review: It wasn't the best introduction to San Francisco. The cab driver took us right through the middle of the Tenderloin District which is on the way to the hotel if you take a direct route off the freeway from the airport. The Tenderloin district is a &quot;pit of despair&quot; to quote our Frommers Guide Book. (We read about it after we got to the hotel.) The hotel is right on the edge of this district, and so we thought we had made a big mistake to book a hotel in such a bad neighborhood. (We didn't know anything about this when we booked.) To give the hotel credit, the rooms were a decent size and very clean. The walls, however, are very thin, and we had a situation in the middle of the night where the people next door kept us awake just by talking. The service is excellent. The hotel staff at the reception could not have been more helpful. As we had not paid a very high price for this hotel, we learned once again that you get what you pay for. I think in hindsight that we should have booked a more expensive hotel and done more research on the location of the hotel. I would not recommend this hotel to a friend only because of its location. If they were on a tight budget, I would tell them it is decent hotel for the money, but to be very careful where they walk. San Francisco downtown, by the way, is very typical of large American cities, which means you always want to know where your purse or wallet is, and to avoid eye contact with the many homeless and panhandlers.
question: Why do I have a great breakfast place?
expensive hotel