jent103

Oh, thanks, hazel - I haven't tried that one yet!

sf7307

It's a residential neighborhood and a quite upscale one at that. I wouldn't be at all concerned about it being "isolated and dark".

jent103

Thanks, sf - it's hard to know what to be concerned about when you've never been somewhere!

Okay, this one looks good to me, but what do y'all think of the location? It's a little closer to Union Square than that Hilton, same price (via booking.com) and gets very good TA reviews. Seems more near the action than that apartment.

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Rev...alifornia.html

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=The+O...o,+CA&t=m&z=15

nlg

We are in SF right now. We are staying at the Wyndham Canterbury, 750 Sutter Street. It is a very nice location, near Union Square. There are many restaurants and shops nearby. We have a one bedroom suite-a queen bed and a sleeper sofa in the living room. We have a small kitchen and dining area.

We had flights from Nashville and I got them on priceline-Frontier airlines. Our roundtrip price was about $300.

MichelleY

I have not stayed at the Orchard Garden, but have walked past. It is in a handy location, close to Union Square, transit options, Chinatown. Plenty of eatery options.

jent103

Thanks, nlg! That's good to know. I've found a couple of flight options for $330 but if we can't get those, it looks like it goes up to $380ish. Down side of flying in the summer, I guess!

Thanks so much, MichelleY. That's great to know!

kbob88

Hah! $380, that's nothing. I just plugged my preferred (7-leg) Australia-NZ itinerary into Kayak.com and it came back with a best price of $6900 per person!

Needless to say, we'll have to revise that itinerary a bit...

jent103

Hahaha! Well, that does make me feel a little bit better, kbob. Sorry for you, though! Apparently we missed the cheap flights, so now I'm looking at more like $400 unless I want to drive to Memphis. This friend and I have traveled together several times, and usually prices are better from Nashville, but with Delta buying out Northwest it seems like it's flipped this time!

janisj

I haven't read the whole thread but have you looked at Southwest from Nashville to SFO?

jent103

I have, janisj (but thanks for the suggestion!). I love Southwest, and we used to be able to get good deals since Nashville's a hub. But lately they've been SO expensive, and the same is true for this too. It would be at least an extra $100 and often more, depending on the times.

We used to get dirt cheap flights to a few places (I've flown to Chicago for $98 round trip before), but I think those days are over!

jent103

Okay, flights booked! Friend from Memphis, me from Nashville. We're both landing pretty late on June 4 (~10:30pm) and leaving early afternoon June 11, so we have six full days to figure out. Apparently all the hotels I was looking at have gone up in price since I last looked, so... awesome. We booked the Orchard Garden Hotel as a just-in-case situation, but we'd have to share a king bed there (the doubles were sold out) and we'd rather have our own, obviously, so I'm going to keep looking. Thanks to all of you for your help so far!