Great value
The Holiday Inn Express in Chula Vista gave us much more then we paid for.
My Wife and I stayed here last week for our anniversary. We're not fancy people so we figured we'd stay in a cheaper place to stretch our stay out a few extra days. We got a really good price with our AAA discount but the hotel really exceeded our expectations.
First, the location at first seemed really far away from all the things we wanted to do. But after we had checked in and actually started site seeing it seemed right next door. The hotel is very close to the 805 freeway, making it easy to find and get to, but without a lot of freeway noise which was nice. It took about 15 min. to get to Sea World, we didn't get to go to the Zoo but it would have been about 10 min to get there (we passed it often). We went to Coronado daily, which was only about 15 min away.
The place was very clean. Impressivly so. With guest laundry services and a very nice continental breakfast every morning making our stay easier and a little nicer. My only caveat there is to wake up early to get breakfast, they stop serving at 9:30. The staff was very nice and were respectfull of the things we left in the room. They would clean around our items when ever possible, and try not to even move them. When it wasn't possible and our things had to be moved, they were set aside neatly and didn't look rifled through.
Check out was a nice surprise too, everything was taken care of instantly. I simply had to tell them my room number and it was done.
We will stay here again. It was a joy.