51eleven wrote:
> Thanks lifegate, you changed my mind. La Fonda Oak Hills is about 1/2 way
> from our hotel to the riverwalk. 75 years & very good prices per their
> website. I've never seen the walk at night, would like to see it lit up.
> Think we'll catch la fonda for an early supper then walk it off on the
> walk. Pause at 3-4 different spots for A libation. Figure if I keep it
> down to that & walk slow, check out a few shops, we can see it
> transition from evening to night and be legal/ok to drive back to the
> motel.
You'll enjoy the Riverwalk at night. When my dear Irish momma was alive and would visit me, we would always have to make a trip to the Riverwalk and spend most of the night at Durty Nelly's Irish Pub in the basement of the Hilton Hotel singing Irish (and other songs). Haven't been in the place since she died (1994), but still fondly remember taking momma there ... and she had two replaced hips and used a walker ... it was a chore getting her in the joint, but we ALWAYS got a table real fast.
You probably will take a stop at Dick's Last Resort. Little story about the place ... it's the basement of the Nix Hospital. Seems about 20 years ago, one of the hospital administrators realized that the hospital morgue was prime real estate on the Riverwalk. It was quickly decided that the dear departed really weren't that interested in having their mortal remains spend time in such high dollar properties so the morgue was moved and the space was leased out to Dick's.
Also, something I learned about 30 years ago or so when I was involved in a group having a convention in San Antonio (and got to eat at lots of nice hotel restaurants while choosing a site); had lunch with the sales manager of the Hyatt Hotel (then under construction). I had been at a number of Hyatt's and told her that I could see that something was missing in the plans of this then-new Hyatt. She reminded me that most if not all Hyatts at the time had rooftop restaurants, but this one did not ... reason why -- under San Antonio ordinance, the shadow of no building can fall on the Alamo and if they had added the restaurant, they would be in violation of the ordinance. If you walk out from the Hyatt toward the Alamo, you'll see a part of the original Alamo walls under glass. While they were building that plaza from the Hyatt to the Alamo, some doofus whacked the wall with a backhoe, so they had to stop everything and protect what they could find.
A stop at the LaMansion Del Rio for a pop wouldn't be too bad, either.