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Originally Posted by Houseonthehill
As some of you know, I am from Calgary in Canada. I highly doubt the Vancouver or Seattle (to a lesser extent) stop, so I think I am going down to San Francisco for the show at the Palace. Have any of you seen a show there? What is it like, it looks spectacular. Is it open air etc?
Anyone else going down from Calgary? I have found packages for Under $500.
I have been to San Fran but only when I was quite young. All the hotels that I am looking at are around 10 blocks west of Union Square, they look to be very "old style", but are surprisingly appearing to be quite nice. How is the Bart system in San Fran? Also, the block distances are kind of throwing me off, Calgary is the definition of Urban Sprawl, are distances like say 20 blocks in inner San Fran actually daunting distances.
(sorry about the offtopic, I am just so excited!)  |
Palace of Fine Arts is a very nice and small auditorium with excellent acoustics. It seats about 1000, I think. It's also located in one of the treasure buildings of San Francisco and right on the bay. Go to
http://www.palaceoffinearts.org/ and click "pictures".
Blocks in downtown San Francisco are not very big. However, you need to be careful because just a few blocks from Union Square are some not-so-great neighborhoods. I can help you through PM, if you want.
BART is an excellent system, but it doesn't really get you around within San Francisco. That would be MUNI. I think our public transportation system is quite good.
Anyway, if you want to run some of the hotels by me through PM, I can let you know about the neighborhoods, etc.