A Night in San Francisco for $1

Spend a night in San Francisco for $1? Here’s spring travel special that’s hard to believe. The “world famous” Orchard Hotel at 665 Bush Street in San Francisco if offering an April Fools special rate of one dollar  a night for the entire month of April!  The normal rate is $175 a night.  http://www.theorchardhotels.com/
What’s the catch?  (There’s always a catch right? ) Well in this case its not much of a catch.  You can only book on line and it can only be booked on line beginning at 10 a.m. on April 1, 2009.  It’s a great hotel and a great town for a spring get-away.
How do you get there on the cheap?  Well Jet Blue Airliines also has a spring special and you can fly from Long Beach to San Francisco for as little as $48 each way. If you haven’t flown out of Long Beach Airport you are in for a big surprise.  Long Beach airport is the best metropolitan airport in the USA. Easy access, short lines, no long waits and plenty of parking.  You don’t have to be there an hour and a half early for a flight either.
Now no one really needs to ask what do you do when you get to San Francisco but just in case you have a visitor from outer Mongolia you can start him off with these spots-The John Muir Woods, Fisherman’s Wharf,  Scoma’s Restaurant, Tiburon Ferry (ride past Alcatraz), The Exploratorium at the Palace of Fine Arts, Old First Concerts on Sacramento St. ( Chamber music, Jazz, Classical and avant-garde), Martini’s were made famous at the Clift Hotel,  Irish Coffee was invented (so the San Franciscan’s say ) at the Buena Vista Café…just a cable-car ride from downtown), The Japanese Garden in Golden Gate Park, (circa 1900 and rebuilt after WW II) and oysters on the half-shell with the natives, not at the wharf but on top of Russian Hill.  If none of that peeks your interest drop a line and we’ll send you more sites.