The Pan Pacific, San Francisco

This report comes to you on Friday evening, 8:57 p.m. from the 18th floor of the Pan Pacific Hotel at 500 Post Street in San Francisco. I am staying here for the next two nights with my mother who is in town from Portland over the weekend. She decided when planning this visit that she'd rather not stay in Berkeley and offered to find us a hotel. I was pleasantly surprised when I heard the hotel choice she came up with. I've always wondered what the Pan Pacific was all about.

Last January, this blog reported from the 6th floor of the Sheraton Palace Hotel located on Market Street. The Palace was quite nice, too, but I have a feeling I will enjoy my stay here at the Pan Pacific much more. The Pan Pacific caters after Asian business clientele, so there are nice perks to be had by the lowly pleasure tourist. The hi-speed internet took literally 20 seconds to set up. There are robes. There are wine glasses sitting out. The guest book with the room service menu is immaculately clean and non-grubby. And mother just remarked that the bedsheets have a nice thread count. That's right, mom is already in bed. But for this typist, the evening has hardly begun.

In fact, I will just be in the room for just another hour or so - then I will head to meet up with some of my friends at a watering hole in the Mission, at 16th and Valencia. It's my friend Tom's 25th birthday. Such a significant stepping stone to middle age must be commemorated with a group outing. Therefore, we are going to Blondie's - a forum I've not visited, but have passed by on my way to Casanova. Should be busy. Then I will stumble home, hopefully aided by a taxi.

Tomorrow morning I will check out this place's health center. I could use a workout. Then it's off to GG park with mummy where we will take in the atmosphere. From there, we wander about looking at intersting SF things, like sea lions, breadbowls, and cable cars. At 7:30 we are off to eat at Tablespoon. We come back to the PP, and then I sneak off to another party around 10 in the Western Addition.