Really great harbor, amenities and boating experience, however, $30 for guest parking is excessive!

Safe Harbor Sunroad is clean and well maintained. The docks are kept in order and the bathrooms are always clean and fresh. The dock master and staff are great, the only down side is the ever increasing costs and fees. But with the amazing slips they offer I guess I understand the demand for more ! read more

Safe Harbor Sunroad - Marinas Near Me - San Diego, California

Sunroad Resort Marina is large and beautiful marina on Harbor Island. Josh, the dock master, does a great job of keeping the marina in top shape and taking care of the guest's needs. The parking lot is gated using a card to open and which allows spaces only for those renting slips in the marina. There are gates for each of the fingers A-M as well. This keeps the number of people wandering the docks down as well as those just looking for a place to park. As a boater, one of the first things I noticed are the wide fairways between fingers where the boat slips are located. There is room to bring the boat in and take in our without getting too close to the other boats. The docks are clean and well-maintained. Because the marina is so large, there can be a long walk down to your boat. Amenities, such as pool and spa, gym, computer room, etc. give lots of things to do while you are on the dock too. There is a deli convenient to the docks with delicious food, drinks & ice available. The one negative is the ramp is extremely long getting down to water level and even farther to get to the end of the fingers to your boat if it's at the end. At low, or worse, super low tides the rams is about at a 45 degree angle making it hard enough to walk and almost impossible to push a cart up that ramp. And scary enough walking down and trying to get a loaded cart down without losing control. I recommend Sunroad Resort Marina for boaters looking for a slip in San Diego. read more

I have mixed feelings about Sunroad. I was there for over 6 years and moved to various slips. The amenities are great. There was a recent buyout of Sunroad by Safe Harbor and the improvements are amazing and they are constantly doing things now to beautify the marina. Ramps can be a bit steep depending on the tide and, depending on where your boat is it can be a long walk, which is ok unless you have to pass the troll on A docks whose sole goal in life is to make everyone's life miserable. So because Sunroad has such a difficult time ridding bad tenants like the troll, I decided to leave to greener pastures so my day isn't darkened by negativity. It seems like priorities should be the other way around...to keep the good tenants and kick out the trolls. Oh well. Stay away from the A docks and you are in good shape. read more

What a beautiful marina! So well kept, clean and shiny. Dock residents are friendly and sweet offering visitors advice of where to go to eat and drink close by. Fantastic: Humphrey's concerts a quick Uber away, limitless restaurants and things to do close by. Very fun spot! Couple a visit to Sunroads along with a night or two at Glorietta Bay anchoring and it's a memorable get-a-way without ever leaving the San Diego Bay. This location is incredibly convenient also as my out of town guests could just walk to and from the airport right out to the boat. No car needed. The staff at Sunroads is unbelievably helpful especially when you are pulling in. It was windy and they all came out to help us 'park' our boat. So gracious they are. They all just appear to be there to give assistance to boaters. So easy to work with. It really doesn't get much better than Sunroads. I can't say enough about this place and the people there. read more

This is a very nice marina located on the eastern half of Harbor Island. The docks seem to be well maintained, and access security is standard. There's a pool and sun deck for owners and guests. The central building is mostly boat dealers. Looking for a ride on the bay? The rental office is in the center of the building. read more

Good marina, good management. Clean bathrooms. 'Nuff said!

