While staying at The Clift, I found it to be rather contradicting - a supposed luxury hotel in the ghetto??? While the location was pretty convenient, what was not convenient is having to battle the bums who I guess work together and travel in packs like piranhas (once I handed over $1.00 to one, 4 more appeared as if out of nowhere). They were so aggressive, and right outside the hotel, it almost made me want to check out and go stay elsewhere after the first night. As for the hotel, I found the lobby's decor to be amazing (maybe the only part of the hotel) while our room was, in my opinion, below standard (stains on the carpet, a closet for a bathroom, paint chipping of the window sills). The second night of our stay, we decided to have drinks in your bar, The Redwood Room. Our cocktail server was great but the clientele (I hope it's not the norm) was unbelievably trashy. I'm talking soliciting so obvious I finally told one female "no thanks" as she approached our table and she immediately got the hint and walked away to go feast on another poor "I'm really going to get lucky tonight" fellow. After our adventure in the bar we returned to our room to be later interrupted by two of your security guards. One actually was at the door telling us to keep our noise down rather rudely (didn't realize talking in a room was forbidden) while the other I guess thought it would be funny to stand down the hallway farting and laughing. After all that we had experienced we didn't feel it would even matter to make a complaint. For the outrageous price of the room, drinks in the bar, farting staff, and misleading location next to the ghetto, I would never recommend this hotel to any of my friends, co-workers, or family to stay at if visiting San Francisco.
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