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I want to go to San Francisco. Any suggestions about places to visit and hotels to stay,,,? |
Travel Info I want to go to San Francisco. Any suggestions about places to visit and hotels to stay,,,? Travel Tips Check Priceline.com, orbitz. travelocity and if you are an AAA member, for room rates. Check tripadvisor.com for comments. Villa Florence Hotel on Powell St. has a bakery in the basement and serves fresh pastries etc. at their coffee bar and Kuleto's Restaurant. Few yrs ago, I used to go every morning for coffee or tea and a pastry before work. Very courteous and helpful personnel. Chancellor and Handlery Hotels are nearby. I don't know how they are. But they can't be as high as the St. Francis Hotel nearby. The Handlery is right around the corner from Villa Florence. All are in close proximity to shopping: Macy's, the Gap, Cable Car turnaround & kiosk, Nordstroms, Westfield Mall, and Market St. http://www.sfmta.com/cms/mfares/fareinfo... At the Cable Car Turnaround on Market & Powell, near the MUNI kiosk, if you take the escalator down and continue to walk past the Cable Car coffee umbrella tables, you will see a large reception room. There is staff behind the counter. That's where people can go to get maps and info. about SF. Public transportation is great via MUNI in town. Buy a MUNI pass. You can use that to hop on and off all the MUNI vehicles in town -- even Cable Cars. There are vintage street cars running up and down Market St. They end up near the Ferry Bldg. They have the Metro which runs underground in the downtown area to emerge above ground when you get into the neighborhoods. There is a rail line running along the Embarcadero. Can go from Fisherman's Wharf to our beautiful Ferry Bldg. Get off there and look at the shops and eating places inside. At Civic Center: there is a city library (coffee shop downstairs and a used book shop at ground level) and Asian Art Museum, and you can go into City Hall. There is a little cafeteria in the basement where the employees and people visiting can buy something and clean bathrooms, It's renovated and magnificent. Seal Rock Inn: For a slower pace, quieter place. Out in the Avenues, in the Richmond District at the end of the line for the #38 Geary Limited, there is the Seal Rock Inn. It has a coffee shop type restaurant and It's near Sutro Park, Ocean Beach, Pt. Lobos, Lincoln Park golf course & the Palace of Fine Arts museum. You can catch #38 Muni line directly to the Union Square area. I live out here and there is a new Chinatown on Clement St. (get off the Geary bus at 6th Avenue) and walk one block over. Interesting multicultural place with chinese stores & restaurants, book store, Goodwill, coffee houses, bakeries, etc. I live in the Richmond District and it's OK -- especially on a sunny day like today. I often walk down Geary Blvd. from my house near Seal Rock Inn to Clement St. Bring your camera. SF is a good place to take pictures and prove to people that "you were here." Others i suggest peir 39 and the whole alcatraz thing. and china town. OH and make sure you go to haight ashbury... its like the hippy place and the shopping is rad! Museums Union Square ocean TV Alcatraz is super cool. And although it seems like it would be scary it's really not. I even took my four year old there. But they do offer night time tours if you want the horror effect. Here are places you definitely need to check out: -Fisherman's Wharf -Pier 39 -The Golden Gate Bridge -The windiest road (Something like that) -The cable cars -Alcatraz -China Town fisherman's wharf ghirardelli square alcatraz chinatown union square (downtown) lombard street (aka crookedest street) twin peaks ocean beach north beach cliff house & sutro baths exploratorium metreon yerba buena haight street golden gate park vista point and im pretty sure im missing some because there is so much to see and do here in san francisco! pretty much any where you go in this city you will have something to do, so try to go to as many places you can! as for hotels to stay in, there are plenty of hotels downtown and near the wharf but it all depends on how much you're willing to spend. hope you have fun... im sure you'll love it! |
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