California - getting there and around

rental car - I miss you...

From Switzerland there are non stopp flights to San Francisco and Los Angeles. Swiss in cooperation with United Airlines is flying daily. Then there are lots of flights with connection in New York, Dallas and so on.... But remember that you have to make the immigration at first airport in US so you need at least 3h connecting time.

From San Francisco Airport there is a train running to the city center. Tickets are cheap and you can get them at the train station SFO airport. It takes quite a time to get to the center.

The city of San Francisco is huge and there are so many thing to see and do.  If your hotel is centrally located you can see and do a lot by foot. Busses and metro are quite cheap and run very often. But we did not take them. On the first day we walked for hours and really enjoyed that. There are lots of bike rentals all over the city centre so we decided to rent a bicycle to explore the city and it's surrounding. This was a great idea as there are lots of bikelanes and it is not too steep at least it is not steep everywhere ;-)

To explore the state of California I recomend you to rent a car. I am really not a fan of cars but the USA is such a great country to be explored by car. So the Ford Mustang convertible just fitted us well ;-)