 Discover San Francisco, California
San Francisco
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Introducing San Francisco
San Francisco Travel Guide is written to help you prepare for a trip to this city in California. You will find all the useful travel information to visit San Francisco including list of all its major tourist attractions.
About San Francisco
San Francisco is a city in California, on the west coast of the United States. It has a population of about 810,000 and is the fourth largest city in the state behind Los Angeles, San Diego and San Jose. San Francisco is the financial, cultural and transportation hub for the San Francisco Bay Area, a region with a population of about 7.4 million people.
Guide to San Francisco CA Hotels
Here's a list of hotels in San Francisco CA that you can book online, listed by city, with full description, star rating, address, location map, evaluation, and prices as offered by different booking sites.
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
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More on San Francisco CA
Due to its geography and architecture, San Francisco is a major tourist destination. It has many iconic attractions, the most famous being the Golden Gate Bridge. Other major attractions include its cable car and Chinatown.
San Francisco enjoys a Mediterranean climate with mild, wet winters and cool, dry summers. The mild climate of San Francisco is due to the cool currents from the Pacific Ocean that tends to moderate extreme temperatures. The warmest months of the year is September when average daily temperature is at around 63.7°F (17.6°C) while coolest month is January when temperature goes down to 46.4 °F (8°C). January is also the wettest month with 4.72 inches (119.9 mm) of rainfall.
Chinatown, San Francisco
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Budget Travel to San Francisco
The San Francisco International Airport is 10 miles (16 km) to the south of downtown. It receives the bulk of the international flights arriving in San Francisco. The Oakland International Airport is another airport serving the Bay Area.
Both the San Francisco and the Oakland airports are connected by the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) train system to downtown San Francisco. The ride from San Francisco Airport to downtown costs $8 one way. If you arrive at Oakland Airport, you must first take the AirBart bus to the BART station. The fare is $3 per adult - you need to prepare exact change in cash. From the BART station to downtown, the fare is a further $4.00.
San Francisco cable car
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Budget Travel within San Francisco
It is possible to explore San Francisco on foot. Having said that, you need to bear in mind that this is a big city, so take the necessary precautions expected of every stranger in a strange town. The streets and avenues of San Francisco are numbered, so that helps to a certain extend, in helping you locate places.
I wouldn't recommend driving in San Francisco unless you are familiar with the streets. Also, the many intersections with no left turns mean you may be going around quite a bit each time you miss a turn.
Taking Public Transit
The San Francisco Municipal Railway runs the trains and cable cars in San Francisco. If you are taking public transit quite a bit, you should get the day pass for $13, allowing you unlimited rides for a day. Longer passes are available: $20 for 3 days while $26 buys you a full one week of rides. The passes are available at the airport, the cable car ticket booth at Market and Powell stations and a few other locations.
Business in San Francisco
San Francisco, California's fourth largest city, is a popular tourist destination as well as being an established financial center, numerous business choose San Francisco office space due to its dynamic economy.
Mission Dolores, San Francisco
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Accommodation in San Francisco
- Look for Hotel Rooms in San Francisco
Helping you compare room rates from different online booking sites.
- Look for Youth Hostels
View list of youth hostels with online booking.
Places of Interest in San Francisco
- Golden Gate Bridge
One of the most famous bridges in the world
- 49-Mile Scenic Drive
A derive that offers splendid views of San Francisco.
- Sutro Tower
A distinct orange-and-white tower in San Francisco.
- Grace Cathedral
Cathedral modelled after Notre-Dame in Paris.
- San Francisco National Maritime Museum
Museum housed in a 1939 building exhibiting nautical items.
- Coit Tower
Tower on Telegraph Hill with observation deck.
- Palace of Fine Arts & the Exploratorium
Modern science museum housed in a Neo-Classical building.
- Embarcadero Center
Section of downtown San Francisco with a multitude of skyscrapers.
- Jackson Square Historical District
Neighborhood in downtown San Francisco with many buildings from the Gold Rush days.
- Transamerica Pyramid
One of the most distinctive skyscrapers - and the tallest - in San Francisco.
- Bank of America Building
One of the tallest skyscrapers in San Francisco.
- Wells Fargo History Museum
Museum exhibiting items related to the history of banking and transportation in the West.
- Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Multi-purpose center comprising new hotels, museums and shops.
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
One of the most significant museums on the San Francisco art scene.
- Union Square
Public square at the heart of the shopping district.
- Chinatown
The oldest Chinatown in North America.
- Nob Hill
The highest summit in San Francisco.
- Fisherman's Wharf
A place by the sea lined with seafood restaurants and specialty stores.
- North Beach
San Francisco's Little Italy.
- Alcatraz Island
Former maximum-security prison, now a tourist attraction.
- Pacific Heights
One of the most desirable residential neighborhoods in San Francisco.
- Asian Art Museum
Museum housed in a beautiful Beaux Arts building housing the largest collection of Asian art outside of Asia.
- Mission Dolores
Oldest building in San Francisco.
- Haight Ashbury
The center of the hippie colony of the 1960's.
- California Academy of Sciences
The oldest and most popular science museum in San Francisco.
- de Young Museum
Museum housing de Young's collection of American art.
- Legion of Honor
Museum promoting an appreciation of French art in California.
- The Presidio
Former military base that today includes woodlands, museum and remnants of its military installations.
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