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The S.S. Maggie in
Sausalito
Yacht B&B at
Long Beach, below
The Delta King in
Sacramento
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Boat and Bed
Dockside
Location:
Long Beach, Sausalito and Sacramento
Description:
Do you like the idea of taking a luxurious cruise,
but don't want to actually sail out on the ocean?
Try the dockside boat and bed and experience. Here
are three favorite choices:
The
SS Maggie in
Sausalito
is a 125-year-old,
three-story Steam Schooner that sits high on the
docks with a view of San Francisco Bay and Mt
Tamalpais. The former captain's wheelhouse is now
the dining room. The master bedroom is the old
engine room. The fully-renovated boat includes a
full kitchen, three fireplaces, 3 bedrooms, 3
bathrooms and it sleeps 6. Fill it up with friends,
share the cost and it's not much more expensive
than a moderately-priced San Francisco
hotel.
Spend
the night on a yacht! Imagine owning
your own yacht, even if for just a night. This
dockside boat-and-bed is a B&B experience on
one of several private yachts located in beautiful
Rainbow Harbor, Long Beach. This is a perfect spot
to celebrate a birthday or anniversary, or just a
night away. Every boat in their fleet is appointed
with comfort in mind, with all the amenities one
would find in a hotel suite from crisp linens to
fluffy white towels. All of the yachts have
refrigerators, freezers, coffee makers, microwaves
and toasters. A gas BBQ is available on the dock
for cooking dinners (no stoves or ovens are
available on the boats). A Continental breakfast of
assorted pastries, fresh fruit, yogurt and orange
juice is delivered to the boat in the morning. Live
large without having to hoist a sail!
The
Delta King Hotel in Old Sacramento
is a unique Sacramento treasure. Today it is a
beautiful riverboat hotel with modern lodging
amenities, 2 outstanding restaurants, 2
professional theaters, a wine school and
exceptional facilities for weddings, banquets, and
meetings. But it wasn't always a hotel. This
historic 285-foot-long paddlewheel steamboat is the
sister ship to the Delta Queen, both christened 20
May 1927. It traveled between Sacramento and San
Francisco on 10-hour trips for many years, and in
their day, both boats were the most
lavishly-appointed and expensive sternwheel
passenger boats ever commissioned.
The completion of the Golden Gate Bridge and Bay
Bridge in 1937 and 1938 spelled the doom of the
California river boat. By 1940 the King and Queen
were out of business and readied for transport to
New York. Then the war broke out. Both the King and
Queen were drafted into the U. S. Navy to serve on
San Francisco Bay as net tenders, floating
barracks, troop transports and hospital ships.
At the conclusion of the War, the Delta Queen
was purchased by the Green Line Steamers of
Cincinnati and taken, via the Panama Canal, to the
Mississippi River where she served as the flagship
of the Delta Queen Steamboat Company. Today the
Delta Queen is located at Chattanooga, TN, serving
as a hotel and restaurant.
In 1984, after being partially submerged for 15
months in San Francisco Bay, the Delta King was
acquired privately and towed to Old Sacramento
where it underwent a complete historical
renovation. As its current duty today, Delta King
is moored in Old Sacramento as a lovely 44-room
hotel.
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