I'd recommend downtown SF as a first choice, since you can BART out to Walnut Creek (Riv HQ) with a bike during commute hours, but not IN to SF. See http://511.org for schedules, routes and such. Hotels will all be pricey. SF also gives you the option to ride out over the Golden Gate bridge into Marin.
Emeryville has several hotels that would be cheaper than SF and very conveniently located. My company puts up visitors from other offices there. You do have to get to MacArthur BART, (which is quite close) either on your bike or on the free Emery-go-Round bus. MacArthur also has direct BART service later than the Rockridge line, so you don't need to transfer to get home after a dinner. It is a bit sketchier neighborhood than Rockridge BART. Rockridge is wonderful for restaurants and tooling around, but has no accomodations. Rockridge and MacArthur BART are both in Oakland. Walnut Creek also has a couple of hotels, but you'll be in suburbia. Nice, upscale suburbia, but not really in SF. The BART stop there is very close to Riv. I'd not recommend Berkeley unless you want to be in Berkeley. It's only half way between SF and WC if you ride over the top of the hills, not as the train rolls. Sounds like you are looking for the "gallery/city/SF" experience more than the "bike over the east bay hills and/or marin" experience, so you'll want to hunt for a discount rate somewhere in the city, with Emeryville as a backup. On Jun 17, 2:17 pm, Robert Kirkpatrick <spiralc...@gmail.com> wrote: > A question for the SF area RBWO-ers: Say you are coming into town via > the Amtrak (the Emeryville station seems to be the closest to the city > I believe) with one's bicycle and you wanted to see things such as Riv > World Headquarters, SFMOMA and other art galleries. So any > suggestions on where to stay area wise or actual hotel suggestions > would be much appreciated. I'm pretty cool with cycling or walking > around the city and definitely am cool with the BART and such. I > think I'd rather be closer to the gallery zone (which seems to be > within Misson/Market and 1st/4th) and BART/Bicycle out to other > activities but I also don't want to fork over my first born. Anyway > any and all advice is appreciated. > > thanks, > Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
