Most Californians have to drive to Tahoe or the Angeles mountains to see snow, but one ritzy SoCal resort is doing something totally different and unique.
The Hotel Del Coronado, a century-old luxury hotel just outside San Diego, California where rooms often top $1500 per night, has a unique feature for guests over the holidays.
Every few minutes in the morning, a truck arrives at the hotel’s beach carrying loads of artificial snow.
They dump it in a long line on the beach, creating a fake snow drift on the otherwise warm Southern California coast.
Guests can do things like have a snowball fight, roll in the snow, or even build a snowman.
Of course, this holiday feature is very popular with kids!
I visited the Hotel Del Coronado for the Bay Area Telegraph, and my kids loved building little snowmen on the sand with the lapping waves of the Pacific Ocean in the background.
Having grown up on the East Coast, I can tell you this isn’t exactly powdery, beautiful snow, but given that it’s on sandy beaches, the contrast is still pretty cool.
The hotel also offers holiday amenities like an ice-skating rink, lots of hot cocoa stands, beach “igloos” with fire pits, and more.
The beach snow was one of my favorites, though. Snow in SoCal; who would’ve thought?
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