Where to stay and what should we do in San Francisco?

[MagnificentUnicorn]

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That’s a bummer.


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[gravitylover]

I haven't been in 30+ years but, I'd try to find a nice enough place in North Beach. Plenty of good eats to walk to. Rent e-bikes and check out whatever else you want to, go over the bridge it's worth the effort. Find a good show or two to go to at night, there's always something good somewhere in town or close.

[byates1]

I did my culinary externship at Enrico's in 97. Had a blast. Was in SF for 6 months. Rode back and forth to work from geary.

Subletting a place from this weird drug chick, she wasn't paying rent. I come back to an inch thick eviction notice. They didn't know I was there. Ended up in the tenderloin at my pro skaters friends place. We would bomb the hills, bomb Mt Tam.

Discovered the giant redwoods north of SF. Enrico's was a legit place early on. I was on the line crushing it. Started cementing my drinking habit. Good times.

/Sweet blog bro..

[jackattack]

How old are you guys and what’s type of activities do you like to do when you visit a city?

I wouldn’t worry about a car unless you want to leave the city to go to Marin. BART from the airport and then Uber/Lyft and Transit are sufficient.

Great food is plentiful and with few exceptions you can get almost anything you want in most neighborhoods from $$ to $$$$$.

[m2711c]

if you guys do get a car, be sure to take a drive down lombard street... it will be lovely that time of year.


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[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

Can't help you out where to stay, we've stayed in everything from drug den motels to fancy BnB's but it's been a long time. The BnB was more fun than the rest, my girlfriend (now wife) and I had a pretty energetic sexy time in the top floor late at night, the place was an old victorian and I swear we almost brought it down - the whole place was squeaking and shaking. We got some looks the next morning at breakfast from everyone staying below us.

As for things to do, Alcatraz is really entertaining for a tourist activity, buy tickets now for the ferry, they sell out. A ferry to Tiburon for lunch at Sam's Anchor is fun. Food is decent, not great, but the drinks and deck and views make up for it. A walk across the bridge is amazing, but if you want to just look at it, go down to Fort Point. Restaurants - you can't go wrong with google reviews and SF eater.

[Cono Este]

Hit the Marin headlines. Gg bridge, drive over to Stinson beach, and hit Muir park.

[heckacali]

Avoid the Haight at all costs unless you are a hardcore ex-boomer hippie deadhead and need to be surrounded by tie dye shops and have some romantic idea of the history, because the current reality is really not anything to visit.

[plugboots]

Why? Have a drink at Zam Zam.

[heckacali]

Aside from it clinging desperately to its identity of 55 years ago, there isn't much worth seeing there. There are better more interesting areas for restaurants, architecture, bars, sights and shopping and the negatives of it being an over trafficked tourist trap added with the crusties who love to languish there make it a meme of what some people think SF is.
The upper Haight today is some of the worst, least attractive of what SF is. Along with the tenderloin, and wherever else the current locations of tolerated homeless camps are.

But if you like rubbing shoulders with 15 year olds from the suburbs looking for edgy city fashion, or boomers wearing the dye hoping that maybe Jerry walked where they are, go for it.

[mcski]

The haight is not the tenderloin. It’s just a tourist street. Zam Zam and a few other places make it still worthwhile. It’s got a lot of tourist stuff but it’s also still very much a neighborhood. There ain’t any homeless camps there so take your bs elsewhere

[heckacali]

Lol, Elsewhere? like Ashbury st where my house is?

[old goat]

The thing about visiting a place is that taking advice from locals isn't always the best way to have a good time. Take advice from other tourists who like the kind of things you do.

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

Why? Have a drink at Zam Zam.

That place is awesome

[heckacali]

People aren't visiting "the Haight Ashbury" neighborhood.
they come, park, walk down one side of Haight from stanyon to central and leave.
That strip, as endearing as some of the character is, is not what visitors to the city should prioritize unless they are boomer hippies as I said above.

[heckacali]

The thing about visiting a place is that taking advice from locals isn't always the best way to have a good time. Take advice from other tourists who like the kind of things you do.

This is also true

[mcski]

Lol, Elsewhere? like Ashbury st where my house is?

Then you should know there’s not any homeless camps there. You sound more like a soma tech douche than someone that lives in the hood

[54-46]

If you get out to Golden Gate Park, check out the observation deck at the de Young Museum. Free to go up there. Cool views of the city.


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[dunfree]

SF is one of the more gorgeous locations for a city in the world, with a ton of great food from cheapish eats to 3* Michelin. What’s fancy? You could eat in Chinatown but there’s better food and more variety of Chinese cuisines in the burbs. But it’ll probably be in a strip mall. Good Indian subcontinent food too, etc. If you don’t like museums, or sports, most of the the trad touristy shit is way past it’s prime fishermanshwarf/the haight/north beach/union square, blech, you aren’t missing anything but there’s not lots else. Rent a car and drive north, hike in redwoods, eat oysters at hog island?

[muted reborn]

there’s better food and more variety of Chinese cuisines in the burbs.

Can you list a few you like?

[mcski]

There are plenty of real deal places in the Sunset and Clement. Just look for a place that’s crowded. Nothing wrong w old chinatown, there’s still plenty legit places along w the more touristy trap ones

[dan_pdx]

I walked across the Golden Gate about 10 days ago, and there were strong winds and heavy fog. The fog was too thick to see the top of the towers. It was an okay walk, but the views from the presidio were better. I wouldn't bother unless it's clear when you're there.

[muted reborn]

There are plenty of real deal places in the Sunset and Clement. Just look for a place that’s crowded. Nothing wrong w old chinatown, there’s still plenty legit places along w the more touristy trap ones

Those aren't suburbs.

[TBS]

Dinner at Tadich Grill. https://tadichgrillsf.com/
Sit at the bar. Get the cioppino.
Note - they don’t take reservations (at least they didn’t when I was last there)

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

I walked across the Golden Gate about 10 days ago, and there were strong winds and heavy fog. The fog was too thick to see the top of the towers. It was an okay walk, but the views from the presidio were better. I wouldn't bother unless it's clear when you're there.

October - should be nice.