Pamper yourself and your loved ones (furry and otherwise) in a city that’s born for romance. San Francisco’s Omni hotel is among many businesses offering Valentine’s Day weekend packages and activities this year.

Omni San Francisco

Here’s what the romance industrial complex doesn’t tell you: the hardest part of Valentine’s Day in a place like San Francisco isn’t finding the right restaurant or booking the right paint-your-own-salad-bowl class. It’s creating the conditions for actual connection, the kind that makes you remember why you fell for this person in the first place, or why you’re falling now.

San Francisco, bless its foggy, AI-addled heart, makes this easier than it has any right to. Something about the hills and the light and the cable cars rattling past makes intimacy feel part of the natural order of things. Spend an afternoon with your beloved tiptoeing up toward Coit Tower or hiking the Coastal Trail from the Cliff House at Lands End to the Golden Gate Bridge, and you might just forget to check your phone for three whole hours.

Valentine’s Day 2026 Falls On A Saturday

Valentine’s Day falls on a Saturday this year, which means the stakes are higher and the prices steeper. Get ahead of it—especially if you’re planning to fly in for an extended weekend. (Remember when Richard Gere whisked Julia Roberts to San Francisco for “La Traviata” in Pretty Woman? Bring that energy if not the operational budget.)

Making Valentine’s Day An Extended Weekend Getaway

Throughout February, “From Omni, With Love” puts the focus on romance with cocktail flights, build-your-own-bouquet stations and a staff Love Concierge.

Omni San Francisco

The Omni San Francisco, a 362-room property housed in a 1926 Italian Renaissance building that started life as a bank. The building survived earthquakes, the dot-com bubble, and decades of financial transactions before Omni converted it to a hotel in 2002, preserving the Austrian crystal chandeliers, Italian marble, and the kind of soaring ceilings that still carry the romance of a time when people didn’t wear Lululemon and Hokas to cocktail hour and call it classy.

Throughout February, they’re running a From Omni, With Love romance package that includes a pre-arrival check-in with their Love Concierge (an actual staff title, I kid you not), a build-your-own-bouquet station, sparkling wine, chocolates, a $50 date night credit, and late checkout at 1 PM.

Monte’s Bar downstairs is serving a romance cocktail flight and will send up “Bubbles and Boba” to the rooms—Chandon champagne with your choice of boba pearl flavors. The Puppy Love package, which waives the usual fee for pets, comes with a pink bandana, pink pup-cup and other Valentine’s treats.

Where To Find Romance In San Francisco on Valentine’s Weekend

I love that the Exploratorium is getting all sexy in its own sea-urchins-cross-fertilizing sorta way. If you can get there Thursday, February 12, you can take part in their adults-only Sexplorations late-night out, which covers everything from the history of vintage vibrators and the science of pole dancing to the raunchiest explainer you’ll ever see on how milkweed bugs get it on. On Saturday and Sunday, the art and science museum closes at 5, but you’ll still get a chance to wander through glow-y exhibit halls, hand in hand.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – A man carries a bunch of ballons as he walks down Union Street on Valentine’s Day on February 14, 2011 in San Francisco, California. Valentine’s Day is actually a Catholic church sanctioned holiday, as Pope Gelasius deemed February 14, St. Valentine’s Day, near 498 A.D. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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On Friday evening at the Church of 8 Wheels, skaters take to the former Sacred Heart Catholic Church that’s been transformed into a roller disco. Something about disco balls spinning where the altar used to be creates the kind of shared vulnerability that dinner at a Michelin-fork place can’t quite deliver. Roll with it, I say.

On Valentine’s Day itself, let two hearts beat as one — albeit way faster than usual — at The Valentine’s Run, which starts at 7:30 AM (with staggered waves through 8:30). It follow scenic routes (5k/10k and 13.1 m) dotted with chocolate stops and photo ops for all paces. You’ll get a finisher’s medal, t-shirt, and post-run smugness that will free you to chug champagne the rest of the day.

For something slightly less ambitious, head to Coit Tower. The 210-foot Art Deco structure was built in 1933 and offers views that make you understand why Hitchcock shot Vertigo there—although there’s no way that dude climbed those 234 stairs. Bring good shoes.

Valentine’s Day Dining In San Francisco

An aerial view of the Presidio of San Francisco is seen in San Francisco, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. (Photo by Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

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For brunch, atmospheric Foreign Cinema in the Mission serves oysters, caviar and a heaping helping of midday noir from 11:00-2:30. There’s always a film being projected, and the menu has smoldering standouts like Baguette French Toast and Croque Madame.

Give yourselves an unstructured afternoon. Maybe head to the Presidio and walk the Batteries to Bluffs Trail, where the path is wide, the views are uninterrupted, and the city feels many miles away. The Golden Gate Bridge and the late-afternoon light does a lot of the work for you. Take a seat, watch the water, let the moment take you. If the weather’s good (and even when the dramatic fog creeps in), it’s hard to beat this spot for romance.

As evening approaches, make your way to Nob Hill and head up to Top of the Mark. It’s one of the few places in San Francisco that remembers how to give you goosebumps without trying too hard. Arrive before sunset if you can, order champagne or martinis, and watch the lights come up over the Bay through the wraparound windows.

For dinner, you can keep things classic nearby—Spruce (if you can get in) offers refined California cooking in a warm, unshowy room. Osso Steakhouse is the epitome of old-school comfort with steaks, red leather booths, and attentive service.

Or just call it an early night, open your shades at the hotel, and let those San Francisco cable cars and city lights be your entertainment. Sometimes the best plan is no plan at all.

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