Trip IdeasFodor's Family San Francisco with Kids, 1st Edition
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About This Book
Fodor’s. For Choice Travel Experiences.
Fodor’s helps you unleash the possibilities of travel by providing the insightful tools you need to experience the trips you want. While you’re at the helm, Fodor’s offers the assurance of our expertise, the guarantee of selectivity, and the choice details that truly define a destination. It’s like having a friend in San Francisco!
•Fodor’s Family San Francisco with Kids is a new series combining the city's best experiences, restaurants, and hotels with the age-appropriate information, tips, and ideas you need the most when visiting San Francisco with your family. Handpicked selections by local parents cover a variety of interests and tastes, so you make the choices for a perfect trip, every time.
•Plan your trip to San Francisco more easily than ever with key information at your fingertips: Detailed maps, age-appropriateness ranges, kids admission prices, family-friendly hotel amenities, and top five lists of the very best things to see and do in every neighborhood we cover.
•Where can you find the best ice-cream place in North Beach? The most worthy playground in Nob Hill? A public bathroom in Union Square? Our “Where Can I Find?” charts created by local parents give you the neighborhood-by-neighborhood inside scoop.
•See San Francisco in a different way with fun “Treasure Maps” showing you and your family the sometimes hard-to-find spots where famous movies were shot or where real history was made.
Visit Fodors.com for more ideas and information, travel deals, vacation planning tips, reviews and to exchange travel advice with other travelers.
Fodor’s helps you unleash the possibilities of travel by providing the insightful tools you need to experience the trips you want. While you’re at the helm, Fodor’s offers the assurance of our expertise, the guarantee of selectivity, and the choice details that truly define a destination. It’s like having a friend in San Francisco!
•Fodor’s Family San Francisco with Kids is a new series combining the city's best experiences, restaurants, and hotels with the age-appropriate information, tips, and ideas you need the most when visiting San Francisco with your family. Handpicked selections by local parents cover a variety of interests and tastes, so you make the choices for a perfect trip, every time.
•Plan your trip to San Francisco more easily than ever with key information at your fingertips: Detailed maps, age-appropriateness ranges, kids admission prices, family-friendly hotel amenities, and top five lists of the very best things to see and do in every neighborhood we cover.
•Where can you find the best ice-cream place in North Beach? The most worthy playground in Nob Hill? A public bathroom in Union Square? Our “Where Can I Find?” charts created by local parents give you the neighborhood-by-neighborhood inside scoop.
•See San Francisco in a different way with fun “Treasure Maps” showing you and your family the sometimes hard-to-find spots where famous movies were shot or where real history was made.
Visit Fodors.com for more ideas and information, travel deals, vacation planning tips, reviews and to exchange travel advice with other travelers.
Table of Contents
About This Book ............ 5
What’s Where ............ 6
When To Go ............ 8
Bad-Weather Plans ............ 9
Top Experiences ............ 10
If You Like ............ 12
For Free ............ 14
Chapter 1: Exploring San Francisco ............ 15
Union Square & Chinatown ............ 16
SoMa & Civic Center ............ 25
North Beach ............ 33
Nob Hill & Russian Hill ............ 39
On the Waterfront ............ 45
The Marina & the Presidio ............ 57
Golden Gate Park & the Western Shoreline ............ 63
The Haight, the Castro & Noe Valley ............ 75
The Mission ............ 81
Pacific Heights & Japantown ............ 86
Chapter 2: Where to Eat ............ 91
Chapter 3: Where to Stay ............ 127
Chapter 4: The Performing Arts ............ 163
Chapter 5: Sports & the Outdoors ............ 171
Chapter 6: Shopping ............ 183
Family fun ............ 195
Travel Smart Family San Francisco with Kid ............ 201
Getting Here & Around ............ 202
Essentials ............ 213
Index ............ 219
About Our Writer ............ 224
Maps
Union Square & Chinatown ............ 19
SoMa & Civic Center ............ 28
North Beach ............ 36
Nob Hill & Russian Hill ............ 43
On the Waterfront ............ 48
The Marina & the Presidio ............ 60
Golden Gate Park & the Western Shoreline ............ 66
The Haight, the Castro & Noe Valley ............ 77
The Mission District ............ 83
Pacific Heights & Japantown ............ 89
Where to Eat In & Around Downtown San Francisco ............ 98-99
Where to Stay In & Around Downtown San Francisco ............ 134-135
Treasure Map San Francisco ............ 196-197
What’s Where ............ 6
When To Go ............ 8
Bad-Weather Plans ............ 9
Top Experiences ............ 10
If You Like ............ 12
For Free ............ 14
Chapter 1: Exploring San Francisco ............ 15
Union Square & Chinatown ............ 16
SoMa & Civic Center ............ 25
North Beach ............ 33
Nob Hill & Russian Hill ............ 39
On the Waterfront ............ 45
The Marina & the Presidio ............ 57
Golden Gate Park & the Western Shoreline ............ 63
The Haight, the Castro & Noe Valley ............ 75
The Mission ............ 81
Pacific Heights & Japantown ............ 86
Chapter 2: Where to Eat ............ 91
Chapter 3: Where to Stay ............ 127
Chapter 4: The Performing Arts ............ 163
Chapter 5: Sports & the Outdoors ............ 171
Chapter 6: Shopping ............ 183
Family fun ............ 195
Travel Smart Family San Francisco with Kid ............ 201
Getting Here & Around ............ 202
Essentials ............ 213
Index ............ 219
About Our Writer ............ 224
Maps
Union Square & Chinatown ............ 19
SoMa & Civic Center ............ 28
North Beach ............ 36
Nob Hill & Russian Hill ............ 43
On the Waterfront ............ 48
The Marina & the Presidio ............ 60
Golden Gate Park & the Western Shoreline ............ 66
The Haight, the Castro & Noe Valley ............ 77
The Mission District ............ 83
Pacific Heights & Japantown ............ 89
Where to Eat In & Around Downtown San Francisco ............ 98-99
Where to Stay In & Around Downtown San Francisco ............ 134-135
Treasure Map San Francisco ............ 196-197
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