Admiral Kidd Catering and Conference Center

Beautiful place and what a great price!The background of San Diego is breathtaking at Admiral Kidd!Super clean and the staffs are extremely nice too!

I missed the taste testing that they hold twice a year but from other reviews I've heard the food is great, not excellent but very good. Based on what my guests told me they thought the food was excellent so I was really happy with our choices and the quality. The appetizers were probably my favorite and they never let a dish empty. The setup and tear down of the main (buffet) dinner was quick and efficient.

Awesome view! Honestly the wedding went perfect. Of course is did end up raining, but they were very on top of everything and converting the reception area into the ceremony area also. They were very accomodating with this situation. I was very worried that the rain would ruin the day, but they made everything perfect. Food was great and everything was set up just how we discussed. I would definitely recommend this site for anyone wanting to get married with the downtown/ bay view as your backdrop!

I was very pleased with Admiral Kidd. Adam and I reserved the ceremony site, reception and catering. The ceremony spot was beautiful during the wedding and breathtaking at night. Many of our guest were from out of town so the skyline added to the excitement. Our food was fantastic. I was nervous because I wasnt able to try any food before our wedding day and I didnt know what to expect. The prime rib, halibut and stuffed chicken were all really good and I would order them all again. My only two complaint are this: 1) they were hard to get a hold of and returned calls sometimes two weeks later during the planning process. Very frustrating. 2) when our prepaid bar allowance ran out, they starting charging our guest for drinks. Our agreement was to ask us when supplies were low and let us make the call if we wanted to extend our tab. I have no way of knowing how many of our guests had to pay for their own drinks.

We had our wedding at the Admiral Kidd Catering and Conference Center on 4/17/2010. The backdrop for our ceremony was breathtaking. Melissa from the catering office was extremely helpful throughout the whole process. This was the best bang for our buck that we could find in San Diego on the water. The food was good and the space was awesome. The downstairs room comfortably fit out 115 guests. I couldn't image choosing a more perfect location for my big day.

What an amazing venue. It is only available for military but it is by far the BEST value and scenery of all the military venues. Our ceremony and reception took place here on a Sat. morning which was great because we were the only wedding and did not have to worry about someone else's space. We planned the wedding in 4 months so we did get lucky b/c of the time of year. The food and services were so great. They cannot be as flexible because it is a military base but they will definitely work with you and see what they can adjust or include/allow.I went to a wedding here prior to getting married and knew I would get married there if I was still in San Diego. The space is great and i highly recommend the lower level even if you have a smaller number of guests than the minimum 100. The room allowed people to move around well without feeling crowded and without looking too spacious or empty.Get married here!! you will love it. Request Karen as your consultant because she was so friendly, amazing, and worked with us up to the last day before the wedding!

We were so happy with Admiral Kidd for our ceremony and reception! We got married on the lawn with the downtown skyline as our backdrop and had our reception on the second floor. Service was great! Food was amazing with great complimentary drinks (free beer and wine for cocktail hour). Originally, we had booked the lower room since it was a bit lower in price but since we got married on a Sunday and the other room was free, the staff was nice enough to extend the top room with no additional cost. Beautiful balcony for guests to take a break from dancing and enjoy some fresh air. Very, very pleased with this venue.

This is one of the best deal, if not the best, that you can get in SD. Stunning view, food/service is good as well. The only drawback is you'll have to book waaaayyyyyyy in advance & need to have a military connection.

This facility is great, Karen was a huge help! The food was fantastic and you cant beat the price! My husband and I were married on the lawn and our reception followed in the harbor lounge. The view of the San Diego skyline is breath taking at night. I would recommend this to ANYONE!

I had my wedding and ceremony at the Admiral Kidd Club in San Diego, and it was beautiful! The venue is very affordable as well as their catering packages. The venue is perfect if you want to capture the beauty of San diego. I highly recommend this place! They provided us with great service and they were very accomodating.

the food was good, the meats were a bit salty, but everything else tasted fine. The food for the main dinner meal was good, but not spectacular. However the hors dourves were amazing! They were so tasty and so filling that I didn’t even eat much of the main meal.

Wow! Not only was the plae itself absoluetly amazing, but the food was great! I thought it wouldn't be so good because it was on a military base, but boy was I wrong. All my guests loved the food and the meat choses. The ceremony location is outside facing the harbor and the San Diego Skyline, truly amazing! The ballroom was so big and is beautifully decorated with it's white pillars and has a huge dance floor!

