I checked-in on Wednesday 03 July 2019 and discovered why it is "nearly impossible" for a retiree to reserve a room for "leisure."
Right next door to B/504, way back in 1986 or so, they built another BOQ, B505.
Well, 505 has recently been turned into a barracks and is no longer a part of the Navy Gateway Inns & Suites. Thus, no less than 1/2 of the rooms were lost to NGIS.
The only way I got in here was with the help of my active-duty nephew stationed here in San Diego. He walked up to the front desk, made a reservation for himself using his "active duty horsepower" and then added my name to the reservation so I could actually check-in on my own.
So I'm in and very grateful just to have a room, any room. I got double-lucky because I was assigned a south-facing view. And triple lucky because I'm on the 7th floor (the 8th & 9th floors are the suites, and zero availability). And the south-facing view is the premier view: looking east, then sweeping to the south and to the west ..... a 180-degree view and "spectacular" does not do justice to the magnificence of the view.
As you can see in the top picture below, I re-oriented the small desk so I would be looking to the southeast while computer-izing, surfing the 'net, and adding this blog post.
One big change on-base. In the 5th & 7th picture you can see a big parking lot. That real estate used to be the Officer's Club. The club was shuttered many years ago. But just recently it was obviously razed and a parking lot installed ...... the pavement is still nice and dark and brand-new looking, and all the white striping is very fresh.
I will check out on Monday July 8th.
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