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Keelboat Mission Bay

We are blessed with great weather in San Diego offering suitable conditions for water-sports year-round!  Many groups use the winter months to hold their events when the smaller crowds make for ideal conditions.

Wet & Wild Tubing!

Racing cardboard boats

San Diego Surfing Experience

MBAC Special Events

Bring your group down for the perfect "Day on the Bay"
The Mission Bay Aquatic Center can set up exciting special events to meet your needs and budget.  We can build an event to suit the needs of your 5 person book club or your 250 person company picnic. Whether you prefer to pick from our wide selection of pre-built packages, or want to build your own custom event, the MBAC is the perfect place for your next event!
MBAC Events are perfect for:
  • Birthday Parties
  • Company Picnics/Retreats
  • Youth Organizations
  • Family Reunions
  • Convention Groups

Types of events

KIDS BIRTHDAY PARTIES

The MBAC offer several packages that are perfect for kids birthday parties. You birthday child and friends can spend the day boogieboarding in the pacific, tubing in Mission Bay, or exploring the exciting world of Marine Science! We can exceed your expectation with our unique event.
Example bIRTHDAY Events:
  • Boogieboarding
  • Marine Science Adventure
  • Tubing & Kneeboarding
  • Beach Olympics

Lesson Style Events

Your group can bond while learning to surf, sail, row, or kayak.  Feel adventurous?  How about a group wakeboarding lesson? These events are especially popular with youth organizations during school breaks. Organizations such as the YMCA, and the Jewish Community Center offer programs to their customers and they subcontract MBAC to run the activities. Call us to to see what we can do for you.
Example Lesson Style Events:
  • San Diego Surfing Experience
  • Kayak Mission Bay
  • Extreme Wakeboarding
  • Camp Wet & Wild

Picnic Style Events

MBAC can set up picnic style events Club Med style.  Your participants can take a break from playing volleyball, or other land activities, to take a sailing ride, paddle a kayak, go tubing, or take a jetski ride with one of our experienced instructors.

Picnic events can include:
  • Hobie Cat Sailing Rides
  • Kayaking
  • Tubing
  • Keelboat Rides
  • Volleyball
  • Catering or Grill Rental

Tours/Charters/Experience Events

Paddle under the moonlight, or take a bay cruise on a sailboat. We offer many recreational fun events that require little or no instruction. 

Example Experience Events:
  • Bodyboarding the Pacific
  • Moonlight Kayaking
  • Wet & Wild Tubing

Team-Building Events

We offer several teambuilding activities which will create a sense of lasting camaraderie amongst the participants. Whether you're learning to row a boat as a team, or collaborating to design and build a cardboard boat, your employees will develop skills that will help your mission.  The tasks and activities demand full-throttle cooperation, 100% teamwork and you have FUN in the process!

Example Teambuilding Events
  • Cardboard Boat Building Challenge
  • Beach Olympics
  • Olympic Rowing Challenge

To see how MBAC can meet your event needs, or to book a facility tour, call the Special Events coordinator at (858) 488-1000. You can also send an email to the Special Events Coordinator.
Call (858) 488-1000 to book an unforgettable, great event with MBAC today!

The Mission Bay Aquatic Center is owned and operated by Associated Students of San Diego State University and Campus Recreation of the University of California San Diego.

(858) 488-1000