San Francisco Bay Area Travel Planning Guide
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 10 янв 2023
- Everything you need to know to plan a trip to the San Francisco Bay Area in California. In this detailed guide I'll be providing tips on where to stay, what to do, what to eat, and of course what to do when you're done visiting the city of San Francisco and want to venture out further including Napa, Silicon Valley, Santa Cruz, and Monterey.
✅ You might enjoy watching more of my travel guides on San Francisco in this playlist: • San Francisco Bay Area...
😀 WHEN'S THE NEXT LIVE STREAM? Sign-up for e-mail notifications of future scheduled live streams here: update.yellow-productions.com
✅ Missed my last live stream? Browse through all my Live Streams in this playlist: • Live Streams and VLOGS...
✅ Want to see behind the scenes of my live streaming equipment setup? Watch this video: • Yellow Productions Liv...
🔔 BUSINESS INQUIRIES: chris@yellow-productions.com
💡 Yellow Productions on Social Media:
FACEBOOK: / yellowproductionstravel
INSTAGRAM: / yellowwproductions
TWITTER: / chrisraney
📢 Check out my blog:
yelloww.net
😀 Yellow Productions Merchandise:
shop.yellow-productions.com/
✅ You might enjoy watching more of my travel guides on San Francisco in this playlist: ruclips.net/p/PLOVadUHX1B-Ld9Pj94hS8laRJW50pS9ZJ
My son wants to visit the various tv houses throughout San Francisco. Great video!
I really like the Marriott Marquis because the mall, the theater, Target are all right across the street. Also, fab food options. My daughter and I love it!
Me too!
Buddy, this video was the best video ive ever see on SFA guide. you have answered all of my questions. Legend.
Glad to hear it!
Hi Chris. We love your videos and they have been so helpful. We started our trip in New York, now in SanFrancisco and then going to Los Angeles, vegas, Grand Canyon, Boston. Thank you so much and we will see you again in one of these videos. By the way we tried In n Out Burger today, it was great. Xxxx
We are from the UK
Thanks Jane! And glad you finally tried In-N-Out 😀
Very good video with so many good points. Thank you.
The park near the Golden Gate Bridge is the Presidio. Home of the new Disney Museum and the Legion of Honor. Golden Gate Park has the Academy of Sciences (great life sciences museum), De Young Museum, Japanese Tea Garden and Sunday Park Skates Also has free concerts in the park. The SF Zoo is also near there. So much to do and see! Hotels are better than ABNB because then people who need places to live can actually rent those homes.
GREAT INFORMATION THANKS
I never heard any of the locals call it "Little Italy". It's always called "North Beach". Golden Gate Park has a bunch of really good museums inside, besides the park itself.
Steinhart aquarium and the academy of sciences in Golden Gate Park is awesome.
Thank you for one of the most useful videos we found
My pleasure Wership!
Thank you for the planning guide
Thanks Kevin!
Just the video I needed to watch😀
Perfect!
Thanks! Great tips for my holiday in October! 😄
Thanks Debbie!
@@YellowProductions Out of all the travel info, I find yours the best 😄 will watch the others too! Thanks for taking the time to reply, I appreciate it!
Very helpful! I initially had a reservation in Fisherman's Wharf but changed to the Hyatt in the Financial district per your recommendation. Thanks!
I hope you enjoy it.
I love Thé Handlery Union Square hotel!!! I’ve stayed there just shy of a dozen times and have never been disappointed
Thanks for the tip!
One great museum to visit in the Golden Gate Park, especially with kids, is the Academy of Science. Also nearby, the Japanese Tea Garden and the Botanical garden.
Thanks for the tip Theophile!
@@YellowProductions thank you, but use the underground parking lot there, don't park outside. Thanks again for the great video, will check your LA one now 🙂
I loved the question that you got about where would you go "for a month". It just occurred to me that even though I have travelled all over the world, I have only been to three places for a month: The Boston Area, the San Diego Area and the Detroit/Ann Arbor Area.
You listed the first two, but I would actually recommend the third for a month. If you went there from Mid-Aug to Mid-Sept, you could do all of the following in 4 weeks (even assuming that you would still work remotely 5 days a week):
1. See the three world class museum gems in the area: The Detroit Institute of Arts and the Henry Ford Museum (which is every bit as good at the Smithsonian), and Greenfield Village which is the same size as Disneyland and the inspiration for it. It is also where you can ride in a Model T and see both the Wright Brothers Cycle Shop and Edison's original laboratory, which were both shipped piece by piece there.
