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The hotels below have been divided into four pricing categories:
$$$$ (over US$300)
$$$ (US$200 to US$299)
$$ (US$100 to US$199)
$ (under US$100)
The prices quoted here are the starting prices for a double room, excluding room tax and breakfast, unless otherwise specified.
Hotel prices in San Francisco are subject to a room tax of 14%. This is not normally included in the listed or quoted prices but added to the bill upon checkout. Note that the room tariffs given here are likely to fluctuate with the economy and special packages and discounts are often available. Check rates with each establishment prior to booking.
Business
Doubletree Hotel – San Francisco Airport
Ideally situated just 10 minutes from San Francisco Airport with excellent views of scenic San Francisco Bay, the Doubletree is especially popular for business travellers and conventions. Complimentary 24-hour airport shuttles link travellers with the BART station at the airport for direct transport to Downtown San Francisco. European style rooms and suites are spacious, with in-room coffee makers, cable TV, CD players and wireless HSIA. Room service is available 0630-2400. The cosy Chutney Lounge is a good spot for a late night drink. Guests have complimentary use of the business facilities and neighbouring pool and fitness centre. The bayside jogging trail is a refreshing change from city centre hotels. Versatile meeting and banquet space will accommodate groups of 10-250, with an outdoor courtyard popular for receptions and parties. The hotel is pet-friendly and also provides pet kennels.
835 Airport Boulevard, Burlingame
Tel: (650) 344 5500.
Website: www.doubletree.com
Price: $$$
Harbor Court Hotel
Few hotels can rival Harbor Court’s up-close view of the San Francisco Bay Bridge. Perched on the city’s eastern coastline, the 131 waterfront rooms provide spectacular sunrise vistas for those early morning business meetings. Each room contains an entertainment centre, a fax machine, a two-line telephone, a modem point and a moderately sized sitting room with a small table. Rooms combine traditional and contemporary furnishings, and some beds are canopied. Windows are double-glazed to block out traffic noise. Guests receive complimentary use of the adjoining athletic facilities. Two expansive convention and business venues located within walking distance can be reserved through the hotel. The Ozumo Japanese restaurant next door is a popular venue for business lunches. Valet parking, which tends to be pricey in San Francisco, is recommended due to city parking restrictions.
165 Steuart Street, Embarcadero
Tel: (415) 882 1300 or 1 866 792 6283.
Website: www.harborcourthotel.com
Price: $$
Hyatt Regency San Francisco
Regarded as one of San Francisco’s premier conference centres, the Hyatt Regency at the Embarcadero Centre is centrally located in a major retail and business complex. Numerous upscale restaurants are accessible by foot or local transportation. The Hyatt’s business facilities include more than 35 meeting rooms with telephones and audiovisual support, banquet facilities and high-speed Internet access. The 802 rooms and suites have comfortable, traditional furnishings and include dual-line telephones with conferencing capabilities, modem points and workstations with ergonomic chairs. Some suites have balconies. Waterfront rooms and suites feature breathtaking views of Alcatraz Island, the harbour and San Francisco’s bridges. Continental breakfast is included. The Hyatt also boasts the city’s only revolving restaurant, Equinox.
5 Embarcadero Centre, Embarcadero
Tel: (415) 788 1234 or 1 800 233 1234.
Website: www.sanfrancisco.regency.hyatt.com
Price: $$$
Luxury
Mandarin Oriental, San Francisco
Travellers stay here for work or pleasure. All guest rooms at this luxury hotel located in the city’s third tallest building have exquisite panoramic views of San Francisco and the waterfront (in-room binoculars are provided for peering out at the cable cars below). The hotel group is famous for its exotic surroundings, which include sophisticated Asian touches presented in a modern style, 260-thread-count Frette Egyptian cotton sheets, and marble bathrooms with deep soaking tubs. Business facilities include a personal computer workstation and modem point in the rooms, as well as a business centre and conference facilities. Guests may also rent laptops or cellular phones. A comprehensive health club is on site with flat-screen TVs with headphones for those who wish to work while they exercise. There is also an upscale California-Asian restaurant, Silks (see the Restaurants section).
222 Sansome Street, Financial District
Tel: (415) 276 9888 or 1 800 622 0404.
