Monday, October 3, 2016

I'll try this again .......

Naval Amphibious Base, Coronado, CA
http://ngis.dodlodging.net/propertys/Coronado-NAB----San-Diego-CA

The Phib Base is near and dear to my heart.  As a brand-new ensign I spent 4 months there in late 1974 as a student at the brand-new Surface Warfare Officer School.  And over the next 20 years of my naval career I stayed here dozens of times, and even now I still get there on occasion. 

My last visit there was in October 2013.  I was lucky enough to get a Suite in B/504 (what was the BOQ in those days):  the Neptune Suite, Room 935, looking south.  The 9th floor is the top floor, and the view is fantastic with a complete ocean view !!  (Amazingly enough, as an ensign I was in room 435 ..... it took me 39 years to finally work my way to the top floor).
          The setup for the Suite is you get 2 side-by-side rooms:  they cut/created a door in the wall between two rooms.  So one room is the bedroom & bath, the other room is a living room, and that bath has been converted into a tiny "kitchen."
          The bedroom has a very small "dining area" w/ table & 2 chairs. with There is also a small desk (I used that for my laptop).  There was a hospitality basket of welcome goodies on the table.
          Each room has floor-to-ceiling glass to the exterior:  one is a window pane, the other is a sliding glass door.  Each room opens onto a balcony, and in this case, both balconies are connected.
          There was free WiFi, kinda/sorta slow.
          Outside, there is actually a designated Parking Place for the Neptune Suite if you want to use it.
          The rooms in B/504 face south or north (view of the city/Glorietta Bay/Pt Loma).

There is another former-BOQ building (I don't know the number), the rooms of which face either west (ocean view) or east (city view).  The west-facing (ocean view) is spectacular (I have included a few pictures below).


Neptune Suite, Room 935, the view looking south:


the view looking at the SEAL compound:

Here is the bedroom:

Here is the living room:

the door between the rooms:

Living room and entry:

the "kitchen":


And, here are several pictures of the room & view in the other former-BOQ building:


Looking northwest at Point Loma:

Looking south:

Sunrise, looking at Point Loma:

Sunset: