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It's here where you'll find The City’s finest shopping, food, festive happenings, and signature sights. Out front, iconic cable cars. A few blocks further, Chinatown, theaters, and world-class museums. From here (with our Social Host’s assistance), we invite you to make your own history on or off the Bay Area’s beaten path.
Our hotel’s Union Square location grants you easy access to The City’s living room. From shopping sprees to cooking classes, spas to art galleries, and tours to late-night shows, there are endless things to do within steps of the Beacon Grand.
This San Francisco neighborhood is aptly named for the large concentration of stage theaters here—between Union Square and the Tenderloin. More than 24 theaters are within or nearby. The most visited include The Orpheum, The Curran, The Golden Gate, The Playhouse, and The American Conservatory.
Hop on a Cable Car in front of the Hotel and visit the former home of the railroad barons and now home to Grace Cathedral, the Cable Car Museum, Huntington Park, and Masonic Auditorium.
A short walk from Beacon Grand, beyond the Dragon Gate, is the country’s oldest Chinatown—a bustling maze of streets and alleys brimming with dim sum joints, herbalists, bakeries, ornate temples, and cocktail lounges.
The fastest-growing corner of The City begins South of Market (SoMa), home to tech giants like Twitter, Uber, and Pinterest, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Oracle Park, Chase Center, the Museum of Modern Art, and the expansive Moscone Center event space.
Anchoring The City’s edge street, Embarcadero, the Ferry Building is a daily artisan marketplace, with a Saturday Farmer’s Market. Nearby, ferries serve Alcatraz, Marin County, and the East Bay. Follow the road north to Pier 39 and Fisherman’s Wharf.
Bay Area Beacon. Draw concentric circles centered on Beacon Grand and the entire Bay Area is yours. Venture north across the Golden Gate Bridge to Napa’s wineries. Head south to Silicon Valley. Explore The City’s neighborhoods from North Beach, the Mission, Castro, Haight-Ashbury, or Coit Tower and Lombard Street on Telegraph Hill—at seven miles across, the whole city is within reach from here.