Website: www.mandarinoriental.com
Price: $$$$
Hotel Monaco
The epitome of romantic indulgence, the Hotel Monaco expresses the new trend in boutique hotels towards glamorous style and luxury. Hand-painted ceiling domes, grand staircase with marble steps, soaring two-storey inglenook fireplace, mirrored arches and the front desk reminiscent of an old steamer trunk, the Monaco combines a sense of footloose travel with intrigue and sultry seduction. The 201 guest rooms, including 24 luxury suites, are decorated in bold stripes with oriental furniture, canopy-draped beds, lighter-than-air down comforters and down pillows, and plasma screen TVs. Whirlpool baths, luxury Aveda toiletries, animal print bathrobes, DVD and CD players, high-speed Internet access, and in-room bar fridge add to the level of guest pampering. The hotel’s spa features a Roman bath-style whirlpool for the ultimate in sensual relaxation, plus steam room, sauna, massage rooms and exercise facilities. The evening fireside wine reception in the cosy living room is an opportunity for guests to mingle and enjoy wine and cheese, free neck massages or tarot readings. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are served in the Petit Café, or for a more European experience, the adjacent Grand Café, with full-length wood-panelled bar, which has the ambience of a Parisian train station in the 1920s. A business centre includes Bloomberg 24/7. The pet-friendly Monaco offers the unique feature of a goldfish pet companion upon request. It is strategically located in the heart of the Downtown/Theatre District and Union Square shopping area.
501 Geary Street, Downtown/Theatre District/Union Square
Tel: (415) 292 0100 or 1 866 622 5284.
Website: www.monaco-sf.com
Price: $$$
Moderate
Hotel Diva
Travellers who associate contemporary hotels with stark white decor and a surgical air to match may be surprised by the burst of colour that Hotel Diva adds to the landscape of modern lodgings. Rooms have the hotel’s signature cobalt carpeting and such furnishings as stainless-steel accent tables and headboards. For the romantically inclined, the hotel will shower the bed in rose petals and provide a range of specially made alluring bath products. If work calls, the hotel has all of the standard business amenities, including computers with Internet service. It also maintains a listing of all the hottest entertainment and dining establishments in town. The California Pizza Kitchen provides room service and Starbucks coffee is available in the lobby. Valet and self-parking are optional.
440 Geary Street, Union Square
Tel: (415) 885 0200 or 1 800 553 1900.
Website: www.hoteldiva.com
Price: $
Orchard Hotel
One of San Francisco’s newest upscale boutique hotels, the Orchard is just two blocks from Union Square on the Powell Street Cable Car Line and close to Nob Hill. Intimate and elegant, with 104 guest rooms including 9 suites, the hotel pampers guests with deluxe amenities. Luxurious linens and toiletries, Balinese wood, black granite bathroom countertops, plush bathrobes, surround sound DVD movies and CD players, high-speed DSL Internet, in-room safes and mini-bars and cordless telephones offer all the conveniences for sophisticated travellers. Complimentary European breakfast buffet is served daily in the hotel’s stylish Vignette Restaurant (see Restaurants). Vaulted ceilings, arched windows and the gleaming marble lobby are enhanced by the doorman’s friendly welcome and hotel’s attention to every detail. Repeating the family success in Singapore and Perth (Australia), owner Mrs SC Huang has built the Orchard under high environmental standards, and has also opened a sister hotel, the Orchard Garden, a few doors down on Bush Street. The Orchard Garden is a true ‘green’ hotel and was only the third hotel in the USA to be awarded LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification. Both hotels are smoke-free environments.
665 Bush Street, Union Square/Nob Hill
Tel: (415) 362 8878 or 1 888 717 2881.
Website: www.theorchardhotel.com
Price: $$
Super 8
This popular American motel chain caters to travellers who want clean, comfortable accommodation but are not concerned with personalised hotel services. All rooms and suites are furnished in a simple style and have the same basic facilities, including complimentary local telephone calls, coffee maker and hairdryer, however, the suites are larger. Jacuzzi rooms available. A Continental breakfast is included in the price, as well as in-room tea and coffee. Situated a short walk from the Presidio and Fisherman’s Wharf, the hotel is close to dozens of restaurants. Parking is free on a first come first serve basis.
2440 Lombard Street/Fisherman’s Wharf
Tel: (415) 922 0244.
