While we’re very excited to be going to Ireland next March, we’ve got a trip right around the corner: San Francisco, California! We’re going in July to celebrate our anniversary – last year, planning our anniversary trip proved difficult (for obvious reasons), so it’s been fun to get things locked in this year. It’s hard to believe we’ll actually be getting on a plane again!
I last went to SF a couple years ago on a very quick work trip, the highlight of which was probably the KitTea Cat Cafe, so we’ve been doing a lot of research to figure out how our time will be best spent. Here is what we have planned so far:
- Our flights. While the airline has tried a couple times to change our flights, we’ve been fortunate to get them adjusted to very similar options when compared to our initial booking. The wait times to talk to airlines right now are incredibly long, but your persistence is worth it! Pro tip: look into the options to text or chat with them.
- Our hotel. We’ll be staying at the Park Central Hotel San Francisco, conveniently located right by Union Square. I found Wheatless Wanderlust offered some great thoughts on the pros and cons of staying in Union Square, and we ultimately appreciate how central and connected it is to everything else we plan on doing throughout our trip.
- One dinner. Some of the restaurants where we’d like to make reservations aren’t available yet, but we are very excited to have one dinner scheduled at Outer Orbit! The reviews for this Hawaiian restaurant are amazing, so we expect it to be a great meal. We’re also hoping to make a reservation at In Situ, if they open up before our trip.
- A day trip. While Megan has some excellent recommendations on the top wineries in Napa Valley and Sonoma, we wanted to avoid having to drive out of the city (and limit our wine consumption). We booked this Extranomical Tour, which will let us sample wineries in both Napa and Sonoma, as well as check out the redwoods at the Muir Woods National Monument.
We’re still definitely figuring out things to do while we’re there (like an Alcatraz tour), so if you have other SF must-dos, please send them my way! Here’s to taking my first flight since I went tubing on Copper Mountain and visited Ice Castles in Colorado in February 2020. 🙂