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If you are planning a CA trip, you might be interested in this thread.

Help with College Tour planning - California Edition

We are starting to plan a college tour trip this coming March for D23, who is very interested in California. @lkg4answers has already been quite helpful with some initial advice (we are going to start in the San Francisco area and work our way south) but they also suggested opening this question to the larger board as there are tons of people with expertise who may be willing to help. In the San Francisco area (very generous description), we are planning on visiting: Santa Clara St. Mary’s College of California University of the Pacific We would like to find a fairly central base to stay while we visit those schools, hopefully base location also very close to a BART stop so we can easily get into San Francisco proper for some shopping (D23 loves boutiques, any shopping area suggestions welcome) and some nice dinners. Hotel recs, and restaurant suggestions very appreciated. We are then still trying to decide whether to fly south or just keep rental car and do the drive south (it…