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San Francisco Spring & Summer Guide 2012 SAN FRANCISCO SPRING & SUMMER GUIDE 2012 The best places to eat, sleep and play in San Francisco this spring and summer With more than 60 million reviews and opinions, TripAdvisor makes travel planning a snap for more than 50 million travelers visiting our site each month. Think before you print. And if you do print, print double-sided. INTRODUCTION TripAdvisor, the most trusted source for where to eat, sleep and play in thousands of destinations around the world, has collected the best insider tips from its 50 million monthly visitors to produce a unique series of travel guides. In addition to the best hotels, restaurants and attractions for every type of traveler, you’ll get great advice about what to pack, how to get around and where to find the best views. Be sure to check out the guides at www.tripadvisor.com. You’ll find reviews for more than 555,000 hotels, 200,000 vacation rentals, 175,000 Inside attractions and 780,000 restaurants on TripAdvisor.com. Learn from other travelers what to expect before you make your plans. SAN FRANCISCO Diversity is the name of the game in San Francisco. Diverse citizens: one of the most liberal centers in the U.S. today, the PACKING TIPS city is the second most densely populated in the country and is home 1. A backpack—“Backpacks abound among to significant Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Filipino, Italian, Irish and locals. They are handy for carrying the Russian populations. Diverse architecture: almost destroyed in an layers of clothing that you will need, due to earthquake in 1906, the city was rapidly rebuilt and remains one of the the changing temperatures of the day.” —TripAdvisor Member, San Francisco most architecturally interesting cities in the United States with building styles that range from British Victorians to modern skyscrapers. Diverse 2. A coat—“Be prepared, S.F. can be very chilly! Always bring a coat.”—TripAdvisor landscape: here you’ll find calf-cramping hills, the mind-soothing Pacific Member, Pacifica, Calif. and the funny-bone-tickling Lombard Street, the “most crooked” street in the world. 3. Comfortable shoes—“Bring good walking shoes! Even if you do minimal walking, For the most part, there is little diversity in San Francisco’s weather and you’ll be climbing BIG HILLS.”—TripAdvisor Member, San Francisco temperatures seldom dip below 40 degrees or exceed 90. In winter, the surrounding waters tend to keep the city from getting as cold as other .4 “A good solid guidebook for visiting San Francisco and Marin County is the Golden parts of the Bay Area. Gate Trailblazer: Where to Hike, Walk, In the summer, the opposite effect occurs. No one knows who said, Bike in San Francisco and Marin. It includes the ferry system, all the coastal “the coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.” But trails and is written by San Francisco savvy travelers know it’s true. natives.”—TripAdvisor Member tripadvisor.com 2 Top VIEWS SAN FRANCISCO’S BEST VIEWS “Coit Tower is a must. The views are remarkable! Cross the Golden Gate Bridge by foot, The summit of Twin Peaks is a good place A small fee to ride the elevator to the top, but bicycle or vehicle to see San Francisco’s to witness a beautiful sunrise or sunset, and well worth it for the 360-degree panoramic skyline, the mountains, the ocean, Alcatraz get an overview of the city. “Market Street view of San Francisco. You will see the Golden and many of the area’s other landmarks. “One is laid out before you, and the Bay Bridge Gate Bridge, Pier 39, Lombard Street, the of the most beautiful places in the world.”— stretches to the East Bay. You can see the Bay Bridge and Alcatraz all from high up in the TripAdvisor Member, Gedera, Israel University of California campanile and the tower.”—TripAdvisor Member, Durham, Calif. Golden Gate Bridge, Lincoln Blvd., near Mormon Temple on a clear day and the Coit Tower, 1 Telegraph Hill Blvd., 415 362 0808 Doyle Dr. and Fort Point, Golden Gate tops of the Golden Gate Bridge towers.”— Bridge Plaza, 415 921 5858 TripAdvisor Member, San Francisco Twin Peaks, Twin Peaks Boulevard to Christmas Tree Point Where to PLAY TOP 10 Attractions . 1 Marin Headlands, Building 948, Fort Barry, 415 331 1540 . 6 Castro Theatre, 429 Castro St., Market Street, 415 621 6120 . 2 Golden Gate Bridge, Lincoln Boulevard near Doyle Drive and Fort Point, . 7 Walt Disney Family Museum, 104 Montgomery St., The Presidio, Golden Gate Bridge Plaza, 415 921 5858 415 345 6800 . 3 Alcatraz, Pier 33, 415 561 4900 . 8 Legion of Honor, 34th Ave. & Clement St., Lincoln Park, 415 863 3330 . 4 San Francisco Bay, 510 464 7900 . 9 Lands End, Western End Geary Blvd., 415 556 8642 . 