The Beat has a post up about the San Diego hotel situation, along with links to a couple of interesting forum discussions.
I went ahead and made my flight reservation too. It wasn’t too painful, though the price for the flight actually went up, then back down again, while I was making the reservation. Weird.
I did a little bit of reseach on the Westin Horton Plaza, too, since I’ve never stayed there before. It’s got some very good reviews and some very bad ones, so I’m not too sure who to trust on that. I’m not too picky about hotel rooms, really, so if there’s a comfortable bed and the room doesn’t smell like cigarette smoke, I’m good, for the most part.