Tonga room was nice. Went for my wifes bday. She likes all that Hawaiin jazz and stuff tho.
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Originally Posted by Derek Sutton
Where did you stay and how was it? Where would be a good place to stay? Looking at possibly going in November but only for three days. One day wine tour, one day to Alcatraz, Pier 39, one day Chinatown and such.
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We stayed at the Marriott Marquis. There was another Marriot fairly close by, but this one had a pool so we paid the few extra dollars. I remember when we were looking at places it was more money to stay near Fishermans Wharf. I liked the Union square area because it was close to their Airport public transit line. Its call BART. Its also real easy and quick to get to the Wharf anyways. We had to go towards the wharf area for the Alcatraz tour as well as the Wine tour. 20mins maybe each way. $2 a person each way. Actually we went that way a 3rd day, when we spent time taking the cable cars.
Alcatraz and Pier 39 are a good pairing for one day. Once your done the tour just walk over to the pier. Alcatraz takes about 2 hours, it took us longer because my wife is a picture taking whore. Pier 39 is not much longer then off to dinner we went.
My wife had to ride the cable cars, if that interests your party then you can do that and get off at the china town stop and walk all around that area. I found the Cable car museum to be cool because I like to know how stuff works. The wife found it boring as she really couldn't give a rats ass about how it works. The museum was about a block, maybe 2 away from the Chinatown stop. Cable cars go right by it. Should also add that the cable car turn around station was really close to the hotel we stayed at, So it all seemed very central.