2. Cross the border SOUTH (not a typo) into Canada and even go to Toronto.
3. See a game in the biggest stadium in the country (Michigan Stadium) and experience one of the great college campuses in the world.
4. See the freshwater beaches and sand dunes of places like Saugatuck and Sleeping Bear Dunes. Late August/Early September is when the air is warm and the water is perfect. The Great Lakes is not like the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans. They are unsalted and clear, no sharks or jellyfish either.
5. Spend a weekend in Mackinac Island, which does not allow cars. It is full of bikes and horses only. Also you can cross the 5-mile long Mackinaw Bridge (which is every bit as spectacular as the Golden Gate Bridge, but a lot more remote) into the land of Yoopers (people who live in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan).
6. Go to Cedar Point, the roller coaster capital of the world.
Sorry... I was in the flow with ideas there. Anyways, perhaps a topic for you to cover?
Thanks for the suggestion!
Best advice I ever received from friends living in SF, never go to SF.
Silly advice
ANYWHERE tourists go in SF there are car break ins. And also in places they don't go. Best to cab or uber from a hotel, rental cars are target #1
🤩👍 TY Chris! 💯*💯*💯
One new neat restaurant in Ghirardelli Square is called Square Pie Guys :) Very yummy and they have trivia nights once in a while.
Mmmm
31:37 Sarah Winchester sought a psychic who said that the people who were killed by the Winchester rifle were angry and to appease them she needed to build a big house. She moved from the east coast to San Jose bought a farmhouse that was six rooms and turned it into a mansion the work was around the clock so the spirits wouldn’t get angry at her or harm her.
My son got lost in the redwood area of that roaring trains area for about 15 minutes. He was obsessed with trees with holes at the base of them, because he wanted to explore them like Alice in Wonderland! Scary, but an adventure!
Oh wow! I'm sure that 15 mins seemed like an eternity at the time
@@YellowProductions It sure did...particularly because my husband went off and found him in about five minutes, but because my husband doesn't always like to carry his cell phone, I didn't know that until they both found me after that. Argh!
Didn’t watch the live, but between SF and Napa is the Six Flags in Vallejo, and in Vacaville where my mom lives, there’s the Jelly Belly factory.
Thanks for those tips too JR!
Oakland airport is a bit farther south than where you pointed (you pointed to the old Alameda Naval Air Station). Also, the lone tree on the 17 mile drive is a cypress, not a pine. Love your videos- thank you! :)
Thanks for those corrections
Yes Golden Gate Park is worth a visit. Steinhart Aquarium-Cal. Academy of Science (planetarium, natural history exhibits, aquarium), Japanese Tea Garden w/landscaped plants and teahouse, Stow Lake can walk to top of the man-made hill in the middle of this small man-made lake with views of Golden Gate Bridge as well can rent row boats or paddle boats to traverse the lake, Botanical Garden w/plants from CA as well as Australia i.e. Med. Climate botany mult. walking paths, used to be Cliff House restaurant at west ocean end of the park but there is Lands End with trail along ocean w/views of Golden Gate Bridge as well trail down to water's edge, a vintage Carousel from the 30s plus De Young Art Museum, a Conservatory of Flowers that's akin to Victorian architecture glass with metal framing greenhouse w/tropical plants (for plant lovers or to see unique structure but really just 30-45 min is sufficient), Segway rentals to tour the park etc.. could easily spend 4-5+ hours in just Golden Gate Park!
There's the Marin Headlands on north end of the Golden Gate Bridge with WW1 & WW2 gun fortifications-ruins, Point Bonita lighthouse with a suspended bridge from headland to the piece of land w/ the lighthouse about .3 mile walk but only open on limited days; times, Marine Mammal Rescue Center rehabilitate seals; sea lions, access to hiking trails that go north towards Muir Beach and Mt Tamalpais- nearby towns like San Anselmo.
Stinson Beach which often has warm weather even when S.F. beaches are cooler; colder, but on hotter days it can take extra 45-60+ minutes because of the traffic going from Hwy 101- San Rafael over the hills to coast-Stinson Beach - nearby Muir Woods with easy access to Redwood Groves but gets crowded so go earlier or weekdays and easier access than Redwoods near Santa Cruz- Santa Cruz Mtns.
