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Hotels in San Francisco – Gay fun, smog and Alcatraz

It took me years to realise that San Francisco translates as ‘St Francis’. Then again I didn’t realise a prune was a dried up plum until I was thirty. Hotels in San Francisco span every type of accommodation you can imagine. You know those grim motels you see in films? If you want to, you can even put yourself up in one of those and experience a Nicholas Cage of a time brooding moodily and looking cool. Good hotels in San Francisco include the stylish Huntington Hotel. On top of the famous Nob Hill, it has views of Huntington Park, Grace Cathedral and the dramatic skyscraper-filled skyline. Spoil yourself with ten treatment rooms, loads of lovely spa treatments and one of those brilliant infinity pool indoors… altogether an excellent San Francisco hotel.

San Francisco Hotels – Business and leisure travel

I left my heart in San Francisco. Actually, I didn’t. Tony Bennett did, that old crooner of a host of easy listening classics. San Francisco hotels have style and the uber-modern boutique hotel, the Diva, is right in the city’s famous downtown area, close by Union Square. The Hotel Diva gives you easy access to the area’s attractions and it is on the doorstep of museums, shops, restaurants and bars. Like many central hotels in San Francisco, this one caters for business travellers too. You get free Wi-Fi and there’s an excellent gym.

Hotels in San Francisco – Blow a few dollars on a wind tunnel

Hotels in San Francisco also cater for visitors who love the city’s gay-friendly ambience. There’s plenty for active types too. Holidaymakers are flooding in to experience the city’s vertical human flight wind tunnel. What a laugh – even beginners can have a go at ‘flying’ in the enormously strong air currents. If you haven’t done it before, you’ll have to fly with an instructor attached… up close and personal. Hotels in San Francisco come with all kinds of stars attached, from basic to five star heaven. The four star Donatello Hotel is bang in the heart of the shopping and theatre district. Big, smart rooms, spas, gyms, saunas and more.

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San Francisco Holidays - A Very Unique Place

San Francisco holidays offer a unique snapshot of liberal USA. San Francisco covers 48 square miles of hills at the tip of a peninsular along the California Coast. A small city, it led the way for the 1960s liberalization of America. San Francisco folk overtook their Los Angeles friends in terms of wide cultural knowledge at that time. The steep hills are a delight. Over the brow of each hill are stunning views of the city, the bay, and beyond. After the huge earthquake in 1906 destroyed much of the city, it was built even more beautifully than before.

Cheap San Francisco Holidays - Plenty of Attractions

The Golden Gate Bridge was built in the 1930s. It is a city which is constantly changing its attitude. It enjoys an acceptance of a new influx of people with high disposable incomes, and a desire for sophistication. The well off Gay community has found a home there too. The original inhabitants were Ohlone Indians. Nowadays, the higher up a hill you live the richer you are. The business area is small and the rest is made up of neighbourhoods with shopping districts.

BeatTheBrochure says San Francisco is perfect for the wanderer in you. The temperatures are about 70 degrees and sometimes much lower even in summer.San Francisco holidays offer something very unique for a USA city break.

Flights to San Francisco – Gold Rush country

Once a quiet, chilled fishing village, San Francisco boomed into a city over a few short months during the gold rush in the 1800s. Flights to San Francisco land you in a US city with a cosmopolitan and unusually tolerant personality; open to suggestion, open minded and a lovely city to look at. Take the humble fortune cookie. Chinese, right? Nope. They were invented here by a Japanese chap, Makato Hagiwara. Take flights to San Francisco and discover the home of denim; jeans were invented in San Francisco by Gold Rush miners. Irish coffee… Irish, right? Wrong again. Irish coffee was invented here too. San Francisco airport is 14 miles or so south of the city, a huge place. So big that they’ve paid on an AirTrain light rail service runs 24/7 between the international and domestic terminals.

San Francisco Flights – Formerly Yerba Buena

Flights to San Francisco deposit you in yet another US city with a load of name changes and nicknames in its history. The city’s original name was Yerba Buena, Spanish for ‘good herb’ or ‘good grass’. Despite the city’s hippy connections the name related to a local mint plant rather than the naughtier kind of weed. Choose flights to San Francisco and you might notice that there are a lot of people begging. Sadly the city has more homeless people than any other city in the US.

Flights to San Francisco – Imagine you’re Al Capone

Alcatraz actually means ‘pelican’ in Spanish and the prison island, once a military fort, is visible in San Francisco Bay on smog free days. Today it is deserted, inhabited only by deer (how did they get there?), mice and creepy crawlies. Take flights to San Francisco and imagine you’re Al Capone or George Machine Gun Kelly. There’s an enormous amount of things to do and see in the city and you’ll find friendly people staffing information booths in the arrivals areas of all the airport’s terminals. If there’s nobody home you can always use a computerised information kiosk, and there are also Travellers Aid kiosks in all departure lounges.

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San Francisco Attractions

The cable car up the hills is a crucial aspect of San Francisco since 1873. Lines run from Hallidie Plaza off Union Square, and Market Streets to Fisherman’s Wharf. The Powell &Hyde is the steepest, reaching a scary 21 degree grade between Lombard and Chestnut Streets. The Cable Car Museum and Powerhouse shows the huge motors which still power these cables

Attractions in San Francisco

In the Financial District make time to see Lotta’s Fountain a popular San Francisco sight. Height Ashbury downtown was a neglected Victorian area until it was changed radically during the 1960s, by the hippes and the Flower People. Wander round the shops for alternative bookstores, clothing stores, cafes.

The city has wonderful green spaces such as The Golden Gate, which is the best and safest park. The most popular museum is M.H.de Young Museum full of art from before the Revolution to the present day.

Take in many other sights, restaurants and clubs. Contact: Gray Kine Tours. t. 415/434-8687.

Air

San Francisco International Airport. 15 miles from the city.

Train

Bay Area Rapid Transit trains.Downtown in 30 mins.

Sam Trans Trains take 30 mins downtown.

Bus

SFO Mini buses take passengers to the city centre.

The San Francisco Visitor Information Centre. At the lower end of Hallide Plaza at 900 Market Street has free maps of the city and the Bay area.

Aquarium of the Bay at Fisherman’s Wharf.

The June Gay and Lesbian Film Festival,Gay Pride Week, and The Gay Freedom Day Parade.

Live Music rock, jazz, and folk. Check The San Francisco Bay Guardian.

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