Six months here and love it!!!

[Robertfchew]

Originally Posted by Elliott_CA

Interesting. I think Sacto's weather is better than L.A.'s -- L.A. has fewer sunshine days and they have that awful June gloom.

You're right about Sacto winters -- they are fairly mild now. If you had been in Sacramento 30 years ago you would have experienced wet, cold and sometimes miserable winters. Gray foggy days of 40 F and high humidity that were bone chilling. Back then you'd go several days without seeing the sun -- it would rain, followed by a couple of days of fog, rain again, then more gray. Climate change has caused a definite and noticeable shift in Sacto winters.

Thats the natural flow of the weather. You notice this summer has been amazing so far? Some years will be good, others like last year will be horrid.

[Chimérique]

Mxcolin,

My partner and a small group of friends attended the Kimpton-Sawyer Hotel Pride Pool Party at Revival - the hotel's rooftop Pool and Nightclub/Lounge.

We felt like we were at one of those hipster/swanky hotels in LA/Hollywood, a Vegas Pool Party Resort, or swanky Palm Springs Pool party resort. Half the people were from out of town, very young crowd, classy well-behaved and tons of fun!

Which got me thinking.......this could be the beginning of Sacramento being a high-end regular summer party resort destination the way Palm Springs and/or Vegas is for LA and SF.

So many of the hotel guests were from SoCal, Bay Area, Seattle visiting for Sac's warm sunny weather to hang out at a swanky hotel for a couple days. I was talking to a Bay Area couple who took the train from Oakland. The Sac train station is just 2-3 blocks from the hotel. Another small group flew in from somewhere in SoCal, Portland, and Salt Lake. So many were from all over NorCal. A Fresno guy told me he drives up to Sac every weekend just to party.

Chatting people up and hotel staff, I assumed guests were staying at the hotel for SAC's Gay Pride event, but a lot didn't even know it was gay pride they just came to hang out in Sac for the sunny weather.

Earlier this month we went to the Maroon 5 concert at the Golden One Center which is a stones throw from the Sawyer Hotel. We figured we would stay at the hotel for a night instead of going home. But, the Hotel was totally booked, over booked. Staff told me its often over booked.

SAC's Gay PRIDE was yesterday. It was very well-done, lots of really young people. Great entertainment. Sac's Gay Mens Chorus was awesome. The Diva Martha Walsh performed several of her past hits from the 80's-90's("It's Raining Men"). Some younger musician/artists performed that I never heard of - all really good. It felt like one of the biggest SAC PRIDE events I've ever attended on Capital Mall.

[tstieber]

Originally Posted by Chimérique

Mxcolin,

My partner and a small group of friends attended the Kimpton-Sawyer Hotel Pride Pool Party at Revival - the hotel's rooftop Pool and Nightclub/Lounge.

We felt like we were at one of those hipster/swanky hotels in LA/Hollywood, a Vegas Pool Party Resort, or swanky Palm Springs Pool party resort. Half the people were from out of town, very young crowd, classy well-behaved and tons of fun!

Which got me thinking.......this could be the beginning of Sacramento being a high-end regular summer party resort destination the way Palm Springs and/or Vegas is for LA and SF.

So many of the hotel guests were from SoCal, Bay Area, Seattle visiting for Sac's warm sunny weather to hang out at a swanky hotel for a couple days. I was talking to a Bay Area couple who took the train from Oakland. The Sac train station is just 2-3 blocks from the hotel. Another small group flew in from somewhere in SoCal, Portland, and Salt Lake. So many were from all over NorCal. A Fresno guy told me he drives up to Sac every weekend just to party.

Chatting people up and hotel staff, I assumed guests were staying at the hotel for SAC's Gay Pride event, but a lot didn't even know it was gay pride they just came to hang out in Sac for the sunny weather.

Earlier this month we went to the Maroon 5 concert at the Golden One Center which is a stones throw from the Sawyer Hotel. We figured we would stay at the hotel for a night instead of going home. But, the Hotel was totally booked, over booked. Staff told me its often over booked.

SAC's Gay PRIDE was yesterday. It was very well-done, lots of really young people. Great entertainment. Sac's Gay Mens Chorus was awesome. The Diva Martha Walsh performed several of her past hits from the 80's-90's("It's Raining Men"). Some younger musician/artists performed that I never heard of - all really good. It felt like one of the biggest SAC PRIDE events I've ever attended on Capital Mall.

That's really cool! I always thought Sacramento *should* be the #1 summer getaway for fog-weary Bay Areans looking for pool parties. I think one of the big casinos also has a big (straight) pool party scene, but not sure if it attracts a lot of people from the Bay Area. When I used to live in the Bay Area, people always hopped on a plane to Vegas, Palm Springs, or SoCal just to thaw out, when they could just hop in the car or on a train for a short trip and do it in their backyard anytime. I'm really glad the hotel rooftop is doing well, as Sacramento summer evenings are beautiful for that.

[mysticaltyger]

Originally Posted by DougStark

Oh my gosh. If you think Denver has poor air quality now, you should have seen it in the '70s. In the mornings, the brown layer in the horizon was hard to miss.

Metro Sac definitely does not have one of the country's worst air quality--that goes to the Inland Empire and metro Fresno, I believe. Sac's air quality may not be "great", but it wouldn't keep me from moving there. Just my opinion. And CA air regulations are the toughest in the nation.

I agree with all of this. And air quality has steadily improved over the decades pretty much everywhere.

[Chimérique]

Originally Posted by tstieber

That's really cool! I always thought Sacramento *should* be the #1 summer getaway for fog-weary Bay Areans looking for pool parties. I think one of the big casinos also has a big (straight) pool party scene, but not sure if it attracts a lot of people from the Bay Area. When I used to live in the Bay Area, people always hopped on a plane to Vegas, Palm Springs, or SoCal just to thaw out, when they could just hop in the car or on a train for a short trip and do it in their backyard anytime. I'm really glad the hotel rooftop is doing well, as Sacramento summer evenings are beautiful for that.

You are right, I forgot about, Thunder Valley Casino/Hotel/Resort in Lincoln, CA. They have a very nice pool grounds, definitely of the Vegas variety. I've stayed at that hotel and it is very nice. I know they are always booked as well. They have a summer concert series, too. That place is really big with Bay Area/Sacramento folks and anyone in the NorCal area that also likes to gamble. This place attracts all types of people.

Lincoln is 7 miles from Roseville, 13 miles from Citrus Heights, and 28 miles from Sacramento Int'l Airport.

https://thundervalleyresort.com/hote...t-pool-and-bar
https://thundervalleyresort.com/entertainment/events -- Click on the "Load More Events Button"

Between Thunder Valley, the Sawyer-Kimpton, the Westin, the Sacramento River, the American River, and Folsom Lake you have a large variety of different summer scenes for a mini vacation, or staycation involving the Sun and Water in Sacramento.