Website: www.super8.com
Price: $
Other Recommendations
MacArthur Place
In the heart of northern California’s wine country, historic Greek revival, Victorian style design MacArthur Place Inn is a charming and luxurious getaway for both business and leisure travellers. Originally built in the 1850s for a wealthy Missouri landowner, the Sonoma estate was transformed by visionary decorator and developer Suzanne Brangham into a romantic country inn in 1997, and today features 64 spacious guest rooms, cottages and suites on 2.4 hectares (6 acres) of lush gardens and winding walkways. A larger-than-life outdoor 3ft high chess set is nestled amongst the rambling gardens, fountains and hedgerows. Evening wine and cheese is served in the library, where guests can enjoy a good book or game of chess fireside. This spa retreat is over-the-top luxury. Every room is individually decorated with custom fabrics, furniture and artworks commissioned by local artists. Four-poster beds, open fireplaces, surround sound DVD players, walk-in showers, whirlpool baths, travertine stone countertops and locally-produced organic grape seed bath products are perfectly complemented with the on-site Garden Spa’s exotic treatments. Saddles Restaurant, a superb steakhouse in the estate’s century-old barn replete with whimsical equestrian decor, also serves an outstanding complimentary buffet breakfast. MacArthur Place is just a 45-minute drive north of San Francisco, and the perfect home base for winery excursions in both Sonoma and Napa Valleys.
29 East MacArthur Street, Sonoma
Tel: (707) 938 2929 or 1 800 722 1866.
Website: www.macarthurplace.com
Price: $$$$
White Swan Inn
A crackling fireplace in each of the 26 guestrooms and suites adds to the warmth and charm of this English-style bed and breakfast fashioned after the intimate hotels of London. Perfectly located in the Nob Hill district on Bush Street, and a short walk or cable car ride to Union Square, the White Swan Inn is a delight most guests find irresistible. Romantic and charming, complete with dark wood panelling, rich floral carpets, plush furniture and enchanting art and collectibles, the White Swan offers many extras that encourage guests to relax and let the world go by. Complimentary treats include home-cooked gourmet breakfast buffet in the dining room, evening wine and hors d’oeuvres served fireside in the cosy parlour, library for guest use, in-room mini bar with complimentary drinks, bathrobes, coffee maker, iron and hairdryer. Breakfast-in-bed is an added option, and valet parking is available. Plan on at least a couple of nights to soak up this wonderful spot in the heart of America’s most beautiful city.
845 Bush Street, Nob Hill/Union Square
Tel: (415) 775 1755 or 1 800 999 9570.
Website: www.whiteswaninnsf.com
Price: $$
$$$$ (over US$300)
$$$ (US$200 to US$299)
$$ (US$100 to US$199)
$ (under US$100)
The prices quoted here are the starting prices for a double room, excluding room tax and breakfast, unless otherwise specified.
Hotel prices in San Francisco are subject to a room tax of 14%. This is not normally included in the listed or quoted prices but added to the bill upon checkout. Note that the room tariffs given here are likely to fluctuate with the economy and special packages and discounts are often available. Check rates with each establishment prior to booking.
Business
Doubletree Hotel – San Francisco Airport
Ideally situated just 10 minutes from San Francisco Airport with excellent views of scenic San Francisco Bay, the Doubletree is especially popular for business travellers and conventions. Complimentary 24-hour airport shuttles link travellers with the BART station at the airport for direct transport to Downtown San Francisco. European style rooms and suites are spacious, with in-room coffee makers, cable TV, CD players and wireless HSIA. Room service is available 0630-2400. The cosy Chutney Lounge is a good spot for a late night drink. Guests have complimentary use of the business facilities and neighbouring pool and fitness centre. The bayside jogging trail is a refreshing change from city centre hotels. Versatile meeting and banquet space will accommodate groups of 10-250, with an outdoor courtyard popular for receptions and parties. The hotel is pet-friendly and also provides pet kennels.
835 Airport Boulevard, Burlingame
Tel: (650) 344 5500.
Website: www.doubletree.com
Price: $$$
Harbor Court Hotel
Few hotels can rival Harbor Court’s up-close view of the San Francisco Bay Bridge. Perched on the city’s eastern coastline, the 131 waterfront rooms provide spectacular sunrise vistas for those early morning business meetings. Each room contains an entertainment centre, a fax machine, a two-line telephone, a modem point and a moderately sized sitting room with a small table. Rooms combine traditional and contemporary furnishings, and some beds are canopied. Windows are double-glazed to block out traffic noise. Guests receive complimentary use of the adjoining athletic facilities. Two expansive convention and business venues located within walking distance can be reserved through the hotel. The Ozumo Japanese restaurant next door is a popular venue for business lunches. Valet parking, which tends to be pricey in San Francisco, is recommended due to city parking restrictions.
