SHOP 'TIL YOU DROP HOTEL PACKAGES.Byline: Daily News Thinking about holiday shopping? Where better to do it than in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , where many hotels roll out the red carpet for bargain hunters Bargain Hunters was a game show on ABC in the summer of 1987, hosted by Peter Tomarken. Games Each episode featured six contestants, with two playing one of the following games — Bargain Quiz, Bargain Trap and Bargain Busters — at a time. who need a quiet refuge to rest their tootsies and catch a snooze before heading to the stores again? ``San Francisco is a shopper's paradise,'' said Helen Chang, head of the city's Convention and Visitors Bureau. ``People come into the city every year just to do their Christmas shopping because there are just some stores you can't find anywhere else - and you certainly can't find so close together.'' A word of warning: If you're heading to the City by the Bay with your charge cards, it's best to make reservations in advance. Many holiday offers are available for a limited number of rooms and only for certain days. Here are some special hotel packages, at a wide range of prices, geared toward holiday shoppers: The Maxwell Hotel on Union Square offers three shoppers' packages, ranging in price from $149 to $209 per night per room; all include continental breakfast and parking, and higher-priced packages include transportation to shopping areas. Available through Dec. 20. Information: (888) 734-6299. The Cable Car Shopping Package includes two nights' lodging at the Renaissance Stanford Court Hotel The Stanford Court hotel is a hotel in the Nob Hill district of San Francisco, California. It is located between Fisherman's Wharf and Union Square and it is directly on the cable car line. It has 393 room on 8 floors and 3 lifts. , two three-day cable car passes, free car service to shopping destinations, gift-wrapping service and continental breakfast daily starting at $465 per room. Available through Dec. 21. Information: (800) 622-0957. The Rudolph's Rate package at the Clarion Bedford Hotel includes a night's lodging for one or two, an evening wine reception, a coupon worth $25 for a future stay and discount shopping coupons for local stores. The $69-per-night rate is available until Dec. 25. Information: (800) 227-5642. Rates start at $210 per night for the Pan Pacific Hotel's Holiday Shopping Package, which includes lodging for one or two, free gift wrapping, a holiday gift, discount shopping coupons, free limousine service, homemade cookies and tea. Available through Dec. 30 (excluding Dec. 5-7). Information: (800) 533-6465. The Handlery Union Square offers its Christmas Package at $127 for the first night and $117 for additional nights for one or two guests. Included are hotel parking, a holiday gift, free gift wrapping and store discount coupons. Available through Jan. 4. Information: (415) 781-7800. Pay the Year You Were Born at the Galleria Park Hotel Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights through March 31 (if you were born in 1950, you pay $50 a night; '75, pay $75 a night). Included are live jazz entertainment, evening wine tasting Noun 1. wine tasting - a gathering of people to taste and compare different wines assemblage, gathering - a group of persons together in one place wine tasting n → degustación f de vinos , morning coffee or tea, fitness center use and concierge service. Information: (800) 792-9639. The Villa Florence offers a $130 Holiday Shopping on the Square package through Feb. 28 that includes overnight lodging for one or two, shopping coupons from Union Square stores, free parking, evening wine reception and access to a hotel gift-wrap room stocked with Adj. 1. stocked with - furnished with more than enough; "rivers well stocked with fish"; "a well-stocked store" stocked furnished, equipped - provided with whatever is necessary for a purpose (as furniture or equipment or authority); "a furnished apartment"; wrapping paper Noun 1. wrapping paper - a tough paper used for wrapping kraft, kraft paper - strong wrapping paper made from pulp processed with a sulfur solution butcher paper - a strong wrapping paper that resists penetration by blood or meat fluids , tape and ribbon. Information: (800) 553-4411. The Hotel Vintage Court offers the ``It's a Gift for You This Holiday'' rate of $79 per night for one or two, which includes a night's lodging, plus a package of discount coupons and holiday gifts from local stores. Available Dec. 9 through 30. Information: (800) 654-1100. The $129 Mangia! Mangia! package at the Tuscan Inn includes lodging for one or two, a $25 food and beverage F&B is a common abbreviation in the United States and Commonwealth countries, including Hong Kong. F&B is typically the widely accepted abbreviation for "Food and Beverage," which is the sector/industry that specializes in the conceptualization, the making of, and delivery of foods. credit at an adjacent restaurant and a bottle of Chianti. Available through March 31. Information: (800) 648-4626. The Sir Francis Drake Hotel The following hotels are named the Drake Hotel:
