It's not often one can get inside a hotel's kitchen, much less influence what's going to be on the menu, so InterContinental Hotels' new Kitchen Passport program is a fun twist that lets non-cooks go behind the scenes. The program, which started this month, invites bloggers and online editors...
October 10, 2012
Weve heard of vodka bars and whiskey bar, and even absinthe bars, but on a recent visit to the Intercontinental San Francisco, we found the hotels Bar 888 was dedicated to cocktails made with an oft-neglected spirit, grappa. Yeah, grappas totally not everyones favorite, especially because the ones weve...
July 28, 2011
When you stay at the InterContinental San Francisco, you can use a Zipcar, from the eco-friendly car-sharing program. But you won't get just any old ride; you can drive the new Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid, which isn't available for purchase till 2012. The hotel offers eight Prius Plug-In Hybrids...
May 20, 2011
It's iPad 2 day, in case you haven't figured this out already by passing mammoth lines at Apple stores on your way to work. Today is the day that the iPad 2 is available to purchase in store or order for home delivery online, and one of the first...
March 11, 2011
While the debate rages on in the travel world over whether or not paperback guidebooks have been replaced by the internet, there's a new way to carry travel information with you--on your iPad. A few hotels have been release iPad apps here and there but most of them only...
December 21, 2010
Last week, we told you about the Michelin-starred grub at Luce, the restaurant at the Intercontinental San Francisco, but today, were going to take you on a video walkthrough of a standard guestroom there so you can get a feel for the entire hotel experience.Our favorite features of the room?...
November 02, 2009
You know the scene. You open the door to your brand new hotel room, run over to the window, open the blinds and bam, you are hit with the anti-view. Maybe you are looking down a dirty alley, witnessing a drug deal, staring at an air shaft in the face,...
October 01, 2009
Dine at the InterContinental San Francisco's Luce restaurant and you just might get a glimpse of the next Iron Chef. Luce's Chef de cuisine Dominique Crenn will battle for the title in the Food Network's second season of The Next Iron Chef, which will debut Oct. 4. Crenn and...
October 01, 2009
Last night, sales and press reps from several of Intercontinentals hotels in the western U.S. gathered in the ballroom of the InterContinental Century City to tout their hotels to an assortment of travel agents and writers. The point of the evening seemed to be primarily to introduce the new...
June 04, 2009
The New York Times knows that it's what's on the inside that counts. Which is why despite vehement dislike of the 32-story Intercontinental San Francisco's architectural attributes (our favorite: that its turquoise and glass make it look like "a deodorant stick"), the Times bestows the new hotel with a rave...
May 19, 2008
The folks over at Perfect Escapes have a mild obsession with the Intercontinental San Francisco. This is actually a good thing because it allows us to see some first-hand pics of the hotel, which officially opened last week.The hotel has apparently already secured its first sell-out, today, but if you...
March 03, 2008
The folks over at Perfect Escapes have an inside look at the forthcoming Intercontinental Hotel in San Francisco. The hotel won't be open until late February but PE details what to expect, including some voyeuristic bathrooms. Each room has a flat panel tv, hi-speed internet, and an iPod docking stereo....
December 10, 2007
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