Part of me does not want to do a good review so we can keep the secret of this amazingly priced perfectly located hotel in San Francisco to our selves! We had a perfect 3 day stay on our roadtrip with our daughter and grandson this summer. We stayed last summer at one of their sister properties up on Lombard street, which we really liked, but the Columbus Motor Inn is better located for what we like to do in San Francisco. It is a very easy 3 block walk down to Fishermans Wharf, the Maritime Museum, the Musee de Mechanique, Ghirardelli Square, and so much more! We had a 2 room suite with 2 double beds in the main room (although these seemed much larger and I think they may have been queens) and a queen bed in a seperate bedroom, on the 3rd floor with a beautiful view from the balcony and the huge front window toward Coit Tower and even the ocean. The beds were amazing Tempurpedics and the pillows were awesome too. There was a table and chairs in the main room to eat at, and we had a small fridge for an extra $5. per day charge. There was no shortage of fluffy clean towells, and lot's of very nice shampoos soaps etc. Housekeeping did a great job, and when we made a request from them it was taken car of immediately. The coffee was actually very good there too! We arrived moderately early, about 3 and there were plenty of (free) parking spaces, and our room was ready. Check in and out were both problem free, the front desk staff were always friendly and said hello or chatted on our way to our room. Yes being on Columbus Ave. you can faintly hear the traffic going by, but it never interfeared with our sleep, and you are in a city after all!! The streetcar turnaround is one block over, there are so many choices of great places to eat within a few minutes including the awesome Beach Street Grill, and of course all the great places on Fishermans Wharf.
Access to the hotel from hwy 101 is extremely easy as is leaving the area. Last summer we did a 5 hour conducted tour and learned so much about San Francisco, this year we went with the hop on hop off bus and were able to spend as long as we liked in the areas we wanted to. We will be back to stay at the Columbus Motor Inn again very soon!
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