My bf and I booked this room because it was the best deal with the location that we wanted.
We definitely were not looking for a fancy hotel with continental breakfast and all that, we just needed something decent, clean and with a good location.
I have to admit I was a little worried after reading the reviews about bed bugs, thugs around the neighborhood etc etc, but bottom line it was not bad at all.
Check in was friendly and fast, room was pretty big and yes, the bathroom was very small, only one person fit at a time but it was no biggie. The bed was neither comfortable or horrible to sleep, just ok. We checked the mattress and box for bedbugs and saw nothing but we did take a bed bug spray and sprayed the thing down just in case. We got the alley view so it was pretty quiet, I can imagine that the rooms that face the main street are very noisy. The hotel has a breakfast set up but honestly I have never cared about eating bread and eggs that are not organic so we grabbed a piece of fruit and did our tea and started the day.
We bought a 3 day muni pass so we easily jumped on the bus across the street and the cable cars was just a short walk up the street.
We came here to explore and experience as much as possible so we had no problem walking a block or two to catch a bus, one night we even walked after 10 p.m. from the shopping center at union station all the way to the hotel, i will admit I was a little scared but we walked on Turk street and we did see people walking home I guess. Don't get me wrong, there are bums on the street but we just walked past the ones we saw and payed no attention and we were not bothered. Note: the streets you do really want to avoid even at daytime are market, around van ness all the way to about two blocks from the union station mall, we saw people "dealing" and smoking pipe in broad daylight!
We spend all day on the street and just came back to sleep, another reason why we went with this hotel was because there is a garage close by and it was the cheapest we could find instead of paying the ridiculous fees at every single hotel in San Francisco.
Overall it worked fine for us, I recommend to someone who is on a budget but wants location and convenience.
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