My wife set this up using Priceline. The problem was that we didn’t know the hotel, and therefore the rules, until we had committed full room payment. We then discovered a valet only parking with a fee of $32 per day. A few months ago we were at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront and they had self parking for $20. We had the choice of parking a number of blocks away and paying for every re-entry, so there wasn’t an acceptable option. Because of this issue I say minus points to both the hotel and Priceline. Enough said about this issue.
Overall, the experience was good when excluding the parking requirement. The internet connection was free contrary to published reviews. It was a little slow and a Hilton page kept popping up when attempting to go to Google.com. The front desk staff & valet staffs were very nice and helpful. It was easy drives to the locations we wanted to visit. This Hilton was better located to explore the Gaslight District, so walking was not a problem. This was in contrast to the Hilton Bayfront, newer, that required traversing through the Convention Center at night with what seemed to be questionable people hanging out.
The room was nice. It had a good flat panel TV but running in analogue. One TV movie costs $14 rental and could have been found for 99c at the Redbox rental. The view was very nice and I plan to post photos taken from our windows. The Commuter Trains ran directly outside and presented little more noise that the SF Cable Cars. The worst noise came when a Truck was blocking the tracks and one of the Red Cars repeatedly released the attack of his horn for what seemed to be a very long time. The bathroom was small, one sink, and not much light. It was a one person at a time room. The bath/shower was a little slippery and there was no rubber bath tub matt to be found.
The bottom line is that we would be willing to stay there again if it were not for the mandatory valet parking. We will likely look elsewhere for our next trip to this area.
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