5 AT&T Park, 24 Willie Mays Plaza, 415 972 2000 10. Ferry Building Marketplace, 1 Ferry Building, Embarcadero at Market Street, 415 693 0996 FAMILIES Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory makes “Filled with nickelodeons, vintage pinball “We visited the Exploratorium on a rainy fortune cookies by hand and is a real treat. “It’s a games and all mechanical amusements of Sunday in January. My son and daughter bit hard to find, but you can handwrite your own days gone by,” the Musee Mecanique were in heaven, as all the kids seemed fortunes and the lady will put them in a fortune “doesn’t cost you a thing unless you want to be. We’ve traveled across the country cookie right in front of you.”—TripAdvisor to feed the machines coins and watch their and discovered nothing that compares. Member, Little Elm, Texas neat movements. Better than today’s video My daughter was happier than being Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory, games!”—TripAdvisor Member, Toronto, at Disneyland!”—TripAdvisor Member, 56 Ross Alley, Between Washington and Ontario Sacramento, Calif. Jackson Streets, 415 781 3956 Musee Mecanique, Pier 45, Fisherman’s The Exploratorium, 3601 Lyon St., Wharf, 415 346 2000 415 561 0360 ROMANCE Step out of the cold and into the “eye-catching” With “beautiful architecture, a lovely pond Catch a classic movie alfresco with wine and Conservatory of Flowers. “The water lilies with water birds and terrapins,” the Palace dinner at Foreign Cinema. “Make sure you were gorgeous and large. I also really enjoyed of Fine Arts is ”the perfect place for a call ahead for a reservation and get a table seeing all the different orchids. The rooms are picnic. Must take a camera!”—TripAdvisor outside. They show old movies on the wall quite warm, and the misting adds to the feeling member, Israel after dark.”—TripAdvisor Member, Dallas, of being in a tropical location.”—TripAdvisor Palace of Fine Arts, 3301 Lyon St., Texas Member, Modesto, Calif. 415 563 6504 Foreign Cinema, 2534 Mission St., Conservatory of Flowers, Golden Gate Park, 415 648 7600 100 John F. Kennedy Dr., 415 666 7001 Call an Expedia Travel Specialist now 877 633 3716 3 Where to PLAY BUDGET Wander the colorful side streets of The San Francisco City Guides offer free At Cris on Polk Street you’ll find “really Mission to see “lots of wonderful murals, walking tours “featuring legends, history high-end designer pieces and they’re most notably on Balmy Alley off 24th and architecture and it’s run by trained in amazing condition. It isn’t really a Street.”—TripAdvisor Member, San volunteers. It can be fun finding out stuff ‘thrift’ store.”—TripAdvisor Member, Francisco about places you might not normally go.” San Francisco Balmy Alley, The Mission —TripAdvisor Member, Australia Cris, 2056 Polk St., 415 474 1191 San Francisco City Guides, San Francisco Public Library, 100 Larkin St., 415 557 4266 ADVENTURE Cruise right under the Golden Gate Bridge Ocean Beach “is a great place to hang “Book a Stoked SF tour–you won’t regret on a luxury catamaran from Adventure out. It stretches forever, and there is always it! We did an eight-mile hike through the Cat Sailing. “The fun part is standing enough space to run around and have Marin Headlands, and it was the highlight outside, bobbing up and down with the your own party. They allow bonfires (in of our trip to the SF area. The views were waves and feeling the spray.”—TripAdvisor authorized fire rings), which rocks because breathtaking, and the hike was the right Member, Berkeley, Calif. at night, even though it’s cold, you can sit by balance of challenge and enjoyment.”— Adventure Cat Sailing Charters, Pier 39, a bonfire and have a blast.”—TripAdvisor TripAdvisor Member, Montreal, Quebec Gate J, 415 777 1630 Member, Petaluma, Calif. Stoked SF, 415 515 8692 Ocean Beach, On the Great Highway, 415 561 4741 EDUCATIONAL/HISTORICAL No trip to the city is complete without “Mission Dolores was my favorite San City Lights is “my idea of a true bookstore: a visit to the notorious island prison, Francisco sight. The old church is the oldest wooden shelves, chairs and stools combined Alcatraz. Opt for the after-dark tour, building in San Francisco, and the ceiling, with intimate ‘rooms’ and the feeling you can which is “fascinating and creepy. The views painted by Native Americans in traditional really wander and take your time to choose at sunset on the way out and the nighttime patterns, is a fascinating juxtaposition to the your book. A fantastic range of local books cityscape on the way back are awesome.”— European altar and art in this little Catholic and an amazing section on beat poetry.”— TripAdvisor Member, Mesa, Ariz. mission.”—TripAdvisor Member, Victoria, TripAdvisor Member, Adelaide, Australia Alcatraz, tour departs from Pier 33, British Columbia City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Ave., 415 561 4900 (Ranger Station) 415 362 8193 Mission Dolores, 3321 16th St.
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