Longer days and warmer nights mean more time to enjoy everything San Diego has to offer. Our attractions invite you to dig for dinos, journey to Atlantis, go totally ape, spot the baby elephant and land on an aircraft carrier. May brings exciting Cinco de Mayo festivities and June serves up over 40 bands in 26.2 miles for the Suzuki Rock 'n' Roll Marathon. We offer great hotel deals through MasterCardTM and exciting vacation packages for every taste. And don’t forget our shopping deals, restaurant offers and major attraction discounts- all designed to bring you back again and again to America’s Finest City! Here is what’s happening now:
Great May Getaways: MasterCardTM Hotel Deals,
Cinco de Mayo,
Suzuki Rock 'n' Roll Marathon

Date: All Summer
San Diego has it all when it comes to what's new and exciting at the attractions. Take a mystical voyage to a "lost city" complete with a splashy 60-foot plunge and view exotic dolphins at SeaWorld, step back in time for face-to-face encounters with Mesozoic monsters at the Wild Animal Park, climb aboard Coastersaurus for a thrilling ride through Dino Island at Legoland or revisit history aboard the decommissioned USS Midway. You'll find San Diego is just the ticket for nonstop fun and adventure!
SeaWorld San Diego
Whet your appetite for adventure Memorial Day weekend at SeaWorld's biggest and most thrilling attraction, Journey to Atlantis. Board an eight-passenger Greek "fishing boat" for a breathtaking voyage to a "lost city" complete with simulated tremors and floods, and other spectacular special effects. This mystical journey will include a splashy 60-foot plunge and a heart-pounding G force drop. After your wild ride, be sure to check out the new 130,000-gallon exhibit of rare Commerson's dolphins. This display of the exotic, black and white dolphins
will be the only one in the Western Hemisphere and one of only a few in the entire world.
Hours: open year-round with varying operating hours.
Admission: $46.95, adults; $37.95, children (3-9). Click here for discount tickets.
Information: 800-380-3203 or www.seaworld.com.
LEGOLAND® California
Climb aboard Coastersaurus for a thrilling ride through Dino Island filled with
animated and life-size LEGO® brick dinosaurs. Dino Island will also feature Dig Those Dinos, an interactive area that will allow junior excavators to dig for "fossils" buried in sand pits.
The heat's on for the entire family to test their teamwork by racing near-life size LEGO fire trucks when Fun Town Fire Academy, a competitive interactive ride, opens May 28.
Mark your calendars for the opening of Miniland Florida on June 18. Cape Canaveral, Miami Beach and the famous Daytona International Speedway will be built out of LEGO bricks and you'll even be able to remotely race LEGO brick cars around the speedway.
Hours: Fluctuate by season.
Admission: $41.95, adults; $35.95, children. Click here for discount tickets.
Information: 760-918-LEGO (5346) or www.legoland.com.
San Diego Zoo
Swing by the "Absolutely Apes" habitat to view Cinta, a male Sumatran orangutan born March 5 to first-time mom, Indah. Cinta means "love and affection" in Bahasa, the official language of Sumatra.
Mei Sheng, the male panda cub born last summer is growing fast! Stop by
the SBC Giant Panda Research Station from 10:30am-5pm daily to see
him and his mother, Bai Yun. Little Mei Sheng's dad, Gao Gao, is on
exhibit 9am-4:15pm daily.
Hours: 9am-4pm (grounds close at 6pm) now thru June 25. Spring Break hours (thru April 18: 9am-5pm (grounds close at 7pm)
Admission: $32, adults; $19.75, children. Click here for Best Value Package discount. (includes admission, Guided Bus Tour, Express Bus and Skyfari Aerial Tram)
Information: 619-234-3153 or www.sandiegozoo.org.
San Diego Zoo's Wild Animal Park
Take a step back in time as more than 20 life-size robotic dinosaurs, ranging in size from a 4-foot baby Parasaurolophus to a towering 19-foot Omeisaurus, return to invade Dino Mountain May 1. Other Mesozoic monsters will include the fish-eating Baryonyx, the tail-spiked Stegosaurus, the plant-eating Brachiosaurus and the towering and terrorizing Tyrannosaurus rex.
Be sure to catch a glimpse of Vus'musi, the first African elephant to be born at the Park in 22 years! Born February 23, "Moose," can be seen daily from the Wgasa Bush Line Railway.
Hours: 9am-4pm (grounds close at 5pm) thru June 18; 9am-8pm (grounds close at 10pm) thru September 6.
Admission: $26.50, adults; $19.50, children. Dino Mountain: $2.50, adults; $2.00, children. Click here for discount tickets.
Information: 760-747-8702 or www.wildanimalpark.org.
San Diego Aircraft Carrier Museum/Midway Magic
Catch the wave of excitement June 7 as this floating museum opens on the decommissioned USS Midway, highlighting San Diego's rich military history. Visit the Island Superstructure, Flight Deck, Hangar Deck and portions of the Second Deck and view static aircraft displays of the Corsair A-7B, Phantom F-4S, Intruder A-6E and Hawkeye E-2C. Two exciting virtual flight simulation experiences will offer the chance to a ride in a flight simulation module or receive a pre-mission briefing before "flying" solo into the action.
Hours: 10am-5pm daily; major holidays excluded.
Admission: $13, adults;
$10, seniors (62+) and military ID; $7, children (6-12); kids under 6 and active duty military in uniform admitted free. Additional fees for flight simulations.
Information: www.midway.org.
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Handlery Hotel - Explore San Diego - rates starting from $160.00
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Diego Zoo, the San Diego Zoo's Wild Animal Park, LEGOLAND California,
and SeaWorld Adventure Park. Tickets valid any day, any time until
January 2005. Click here for the Fab 4 Combo.
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