Can a former tenant write a review? You betcha! Hubby and I have been boaters for a very long time (despite we're boat-less at the moment) but this by far is the finest and "BEST" marina in San Diego, hands down. Jim is an awesome manager who treats his tenants great and bends over backwards to accommodate most any needs. The marina is clean, very well maintained and has some of the best amenities you could ask for. Having been tenants of a few other marinas in San Diego prior to ending up at Sunroad, this place has them all beat. read more

Not much to say , it's a place to park and go sail your boat. Guest parking is a bit expensive. read more

Others have said it, top notch marina in a great spot on the bay. Not much I can add. Staff is great. Dog friendly. Didn't see that mentioned. Recent renovations to the pool. Great views of downtown. Clean Marina. The water is clean, the marina is kept clean. It isn't new so there is some wear and tear if you look for it, but it is clean and newer than most harbor/shelter island. Someone said Mission bay Marinas are cleaner? Not at the marinas behind Mission Bay Park. Someone mentioned the airport noise. It isn't that bad. I don't even notice it. If you are sensitive to noise I suppose it might bother you, but a lot of people seem OK with it, me included. I'd give it 4 1/2 if they had 1/2 stars, I'm on the cusp of 4 and 5, I might edit it to 5 next time I review my reviews. read more

Great marina - I have had two boats in this marina - both on M dock - can't beat the location, walking distance from the airport . Very close to one if the best restaurants in San Diego - C-Level. Jim does a great job running the marina - actually nice having the boat show at the marina - looking forward to the new restaurant. read more

Sunroad Marina is a great place to have your yacht. The staff is very accommodating, the amenities area great and the location is good. Jim and his staff go out of their way to make you feel at home. I left the Marriott Marina, after 22 years to move my yachts to Sunroad and have been here for over three years. The deli has good food, might want to think about expanding hours, especially in the summer months and serve PIZZA !. Lots of Pizza deliveries from outside sources, it would make sense for the guys operating the Deli to install a pizza oven and try it. They can deliver to the gates, as do the other outside vendors. Just a suggestion. John I-1. read more

Nice. Everything is nice. The staff is nice. The docks are nice. The maintenance folks are nice. Everything is amazingly maintained. I don't know how they do it, but there are no bad tenants here. read more

1/14/14- UPDATE- If you are looking at slips on L or M dock, be aware that the HOUSEBOAT you see over there is used for DAILY RENTALS and is frequently rented by young people and used as a PARTY BOAT. Since this boat does not move, neither does the party- and the noise- which frequently go on late into the night with music blasting out the open doors. Four long term tenants have already moved out because of this. I am quite surprised that management has shown favoritism to this view blocking party boat over the tenants of the largest high rent slips in the marina. Normally management takes care of everything, but not this. Some of my attraction to this marina was that it was quiet and there were rarely strangers on the dock. This is not true anymore. Until this problem is solved, I am dropping down to 3-stars. 2/1/13- I have had two boats in this marina for a combined nine years. This place used to have a bad reputation when it was run with an iron fist by the "Dock Nazi". Fortunately he is now long gone and Jim Behun is the Dock Master. It is now a very friendly environment and has a great staff. Wayne, one of the guys that works for Sunroad and is out on the docks a lot, is one of the nicest, friendliest and helpful guys you could imagine. The docks are always clean and kept free of junk and boater's personal property. I have always liked that the marina is not next to a hotel because it keeps "tourists" from sneaking on the dock. I rarely see people on the docks that do not belong here. That is about to change though with the hotel that is planned next to Island Prime. We were told that is 3-4 years away though. I like that the dock gates require a key to get in and out. The marina has showers, storage lockers, laundry rooms, a good deli, a nice heated pool and Jacuzzi, gazebo with gas BBQ, exercise room with a computer with internet access & printer and free wi-fi throughout the marina. There is a tenant-only pump-out station right at the entrance to the marina. I like being near the center of the bay with easy access to downtown for short bay cruises, Glorietta Bay and not too far of a run to get out to the open ocean. Proximity to the airport is a plus for us as we have to fly in all the time. One negative is that the annual boat show forces tenants on L and M docks (closest to downtown) to relocate for about 10 days during the show. The marina works hard to make this a painless process but is nonetheless a hassle, especially being that I do not live in San Diego and have to rely on other people to move the boat out and back mid-week when I am never there. I wrote this review while on the boat moored at a dock at Shelter Island Boat Yard until the show ends. I get that the boat show is a pretty big deal for the marina and for boating in general so my comments are purely from a personal perspective and may or may not be a factor in you choosing a slip on L or M dock. These are really nice slips with great views of downtown so the show is just something we deal with in January. Most importantly, the marina itself and the staff are awesome and I highly recommend Sunroad. This is a 5-star marina if you don't care about the boat show once a year. read more

