SAN FRANCISCO has unveiled a programme of millennium celebration events which is being promoted to the international market.
These include popular music venues, opera, ballet and a host of dinner-dance cruises from the bay, while many top hotels are organising their own themed parties with top entertainment.
The Bill Graham Civic Auditorium is the site for a huge party on December 31 with headline bands. More information will be available on www.NYE2000.com from September 1.
The San Francisco Ballet will stage two special daytime performances of the Nutcracker Suite, while the city’s Symphony Orchestra is presenting a New Year’s Millennium Gala.
Also planned is a spiritual celebration sponsored by the Glide Memorial Church in Union Square, with a firework display off the Golden Gate Bridge and a bash at the Ferry Building.
San Francisco Bay will be the scene of many celebratory cruises. Blue and Gold Fleet is organising a millennium sunset voyage, departing at 4pm on New Year’s Eve; Hornblower Cruises has two dinner-dance sailings; and Pacific Marine Yachts is operating its vessel, San Francisco Spirit.
Hotels organising packages include Hyatt Regency, Ritz-Carlton, Westin St Francis, Mark Hopkins, the Fairmont, Hilton, Marriott, Palace Hotel and the Pan Pacific.
More information is available from the San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau, tel: 001 415 227 2641, fax: 001 415 227 2668.
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