165 Steuart Street, Embarcadero
Tel: (415) 882 1300 or 1 866 792 6283.
Website: www.harborcourthotel.com
Price: $$
Hyatt Regency San Francisco
Regarded as one of San Francisco’s premier conference centres, the Hyatt Regency at the Embarcadero Centre is centrally located in a major retail and business complex. Numerous upscale restaurants are accessible by foot or local transportation. The Hyatt’s business facilities include more than 35 meeting rooms with telephones and audiovisual support, banquet facilities and high-speed Internet access. The 802 rooms and suites have comfortable, traditional furnishings and include dual-line telephones with conferencing capabilities, modem points and workstations with ergonomic chairs. Some suites have balconies. Waterfront rooms and suites feature breathtaking views of Alcatraz Island, the harbour and San Francisco’s bridges. Continental breakfast is included. The Hyatt also boasts the city’s only revolving restaurant, Equinox.
5 Embarcadero Centre, Embarcadero
Tel: (415) 788 1234 or 1 800 233 1234.
Website: www.sanfrancisco.regency.hyatt.com
Price: $$$
Luxury
Mandarin Oriental, San Francisco
Travellers stay here for work or pleasure. All guest rooms at this luxury hotel located in the city’s third tallest building have exquisite panoramic views of San Francisco and the waterfront (in-room binoculars are provided for peering out at the cable cars below). The hotel group is famous for its exotic surroundings, which include sophisticated Asian touches presented in a modern style, 260-thread-count Frette Egyptian cotton sheets, and marble bathrooms with deep soaking tubs. Business facilities include a personal computer workstation and modem point in the rooms, as well as a business centre and conference facilities. Guests may also rent laptops or cellular phones. A comprehensive health club is on site with flat-screen TVs with headphones for those who wish to work while they exercise. There is also an upscale California-Asian restaurant, Silks (see the Restaurants section).
222 Sansome Street, Financial District
Tel: (415) 276 9888 or 1 800 622 0404.
Website: www.mandarinoriental.com
Price: $$$$
Hotel Monaco
The epitome of romantic indulgence, the Hotel Monaco expresses the new trend in boutique hotels towards glamorous style and luxury. Hand-painted ceiling domes, grand staircase with marble steps, soaring two-storey inglenook fireplace, mirrored arches and the front desk reminiscent of an old steamer trunk, the Monaco combines a sense of footloose travel with intrigue and sultry seduction. The 201 guest rooms, including 24 luxury suites, are decorated in bold stripes with oriental furniture, canopy-draped beds, lighter-than-air down comforters and down pillows, and plasma screen TVs. Whirlpool baths, luxury Aveda toiletries, animal print bathrobes, DVD and CD players, high-speed Internet access, and in-room bar fridge add to the level of guest pampering. The hotel’s spa features a Roman bath-style whirlpool for the ultimate in sensual relaxation, plus steam room, sauna, massage rooms and exercise facilities. The evening fireside wine reception in the cosy living room is an opportunity for guests to mingle and enjoy wine and cheese, free neck massages or tarot readings. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are served in the Petit Café, or for a more European experience, the adjacent Grand Café, with full-length wood-panelled bar, which has the ambience of a Parisian train station in the 1920s. A business centre includes Bloomberg 24/7. The pet-friendly Monaco offers the unique feature of a goldfish pet companion upon request. It is strategically located in the heart of the Downtown/Theatre District and Union Square shopping area.
501 Geary Street, Downtown/Theatre District/Union Square
Tel: (415) 292 0100 or 1 866 622 5284.
Website: www.monaco-sf.com
Price: $$$
Moderate
Hotel Diva
Travellers who associate contemporary hotels with stark white decor and a surgical air to match may be surprised by the burst of colour that Hotel Diva adds to the landscape of modern lodgings. Rooms have the hotel’s signature cobalt carpeting and such furnishings as stainless-steel accent tables and headboards. For the romantically inclined, the hotel will shower the bed in rose petals and provide a range of specially made alluring bath products. If work calls, the hotel has all of the standard business amenities, including computers with Internet service. It also maintains a listing of all the hottest entertainment and dining establishments in town. The California Pizza Kitchen provides room service and Starbucks coffee is available in the lobby. Valet and self-parking are optional.
440 Geary Street, Union Square
Tel: (415) 885 0200 or 1 800 553 1900.
