San Francisco: Hotels
The Fairmont San Francisco Hotel Review
It’s worth the hike up Nob Hill (you can also go by cable car) just to marvel at the Fairmont Hotel’s lobby. With its vaulted ceiling and oversized spiral staircase, one is instantly transported into a more opulent era, one reminiscent of the grand old hotels of yesteryear.
This is partially because the Fairmont was completed and almost ready for opening in 1906 when the great San Francisco earthquake struck. The …
InterContinental Mark Hopkins Hotel, San Francisco Review
As I headed over to the InterContinental Mark Hopkins, I looked at my watch. It was nearly 4 p.m. The fog would soon be rolling in over the Golden Gate Bridge and the hotel’s Top of the Mark lounge was (according to my mother, who knows such things) THE place to see it.
Perched on the southeastern peak of Nob Hill, a neighborhood in San Francisco that, by the late nineteenth …
St. Regis Hotel, San Francisco Review
Art + Hotel. That would be my recommended advertising slogan for the St. Regis in San Francisco. The connection between art and hotel has been noted in these pages before (most recently in our reviews of the 21C Museum Hotel and the Four Seasons in Seattle) and the St. Regis is an excellent example of an establishment that’s not only proximate to multiple art museums but one that integrates art …
Carbon-Neutral Business Travel
Business travelers have long known that travel takes its toll on body and soul. But the toll it takes on our planet is rarely considered. Every step of a business trip has an impact on the environment. How much varies based on choices made, miles or kilometers flown or traveled, food consumed, and items purchased. You may think this all beyond your control but the extent to which you can …
