The first hotel, announced in June 2007, was slated to open in 2010 at San Diego's Liberty Station.

Six hundred fifty rooms were planned, a 100,000-square-foot (9,300 m2) water park, and some attractions.

The VPs over at Marriott saw the project as a great opportunity to develop waterpark hotels.

[2] The project was the first family friendly resort planned in San Diego in the past fifty years.

The investment envelope for the construction was $300 million and was to be built where a long-term parking lot for Lindbergh Field passengers stood.