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The Shore House at The Del
Coronado, California, United States · LXR Hotels · High Luxury
Fourteen U.S. presidents have stayed at the Hotel del Coronado, beginning with Benjamin Harrison in 1891, and The Shore House sits within the campus of that 1888 Victorian, once the largest resort hotel in the world outside New York. Since 2022 it has offered one- to three-bedroom seaside villas with private kitchens, chef JoJo Ruiz's seafood bar Serea, and direct access to Nobu del Coronado, a minute from the Del's red turrets.
- 75 rooms
- Opened 2022
- Neighborhood: Coronado Village
About The Shore House at The Del
- The Shore House sits within the Hotel del Coronado campus, which James W. Reid designed and opened on February 19, 1888, as the largest resort hotel in the world outside New York City.
- The Del's Crown Room, with its soaring circular ceiling supported without interior columns, reportedly inspired L. Frank Baum when imagining the Emerald City in The Wizard of Oz.
- Fourteen United States presidents have stayed at the Del, beginning with Benjamin Harrison in 1891, on a Victorian structure that rose from bare ground in eleven months.
- Billy Wilder filmed the climactic beachfront scenes of Some Like It Hot at the Del in 1958, making its red turrets and white clapboard one of the most recognized images in American cinema.
- The Shore House opened in 2022 as a residential-style enclave of seaside villas with private gourmet kitchens and direct access to Nobu del Coronado on a National Historic Landmark campus.
History
Hotel del Coronado is one of the most storied resort buildings in America, and the Shore House is its newest and most intimate expression. To understand the Shore House is first to understand the Del itself — a structure whose history is so embedded in American cultural life that its Victorian silhouette on Coronado's shore has become a national icon.
The Hotel del Coronado was designed by James W. Reid and his brother Merritt Reid, and it opened on February 19, 1888, as the largest resort hotel in the world outside of New York City. Its construction was itself a marvel: built on an undeveloped peninsula connected to the mainland by ferry, it rose from bare ground in eleven months, employing hundreds of workers and consuming lumber shipped from the Pacific Northwest. The result was a sprawling Victorian confection of red-pointed turrets, white clapboard siding, and sweeping verandas that faced directly onto the Pacific Ocean. From the day it opened, the Del attracted guests of extraordinary distinction — Ulysses S. Grant stayed before the hotel opened, and subsequent guests included fourteen United States presidents, beginning with Benjamin Harrison in 1891.
The hotel's association with Hollywood royalty is equally storied. When Billy Wilder filmed Some Like It Hot in 1958, the Del's beachfront served as the backdrop for the climactic scenes, and the hotel's distinctive architecture became one of the most recognized images in American cinema. The author L. Frank Baum reportedly drew inspiration from the Del's Crown Room — its soaring circular ceiling supported without interior columns through an early experiment with structural engineering — when imagining the Emerald City in The Wizard of Oz.
The Del survived the twentieth century through cycles of expansion, renovation, and ownership change. Bing Crosby once performed on its lawn. The Beach Boys recorded Here Comes Summer on the property. In the 1960s and beyond, the resort added modern towers and infrastructure while preserving its Victorian heart. The complex is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is consistently recognized as a National Historic Landmark.
The Shore House opened in 2022 as the most recent evolution of the campus: a residential-style neighborhood of seaside villas within the Del's grounds, with private gourmet kitchens, elevated guest services, and direct access to the beach. Operating under the LXR Hotels & Resorts flag within Hilton's portfolio, Shore House layers contemporary coastal living over the most historically significant resort site in Southern California. Nobu del Coronado, along with Serea by Chef JoJo Ruiz and the full campus dining program, brings world-class culinary anchors to the Del's beachfront. For guests of the Shore House, the Victorian towers of the Del rise just beyond — an ever-present reminder that they are standing on ground that the American resort tradition has been constructing, story by story, for nearly a hundred and forty years.
The setting
The Shore House at The Del occupies the oceanfront edge of the legendary Hotel del Coronado campus at 1500 Orange Avenue, Coronado, just one minute's walk from the storied 1888 Victorian main hotel — a National Historic Landmark that has hosted presidents, royalty, and Hollywood stars across more than thirteen decades. Opened in 2022 as an LXR Hotels & Resorts addition, the property delivers residential-style seaside villas on one of Southern California's premier resort sites, where Orange Avenue's boutique-lined village leads directly to the Pacific shore and Coronado's celebrated beach stretches to the horizon, placing guests within one of the most enduring luxury enclaves on the American West Coast.
Restaurants and bars
- Nobu del Coronado — Restaurant
- Veranda — Restaurant · Californian
- Serea — Restaurant · Seafood · Chef JoJo Ruiz
- Sun Deck — Poolside
- Beach & Taco Shack — Poolside
- ENO Market & Pizzeria — Café
- Babcock & Story Bar — Bar
- Sundaes — Restaurant
Amenities
- Private seaside villas with one- to three-bedroom layouts
- Fully appointed gourmet kitchens
- Renovated interiors
- Priority access to resort dining and activities
- Daily housekeeping and turndown service
- 24-hour onsite security
- Exclusive pool access
- Beach access and resort privileges
- Spa
- Fitness center
- Pet-friendly
Awards
- AAA Four Diamond (2025)
- Condé Nast Traveler Readers' Choice Awards
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