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Berkeley, California
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| This easy-going suburb across the bay from San Francisco | Can I make the Berkeley reservation by phone? We would |
| is home to the University of California at Berkeley, the | be happy to help you make any Berkeley hotel reservation |
| incubator for the antiwar movement of the 1960s and a | by phone. You can call our toll free number between the |
| longtime bastion of counterculture. Peoples Park, | hours of 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Friday (CST). 11 |
| where antiwar protestors once gathered, has changed, | a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. |
| however: The university turned it into a recreational area, | |
| complete with volleyball courts, over the protests of some | How can I be sure information about my credit card is |
| who wanted to keep the park as it was. | secure? We use secure-socket-layer (SSL) encryption, the |
| | standard encryption on the Internet. This type of encryption |
| The campus itself is lovely. Among the sites of interest to | allows you to feel confident and secure about supplying |
| visitors are the botanical garden, Sather Tower (also known | personal and credit card information. |
| as Campanile), the Earth Sciences Building and the | |
| University Art Museum. The museum's Pacific Film Archive | Are free shuttles supplied from the airport to the hotel? |
| has a 200-seat auditorium that shows selections from its | Some hotels do offer free shuttle services from the airport |
| collection of more than 5,000 movies, many avant-garde | but not all. Please verify this information on the property |
| and experimental, as well as copies of Soviet silent movies | information page, if this is import to you. |
| and perhaps the largest collection of Japanese movies | |
| outside Japan. | Is free breakfast available? Some hotels offer free |
| | breakfast with each room night booked. This information |
| Near campus is the Chapel of the Pacific School of | can be found on the property information "detail" page for |
| Religion, which contains one of the largest stained-glass | your specific property. |
| windows in the world. Along Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley's | |
| bustling main drag, streams a colorful tide of humanity, from | How will I know when my reservation is confirmed? Our |
| aging hippies to frenzied students to monied suburbanites. | confirmation number displayed immediately upon |
| Lining the street are bookstores, boutiques, record shops, | successfully making your reservation. Our systems work |
| ethnic eateries and scores of sidewalk vendors. The | behind the scenes to email you the final confirmation |
| citys Tilden Park is enormous, with a steam train, | number. |
| carousel, walking trails, a lake (with areas for swimming) | |
| and a nature center. 8 mi/13 km northeast of San Francisco. | |
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