Arrived at the Hotel early afternoon having decided to move from a previously booked Hotel. The Staff were great found us a room on the 19th Floor with views of Nob Hill and partly of the Bay. The rates were very good value and included Executive Lounge access on 2 days.
The public areas on the ground floor are large and well furnished.
Our room was a King not too large but certainly adequate, the views as mentioned were quite good for downtown San Francisco. The room was well furnished, almost new, very clean with a smallish bathroom. It did suffer somewhat from noise from the room above, more from the bathroom than anything going on the in bedroom.
The whole Hotel seemed well adapted for 4 star accomodation. Every member of Staff we came across was very warm and helpful, from the Bar Staff, the Door Staff to the Reception Staff.
The Hotel is about 5 mins walk from Union Square, just one block away and is on the corner of Powell Street, therefore easy access to the Cable Cars. You could walk to Market Street for the Trolley buses in 15 mins easy. Never used the Bart so cannot say how far that was.
We did not have dinner at the Hotel, we did try the breakfast in the Executive lounge but found Lori's Diner on the opposite side of Powell Street to be our preferred choice.
I know we didn't pay for the Exec Lounge, which is probably a good job, because having stayed at many similar Hotels in the Marriott chain and other chains, we found the Executive lounge of poor value. Only open for breakfast and the evening, yes you did get access to a computer and internet free (internet was otherwise quite expensive), breakfast was complimentry but not a wonderful selection available, and evening snacks were very small in size and small in quantity and yes you could have free soft drinks and coffee but the glass of wine came with a cost of $8 per glass.
We did use the bar are most evenings, quite unusually, because it seemed so relaxing with great attentive staff.
There was parking and valet parking available at the hotel which we didn't use, I don't know the costs.
Overall, excellant, 4 star accommodation and very good rates very close to a popular part of San Francisco.
To get to the airport at the end of our stay, we had a private limo hire (Town Car, they call it) for $38 plus tips. Took about 30 mins.
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