Intercontinental Francisco

... cocktails and appetizers at The Top of the Mark, which is the top floor bar/restaurant at the top of our hotel, The Mark Hopkins Intercontinental Hotel.  Lovely old hotel at the top of California Street and when I say the top I mean the at the top of ...

WOOOOT!!!!! Finally arrived at the Intercontinental hotel in SFO. I woke up at 6:15AM CET to get my train from Ghent to Brussels National Airport. The train left in Ghent at 7:15AM. Some stupid moron had an accident somewhere along the track which had a ...

... this morning but it turned out to be a very busy but productive day.  Today we wanted to see a number of San Francisco landmarks and tourist attractions.  The only problem was that today (like yesterday) was very windy and quite chilly. We had ...

As I noted earlier we were scheduled to do a dinner cruise of San Francisco Bay this evening and sure enough we did.  It was absolutely marvelous.  After a narrated bus tour from the hotel to the South Beach Pier we left the dock at about ...

... through that. Next, in Toronto we waited a long while both in US Customs and then Security to get to the gate for the San Francisco flight, although there was no concern as we had lots of time.  As we went to board in TO, the gate agent noticed that ...

... early in order to make it to for the 9am tour to Alcatraz - the island that was a high security prison about 1 1/2 miles off San Francisco coast. Today was another cold day and we didn’t have warm clothes - we thought it will be warmer than about 12 ...

... , but after 20 hrs of travel, we had a minor meltdown and insisted that we be put in touch with the international Intercontinental guest services.  In the end, we were upgraded to a lovely room with a private balcony overlooking the water, and were ...

... hour before my next meeting, so I grabbed a drink nearby at Top of the Mark on the 19th floor of the InterContinental Mark Hopkins. During WWII, it was customary for servicemen to have a farewell drink here with their sweethearts and toast the Golden ...

... struggling to accommodate such a decision. We looked up the usual websites and struggled to find somewhere reasonable. I then called the Intercontinental group who own both the Holiday Inn chain as well as their own brand name chain. They didn’t ...

... not happening for us, especially since by the time we arrived, the Metro is closed. So the only way for us to get to the Intercontinental Athenaeum is by taxi. Now I heard about taxi drivers in Athens ripping customers off, so I had to make sure we do not ...

... as they look! We'll get a last minute tune-up with Benji the Bike Whisperer just before we pack them up for their intercontinental journey.  In the meanwhile, we've got a few weeks to break them in, or more accurately, break us into ...

... way (insane number of homeless people --- seriously). We made plans to catch up the next day after a fiasco of trying to exchange intercontinental phone numbers. Still don't have that all worked out. Erik and I weren't done... we went to the hotel bar to ...

... will be arriving 20 minutes earlier than your original flight". We got some transfer approval code and were sent on our way to the InterContinental terminal. Sven was already saying "oh god we'er gonna have to do this all over again, but i shushed him :)" ...

... a bit to Union Square and have a coffee.  Then it's up Nob Hill (this involves somes serious hills) to Mark's hotel, the San Francisco Intercontinental Mark Hopkins. We meet Mark in the lobby and take the trip up to "the top of the Mark" which offers ...

Finished up with meetings this morning then took a open double decker bus tour of San Fran this afternoon and damned near froze.  It was much cooler today than earlier and there was quite a breeze blowing.  Despite that it was an informative ...

We had a very informative day of MTUG meetings learning that many states are rolling out state-wide radio systems and consolidating existing systems-of-systems.  Meanwhile herself pedalled her ass off on a bicycle today, pedalling across the Golden ...

This is the 3rd time I've visited San Fran. From my previous 2 experience I remember it being a wonderful city. Lots of green areas, clean but yet ...