The best surf hotels · San Diego
Tower23 Hotel
Tower23 is named after the lifeguard tower it stands beside on Pacific Beach — a statement of intent about what kind of hotel this is and for whom. Thirty-eight rooms, glass-box architecture that lights up the PB boardwalk at night, a rooftop deck with a dipping pool and ocean views, and JRDN restaurant and bar on the ground floor with direct access to the sand. The hotel was designed to look like it belongs on Pacific Beach because it does — the boardwalk runs directly past the front door, the ocean is a few steps beyond, and the surf at Crystal Pier is the reason the neighbourhood exists. The hotel operates as if it knows the boardwalk is the amenity — not as a compromise but as the whole point.
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The hotel
The design
A glass-box building that lights up the Pacific Beach boardwalk at night. Named after the lifeguard tower next door.
Contemporary beachfront architecture with floor-to-ceiling glass on the ocean side. The rooftop dipping pool overlooks the Pacific. JRDN — the restaurant and bar at ground level — faces the boardwalk and stays open late.
The design
A glass-box building that lights up the Pacific Beach boardwalk at night. Named after the lifeguard tower next door.
Contemporary beachfront architecture with floor-to-ceiling glass on the ocean side. The rooftop dipping pool overlooks the Pacific. JRDN — the restaurant and bar at ground level — faces the boardwalk and stays open late.
The surf
Crystal Pier is steps away. Pacific Beach is where San Diego learns to surf and never really stops.
PB is the beach break town of San Diego — consistent, forgiving on smaller days, genuinely fun when a northwest swell fills in. Crystal Pier gives the break its shape. The hotel has boards, wetsuits, and connections to local surf schools.
The surf
Crystal Pier is steps away. Pacific Beach is where San Diego learns to surf and never really stops.
PB is the beach break town of San Diego — consistent, forgiving on smaller days, genuinely fun when a northwest swell fills in. Crystal Pier gives the break its shape. The hotel has boards, wetsuits, and connections to local surf schools.
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