View from inside the parking garage, looking southeast. The garage exit is on the left side of the photo; the entrance is just off camera to the left.
Thomas Bros map: page 1228 grid B3
GPS: 32 52.283N 117 13.529W 74m (post SA; garage entrance)
Site description: The Hyatt Regency Hotel is a pink sandstone colored highrise on the south side of La Jolla Village Drive, just west of Lebon Drive and just east of I-5. There's a direct entrance from eastbound La Jolla Village Drive; enter westbound by turning left onto Lebon Drive.
Charger description: Two wall chargers inside the main parking garage near the exit. Though the entrance is adjacent to the exit, a "do not enter" sign means you have to drive the length of the garage, turn to the left and come back to the exit. They are to the right shortly before the exit booth.
Parking fee: $2/hr, $16/day max. 15 minute grace period.
What to do while waiting: Several fancy restaurants are in the hotel. Not much else.
ICEing: Serious and sustained; a real hassle that makes the site almost useless. A cleaning vehicle of some sort seems to be permanently parked in one inductive spot, and there are usually ICE vehicles parked in the other spots. After repeated complaints, they sometimes keep one of the three spots open, but it is not always the inductive spot. The valet drivers routinely park cars in the EV spots, and management basically doesn't seem to care. The chargers ought to be moved to another site where they'll do some good.
If you're low on charge and don't particularly need to go to the Hyatt, I suggest either the nearby Scripps Hospital La Jolla site or one of the three single-charger spots at UCSD. I've never encountered iceing at any of those other sites, and parking is sometimes free there too.
Charger supply voltage: 208
Entry by: Phil Karn, 8 Jan 1999; updated 31 Aug 2000
Photo by Ted Walton; courtesy of SDG&E