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Day Trip: Tour the Palace Hotel in San Francisco
The Palace Hotel is a historic, luxury hotel close to many museums and city sights. Take a day and check out the great attractions in the heart of San Francisco.
Travel to the truly amazing Palace Hotel, 2 New Montgomery St., San Francisco, near the Financial District. Since its original opening in 1875, the Palace Hotel has been a legend and leader as the place to stay and the venue for events and entertaining. Located around the corner from the Cartoon Art Museum, and just blocks away from Union Square, Chinatown, and the Moscone Convention Center, the Palace Hotel is convenient and captivating.
“The Palace Hotel is a magical place,” said Renee Roberts, marketing and public relations representative for Palace Hotel. “It’s hard not to fall in love with this beautiful hotel.”
Roberts spoke of the hotel’s extensive history and enchanting past.
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“It is most definitely a place to visit,” she said. “We do events and promotions throughout the year that create unique experience for our guests.”
The Palace Hotel offers a Historic Tour and Lunch in the Garden Court 12:30 to 3 p.m. on selected dates throughout each month. Admission for the tour, two-course lunch, and a soft drink beverage, is $25 per person. Brunch and afternoon tea are also available. Make reservations or call the Palace Hotel for more information, 415-512-1111.
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Enjoy an Opera Brunch at the Palace Hotel, featuring Opera Frontier, 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Sun., Sept. 18, in the Garden Court. The Palace Hotel also invites the public to plan to celebrate the holidays in Palace tradition. The Grand Holiday Sunday Brunch, to be held Dec. 4, 11, 18 features live entertainment and a decadent menu. Call 415-546-5089 to secure your reservations for these inspiring events.
Explore the area around the Palace Hotel. The Cartoon Art Museum, 655 Mission St., exhibits works that represent the history, development, design and processes of the art forms of cartoons, comics, digital animation, illustration, and video games. The Art of the Howl, a look behind the scenes of how poetry is transformed into animation, is on display at the museum through Sept. 11. Visit Cartoon Art Museum on Sept. 11 when comic artists commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11 with a special exhibition. Museum hours are 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sun., and admission is $7 adults, $5 students and seniors $3 children. Call the museum at 415-CAR-TOON.
Visit the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 151 3rd St. and the Contemporary Jewish Museum, 736 Mission Street.
