1- There are 44 hills.
So tho I like women in highheels, day or night, bring comfy shoes. Free walking tours thru "sf city guides", any hotel should have the brochure. 36 green french automatic cleaning after every use loos on sidewalk. There's a loo locator app, I kid you not.
2-The coldest days and nights are the FOGGY ones of JUNE, JULY, AND "FOGEST". DAY-times in the 50F's and you usually can not see at the top of TwinPeaks, geographic center, nor the Golden Gate bridge, the only one you can bicycle/walk all the way to sf on.
3-SF is built mostly on sand, think Florida sinkholes, every where. Most of the buildings are wooden framed, old as in ancient, and insanely 25ft narrow with dangerously old wiring and plumbing, dang few elevators, and 1BR rent of about $4k/mo. does Not include a safe secure garage parking space. But there is strong effective and popular rent control of like 1-2% if you stay in an old subdivided firetrap of an ugly face house.
4- Alcatraz in Summer has a ferry from pier 33 that in Summer IS USUALLY BOOKED WEEKS IN ADVANCE. This is for all those who don't read, don't ask, and follow the herd. So show up, try to book for the same day in Summer, get all upset because it is so 1000s/day popular, and show us how stupid you are. What other city in the world starts with "Let's go to prison !!"?
5- Alternatives, for the non-brain dead?
Beach Blanket Babylon, the longest running theatre in the USA sold out over 40 years.(tardies do not get in) Cabaret of fab voices, great humor, and wonderful costuming.
MOMA just reopened, so rent a wheelchair and a docent and "cruise".
Also Asian Art Museum and Legion of Honor Museum. By wheelchair.
Bicycle, with electric bikes for rent by the Fisherman's Wharf Holiday Inn Express.
Ask for the $25/day bike rate, of a few years ago.
Rollerskates from Haight Street to no car skate JFK DRIVE in Golden Gate Park on Sunday.
Visit Beach Chalet, Blue Sky dim sum, and Scoma's on pier 47 for best freshest fish, bfast in line at Washington Square, and pizza world award-winning at Tony's on opposite corner, gelato at Naia, lunch at Henry Hunan's hot and sour soup, and dine w Coppola at his green rust copper famous restaurant, Hamburgers in Sausalito for Bay Areas best cheeseburfer,try oldest Tadich's, definitely pop for $15 zagat restaurant guide of over 3500 in sf.
6- Unsafe neighborhoods are Tenderloin, west of 5th , and projects called Western Addition , south of Geary Street, and the entire ugly poor crime central of the SE Quarter. You rarely see a cop in SF. Duh, wtf !? That's the way it is.
There are way too many rich immigrants learning how to drive by running red lights in very expensive cars. Always use the crosswalk and look both ways !! UCSF MED SCHOOL is by far best hospital in town. If you can afford it.
