Hello there!
I did the same thing last March. We started at
Disneyland at the Anaheim Portofino which we found to be really great. (We hated the CA adventure by the way - got tickets on Ebay which was a one day / two park pass), then went down to San Diego. The main road split into two at one point and I almost wound up in Mexico, but that's another story.
In San Diego, we stayed at a place called Paradise Point. This is a resort that is situated around water of some type (lake, bay, etc.). The rooms were all bungalows and there was a beach about ten steps outside my front door. I was debating staying there or an Embassy Suites in the hotel circle.
I kept calling up Paradise Point and asking them questions about the place. I usually talked to the same nice guy who seemed like some sort of old surfer hippy dude (we always wound up talking about Survivor for some reason). Finally, he said to me "what's keeping you from staying with us?". I told him about the other hotel and the fact it was a bigger room for my family of five and it was less money. He told me to hang on and came back and told me he would give me a one bedroom bungalow for the same price as a suite. He told me not to stay in hotel circle as it's right off the highway. He actually begged me to stay with them.
Well... that was an offer I couldn't refuse so I took him up on it. The location of Paradise Point (paradisepoint.com) was in San Diego/Mission Bay very close to Sea World and close enough to everything else. We spent our four days there going to Balboa Park Museums (certain days the museums are free), the San Diego Zoo, Legoland in Carlsbad (a must for anyone with kids up to 12), and a day at La Jolla and watching the sunset at the Pier by the Sea.
Paradise Point was as beautiful as my laid back friend said it would be. The bungalow was big, spacious and beautiful. My kids loved the ducks that walked across our front walkway and we spent a few hours walking along their beach and property. The pools were beautiful too, but it was too cold to go swimming although I did because I insisted on bringing a bathing suit and wouldn't let my wife have the pleasure of being right.
I guess that's a very long answer to the fact that no, I don't know anything about the Best Western.
if I can be of any help to you otherwise, please let me know.
Oh yes, one other thing. The day our plane arrived (the day before Disneyland, which is more than doable in one day), we went to the California Science Center which was fantastic.
That's all... have fun!
