88 atrium decorated with palm trees, fountains, and enough flora and fauna to shame even Walt Disney himself. If you can figur e out the complicated elev ator options, including low-rise, mid-rise, and high-rise, all detailed in a lengthy menu posted next to the lifts themselves, then you will eventually find yourself in an endless hallway carpeted in garish colors. Despite all that, it turns out some families keep coming back. Why? First, the indoor pool, which is plenty big and is open from 6am to 11pm. Second, if you can get the right guest room, it can be fairly spacious, and the decor is mercifully more subdued than that found in the hotels public spaces. Beds are also reportedly quite comfortable, although the double-doubles really are like enlarged twin beds (not queens). If you can get a room in the high to wer, y ou ll get a gr eat vie w. With two r estaurants and two delis on the premises, you ll always find something to feed empty tummies fast. Lastly, while it might be too much for adult sensibilities, the kids will pr obably love the atrium s over-the-top pseudo tropical author tours decor.
Expect cr owds ar ound F isherman s Wharf and on the F-M arket str eetcars. author tours Book Alcatraz Island tickets at least 1 week ahead of time and, after 9am, expect to wait in long lines to boar d the P owell Street cable cars. Fortunately, because San Francisco sees fe wer conv entions in the summer, you may actually get better hotel rates at the business-oriented hotels downtown (although not at F isherman s Wharf).
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2033 Union St. (at Buchanan St.). &415/567-6742. www.oshathai.com. Highchairs, boosters. Reservations accepted. Main courses $8 $18. AE, DISC, MC, V. Daily 11am midnight. Muni: No. 41-Union or no. 45-Union-Stockton. Embarcadero: Embarcadero Center (at Clay and Drumm sts.). &415/788-6742. Daily 11am 11pm. Muni: Streetcars author tours to Embarcadero Station. SoMa: 149 2nd St. (btw. Mission & Howard sts.) & 415/278-9991. M on Sat 11am 11pm; Sun 4pm 11pm. Muni: 10-Townsend or 14-M ission bus. Mission: 819 Valencia St. (btw. 19th and 20th sts.) & 415/826-7738. Daily 11am midnight. Muni: 14-Mission or 49-Van Ness/Mission bus; BART to 24th St. Tenderloin: 696 Geary St. (at Leavenworth St.) &415/6732368. Sun Thurs 11am 1am; Fri Sat 11am 3am. Muni: 2, 3, 4, 27, 38 buses.
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