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It is run by a septegenarian artist called Sami Sunchild who designed each room separately and occasionally joins guests for breakfast and discussion in the Peace Cafe. You can choose from Peacock, Butterfly, Sunshine and even Japanese tea garden rooms, but I found waking up in the Skylight room particularly relaxing.

Local curios include the Red Vic movie house where I squeezed in with the other punters on to old sofas and benches whilst eating popcorn 'n' yeast and watching The Big Lebowski.

Golden Gate Park is two blocks away, and the Castro district is a steep 20 minute walk (via Twin Peaks), or a 5 minute bus ride which connects with trams into the centre of town.

I was assured by a man whose eyes seemed to work independently that the burrito shop on the corner was the best in the area, and after only being there for a couple of days I met a gay man and a lesbian who had fallen in love. Only in San Francisco...]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/21717 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/7879 In addition to historic cable cars (including an original 1873 cable car), displays, informational video and souvenirs, you can watch and hear the motors and sheave wheels moving the cables underneath the three remaining cable car lines of one of America's few moving National Historic Landmarks (1964).]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/7879 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/7809 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/7809 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/7774 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/7774 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/7757 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/7757 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/7706 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/7706 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/7703
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A classic Greek portal opened to a massive glass enclosure containing seven swimming pools of various temperatures. There were slides, trapezes, springboards and a high dive. Together the pools held 1.7 million gallons of water and could be filled in one hour by high tides. There were 20,000 bathing suits and 40,000 towels for rent.

Balmy temperatures and abundant plants enhanced "California’s Tropical Winter Garden." The Baths could accommodate 10,000 people at one time. Now all that remains are the ruins.

From here you can head through the little tunnel down by the baths and up the hill to the trail which leads along the coast all the way around to Chinia Beach via an increasingly impressive panorama of the GG.

Surfers take on the Pacific swells just below you at the base of the cliffs. You re-enter civilisation at China Beach and could probably walk up to the Palace of the Legion of Honor about half way around if you had time.

Walk through China Beach past the millionaires row of ab fab homes and if you still feel spritely, you can continue along the coast path to the GG or if not, grab a bus on Lincoln Blvd into the city - a lovely untouristy gem of a walk that is pretty easy to reach via public transport and not too strenuous (I did it with a 1yr old on my back!)]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/7680 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/7646 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/7646 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/7639 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/7639 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/1470 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/1470