If like lighthouses further north from Pt. Bonita noted is Pt. Reyes with 300+ steps down to the lighthouse- they built it higher but this area is foggy so too often it was above the fog and no use so they had to relocate it down closer to the water. When it's sunny it's dramatic and there is Drake's Bay- lagoon nearby on the Pt. Reyes Seashore and nearby are villages along Tomales Bay (Pt. Reyes Station, Inverness, Marshall with places to eat raw oysters; grill oysters; outdoor eating picnic tables)- if hit area early enough could include the wineries near Santa Rosa; Rhonert Park on way inland back to hwy 101 for simpler accessibility to wine tasting without fully committing the time and distance to Sonoma or Napa.
For alt. to going south past Big Sur down to Pismo Beach etc.. can take hwy 1 north from Stinson Beach to the towns of Pt. Arena (a third lighthouse), Elk, Albion, Guala, Little River, Mendocino (akin to an East Coast sea village) with viewpoints, small hotels, B&B, shops, headlands and pocket beaches. These are old logging towns that became getaways & art enclaves- perfect for 2-3 day trip. Temperatures can really vary with 65-70+ in Mendocino etc.. then 85-90+ along hwy 101 (Willits, Healdsburg, Cloverdale - key turn off to head to coast); Seabiscuit the famous race horse is buried near Willits.
All the best,
Hello some questions here
Can I take the bike on the ferry?
If the ferry expensive?
Westfield San Francisco Centre, Lake Taho, Exploratorium, Academy of Science, AND THE CALTRAIN public transportation from SF to SJ!!!! Hillsdale Mall and Stanford Mallalong the way!!! Plus you can get aboard the bart from the CALTRAIN!!!!!!!(easier for tourists) Plus in Oakland a great Japanse Restaurant called Yoshi's where famous musicians play
If you like silent movies, my hometown of Fremont has the Nile’s Silent Movie Museum!…. Also I love playing tourist in my own backyard and go to sf pretty often
Neat!
Take a cab if you are going to hang around San Francisco after 8pm. Don't bring your pocketbook. Wear a jacket with an inside pocket. Scream if someone tries to hurt you or grab you.
@@sandradibiaso7316 I go for shows and bars and all that stuff in sf after 8 and honestly if you’re with a group of 3-4 people, things should be ok. I mean yea be aware of your surroundings but it should be ok
SF was awesome 20 years ago! When any video warns you about crime and the primary neighborhood within the first five minutes, maybe rethink your tourist dollars. We live in the East bay and stay away from SF, Oakland / Lake Merritt, etc. You can still visit, just set your expectations low and don't bring a car
Great tip Artie!
Yeah 20 years ago I was warned about Vallejo and Oakland but never San Francisco. I drove in, parked in a hidden area, spent the day exploring on foot, slept in my car, and never got any hassle or anything. Nowadays I definitely wouldn't!
Hi, thank you so much for this video, very informative and very useful for people who are going to visit San Francisco. I would just like to ask if it is advisable to take the Hop on Hop off bus in going around San Francisco? Thank you again so much
Hi RV -- Honestly I'm not a big hop on hop off bus person so I'm not sure
Thank you very much for taking time to reply to my query. God bless and more power to your channel😊
@yellow productions what software are you using to show us this via the map? I want to study this more etc.
Behind the scenes of my live stream setup: ruclips.net/video/POmNInXAQRY/видео.html
Great info and I’m thinking to hire a bike to the golden gate. Are we allowed to carry a bike on the ferry from Sausalito to ferry building though?
Yes. You can take a bike back on that ferry
Owen, from Ireland, asked, "what's your favourite place to visit!.
Japan 😀
hello.question: public transport from sfo airport to fisherman wharf , please ? thanks
Take the BART to Montgomery Station then transfer to the F line street car
I am planning to visit SF. I will have cameras. i wonder how safe is the place near union square to the different piers and financial district. Also, after sundown which are the safer places to be at say till 8 pm ?
Not safe there at any time of day. Pick another place unless you like the smell of human feces and rotting drug addicts.
I hate to be picky but when you were showing the Oakland airport you were pointing out the old Alameda Naval Air Station. Oakland Airport is at the the south of the island of Alameda.
Thanks for the correction
We are going on a cruise. We need to leave our car for 12 days. Do you have any suggestions on where to leave our car. Also, where to stay while we are there and possibly may let you park your car there for the length of time you need for the cruise. We would like to be close to where the Cruise ships leave and arrive. First time cruise for us. We have saved a long time for this. I am on a walker also. Any suggestions that you have will be so appreciated.
