Built around 1930 and requisitioned from 1943 to 1945 as quarters for US Navy nurses working at the Balboa Park Naval Hospital, the Embassy Hotel operates today as a weekly- and monthly-rate residential motel under the Hitching Post Apartment Motels banner. Rooms include queen beds, flat-screen TVs, free Wi-Fi, limited kitchens with microwaves, and access to an on-premises coin-operated laundry, with walk-across dining at Crest Cafe two blocks west on 5th Avenue. The 3645 Park Boulevard address sits directly across from St Spyridon Greek Orthodox Church and one long block north of Balboa Park, placing the San Diego Zoo inside a six-minute drive and the Fleet Science Center inside four. Long-stay residents running six-month and multi-year tenancies are common per tenant accounts, with rate structures designed around a weekly-to-monthly conversion path for new San Diego arrivals bridging between permanent housing. Parking sits on a well-lit on-premises lot that holds vehicles even during Hillcrest street-closure events, and evening taproom routing runs one block south to Pure Project Balboa Park. The 1930s-era structure carries through to bathroom fixtures and lobby flooring that still reflect the original Depression-era construction, placing the Embassy Hotel in San Diego’s documented pre-war residential hotel stock alongside later properties like the Hotel Occidental.