You can actually unlock your room by tapping a button on your phone
How cool is this?
What is up members of the barrio
It is Jon coming to you from the Gaslamp Quarter in San Diego California
The West Coast adventure has begun
And today instead of a tour of an apartment which I would normally do.
I'm actually going to show you our hotel
The Hilton Gaslamp Quarter
Which we booked entirely through points, just 9,000
Chase Ultimate Reward points
Per night
We got an ugpraded loft room
And i'm going to show you why sometimes I prefer to stay in hotels
Over apartments
This place is pretty cool
Now I am a Hilton Honors Gold Member
Through one of my American Express Cards
And we had a really good experience last night
When we checked in at about 12:30
I said to the guy at the front desk do you have any upgrades available?
It's Adriana's birthday
And they upgraded us to these loft style rooms
Which he said were the newest in the hotel
We're going to go right now
Normally the flight to San Diego is about 5.5 hours
But yesterday we had to sit on the tarmac at Newark Airport for something like 2 hours
And I think in the past I would have complained a lot more about that.
But I caught myself not really sweating a small detail about
Travel ever since the whole Testicular Cancer thing happened.
I've just been a lot more chill
About the smaller problems in life.
Alright we're approaching the room right now.
And Adriana is in here.
Say Hi.
Enjoying the view of the Gaslamp outside?
Of course.
Good people watching here.
A lot yeah.
You can see exactly what's going on, there's a welcome to the Gaslamp Quarter sign right there.
Very nice king size bed.
Kind of some modern amenities.
Not really a really large room per say.
I think this TV
Is way to big for the room.
Do you agree?
Yes.
I want to watch a movie.
Right now.
It's got to be like a 55-60 inch TV
I don't know if you can really tell from the vlog
How big this TV is compared to the actual room size.
But for two nights, you can't complain about this location.
Right in downtown San Diego.
This is the bathroom.
Nothing overly special but.
The shower.
9,000 points a night is a steal for a hotel like this which is 4 stars
Normally about 200 dollars
Which is why I keep on pushing people to get the Chase Sapphire Reserve
Or other credit cards where you can
Get bonus points for hotels and now we're going to talk about when I would book an Airbnb
And when I would book a hotel.
Normally i'm all about staying at an airbnb or apartment when I
Travel. But when you've got points to use especially when traveling with a boyfriend or girlfriend.
In this case my points don't just go towards my flight.
They go to a hotel room.
Which we're both using.
Factor in also that i'm hilton honors.
Through my American Express Card
Which you guys should definitley look up trying to get.
And I also got free breakfast here.
Got an upgraded room.
Got free internet.
Got free waters at check-in so for a short term stay.
Where you can make your points work for you.
I would always recommend getting a hotel.
For a longer term stay I don't think I could stay at a hotel more than a
4 or 5 nights.
And if you guys have any questions about Airbnbs
veruss hotels
Leave me something in the comments. I'd love to talk about it more.
Nothing to crazy today.
I just wanted to show you guys a little bit of the hotel expeience.
Here in Downtown San Diego
I promised Adriana for her birthday I wouldn't vlog to much.
We're actually going to go get some great food
At the Gaslamp after.
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We've got a lot more stuff coming out
From Southern California
The next video should be in Anaheim.
Right around Vid Con
Where i'm going to be this week.
Feliz Cumpleanos
Thank you.
We're at San Diego's argubaly smallest bar. Pop's liquor cabinet.
Shout out to my friend rob for the suggestion here.
You can fit like maybe 10 people.
It's got this New York vibe to it actually.
I like it already.