Went for a quick weekend trip to San Francisco, which is close to an impossibility. A quick weekend trip anywhere is very difficult these days with the state of air travel. And a trip for only 2 days to San Francisco is almost futile. Well, we tried it and had a good time. Though quite a bit rushed to do just about everything. Had a couple of good dinners, and did some shopping around Union Square. We stayed at a very swanky boutique hotel called Hotel Diva on Geary street. The first night almost killed the entire weekend. I booked the trip through Travelocity, which meant that I had no input as to where or what our rooms might be. We ended up with a room directly on top of the truck delivery and trash pick up. Also right in front of the Geary Theater which is the current home of Jersey Boys. The noise was unbelievable. We were about to check out at 3 am and head to the airport to hop on a plane back home, when they offered to "upgrade" us to a more pleasant room. Well...the new room had a bigger bed, a desk lamp that actually turned off without unplugging it, no street noise, and a clock radio that was actually plugged in. Disaster averted by the night desk clerk. We enjoyed the rest of our stay very nicely in the swanky, Euro styled Hotel Diva, which had very cool internet lounges on almost every floor. My suggestion if you plan to stay there....call ahead and ask for a room as far away from Geary street as possible.
Tomorrow I take over sound duties on National Treasure:Book of Secrets. There is only about one week left of production, but they have gone over and the mixer had to leave for previous engagements. Looking forward to working with Jon Turtletaub again. We worked together on Jericho for quite some time.
PWP
No comments:
Post a Comment