Pam and I are considering a several day trip to SF later this spring. Does anyone have any hotels or activities to recommend, besides the blindingly obvious? :)
That's a bit open-ended of a request. What sorts of things are you interested in?
Museums in San Francisco: Exploratorium, SF Museum of Modern Art, SF Asian Museum, the De Young museum if it's open by then (completely re-built from scratch.) There's a nice planetarium up in the hills of, I think, Oakland.
Touristy places: Fisherman's Wharf, and the Maritime Museum, as well as the ships museum, including the WWII submarine, Coit Tower (the inside has very nice murals, I'm told.) Lomdard Street, the Japanese Trade Center on Geary. Haight Ashbury, for view, the Marina, as well as the Exploratorium's Wave Organ off the San Francisco Yacht Club jetty.
Hotels: Hah. There's billions of them in San Francisco, what are you looking for? As a close-by native, I'd like to stay at the Miyako in Japantown.
We're looking to do the touristy things, fishermans wharf, some wine tasting, alcatraz, and I'm mostly looking for a nice hotel recommendation of a hotel that has some flavor, rather than being a chain hotel just like every city has. I don't mind if the hotel is run by a big name, I just want something romantic and ecletic near the tourist places.
Well, then the Miyako Hotel might be up your alley.
As for wine tasting, I don't know of any specific venues in San Francisco itself that are good for that, but the real wine county, Napa and Sonoma counties, are only an hour away. (And I live in Sonoma county.) Where there's wine-tasting galore.
Alternatively, if you like sake, I believe this place, True Sake does sake tastings.
Alcatraz is definitely a good tourist place to visit. I've not been for a while, personally, but it's truly fascinating.
Thanks again for showing me monterey; I need to get back to San Fran again, as the days I had in the city somehow ended up not involving much of the touristy stuff. I'd have liked to get to some of the museums.
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Date: 2005-02-21 03:54 am (UTC)Museums in San Francisco: Exploratorium, SF Museum of Modern Art, SF Asian Museum, the De Young museum if it's open by then (completely re-built from scratch.) There's a nice planetarium up in the hills of, I think, Oakland.
Touristy places: Fisherman's Wharf, and the Maritime Museum, as well as the ships museum, including the WWII submarine, Coit Tower (the inside has very nice murals, I'm told.) Lomdard Street, the Japanese Trade Center on Geary. Haight Ashbury, for view, the Marina, as well as the Exploratorium's Wave Organ off the San Francisco Yacht Club jetty.
Hotels: Hah. There's billions of them in San Francisco, what are you looking for? As a close-by native, I'd like to stay at the Miyako in Japantown.
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Date: 2005-02-21 04:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-21 05:56 am (UTC)As for wine tasting, I don't know of any specific venues in San Francisco itself that are good for that, but the real wine county, Napa and Sonoma counties, are only an hour away. (And I live in Sonoma county.) Where there's wine-tasting galore.
Alternatively, if you like sake, I believe this place, True Sake does sake tastings.
Alcatraz is definitely a good tourist place to visit. I've not been for a while, personally, but it's truly fascinating.
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Date: 2005-02-21 07:39 am (UTC)no subject
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