Sanfrancisco Hotels

San Francisco Luxury Hotel

Hotel Nikko is one of the hundreds of hotels you can choose from in San Francisco. The difference from every other hotel? Hotel Nikko is found right in the middle of the city’s busy, bustling streets. This may be a good one for you, if you love being right in the middle of everyday action. So if you want the quickest way to step right into San Francisco the moment you step out of your hotel, visit Hotel Nikko. On the other hand, if you love serenity, peace, and quite, Hotel Nikko’s proximity to honking buses and groaning vehicles may not be for you.

Hotel Nikko is very affordable for the average American, only about $180 for a one-night stay in one of its deluxe rooms. There are 533 rooms to choose from so, unless it is peak season, you won’t have much difficulty finding one. You can choose from deluxe rooms, its wide variety of suites (Junior, Executive, Essex, Japanese, or Imperial), or its Imperial Club rooms located at the topmost floors. Each room has at least one 42-inch flat-panel television, the plushest Subarashee Yume beds and bed accessories, Frette linens, wireless Internet access, stereos and CD players, at least three desks, and a bathtub, whirlpool tub, private sauna, or a Japanese soaking tub, depending on your room of choice.

Hotel Nikko also has its own atrium-covered swimming pool located in its fifth floor. For an additional daily fee of $10.00, you can enjoy the combination of the warm atrium-filtered rays of the sun and the cool waters of the indoor swimming pool. The Hotel Nikko swimming pool is open from 5:00 AM to 10:00 PM everyday. You can also lounge around in their comfortable poolside chairs and chaises and enjoy a variety of snacks available from Hotel Nikko’s in-house room service.

Other amenities include a 24-hour health club with the latest exercise facilities and equipment, which you can access anytime of the day, any day of the week for a $10.00 fee per stay. This fee includes access to the relaxing Japanese meditation rooms and health spas where you can actually forget that you are right in the heart of San Francisco. There is also a beauty salon open at the lower lobby, so if you’re looking for some beauty pampering before a big event, Hotel Nikko’s Nicolas Salon is just one elevator ride away.

Other amenities include a business center offering color copying, printing, binding, faxing, packing and shipping, and even secretarial and translation services if you need them; the Rrazz Room Nightclub featuring artists like the American Idols, Keely Smith, Bobby Caldwell and Mary Wilson of the Supremes, Ashford & Simpson, Chita Rivera, and more; and more than 20 function rooms to choose from if you have a corporate meeting or a cocktail party coming up.

April 6th, 2009 | Tags: hotel nikko san francisco, hotels at san francisco, luxury hotels san francisco, San Francisco Hotels | Category: San Francisco Hotels | Leave a comment

San Francisco Attraction

If you’re still not convinced, here are a few more reasons why San Francisco is worth spending your next vacation in. Once we get through skimming the list of places to go and things to do in this warm city full of diverse peoples, I’ll bet you’ll be on your way to your travel agent to have him book the next flight to the West Coast.

D. Downtown San Francisco. Downtown San Francisco alone already offers a variety of activities you can do while visiting the city. First stop, take a sip of California’s world-famous red wines produced right in the heart of Napa Valley, just north of the Bay Area. After all, it’s not everyday you get to taste the best wines made from the highest quality of grapes in the country. Or, if you’re the type who loves basking in museums and the classic arts, you can visit San Francisco’s several museums and performing arts theatres. There are so many of them to choose from I’ll doubt you’ll be able to see them all in one visit. For starters, you might want to visit the California Academy of Sciences, the only museum in the entire world where you can find a natural history museum, planetarium, and aquarium under one roof. And Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Museum, Fisherman’s Wharf, Pier 39, Presidio, etc. Need I say more?

E. Embarcadero Center. Now one of the most desirable places to build an office, Embarcadero Center is located right in the heart of San Francisco’s Downtown Waterfront area. Presently, it has four Embarcadero towers where about 14,000 San Francisco citizens go to work everyday and enjoy a diverse collection of restaurants offering different cuisines, cinemas, and retail shops. Embarcadero Center has not always been what it is today. It went from an entry point for ships that carried treasure hunters who heard of the California Gold Rush in the nineteenth century, to a haven of thieves and prostitutes in the 1920s, to San Francisco’s Produce District later on. Today, after massive development efforts, Embarcadero Center is now one of the most sought after sites in San Francisco.

F. Fort Point. Built in 1784 by Spaniards who wanted to protect their settlement against British and Russian encroachment, Fort Point was originally called Castillo de San Joaquin. Apparently, Fort Point no longer offers any military value, but it still is a preservation of the art and architecture prevalent during the eighteenth century. Fort Point is located at the southern side of the Golden Gate Bridge. Before the construction of the Bridge, many wanted the fort abolished since it no longer served military purpose. It was President Richard Nixon who allocated the funds for its preservation.

April 6th, 2009 | Tags: Embarcadero Center-san francisco, fort point-san francisco, Reason for touring san francisco, san francisco attractions, san francisco tours | Category: San Francisco Tourist Information | Leave a comment