San Francisco, California

Turner, Fisherman's Wharf doesn't change all that much, so a revisit will make you feel right at home. (Gotta increase the temptattion.) SARS was only a scare, and not a reality. All is back to 'normal' in Chinatown.

Good for Chinatown. Great thing about that place, is they're all good. I mean, if they weren't, they wouldn't survive there.

Turner, I live in Silicon Valley, and we have several shopping malls that are exclusively Chinese. Their parking lots are always packed during lunch hours, because they have about a dozen or more Chinese restaurants, and we have Hewlett Packard and several other high tech companies (goes without saying, heh?) in the neighborhood. My wife loves to go shopping at their supermarket, but I refuse to go, because the parking is so bad.

Yeah. . . . I remember when they first put the Red Lion there out by Dixon Landing Road in Milpitas. Last year (early 2002) we were out there and I was amazed at how it grew! Didn't like driving through it either. . . the smells were too distracting. I almost had to stop at every restaurant! As I recall, that whole strip was Oriental too. Isn't that Sun Micro out that way?

See next post, this one was a goof.

ABOUT SF TENDERLOIN AREA, HAS MAP The map is a GIF upload.


I tried and failed to post just the map, but this whole article is interesting anyway.

Now I'm going back and look up some hotels, see what attracts me this week. I think I liked some on both my and pdiddie's lists.

Need to find where Diane's mentioned hotel is.. (Parking the car is particularly attractive...)

Also, I want to see if there are any Days Inns, etc. in Novato, for example.
close across the golden gate.

I can stay myself at some friends places, e.g., in Larkspur (Marin County) or Kensington (near Berkeley) and have another friend moving to the city soon. But I'd rather be with at least some a2kers if I can swing it.

Anyway, back later after I noodle around some more. First I will try to find and link pdiddie's and my old hotel lists...

Have been meandering for an hour or more now on ci's Hotels.com site, the one where I found about 7 hotels I liked well enough before. Had trouble finding the prices this time around and have been looking, somehow, at TripAdvisor, and found more...ay yi yi.

But, I stopped in the middle to post this little honey... right by Fort Mason park (Green's restaurant, good shops, jogging, dog walking), which is right along the bay. (see picture on a2k gallery of osso and pacco under Pets). The description says that the NYTimes called it the best value for the money. It intrigues me because of the very SF style - 65 - 95/nt.
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g60713-d113927-Reviews-Marina_Inn-San_Francisco_California.html
http://dps1.travelocity.com/hotspromo.ctl?prop_id=37143

Found another one on Pacific perhaps near the one Diane mentioned, where car parking is free, called the Nob Hill Motor Inn, $69 - 199.

Also saw an expedia thing (or one of those, for the St. Francis at 119. That's one of those places we could take over the lobby or the grill room or one of the bars.. or the breakfast room... if some people stayed there.

Well, I still haven't gotten to pdiddie's post. It's so much fun to look at all these places...

Aaccck, error. Back in a minute.

I see the one I found is the one Diane already found, the Nob Hill Motor Inn. How bad could it be? Also that York looks interesting. I saw something neg on one site on the King George. The Hotel Cosmos looks cool but is the opposite of my style, heh heh, but still, it was on my original list. I am toying with seeing what price line would take for the St. Francis...

More time meandering around on Hotel.com, this time off of google.com.

I am split seconds away from signing up for Hotel Savoy, at 89.95 a night. Parking is extra, but I might not be taking a car, and it is real close to an airport shuttle stop.

Tap, tap, tap.....

OK, I did it. 89.95/a night, which of course is more with city taxes, for three days it comes to $314. I seems to be, according to the map a few posts back, just into the tenderloin area, but it isn't far from Union Square, I think it will be fine.

I only mention all this for other people, as I am an old inhabitant of gang territory and am not particularly chary of any place I've driven through many times near Union Square in SF.

Actually, I think it is just up from the John Pence art gallery and is in a perfectly fine area.

Anyone else interested, check Savoy Hotel, Hotels.com.....

I am set for April 4, leaving the 7th. As I keep repeating, many others will be leaving the 4th, but I think some will stay over...

Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!

Who's on first ths sounding like to me.

c.i., how and when are we going to have the actual gathering. I mean one place at least one night to get together. With this number of people we better start now.

I will be staying with friends in Berzerkely for the entire time.

Or we will be all over the Bay Area and never ever see each other.

I think we're gonna organize our first meet at the Hyatt Hotel lobby on the Embarcadero. We'll set the date and time when we learn when most people want to meet.

Hey, Osso!! Sounds good. Is the Nob Hill anywhere near your hotel?

http://www.thesavoyhotel.com/


The Savoy is at Jones and Geary. Pacific seems to be about twelve blocks north and I am guessing the Nob Hill is another ten blocks or so west. Hard to tell by the map re numbers.

If you have the address, just go to Mapquest, and find the location of your hotel.

The Savoy looks like a really good option, ossoB. The parking seems a bit steep, but if I do manage to do this, it won't be with a car.

I like the afternoon wine and cheese. It seems like a little Euro-boutique hotel.

the Nob Hill is 4 blocks from Geary. Working on the other co-ordinates. Expedia can get me a not bad deal on a flight and 4 nights in a deluxe room at the Nob Hill (about $100 less than for 4 nights in a standard room in the Savoy - gotta look into the neighbourhoods a bit further).

hey - that thumb tack is closer to Geary than I thought

Might be my computer but I can't see the thumbtack (little red x).