San Francisco — Places to stay
Fog on the hills, cable car bells below
- Fairmont San Francisco — A 1907 marble-lobby grande dame on top of Nob Hill
- The St. Regis San Francisco — SoMa five-star next to SFMOMA, rated 9.6 on Trip.com
- Palace Hotel, a Luxury Collection Hotel — Breakfast under a glass dome at a hotel founded in 1875
- Hilton San Francisco Union Square — Big Union Square hotel with no destination fee
- Hotel Nikko San Francisco — Japanese-run four-star with salmon-and-miso breakfasts and an indoor pool
- Hyatt Regency San Francisco — Four-star with a vast atrium lobby, across from the Ferry Building
- Hyatt Centric Fisherman's Wharf — Wharf four-star by the cable car turnaround, a walk from Pier 39
- Chancellor Hotel on Union Square — A 1914 value hotel with cable cars rolling past the door
- Holiday Inn Express & Suites San Francisco Fisherman's Wharf — Wharf value chain with free breakfast, next to In-N-Out
- HI San Francisco Fisherman's Wharf Hostel — Hostel inside a national park, with Alcatraz out the window
- Four Seasons Hotel San Francisco at Embarcadero — Top floors of a tower with city and bay views
- Hotel Kabuki — A Japantown hotel with deep Japanese soaking tubs
- Inn at the Presidio — A 1903 building turned inn at the Presidio
- Green Tortoise Hostel — A sociable North Beach hostel beside Chinatown