As a gay man wanting to stay in the gay neighborhood of the Castro, I have been staying at this motel for over 25 years. I have always loved the location, close to bars, restaurants, shopping, supermarkets, street cars, and two muni stations. It seems to have either gone through a management or owner change a couple of years back. And the result is a rate price increase, without any way overdue renovations being done. I was very surprised from my visit this past week they finally replaced the old 25 plus year old 15" TV's, with new 32" Sam Sung flat screen TV's. But instead of mounting the TV to the wall, they stuck it in a old 30 year old TV cabinet that takes a huge chunk of space in the room. The room was clean, but the furnishings are way past being replaced. One thing I thought was weird, my king bed instead of having a fitted sheet over it, had only a flat sheet. I woke up several times during the night laying on a bare mattress, which creeped me out. Also a microwave oven would be great for evenings when people want to stay in and dine on take out from one of the fine deli's in the area.
They also seemed to abandoned there marketing to the loyal gay clientele they have had all these years, and seem to market to straight families with children, which may be odd to them. The result of my stay was a room next to me being occupied by a lot of younger straight adults using it as a party room for binge drinking, that went on all night till morning, without management or security taking control of the situation.
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