My favorite marina in San Diego. Great amenities, plenty of parking, responsive staff, SINGLE SLIPS, pool and lounge area. They also have a yacht center with some great companies. They do a great job keeping the marina in top shape. Love going to C-Level next door too! read more

Amenities are pretty much as their website says.... With a few exceptions such as the toilets, showers are in some need of repair and not cleaned often or good enough... Also so near the airport, which has its advantage, but if you live on boat like we did for a few months to wait out the hurricane season in Mexico.... those planes are loud,,,, in the mornings and the evenings.... landing and taking off.... LOUD.... Water in the bay is kinda black ---- much cleaner bay water in Mission Bay just a few miles north of here... read more

The marina has every thing a mariner needs. The staff goes above and beyond every time. Love it here

You can't beat the location. Harbor Island is awesome, right next to the airport, close to downtown, great sailing out on San Diego Harbor and easy access to the ocean. Docks/slips are in good repair. They host a pretty big boat show and draw big crowds. read more

This Marina is as good as it gets ! The staff and the management are great friendly people and above all are great listeners. Our family has been at Sunroad now almost two years. We have looked around to see what other Marinas have compared to what we have been enjoying and there is no comparison. The Deli has great food, the Marina is kept spotless, the new weight room is great, and above all the staff and management are great people who care about boat owner needs. We plan on being at Sunroad for a long time ! read more

The marina is a wonder place with nice people. I had a 42 foot boat there for a year.

We were there for 13 years. Had a very enjoyable experience until they went to paid parking. We always had guests come down for a boat ride and enjoy free parking usually not a problem except a little tight on busy holidays. Then everything changed when they went to paid parking because of the new restaurants which are great btw. Facilities are great but expensive and it became harder to convince friends to come down when they needed to worry about parking and fees. read more

This is one of the best marina's in San Diego. The management is friendly and they do a wonderful job with a limited budget. It would be great if the owner would be a little more concerned out meeting tenants needs. Example the washers and dryers are coin operated and there are no coin machines or banks within 6 miles of the marina. A simple coin machine installed on site would be great. Also the Internet service is very poor quality. The wifi only works near the office not on the docks. Years ago AT&T provided, TV phone and Internet but some where along the way the relationship fell apart. I was speaking with another boat owner during a recent yearly appreciation party, this person thought the reason we did not have high speed internet service at each dock had something to do with WWII and the Germans. He did stated Google will fix it all very soon, even our limited cable TV. At the Marina there are also lots of companies fixing or cleaning boats. They leave their rubber garden hoses attached to the waterlines and the water from these hoses eventually get into your boat. You can taste the rubber in the water. This leaves you with having to bring water on board your boat. It would be great if management required the service companies to use drinking water hoses instead of the plain garden hoses. The Marina recently installed a new parking system to charge guests money when they park their cars, it is very effective. But in keeping with the coin tradition the parking should also be coin operated. I suggest pay toilets and pay showers, and a charge to go through the gate to your boat, also coin operated. New gates to the dock that are not right next to the entry ramp would be cool. The steep angle at top of the ramp at low tide makes going through the gate hazardous and I feel does not meet any architectural, city, port, or state guidelines. Example of an exceptional ramp design is at Elliot bay Marina in Seattle WA, and parking is free. As for storage, I have no idea how one acquires access to a storage unit and why they also are not coin operated, it seems very untraditional. How about some coin operated soda, ice, water, and food machines. Coin operated Jacuzzi , Barbecue's , exercise equipment and not to leave out the pump out. God bless those poor souls having to man the automatic gate parking system until 1:00 am. read more

