Right across the street from one another, atop San Francisco’s fabled Nob Hill lie two of the world’s most iconic hotels: the Fairmont and the Mark Hopkins. Now, both grand dames are serving up deals that come with a view.
Plan ahead a bit and enjoy an extraordinary New Years by booking the Fairmont’s “Music to Your Ears” symphony package. Here’s what you get for $329, taxes not included:
- One night’s luxury accommodations.
- A bottle of bubbly.
- Breakfast for two in your room or the Laurel Court Restaurant.
- 25 percent off the San Francisco Symphony’s New Year’s Eve Masquerade Ball.
Across Nob Hill, at the Intercontinental Mark Hopkins, $339 lets you in on the hotel’s Leisure Escape package. Included is:
- Breakfast for two.
- Cocktails for two.
- Luxury accommodations.
- Late checkout.
- A full restaurant buffet, or its equivalent.
Again, taxes and fees are not included in this deal – and you’ll have to stay more than two nights.
The Mark Hopkins is home to perhaps the most romantic rooftop bar in existence, the Top of the Mark. The Fairmont houses one of America’s most unique restaurants, the Tonga Room. That’s where exotic food is served up to the soft sound or a real indoor rain shower. Step in the place, and shed the 21st century. Suddenly you’re back in one of Hope and Crosby’s road shows from the 1940s.
Step outside either hotel and catch a cable car from Nob Hill down to Union Square, or perhaps Fisherman’s Warf. From up here it seems as though you could see the world – even through the fog.
What’s your favorite San Francisco hotel? Let us know.
Story by Jerry Chandler
(Image: Leonardo Pallotta)