In architecture and design, elaborately detailed embellishment, either lavish or superfluous. Though the term is occasionally applied to such highly detailed and decorative styles as the Rococo, it usually refers to the hand-carved and -sawn wood ornamentation of Delight package good through March 31 that includes a night's lodging for one or two, gingerbread treat, $30 food and beverage credit at an adjacent restaurant, valet parking valet parking n. Parking arrangements provided by a commercial establishment, such as a restaurant, whereby patrons leave their cars at the entrance and attendants park and retrieve them. Noun 1. and discount shopping coupons for local stores. Information: (800) 227-5480. The Wrap It Up package at the Monticello Inn includes a night's lodging for one or two, gourmet chocolates, package delivery service, holiday gift boxes and discount shopping coupons starting at $94. Available until Jan. 28. Information: (800) 669-7777. Save Like the Dickens at the Juliana Hotel! is a $79 package that includes a night's lodging for one or two, evening wine reception, coffee or tea service and use of off-site fitness facility. Available Dec. 1 through Jan. 9. Information: (800) 328-3880. The Harbor Court Hotel offers the It's a Wonderful Life package starting at $129 for a night's lodging for two, continental breakfast for two, two ice-skating passes, valet parking, use of health facilities and evening wine service. Available Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights through Feb. 1. Information: (800) 346-0555. Two seasonal packages at the Cartwright Hotel, Stuff Your Stocking for $69 (available Dec. 1 through Jan. 9) and Winterfest (available through March 31) for $89, offer a night's lodging for two, evening wine reception, coffee and tea service. The higher-priced package adds continental breakfast for two. Information: (800) 227-3844. The $115 Winter Wonderland Wonderland See also Heaven, Paradise, Utopia. Annwn land of joy and beauty without disease or death. [Welsh Lit.: Mabinogion] Atlantis fabulous and prosperous island; legendarily in Atlantic Ocean. [Gk. Myth. package at the Carlton Hotel Carlton Hotel can refer to:
The San Francisco Marriott The San Francisco Marriott is a skyscraper in San Francisco, California. The building rises 436 feet (133 meters) in the southern region of San Francisco’s Financial District. It contains 39 floors, and was completed in 1989. offers a special Holiday Shopping package starting at $124 a night that includes lodging for one or two, holiday shopping discounts, free gifts and free package delivery from some stores. Available Dec. 16-30 and Jan. 1-4. Information: (415) 896-1600. For last-minute shoppers, the Grand Hyatt has a Savvy Shopper discounted room rate of $129 per night available Dec. 14 through Jan. 5 (Dec. 31 excluded) for one or two. Information: (800) 492-8822. Joie de Vivre joie de vi·vre n. Hearty or carefree enjoyment of life. [French : joie, joy + de, of + vivre, to live, living. Hotels, a collection of boutique hotels and bed-and-breakfast inns, offer a variety of holiday packages that vary in price from $77 per night at the Holiday Lodge in Verb 1. lodge in - live (in a certain place); "She resides in Princeton"; "he occupies two rooms on the top floor" occupy, reside move in - occupy a place; "The crowds are moving in" stay at - reside temporarily; "I'm staying at the Hilton" Pacific Heights and $79 at the Abigail Hotel near the Civic Center to $135 at the posh Archbishop's Mansion on Alamo Alamo Eighteenth-century mission in San Antonio, Texas, site of a historic siege of a small group of Texans by a Mexican army (1836) during the Texas war for independence from Mexico. Square and $149 at the Nob Hill Noun 1. Nob Hill - a fashionable neighborhood in San Francisco San Francisco - a port in western California near the Golden Gate that is one of the major industrial and transportation centers; it has one of the world's finest harbors; site of the Golden Gate Bridge Lambourne. Information and central reservations: (800) 738-7477. Through Jan. 4, the Ana Hotel San Francisco offers a $159-per-night Shopper's Package that includes overnight lodging for one or two, continental breakfast for two, a $25 Macy's gift certificate, free gift wrap and hotel delivery, plus free cable car shuttle between Crocker Galleria and Union Square. Information: (800) 262-4683. If you'd like help finding the best rates and available rooms, check with San Francisco Reservations, which provides information about 250 San Francisco hotels. There is no charge to the caller. Information (available 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily): (800) 677-1500. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: (Color) Chinatown is a bustling pocket of shops, restaurants and commerce with Far Eastern flair. |
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