San Francisco International Airport/Mills Field to Your Hotel
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SFO to Your Hotel
The Fine Print
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Where to Buy San Francisco MUNIcipal Railway Passes.
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SHUTTLE: $16+ for one; $28+ for two. 50% to $12 per child.
Significant discounts available on line.
If you're at least four, negotiate $65 to your destination
TAXI: Up to $50
The farthest it's possible to go is seventeen miles.
Using the San Francisco Municipal Code
taxi rates September 2011 of $5.50 to leave our airport
plus eighty-four 55¢ increments ($46.20), the highest-possible low fare is $51.70.
The meter adds 55¢ for each sixty-second delay without regard to cause.
Here are Point-to-Point taxi fares.
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BART's HOTEL MAPs'TRAB
for Cow Hollow/Marina, Lombard Street, Pacific Heights, Van ness Avenue,
and most parts of town not mentioned below:
Board rear of train. Do not cross tracks to take a taxi
from Ninth Street (not in front of the convenient hotel) to Your Hotel.
Some Civic Center/Eighth Street hotels
Air Travel — Alexander Inn — Americania — Bijou — Britton — Buena Vista Motor Inn — Carriage House
Rodeway Inn — TraveLodge — Whitcomb
POWELL STREET STATION
for Nob Hill, Tenderloin, and Union Square
For the first group of hotels below, board rear of train. Cross tracks to walk up Powell Street's gentle grade. If you choose to not walk during non-business hours, go to the hotel in sight at ten o'clock for a taxi that might be $5. If you choose to not walk during business hours, do not cross tracks: a taxi stand is about 35 metres down Fifth Street.
Andrews — Astoria — Beresford — California — Campton Place — Canterbury — Cartwright — Chancellor — Clift
Crescent — Dakota — Diva — Frank — Fusion — Gates — Globtrotter's Inn — Grand — Handlery — Herbert — Hilton
Inn at Union Square — Kensington Park — King George — Marriott, JW — Marriott Union Square — Monaco
Monticello Inn — Nikko — Powell — Prescott — Rex Savoy — Saint Francis — Serrano — Sir San Francis Drake
Stratford — Touchstone — Union Square — Vertigo — Villa Florence
Some hotels South o' the Slot
(do not cross tracks, go down Fifth Street)
InterContinental — Milano — Pickwick
Some more South o' the Slot hotels near
MOSCONE CENTER/YERBA BUENA GARDENS
Front of train, do not cross tracks, go Left on Market Street to Fourth Street.
Marriott — Mosser — Palomar
FINANCIAL NEIGHBORHOOD/NORTH BEACH
Baldwin — Club Quarters — Hilton — Le Meridien — Mandarin Oriental — Omni — Saint Paul — San Remo — Triton
South o'the Slot
Courtyard — Saint Regis — The Palace — Westin
EMBARCADERO STATION
Front of train.
Regency — Vitale
Some FISHERMAN'S WHARF hotels
Argonaut — Courtyard — Hilton — Hyatt — Radisson
Sheraton — TraveLodge — Tuscan Inn — Wharf Inn
OR cross tracks to go to the hotel in sight to get a taxi.
The March 2010 fare for the two miles from the hotel to Fisherman's Wharf:
about $11 with a 15% gratuity.
Information on this page obtained from sources that include
OUR AIRPORT's page of transportation
Your corrections and/or comments might help others.
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Have a few hours to kill? Here's how:
If you have fewer than five hours,
Our airport is also a museum with a great deal to see and do.
If you have more than five hours, try this:
………Bicycling/Walking map (showing the grades of our streets) and Municipal Railway maps.
………You might also benefit from a visit to our DON'T-MISS SIGHTS page
………It will be deserted except for garbage collection and perhaps deliveries, to California Street. Turn right to the top where, at your right, is the fabulous lobby of the Fairmont Hotel. Halls have many paintings and photographs. From there, go to Huntington Park then Grace Cathedral to walk the labyrinth. Return by going down Jones, Taylor, or Mason streets to Post Street. Turn left to Powell Street and right back to BART.
This is based on RamblinSal's
post of 16 February 2010
Get a San Francisco Municipal Railway day pass.
………Debark BART at the Powell Street/Hallidie Plaza station.
………Take the Hyde Street Cable Car to Lombard Street. Turn left at the bottom of the winding street, then right on Jefferson to piers 39, Hyde Street, and Municipal going through Fisherman's Wharf, Victorian Park, Ghirardelli Square, Aquatic Park and other attractions in that North Beach neighborhood.