Where are you driving in from? Sounds to me like you should just take a taxi.
If I ride a bike over the bridge can I stop back into Alcatraz via ferry back to the pier? Vids are awesome!! wish there was more to watch haha
Negative. Alcatraz ferry only goes from the SF side
@@YellowProductions Phew good to know that before hand, thanks for the info 🙏
Thank goodness he didn't mention places locals actual go to
What area of town is channel street, san Francisco?
You pointed to the Alameda Naval Base, not Oakland International Airport...
Thanks for the correction 😉
We are planning to rent a car , to go San Francisco,Napa valley and Big Sur.
How many days do you recommend to stay at San Francisco? I’m planning a trip to celebrate my girlfriend’s birthday and she is waiting for this.
At least 3 days for the city of San Francisco itself. A week if you're getting a car and venturing out to Napa, Santa Cruz, etc
Thanks bro. And awesome video! Congrats.
Can you park at hotel valet if you are not a hotel guest?
That's what the Spothero app is for. You book the hotel valet in advance as a non hotel guest. The hotel makes extra money by parking more cars during the day
💜💜💜😍
im just concerned these travel guides might be so informative and picturesque, that eventually it negates the need to actually go there for yourself...
Hey Chris, thoughts on walking around china town area at night?
That's the area we are staying in June and have heard very polarising comments on safety at night.
Also same question about golden gate park during the evenings/mornings.
Yeah. I'd say Chinatown and Golden Gate Park are definitely more daytime attractions. Chinatown most things close up by 6 or 7pm other than the restaurants
What about Yosemite
I think that you should mention the Golden Gate Bridge 🌉 WELCOME CENTER art and souvenirs inside and the coffee shop at top entrance to the bridge since the very early days of the 1940’s
SF is great but expensive!
Definitely not cheap!
I live in Redwood City. If you don't want to take a long trip to Monterey there's also Aquarium of the Bay at Pier 39. I also loved the San Francisco Dungeon (next to Madame Tussauds). And don't count out Gilroy if you have kids, Gilroy Gardens is a garlic themed amusement park 😂 It's most fun in the summer as they have a huge water park. On the Peninsula Filoli is a beautiful old property you can visit which has a lovely short hike where you're bound to see deer and other wildlife. The Children's Discovery Museum in San Jose is great, highly recommend the Disney Family Museum in the Presidio and California Academy of Sciences. All close to the city.
William Winchester had already passed when the Winchester House was built. Sarah moved West after she was a widow.
Thanks for the correction
Walking late at night is my go to in any city and it wasn't that bad. Had a concert there November and afterwards I walked to Jacks then my hotel room which took like 40 minutes 🙂 SF overall is really boring and will not be going any time soooon
I’m so upset you didn’t mention more about all there is to see / do enjoy in Marin County. Sausalitio got a slight mention. Bummer. It’s the best!
You didn’t point to the right area of Oakland international airport it’s further down 880 it’s by the Oakland arena you can take Bart and connect to the airport train there to the airport.
Thanks Alix
It’s called North Beach (not Little Italy)…are you a Bay Area import? 😆 That’s a nice parking hack using hotel valet parking, if you must have a car. Thanks for the video.
I know it's called North Beach. But to visitors I think it's more descriptive as Little Italy 😀
It's pronounced "Sannozay". I say that as a native of San Jose.
That wasn't Oakland airport haha
Don't bring your pocketbook ladies! Wear a jacket with an inside pocket to put your debit card and credit cards and phone in the pocket. I don't care if it's hot out. I am wearing a jacket with an inside pocket.
Not a good time to travel
don't go to Chinatown for food, restaurants are tourist traps, food sucks and it's hella expensive. There are plenty of great places to eat in the Richmond district , along Geary and along Clement
Thanks for the tips on the Richmond District
@@YellowProductions I grew up there from the 70's till mid 90's, Noe Valley and 24th & Mission, skateboarding and getting jumped by chollos LMFAO. The only place that was ever good at Chinatown was a hole in the wall place called Tong Kee restaurant. Great food, portions and price, closed at 4am. I used to go there after clubbing in the late 80's to mid 90's but it closed in the late 90's. Ah, the good old days.
Is it safe for people of color?
Don’t really agree with your Japantown take it’s a great part of the City and the food there is nice with the ambiance
Thanks for sharing your perspective jaec