The Dana on Mission Bay

The DANA on Mission Bay had great food with large size portions. All of the guests really enjoyed the food and the atmosphere at the DANA, and of course we did too!!!

The Dana on Mission Bay was the perfect ceremony & reception venue for our wedding. The ceremony site is stunning and the Mission Bay ballroom offers an elegant atmosphere for any size reception under 300 people. My husband and I chose The Dana because we wanted a waterfront wedding without breaking the bank. The Dana offers a lot of extras for the price. Our ceremony site was very reasonable compared to all the other hotels in the area and we did not have to compromise on waterfront views. The cocktail & reception had so much included in the per person price. Cocktail hour with hosted bar was included along with tray passed appetizers. Dinner included wine for all of our guests and the champagne toast as well. The day of our wedding The Dana staff was amazing. They had everything set up on time and were extremely professional and polite. We had a unique reception set up that was done perfectly to our expectations. We had a kings or honor table for the my husband and I along with our wedding party. It was a long table of 16 in the center of the room with the other round tables of our guests surrounding us. Our wedding party got to sit with their dates and it was nice to be surrounded by all of our guests. The Dana set everything up to perfection. They worked well with all of our other vendors and the day was perfect. For the money, The Dana is one of the best sites for a waterfront wedding in San Diego. The only reason I did not give them 5 stars is because their catering manager isn't the most friendly of all the vendors I worked with. She was very professional, but when you're getting married you want to work with someone who is happy and excited to work with you. It would have been nice to have a bit more personality from her, but The Dana itself is such a great wedding site that we were willing to overlook the catering managers lack of personality. At least she was professional and everything went off without a hitch.

This place is a gorgeous place to get married. And it is also very reasonable for the type of location. I think they just are in the business to make money though. We spent a lot of money for the entire week of being there, yet they did not want to comp our parking or give us a break on any of the costs for the wedding. We had to pay for the room to get ready in, which I would think would be given to you. Their service the day of was wonderful though. Everything went very smoothly. The only thing I would have thought would have also been included is the coordinator. The fact that they are such a highly known wedding destination, you would think they would give you a coordinator to work with for the day of and on the rehearsal, but no. We ended up doing it all ourselves. Thankfully it went just fine!

Our daughter's wedding and reception were held at The Dana, and we would choose this venue again in a heartbeat! BEAUTIFUL, good food, with a professional, turn-key operation that suited our needs perfectly. Only surprise: We had a no-host bar after the cocktail hour and two bottles of wine that were included with the meal, and did not meet the $1,000 minimum, so we had to pony up some dollars at the end. If we were to do it again, we would probably opt to add another bottle of wine per table and forgo the bar.....

I Got married on a sunday and the caterer wasn't even there, I had requested a certain wine for myself and it was in my BEO but we had to ask a server for it.I never saw a manager any on from catering or a captian.We had are rehersal the day before and it was at the same time as a wedding so we had to wait, then when we started and they wanted to take pictures we were in each others way. throughout the planning process I tried to get into contact with Angie via email and phone and she took about 10 days to get back to me. I work in a hotel and no matter if it is one of our days off if we have an event we will be there and that is great costomer service.

The Dana has it all for the ceremony to the reception. An awesome venue with so many choices for the couple. Always a pleasure to be asked to be part of the magic at this location!