{"id":5706,"date":"2012-05-15T13:00:27","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T20:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=5706"},"modified":"2012-05-15T13:04:35","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T20:04:35","slug":"pleasure-pier-showdown-santa-cruz-santa-monica-or-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/pleasure-pier-showdown-santa-cruz-santa-monica-or-san-diego\/","title":{"rendered":"Pleasure Pier Showdown &#8211; Santa Cruz, Santa Monica or San Diego?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/cabrdwlk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photos left to right: Santa Cruz roller coaster, Santa Cruz sky chair, Belmont Park San Diego rides, Santa Monica Pier sign, Santa Monica Ferris Wheel.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s primal, it&#8217;s colorful and you can touch the sky. Spend a sunny, summer day in California at the beach on a pleasure ride. In Santa Cruz you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/santa-cruz-beach-train-goes-from-mountains-to-sea\/\">arrive by beach train<\/a> that travels from the Redwood forest to the sea and enjoy an historic Boardwalk over 100 years old (beachboardwalk.com)! \u00a0 At Belmont Park (belmontpark.com)\u00a0 in San Diego the fun includes an historic Plunge pool.\u00a0 In Santa Monica on the World Famous Pier (santamonicapier.org), there&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/santa-monica-pier-fun\/\"> old-fahioned Ferris wheel<\/a> with a twist&#8211;solar powered operations.<\/p>\n<p>Fun zones with beaches, boardwalks and piers are nearly a thing of the past.\u00a0 So grab the brass ring while you can and enjoy the timeless experience of old-fashioned beach amusements.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos left to right: Santa Cruz roller coaster, Santa Cruz sky chair, Belmont Park San Diego rides, Santa Monica Pier sign, Santa Monica Ferris Wheel. It&#8217;s primal, it&#8217;s colorful and you can touch the sky. Spend a sunny, summer day in California at the beach on a pleasure ride. In Santa Cruz you can arrive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5706"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}