# Visiting San Francisco in December

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visiting-san-francisco-in-december/671607>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 18, 2013, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visiting-san-francisco-in-december/671607 "2013-10-18T20:58:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2013, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visiting-san-francisco-in-december/671607/21 "2013-10-20T18:41:49Z")

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[Here](http://www.stateoftheair.org/2013/city-rankings/most-polluted-cities.html) are the American Lung Association’s rankings of most polluted cities for 2013. Los Angeles is worst in ozone, fourth-worst in year-round particle pollution and fourth-worst in short-term particle pollution. San Francisco isn’t on any of the lists.

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**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2013, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visiting-san-francisco-in-december/671607/22 "2013-10-20T18:53:25Z")

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If there’s 6 people, consider booking a house on AirBNB. There’s a ton of great inventory and it’s likely to be considerably cheaper than a hotel. I’d book early though since you’re arriving during a peak season.

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**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visiting-san-francisco-in-december/671607/23 "2013-10-21T13:22:42Z")

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[QUOTE=Maggie the Ocelot]  
What do we need to take him to? Alkatraz, of course; The Dickens Christmas Faire is a given, as we have friends who work there; what else?  
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Book, or at least look at booking [Alcatraz](http://www.nps.gov/alca/index.htm)now. Perhaps not so much in December, but during tourist season, the Alcatraz trips book up and sell out quickly.

I don’t know who you know at Dickens, but let them know that nary a day goes by that Mr. Potts from Cuthbert’s Tea Shoppe and Ralph Nickelby both think fondly of their days in London and do hope to return some day.

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**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2013, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visiting-san-francisco-in-december/671607/24 "2013-10-22T00:44:09Z")

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I can’t get it to load properly (they over-reach, methinks), but here is CBS channel 5 traffic cams -

> **[CBS Bay Area - Breaking Local News, First Alert Weather & Sports](https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/)**
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> Latest breaking news from KPIX-TV CBS Bay Area.

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**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2013, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visiting-san-francisco-in-december/671607/25 "2013-10-22T01:48:51Z")

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You have to book about a month in advance, but do the night time tour of Alcatraz. It’s absolutely awesome. It’s not really more expensive and you get a tour guide and are able to see stuff that’s not on the ordinary, self-guided tour.

Plus you get to see the city lit up at night from the Bay.

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