………With The Bay at your right, go to Fort Mason to take Laguna Street to Chestnut Street to board the Nineteenth Avenue bus (28) going to the right to the Golden Gate Bridge.
………Reboard going in the same direction to debark at Funston Avenue to enter Golden Gate Park via the Rose Garden.
………Go to the observation deck of the copper-clad deYoung Museum. Turn right to the Japanese Tea Garden. On exit, turn right to the corner then left toward Irving Street to get a streetcar going to the left.
………Debark at Civic Center/Eighth Street to visit City Hall, the War Memorial Building and OperaHouse with the Court of Memory 'tween them.
………It should now be time to return to BART at the Eighth Street/Civic Center Station to take a train going to the right back to The Airport.
………Debark BART at the Powell Street/Hallidie Plaza station.
………Take the Hyde Street Cable Car to Lombard Street. Turn left at the bottom of the winding street, then right on Jefferson to piers 39, Hyde Street, and Municipal going through Fisherman's Wharf, Victorian Park, Ghirardelli Square, Aquatic Park and other attractions in that North Beach neighborhood.
………With The Bay at your right, go to Fort Mason to take Laguna Street to Chestnut Street to board the Nineteenth Avenue bus (28) going to the right to the Golden Gate Bridge.
………Reboard going in the same direction to debark at Funston Avenue to enter Golden Gate Park via the Rose Garden.
………Go to the observation deck of the copper-clad deYoung Museum. Turn right to the Japanese Tea Garden. On exit, turn right to the corner then left toward Irving Street to get a streetcar going to the left.
………Debark at Civic Center/Eighth Street to visit City Hall, the War Memorial Building and OperaHouse with the Court of Memory 'tween them.
………It should now be time to return to BART at the Eighth Street/Civic Center Station to take a train going to the right back to The Airport.
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On 9 April 2011, under the Subject: Muni pass, paul611 of Eastbourne, England, said:
Where to Buy San Franciso Municipal Railway passes
in order of approximate proximity to Union Square (click logotype for fares):
TIX [San Francisco] BAY AREA at Union Square
WALGREEN'S at 825 Market Street
SAN FRANCISCO CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU at Hallidie Plaza
FOG CITY NEWS at 455 Market Street, 125
KIOSK at Embarcadero Station – WALGREEN'S at 88 Drumm Street
BAY CROSSINGS at Ferry Building 22
CAFÉ GOOD EARTH at 835 Kearny Street
PHOTO FOCUS at 1100 Stockton Street
HOLIDAY INN at 1500 Van Ness Avenue
VAN NESS LIQUORS at 1856 Van Ness Avenue
KIOSK at Geary Street and Presidio Avenue – WALGREEN'S at 2801 Jones Street
KIOSK at Hyde Street and Beach Street
Baggage Claim Information Booth at The Airport
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IT'S CALIFORNIA'S LAW!
Child Passenger Restraints Requirements — Safety Belts Requirements
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in order of approximate proximity to Union Square (click logotype for fares):
TIX [San Francisco] BAY AREA at Union Square
WALGREEN'S at 825 Market Street
SAN FRANCISCO CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU at Hallidie Plaza
FOG CITY NEWS at 455 Market Street, 125
KIOSK at Embarcadero Station – WALGREEN'S at 88 Drumm Street
BAY CROSSINGS at Ferry Building 22CAFÉ GOOD EARTH at 835 Kearny Street
PHOTO FOCUS at 1100 Stockton Street
HOLIDAY INN at 1500 Van Ness Avenue
VAN NESS LIQUORS at 1856 Van Ness Avenue
KIOSK at Geary Street and Presidio Avenue – WALGREEN'S at 2801 Jones Street
KIOSK at Hyde Street and Beach Street
Baggage Claim Information Booth at The Airport
Child Passenger Restraints Requirements — Safety Belts Requirements
| Youths lighter than 60 pounds (27kg) and children younger than six years in moving passenger cars must be restrained, usually in a child seat up to age four and a booster seat up to age eight. Youths younger than fourteen should be in rear seat. …Owners of passenger cars for rent are required to provide, gratis, seats to restrain children. …Limousines (and probably vans) are livery. If you can document an exemption for them, please let us know. …City and inter-city buses and railcars are probably exempt. If you can document that they are, please let us know. |