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The non-smoking Lafayette Hotel offers individually decorated rooms with flat-panel TVs and free high-speed internet an Olympic-size pool and a happening restaurant with a mean wine menu. This colonial-style historic hotel offers 131 custom-decorated rooms with free high-speed internet flat-panel TVs iPod docks pillowtop mattresses and triple-sheeted bedding coffeemakers hairdryers and irons with ironing boards. Some also have breakfast nooks with refrigerators stoves and dining utensils. Guests can show off their strokes in the Olympic-size outdoor pool and enjoy breakfast lunch and dinner at the poolside restaurant serving up local flavors and vintages. At night the place can get hopping with pool parties. A fitness room and meeting space are available. Parking is free. Wine bars boutique shops and cozy restaurants span the distance between this hotel and Balboa Park one-and-a-half miles south. Spend a day with the family at the San Diego Zoo or at the San Diego Natural History Museum both about two miles south. Soak in the sun at Mission Beach eight miles west or visit USS Midway five miles away. The Gaslamp Quarter with its shopping and dining is four miles south. San Diego International Airport is five miles away.