The Claremont Resort & Spa is an historic hotel that straddles the border between Berkeley, California and Oakland. It offers scenic views of San Francisco Bay. The resort currently has 279 guest rooms, 20,000 square foot spa, 10 tennis courts, and 22 acres of landscaped gardens and an award winning spa. Romantic stories tell that it was once won in a poker game. A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging, usually on a short-term basis and especially for tourists. ... Berkeley as seen from the Claremont Canyon Regional Preserve. ... Oakland, founded in 1852, is a major city on the east side (also called East Bay) of San Francisco Bay in Northern California in the United States. ... San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay, and the Golden Gate The San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary through which water draining of approximately forty percent of California, flowing in Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the Pacific Ocean. ...
The Claremont Resort opened in 1915. It faced destruction by the 1991 Oakland Hills firestorm, but the flames stopped just short of the hotel. 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... The Oakland Hills Firestorm occurred on Sunday October 20, 1991. ...
The resort has a Berkeley address and at one time was in Berkeley, but the Berkeley/Oakland border was moved to put it in Oakland in the 1970s or 1980s.
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