You’d think there would be more, but there are only a few hotels in San Francisco that have rooms or suites designed with the shorties in mind. Hotel Metropolis is one. The “Urban Explorers Kids Suite” is comprised of three rooms lavishly decked out for the little ones and with enough space to accommodate up to [...]

In the cover story of last week’s New York Times Travel section (July 18), writer Benji Lanyado tempted travelers with alluring photographs of apartments in the 10th Arrondissement in Paris, Kings Cross in London, and a rooftop terrace in Barcelona. Though inhabited by “real” people most of the time, all were available to the savvy traveler [...]

For an authentic glimpse into the character of San Francisco, I like to encourage people to book their stay in one of the city’s central neighborhoods like Nopa, the Western Addition or the Haight where you can mix easily with the local population. Small, centrally-located Japantown, tucked between the Fillmore district and Pacific Heights, is such [...]

Unless you have very wealthy relations, you won’t find much in the way of lodgings in lovely Pacific Heights, a genteel residential neighborhood with comely mansions, artfully manicured lawns, and a couple of the city’s top private elementary schools. One of the San Francisco’s  most moneyed enclaves, it is perched up high overlooking the entire north [...]