I would strongly recommend that people with a military connection look into the various sites available. It is easiest if you or your fiance have a military ID, but the venue will still work with you if you have another "sponsor" (for us, it was my husband's mom). The Admiral Kidd is a gorgeous venue, and an amazing price when you look at any other waterfront venue. We had the upstairs ("Skyline") room, which included the balcony. The room's wall of windows was amazing, especially for our daytime wedding - a fantastic view of downtown San Diego! The ceremony was outside. Unfortunately, when you book the upstairs room, you do not get the area immediately outside the building if there is another event downstairs (otherwise you'd be right outside their windows). Our ceremony was off to the side, at an angle. Still a very nice location and worth the extra $100, plus the cost of chair rentals.The reception was nice - the food was OK (nothing special, but not terrible). We went with the buffet, which saved a few dollars per person. The staff was friendly, but sometimes hard to find when we needed things done (e.g. we had some special food items that needed to be brought out for folks with special dietary needs). The room does not look as nice when it is not set up, and I would definitely recommend getting chair covers - although they can be expensive, they really help transform the room. The pillars can make set up a little awkward if you have a lot of tables (we had 26 tables, not including the head table, and a few of the tables were on the "outside" of the pillars, so we had to be creative in where they went so those guests didn't feel cut off from the rest), but after we figured that out, the pillars were not an issue and seemed to disappear into the background.Another great feature of the upstairs room is that the dance floor is right in the middle. The downstairs room seems more cramped, and the dance floor is against a wall.One major concern that was a surprise to us: the venue does not do individual tastings. They only schedule one tasting night every six months, and they always on a weeknight. We had to select our menu without tasting anything. The site representative did not tell us this (we even scheduled a "tasting" with her, only to arrive and have her tell us she didn't have any food for us, and to just go ahead and select from the list). It was too close to the wedding to attend one of the tastings, which we wouldn't have been able to attend anyway because we both work. She then promised to call us when weddings were serving things we were interested in so we could (theoretically) show up and sample, but she never called us at all.The site coordinator was absolutely terrible in the year leading up to our wedding - taking over a week to return calls and emails, then not having an answer when she called us back, forgetting about an appointment, confusing us with other clients, etc. She also forgot to give the guest list to the gate for our rehearsal, so it took a long time to get everyone on base! However, in the week immediately before the wedding, she was suddenly amazingly responsive! We figured out why, when after the wedding, she handed us an evaluation. Now that the evaluation is done, she is not returning our call about the cake separators that were not returned to us.I would still recommend this venue for the great view and amazing price, but be aware of what you are getting yourself into. Be sure to get everything in writing, call and confirm everything, and also provide the venue with everything in writing (e.g. I made a packet that we gave the coordinator that included a detailed timeline, seating chart, and specific instructions "Please tell the kitchen staff to [do this] at [this time]").

Beautiful Venue and great value!

All in all they did a nice job. There were a few minor hiccups but I think we got what we paid for.

The value was great. I feel that it was the best military conference center in San Diego for a wedding. It is a beautiful location.They were flexible with my preferences & adjustments to the catering.Tess did a great job-- sweet & personable.The one difficulty is the bussing of guests onto base. But they know how to handle it. You just need to be prepared with a guest list &/or passes.

Overall we really loved this venue. It was beautiful and a great deal for the price. My only complaint would be that the manager on staff the evening of my wedding was not around at all. A group in the room next to us tried to "crash" our wedding and it took quite a while before someone finally had to go find the manager and have the people leave.

The Admiral Kidd Club is by far one of the most breath-taking spots to get married at. The view and the building were just amazing and our pictures came out even better because of the area. How ever I do not like that our rehearsal could not be the day before the wedding, we had many out of towners in our wedding and this made it hard on them. I also did not like how hard it was to get a hold of someone on the telephone when I needed to ask a question. Though the service at the ceremony was great. I did not like all the rules they had, it made it hard to have it my way- but this is a military base. I did not like that there is another wedding reception going on at the same time. We did not see much of the other wedding, so it was not as bad as I thought but the first floor I recomond. Over all I am so glad I had my wedding here, my guest are still talking about it! This place also books up years in advance, we took the very last Saturday of the Summer for 2007 way back in January of 2006.

We had no problems with this vendor. The food was on time, and they room was perfect for our needs.

Anyone with ANY military connections should really look into booking at any one of the military's beautiful waterfront sites. When I say "any," I mean it was my bridesmaid's aunt's husband who was in the military, and he didn't even come to the wedding (his wife did). So really, work those connections! Admiral Kidd had a view of the harbor, and really it was fabulous for the price. We paid $40/person for a plated dinner which included a tone of stuff - appetizers, 1 hr wine bar, beer, champagne toast, all their fees were included (i.e. cake cutting), and I'm sure I'm forgeting stuff. I didn't get a chance to try the appetizers, but I did wolf down the dinner whenever I could. I had the filet of sole and it was pretty good! (By the way, they have a tasting fair every few months, so call and ask about those!) With all the money we saved, we kicked in extra money for the bar. The coordinator was incredibly sweet, kind, and flexible with whatever I wanted to do. She made sure I was able to get on base when I needed to, even though I didn't have any military escort. She worked with me on all my last minute changes, and when the day came, everythig was perfect! My only critique is that sometimes, it took her longer to get back to me than I would have liked, but that might just be my anal nature. The site itself, was great. When I first visited, I didn't think to much of it, but when it was all dressed up, I was pretty impressed. So I suggest trying to see it right before they actually have an event there. Also, the upstairs room is much grander with a balcony that was just awesome, and they also offer their lawn for ceremonies for a great price, which I would've taken, but it was already booked about 1.5 years out. I booked about a year before our date. I think all the military sites are such a good deal, that they are usually booked well in advance. So start planning!