Website: www.hoteldiva.com
Price: $
Orchard Hotel
One of San Francisco’s newest upscale boutique hotels, the Orchard is just two blocks from Union Square on the Powell Street Cable Car Line and close to Nob Hill. Intimate and elegant, with 104 guest rooms including 9 suites, the hotel pampers guests with deluxe amenities. Luxurious linens and toiletries, Balinese wood, black granite bathroom countertops, plush bathrobes, surround sound DVD movies and CD players, high-speed DSL Internet, in-room safes and mini-bars and cordless telephones offer all the conveniences for sophisticated travellers. Complimentary European breakfast buffet is served daily in the hotel’s stylish Vignette Restaurant (see Restaurants). Vaulted ceilings, arched windows and the gleaming marble lobby are enhanced by the doorman’s friendly welcome and hotel’s attention to every detail. Repeating the family success in Singapore and Perth (Australia), owner Mrs SC Huang has built the Orchard under high environmental standards, and has also opened a sister hotel, the Orchard Garden, a few doors down on Bush Street. The Orchard Garden is a true ‘green’ hotel and was only the third hotel in the USA to be awarded LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification. Both hotels are smoke-free environments.
665 Bush Street, Union Square/Nob Hill
Tel: (415) 362 8878 or 1 888 717 2881.
Website: www.theorchardhotel.com
Price: $$
Super 8
This popular American motel chain caters to travellers who want clean, comfortable accommodation but are not concerned with personalised hotel services. All rooms and suites are furnished in a simple style and have the same basic facilities, including complimentary local telephone calls, coffee maker and hairdryer, however, the suites are larger. Jacuzzi rooms available. A Continental breakfast is included in the price, as well as in-room tea and coffee. Situated a short walk from the Presidio and Fisherman’s Wharf, the hotel is close to dozens of restaurants. Parking is free on a first come first serve basis.
2440 Lombard Street/Fisherman’s Wharf
Tel: (415) 922 0244.
Website: www.super8.com
Price: $
Other Recommendations
MacArthur Place
In the heart of northern California’s wine country, historic Greek revival, Victorian style design MacArthur Place Inn is a charming and luxurious getaway for both business and leisure travellers. Originally built in the 1850s for a wealthy Missouri landowner, the Sonoma estate was transformed by visionary decorator and developer Suzanne Brangham into a romantic country inn in 1997, and today features 64 spacious guest rooms, cottages and suites on 2.4 hectares (6 acres) of lush gardens and winding walkways. A larger-than-life outdoor 3ft high chess set is nestled amongst the rambling gardens, fountains and hedgerows. Evening wine and cheese is served in the library, where guests can enjoy a good book or game of chess fireside. This spa retreat is over-the-top luxury. Every room is individually decorated with custom fabrics, furniture and artworks commissioned by local artists. Four-poster beds, open fireplaces, surround sound DVD players, walk-in showers, whirlpool baths, travertine stone countertops and locally-produced organic grape seed bath products are perfectly complemented with the on-site Garden Spa’s exotic treatments. Saddles Restaurant, a superb steakhouse in the estate’s century-old barn replete with whimsical equestrian decor, also serves an outstanding complimentary buffet breakfast. MacArthur Place is just a 45-minute drive north of San Francisco, and the perfect home base for winery excursions in both Sonoma and Napa Valleys.
29 East MacArthur Street, Sonoma
Tel: (707) 938 2929 or 1 800 722 1866.
Website: www.macarthurplace.com
Price: $$$$
White Swan Inn
A crackling fireplace in each of the 26 guestrooms and suites adds to the warmth and charm of this English-style bed and breakfast fashioned after the intimate hotels of London. Perfectly located in the Nob Hill district on Bush Street, and a short walk or cable car ride to Union Square, the White Swan Inn is a delight most guests find irresistible. Romantic and charming, complete with dark wood panelling, rich floral carpets, plush furniture and enchanting art and collectibles, the White Swan offers many extras that encourage guests to relax and let the world go by. Complimentary treats include home-cooked gourmet breakfast buffet in the dining room, evening wine and hors d’oeuvres served fireside in the cosy parlour, library for guest use, in-room mini bar with complimentary drinks, bathrobes, coffee maker, iron and hairdryer. Breakfast-in-bed is an added option, and valet parking is available. Plan on at least a couple of nights to soak up this wonderful spot in the heart of America’s most beautiful city.
845 Bush Street, Nob Hill/Union Square
Tel: (415) 775 1755 or 1 800 999 9570.
Website: www.whiteswaninnsf.com
Price: $$
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