Your travel4seniors.com editor visits one of the city’s busy marketplaces.

Memories of your travel4seniors.com editor: The first time I visited The Palace (2 New Montgomery St.) was 70 years ago in November 1945. World War II had ended several months earlier, and I was on my way home from Navy duty in the Philippines.

I had 24 hours before boarding a troop train heading for the East Coast, so I decided to spend a night at the Palace. After living in a tent with a bucket for bathing in the middle of war-devastated Manila for a year, I wanted the luxury of a tub bath, clean sheets and food other than Spam and K-Rations. With my meager Navy pay of $100 a month, it was expensive for that time: I paid $10 for the room, another $5 for room-service breakfast and $10 for dinner in the expensive hotel restaurant.

Recent reports indicate that scientists at Syracuse University have created actual invisibility. Of course, some of we more seasoned citizens remember the old movie, “The Invisible Man”, and other fantasies about being able to creep around undetected. So, let’s consider some humorous (im)possibilities for senior travelers:

Board any flight with no ticket, wait until all are seated, grab an unoccupied first class alcove and stretch out. When food and booze are ready to be served, go to attendant space and help yourself.

While all are certainly excellent, our most experienced senior travelers vote some others into the heavenly hotel best of the best.

Here is the Orbitz line-up: Las Vegas Bellagio, New York JW Marriott Essex House, Chicago The Peninsula, The Peninsula Beverly Hills, Washington, D.C.: The Ritz-Carlton, Orlando Rosen Shingle Creek, Denver Hyatt Regency, San Francisco Grand Hyatt, The Ritz-Carlton Maui Kapalua, EPIC Miami.

Travel4seniors.com voters: San Francisco Fairmont, Beverly Hills Peninsula, Chicago Peninsula, Walt Disney World Animal Kingdom Lodge, Las Vegas Mandarin Oriental, New York Casablanca Times Square, Washington DC Ritz-Carlton, Miami Beach Metropolitan by COMO, St. Louis Four Seasons, Honolulu Royal Hawaiian.