While this Marina is top notch and the resort very nice, dealing with Bridget will wear on your last nerve. Stephanie is great and so is the rest of the staff but the "den mother" is no fun and not helpful. Good thing they are full because she would never drum up new business. read more

While it is a great location I would caution renting here. Management does not communicate or listen to customers concerns especially. We had a very bad experience here and would not recommend it. We have boated 36 years and been to many marinas and never experienced such a negative, disrespectful and bullish treatment as we did here. Boating is relaxed and peaceful but not under this type of management. read more

Great location (??), but that's about it. Staff and tenants are unfriendly. Bathrooms are antiquated and borderline clean. Constant noise from airport and a sheen of airline fuel seems to coat everything on the boat. Parking is a nightmare - run by a private company that bills separately. Connection to WiFi non-existent except near office. read more

Jim, the marina manager is a top notch guy, the staff is responsive and courteous and the marina itself is the best in San Diego. Absolutely enjoyed my time here with my boat and will definitely come back next fishing season! read more

I've had my boat here for the last 3 years. Initially for the first year or so things seems good. The pool area was renovated and new restrooms/showers installed in the pool area. Over these past 2 years things have gone steadily downhill here. It seems to start with the maintenance of the restrooms. The gym equipment was moved to the outdoor club house to allow a new boat broker to come in and occupy that space. In order to fill all the slips here they have broken their own rules and allowed vessels to moor here that don't even meet the marina's own standards. The parking situation during the Sunroad boat show last January was the beginning of the end for me here. The marina rented resident parking spots to boat vendors and patrons. This created quite nightmare for boat owners for those 4 long days. They even had cars parked on the side walks and fire lanes. Since the new mexican restaurant has open at the far east end of harbor island the parking here at the marina has been quite the challenge as restaurant patrons refuse to valet park at the restaurant so use Sunroad parking at their own convenience. For some reason Sunroad marina removed the security gates on their property just about the time the new restaurant opened further complicating the issue. Of course Sunroad failed to obtain proper building permits to install the new gates so construction was delay for over 3 months leaving the parking lot here at the marina a free for all and a security risk. The security guards that we hired attempted to enforce some sort of strategy for most of the day light hours. So now we have new security gates that all of us here at Sunroad, vendors included get to pay for with newly added parking fees. The vendors are already passing these fees right on down to the boat owners who are getting to bend over twice for a service that used to be free. Along with this it is rumored that the marina will rent parking spaces to the restaurants and any "special events" that need extra parking for their event. So now I might be paying for parking that I won't even have access to. Isn't that double dipping? I'm done here as the slip fees are the highest on Harbor Island and Shelter Island to begin with. I'm not even going to offer much on the endless pool parties at the clubhouse as well. Seems like Sunroad is renting these facilities out to people not associated with the marina and turning quite a tidy profit as well. Also tired of the airport noise and dirt from the airplanes. read more

My wife and I have been at Sunroad Marina for almost six years. We looked at all the marinas in San Diego, and chose this one. The facilities are the best you will find in San Diego. Jim and his staff go above and beyond to make Sunroad more like a resort than just a marina. Recent renovations to the pool area, include new furniture, cabanas, and fire pits. Restrooms around the pool area have also been renovated. Jim and his staff are very courteous, professional, and always willing to assist the tenants in every possible way, to ensure their experience at Sunroad will be a very pleasant one. I would like to address the review written about the house boat . Our boat is on "M" dock, a couple of slips away. I can assure you the claims made by the other reviewer are false at best. The owners of the houseboat screen their renters very well to ensure, their presence will not be offensive or disruptive to the tenants. The renting of the houseboat was a business decision, and not one driven by favoritism. As long as we own a boat, my wife and I will be at Sunroads. Thank you Jim for all you do. Job well done. read more