Monterey Bay Hotel, San Francisco California

While staying in Grosvenor Suites San Francisco, a great destination  too check out the local sea-life would be the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Local scenic and historical tours include Monterey Bay Aquarium group tours, Pebble Beach's 17 Mile Drive, tours of the Big Sur Coastline, tours of John Steinbeck's Cannery Row, wine tours of Carmel Valley. The Monterey Peninsula offers a treasure of diverse recreational activities.

The Monterey Bay, twice as deep and wide as the Grand Canyon with an abundance of sea life, such as sea otters and sea lions, is a scuba diver's dream.

For surfers, the Bay offers fast-breaking and challenging waves. And the fishing, well, it's world renowned with salmon as the favorite catch.

After you tackle all the sightseeing you could use a nice night's sleep at a Monterey Bay hotel, try the Grosvenor Suites. A wide array of tours and sight seeing venues are available on the Monterey Bay through various tour and event companies.

The aquarium tour  exhibits take you into the hidden world of Monterey Bay, a spectacular ocean realm at the heart of the nation's largest marine sanctuary. The San Francisco Bay is also home too the infamous Alcatraz Prison Island and Fishermans' Wharf is a good place to sample the local sea life. The exhibits re-create the bay's habitats, from shallow tide pools to the open ocean and deep sea.

The aquarium is a nonprofit organization. Visitor admissions, along with member support and contributions, make possible free programs for visiting schoolchildren, workshops for teachers, sea otter research and conservation and important marine research initiatives.

The world-renowned Bay Aquarium boasts a million-plus visitors each year. Exhibits reveal deep-sea life, an Outer Bay filled with sharks, jellyfish and tuna; a three-story Kelp Forest and the family oriented Splash Zone, featuring live species such as penguins, moray eels and sea dragons.

The Monterey Bay Aquarium
Located in Cannery Row

Open from 9:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. (May—Labor Day) and 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. the rest of the year, except Christmas Day.

For more information, call 831.648-4888.

Does Monterey have a cheese named after it? What is Monterey Jack Cheese? It is one of the four cheeses to supposedly have been created in the United States. It is said to be a "descendent of the semi-soft Italian cheese that fed Caesar's armies." So other than the aquarium, Monterey also has a cheese with the name in it. Make the Monterey Bay Aquarium one of your destinations while staying at the Grosvenor Suites Hotel in the San Francisco bay area.