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Berkeley is best known as the home of the University of California at Berkeley, which is world-renowned for its academic standards, 18 Nobel prize winners (seven are active staff), and protests that led to the most famous student riots in U.S. history. Today, there's still hippie idealism in the air, but the radicals have aged; the 1960s are present only in tie-dye and paraphernalia shops. The biggest change the town is facing is yuppification; as San Francisco's rent and property prices soar out of the range of the average person's budget, everyone with less than a small fortune is seeking shelter elsewhere, and Berkeley is one of the top picks (although Oakland is quickly becoming a favorite, too). Berkeley is a lively city teeming with all types of people, a beautiful campus, vast parks, great shopping, and some incredible restaurants.
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Argonaut Hotel - a Kimpton Hotel
495 Jefferson Street at Hyde Street
San Francisco, CA 94109 Map Distance: 9.3 mi. (from destination center) Hotel Class: 
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Hotel Del Sol
3100 Webster St
San Francisco, CA 94123 Map Distance: 10.2 mi. (from destination center) Hotel Class: 
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The Lodge at Sonoma Renaissance Resort & Spa
1325 Broadway at Leveroni & Napa Roads
Sonoma, CA 95476 Map Distance: 29.9 mi. (from destination center) Hotel Class:
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AttractionsChinatown
Grant Ave.
San Francisco, California 94108 Distance: 9.2 mi. (from destination center) Description: Chinatown is so much more in San Francisco than in any other American city. It's rich in Chinese... Read More
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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission St
San Francisco, California Distance: 9.3 mi. (from destination center) Description: The YBCA, which opened in 1993, is part of the large outdoor complex that takes up a few... Read More
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de Young Museum
Inside Golden Gate Park, 2 blocks from the park entrance at Eighth Ave and Fulton
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr San Francisco, California Distance: 10.4 mi. (from destination center) Description: After closing for several years, San Francisco's oldest museum (founded in 1895) reopened in... Read More
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