Top 10 design hotels for under £100
Great design is not just beautiful, but functional too. Sean Dodson selects 10 hotels where the impeccable decor can be experienced at its organic best
Insider’s guide to San Francisco
Novelist Amy Tan takes us on tour round her home town of San Francisco
Top 10 San Francisco hotels
A rock hangout, a hippy B&B and a homage to pop art - Mike Hodgkinson's eclectic selection includes something to suit every taste
12 top trips for 2008
Plan your travel diary with Chris Madigan's month-by-month guide to some of this year's most exciting destinations and events
Top 10 San Francisco experiences
You don't need to be a die-hard hippy to drop in and chill out in San Francisco. Come for the food, the festivals and the chance to shake your tail feathers, says Alison Bing.
Still a Bohemian rhapsody
Jeanne Cooper, travel editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, explains how to have an alternative weekend in the city that kicked the whole thing off.
Bargain US flights and breaks
As the pound reaches the $2 mark, we round up the best cut-price flights, hotels and packages to the US.
The city break
Three nights in New York for £399 per person, or five nights in San Francisco for £429 through Trailfinders.
24-hour green party people
Forget hemp and muesli. In San Francisco they do organic with style.
Ministry of sound
Few jazz fans would dispute that John Coltrane's music is divine, but in the United States he inspired a church. Hans Kundnani reports.
If you’re going to San Francisco …
Keen to avoid the ribshacks and tourist tack round Fisherman's Wharf, I decide, in this most Oriental of American cities, that tonight's crab supper should be Chinese.
Walking the Beat
Nicholas Wroe keeps bumping into Ginsberg, Burroughs, Ferlinghetti and Kerouac on the streets of San Francisco.
Golden plates
Elgy Gillespie, author of the new edition of the Rough Guide to San Francisco Restaurants, gives us the lowdown on what the city has to offer for diners, whatever the budget or occasion
Make my day
Few cities have been as often celebrated in films, books and songs. Louisa Dillner bites the Bullitt and follows the footsteps of Armistan Maupin, Dirty Harry and the Birdman of Alcatraz.