Hummingbird Cottage is a wonderful place to get the very best from your visit to San Francisco!
We loved our stay there, Dana looked after us so well, her messaging beforehand made sure that our arrival was seamless. It is so easy to hop on the BART from the airport direct to Daly City and then just a few minutes easy walk to a warm, comfortable nest to explore, enjoy and marvel at the historic, majestic, beautiful place that is San Francisco.
Dana is a lovely, friendly host who adapts herself to her guests. She is a great resource of interesting information about what the city has to offer and goes out of her way to help people appreciate her home town.
The apartment is roomy, the beds are comfortable, the kitchen was well supplied with our daily needs and the shower and bathroom are excellent. Great laundry room and also a large luggage and storage room to help organise your stay. Large supermarket is only a short walk away and there are plenty of places to eat locally (although we enjoyed eating in the city and cooking ourselves).
San Francisco has the best organised, informative and enjoyable free walking tours of anywhere we have ever been - we went on at least one every day we were there and were wowed by them all. The guides are so well prepared and selected, they know their tours inside out and are brilliant at making the city interesting and understandable. Transport is good and very reasonable if you invest in the MUNI ticket and clipper card. We kept going back to the Golden Gate Park which has the Japanese Gardens (free before 10am), Botanical Gardens (free before 9 am), the Flower Conservatory and many other paid attractions and wonderful walking spaces (including the Shakespeare Garden). We did, of course, ride the street cable cars (free with MUNI ticket), indulge in fortune cookies from the place they were invented (very tasty and reasonable) and do all the other touristy things, but we also managed to access free concerts with the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra and a Scary Halloween Concert, a nightime ghost tour of City Hall and a performance of Pericles at the State University. There's so much going on! Oh, the shopping is pretty good too, although I enjoyed the sun, beer and peace while the ladies indulged in that pasttime - I'm best at admiring purchases!
San Francisco is now our favourite place in the US - and Hummingbird Cottage certainly the nicest place we have stayed in the whole country!
Many thanks Dana.