Gaslamp Quarter Historic District · Horton Grand Hotel (relocated/reconstructed 1886 hotel buildings)
Nightly Spirits operates costumed ghost-tour pub crawls in roughly twenty U.S. cities. In San Diego its route runs through the Gaslamp Quarter, a Victorian-era downtown district of nearly 100 historic buildings dating to the neighborhood's late-19th-century boom and later red-light-district era, now home to bars, restaurants, and nightlife.
The Nightmares and Nightcaps tour begins at the Horton Grand Hotel, a downtown hotel assembled in 1986 from two relocated and combined 1886 Gaslamp-era hotel buildings (the Horton Grand and the Brooklyn-Kahle Saddlery Hotel). The Booze and Boos Tour's meeting point is provided by the operator only after booking. Both products are offered as public group tours on a seasonal calendar (September 15 - November 15); private versions of each are bookable year-round by request.
Sources
- https://nightlyspirits.com/san-diego-ghost-tours/
- https://nightlyspirits.com/san-diego/san-diego-booze-and-boos-tour
- https://nightlyspirits.com/san-diego/nightmares-and-nightcaps/
- https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g60750-d25255507-Reviews-Nightly_Spirits-San_Diego_California.html
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The operator's Booze and Boos Tour page describes 'haunted sea vessels, hotels, restaurants, aircraft carriers, lighthouses,' the district's Wild West-era 'dark side,' and a possible 'ghostly glimpse of Wyatt Earp himself,' who ran gambling halls in the Gaslamp Quarter in the 1880s. The same page references a building the operator says Congress designated 'The Most Haunted House in America' without naming which building on the route this refers to.
The Nightmares and Nightcaps tour opens at the Horton Grand Hotel and continues up 5th Avenue, closing at what the operator calls 'one of the oldest buildings in the Gaslamp' without naming it. All of this is the tour operator's own marketing material, not documented history independently verified for this listing; it is included here as a description of what the tours cover, not as an endorsement of any specific claim.
