized. On a brighter note, however, Comic-Con delivered like it usually does, making last week … [Read more...] about Weekly Hotel Performance Update – July 20-26, 2025