Luxury Hotels In Del Mar

Stay Between The Village And The Shore

L'Auberge Del Mar overlooks the Pacific from the coastal village, near shops, restaurants and galleries. This is a base for combining the town's dining streets with the beach around Powerhouse Park.

Discover The Powerhouse's Original Role

Del Mar's Powerhouse was built in 1928 to replace the Stratford Inn's earlier facility. Its boilers supplied hot water for the hotel, cottages, laundry and pool. This gives an interest in the village's history a subject in the infrastructure behind a holiday setting.

Consider the building through that original practical role. A resort's public image depends partly on less visible systems, and the Powerhouse offers a concrete example of that relationship.

Follow Its Changing Uses

The building became the Powerhouse Roaring 20s nightclub, operating from 1958 to 1962. In 1965, Universal Water Corporation took over the space to test the conversion of salt water into drinking water. Those different uses show how the same structure can acquire successive purposes.

Choose this interest for the story of adaptation. A traveler curious about industrial history may focus on the original service building, while someone interested in local social history may be drawn to its entertainment period.

Our Del Mar hotel-offer guide provides the related accommodation-comparison context.