Events & Tours

Upcoming San Francisco Bay Area Events

04/09 - Macy’s Flower Show 2018 Plant Sale - 2018’s season’s “Once Upon a Springtime” show imagines an amazing world of wonder. In celebration of the first chapter of spring, the first floor of Macy’s will be reimagined with over 130 varieties of flowers, trees and plants. Pier 30-32: Bart from the Millbrae station to Embarcadero station. Walk 1 minute to Metro Embarcadero station. Take bus to The Embarcadero & Brannan St. Walk 2 minutes to 599 The Embarcadero San Francisco, CA 94105.

04/10 - “Dolores” Activist Film Screening & Panel Discussion - Join for a free screening of Dolores on April 10th at 6 pm. This Indie Lens Pop-Up film screening event includes a post-screening panel discussion with Bay Area activists. Be inspired by the all-women panelto take action and be involved in your community. Bayview Opera House: Bart from the Millbrae station to Glen Park station.Walk 1 minute to Bosworth St & Diamond St. Take bus 44 to Palou Ave & 3rd St. Walk 2 minutes to 4705 3rd St San Francisco, CA 94124.

04/11 - The Laugh Boat: Local Brews & Free Comedy - Every 2nd Wednesday in San Francisco, comedians Jill Maragos, Phil Griffiths and Andrew Orolfo host the best local and nationally touring stand-up comedians in the welcoming and homey space of Ocean Ale House. Ocean Ale House: Bart from Milbrae station to Balboa Park station. Walk 12 minutes to 1314 Ocean Ave San Francisco, CA 94112.

04/12 - 1st San Francisco Grilled Cheese Eating Contest - The day has come. The challenge will be to eat every single grilled cheese guy made in order classic, frenchy, nacho guyz, mechanical turk, etc, barf. 5 will be chosen to enter and contestants will be announced April 9th. Grilled Cheese Guy: Bart from Millbrae station to Civic Center station. Walk 3 minutes to 529 Stevenson St San Francisco, CA 94103.

04/13 - 2018 Sidewalk Arts & Crafts Show: Friday - West Portal’s 30th Annual Fine Arts and Crafts Show takes place in the heart of one of San Francisco’s West Portal neighborhood from 10 am to 5 pm April 13-15, 2018. West Portal Ave: Bart from the Millbrae station to 24th St Mission station. Walk 1 minute to 24th St & Mission St. Take bus 48 to Ulloa St & West Portal Ave. Walk 1 minute to 32 W Portal Ave 

04/14 - 2018 Cherry Blossom Festival: Saturday - The Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival, said to be the second largest festival outside of Washington, D.C., celebrates the blooming of cherry blossoms at one of three remaining Japantowns in the United States. Japantown Peace Plaza: Bart from the Millbrae station to Powell St station.Walk 6 minutes to Geary Blvd & Powell St. Take bus 38 to Geary Blvd & Gough St. Walk 3 minutes to Post St San Francisco, CA.

04/15 - Historic 1920s-1950s Italian Race Car Show “The California Mille” - Cars that could have qualified for Italy’s thousand mile event that ran from 1927-1957, will arrive at San Francisco’s Nob Hill from a dozen states and two foreign countries on Sunday, April 15. The public is invited to see the cars and meet the drivers in front of the Fairmont Hotel. The Fairmont: Bart from the Millbrae station to Powell St station. Walk 1 minute to Powell St & Market St. Take cable car to Powell St & California St. Walk 3 minutes to 950 Mason St San Francisco, CA 94108.

Moscone Center

04/18 - 05/18 - PBWC 2018 Professional Business Woman of California - Moscone Center welcomes back the Professional Business Women's Conference!

04/16 - 04/19 - RSA Conference 2018 -  As an information security professional, your work is never truly done. A new threat here. An advancing challenge there. All the more reason why you need to stay one step ahead of the cyber curve. RSA Conference 2018 is here to help you do just that. As the world’s leading cybersecurity event, we bring together professionals from all sides of the field—CISOs to security engineers—to give you the perspectives and insights you need to conquer looming risks and leave hackers in the dust.

Moscone Convention Center: 747 Howard St.-  BART to Powell St., walk 0.4 miles.

Museums

1/27 - 5/27 - Designed in California - Exploring the shifting landscape of design in California since the digital revolution, this exhibition focuses on designs that are human-centered, socially conscious, and driven by new technological capacity. Retreating from the commercialism of Modernism’s “good design for all,” California designers in the 1960s and 70s sought to design with more political, social, and environmental awareness. SFMOMA: BART to Powell St, walk to 3rd St 0.3 miles

2/10 - 5/28 - Casanova: The Seduction of Europe - Casanova: The Seduction of Europe explores the eighteenth century across Europe through the eyes of one of its most colorful characters, Giacomo Casanova. Gathering together paintings, sculpture, works on paper, furnishings, porcelain, silver, and period costume, The Seduction of Europe will bring the visual wealth of Casanova’s world to life. Legion of Honor: Bart to Daly City, Bus 57 - Lakeshore Plaza, walk to Skyline Blvd & Sloat Blvd, Bus 18 - Legion of Honor, walk to 34th Ave

04/1-08/19 - Japan Galleries in Focus - The Japanese collection is second in size only to Chinese among the museum’s collections. Its fifty-five hundred Japanese art works, including ceramics, baskets, paintings, and prints, range from as early as 3000 BCE to the twenty-first century. Asian Art Museum: Bart from Millbrae station to Civic Center station. Walk 2 minutes to 200 Larkin St San Francisco, CA 94102.

04/2-06/10 - Genre-Nonconforming: The DIS Edutainment Network - DIS is a New York–based collective formed of Lauren Boyle, Solomon Chase, Marco Roso, and David Toro. DIS works across a wide range of media, most recently transitioning platforms from an online magazine to a video-streaming edutainment channel. The group has become the central nucleus of an ever-growing international community of artists, musicians, photographers, writers, and designers. De Young Museum:  Bart from Millbrae staton to Glen Park station. Walk 1 minute to Bosworth St & Diamond St. Take bus 44 to Music Concourse Dr. Walk 3 minutes to 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr San Francisco, CA 94118.

San Francisco and Beyond the Bay Area Tours

Sit, relax and let somebody else do the driving... All tours pick up at our hotel at 7:45- 8:15 AM and drop off at the hotel is between 6:00 – 6:30 PM. See below for tour options and prices.  Contact the front desk to make a reservation.