Social Program

FORBES ISLAND - Fantasy Fine Dining aboard the World's Only Floating Island

19:00 to 22:00 (departure from hotel at 18:45, return from Forbes Island22:30)

Dress Code: Casual

Tickets available for $85 per person.

Forbes Island provides a fantasy dining experience, beneath the sea and on white sand patios with incredible views of San Francisco Bay, Downtown, Alcatraz, Sea Lions, Coit Tower & the Golden Gate Bridge. You surely will want to be at this dinner!

We recommend reading about the 7 Wonders of Forbes Island /  www.forbesisland.com.

1)  The English Tudor paneling on the interior walls of the island is decorated with tight fitted molding which is secured with no nails or glue. The molding, if pieced together, would span more than 10,000 feet or nearly 2 miles.

2)   The antique ship's wheel in the wheelhouse was from the Brigatine, Regina Maris, built in 1906 and she rounded Cape Horn 17 times.

3)   The 40 foot Lighthouse is the only privately built Lighthouse in the United States and is equipped with an authentic Fresnel Lens on loan from the US Lighthouse Society. The Fresnel Lens was built in France in 1820 and was first lit using whale oil.

4)   The island is powered by an actual Sea Mule motor, which is the world's largest outboard motor and was used extensively in World War II by the US Navy to propel ocean going barges. It can rotate 360 degrees and is a 250 horse power motor.

5)   Forbes Island displaces 700 tons of water, the structure was made with 280 tons of concrete, 120 tons of rocks surround the perimeter, 90 tons of sand top the shores, and 40 tons of topsoil are the earth for the plants and palms.

6)   During the spring the Washatona Palm Trees are the nesting grounds for hundreds of Starling blackbirds and the rocks around the perimeter of the island are the nesting grounds of several seagulls.

7)   Forbes Island launched on December 23, 1980. On launch day the island had 3 staterooms all with private baths, 56 portholes throughout, and the waterfall cascaded into a hot tub. Shortly thereafter it was featured on "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" and "That's Incredible".