Shuttle service to SFO airport

And I just had an even better idea if you want to do the commuter airport route. Fly your wife out of Reno. There is a KOA RV Park at the Grand Sierra Resort which is very close to the airport. Then you spend your six weeks in Reno!

Wow! I knew this forum was the right place to ask for information. Now I have to do some research and see what will work for use. Thanks
Bill

And since I'm sitting here waiting for somebody that hasn't shown up yet, I'll give you some more options if you really hate going into the Bay Area. All the surrounding commuter airports fly commercial service into SFO. Sonoma Airport, Modesto Airport, Fresno, Monterey, Sacramento, Stockton, just to name a few. If your wife has already purchased her ticket it may be more expensive to add this ticket in now, but if she hasn't bought tickets yet sometimes it's not real expensive to add one of these commuter airports as your departure location. If you wanted to do that, I'd suggest Charles Shultz Airport in Sonoma. Only because there's lot of RV parks up that way and it's a very nice area. You just drop her at the airport and it's a 20 minute flight to SFO.

Just for info I looked at the CalTrain website for you and although it does go all the way down to Gilroy, trains only run to Gilroy during the weekday commute times. So if you weren't going to the Airport at Commute time you would have to go to downtown San Jose to get to the furthest South CalTrain station. That's the good news, the bad new is San Jose is a big city and if you're going to drive to downtown San Jose you may as well just stay on 101 and drive all the way to the Airport. It really isn't that bad.

BART does go directly into the airport now, but I've never taken it there. I guess the trick is going at the right time on BART because your wife will probably have some luggage and that can be a pain if the train is crowded. If you're on off commute hours it shouldn't be that big of a deal. There are all kinds of shuttle services to get you to SFO I've just never used them so don't know what to recommend. My main reason for replying was just to point out it's not that hard to drive to SFO to drop somebody off. And yeah, there are lots of roads at the airport, but it's really well marked. Just follow the signs for Departures and look for her airline and drop her off at the curb. I'm assuming you have a toad and aren't going into the airport in your motorhome?

If you insist on BART there is a RV park at the Pleasanton Fairgrounds. It's not far from the Pleasanton BART station. It's too far to walk easily, but I think it's less than 2 miles.

You also have CalTrain that goes close to the Airport. I think they have a bus shuttle to take you over to the airport from the CalTrain station. It's just on the other side of the freeway from the Airport. CalTrain runs from San Francisco down to I think Gilroy. I'm not sure if it goes further south than Gilroy or not. There are some nice RV parks around Gilroy too. And that wouldn't be a bad place to spend six weeks because you aren't far from the coast and you can access the South Bay pretty easily.

Thanks. The older I get the less I want to drive in traffic, and airports seem to always be a pain to find the right lane to do what you need to do, so I thought about other means of getting to the airport. I see that Bart has a stop there however I just don't know anything about the area. As for campgrounds, I may look at one that is close to SFO for a day or two prior to the departure to make it easy, and then move out to the central valley to wait for her return.

San Francisco Airport isn't in San Francisco so you can come up from the south and get to the airport without any City driving. The airport is right on the freeway. Or are you just trying to avoid driving in the Bay Area at all? As long as you can avoid rush hour traffic times, it's really a fairly easy drive to get in and out of SFO.

As for camping for six weeks, it depends on what you want to see and do for that six weeks and how much money you want to spend. You can find RV parks along the coast but they'll be real expensive. There are RV parks in the central valley in the flat lands, and they are probably cheap, but your going to be in the central valley next to the cow pastures and farms. There are RV parks all over the Sierra foothills that are probably reasonably priced.

If you want to be close to SFO there is an RV park in Pacifica and I think the name of it now is San Francisco RV Resort or something like that. It's on a cliff overlooking the ocean. It's on the opposite side of the peninsula from SFO and with no traffic maybe a 15 minute drive. I have no idea what six weeks would cost there, but it's one of those hundred dollar a night places for short term stays.

Hang on to your wallet....Friends just got quotes today for the same from west of Bakersfield to SFO and the best shuttle price they found was .........Sit down........$250 each, ONE way. They also contacted car rental companies and with drop off fees, it was $200 round trip from the RV park to SFO and return. You can guess which they are using.