Low cost, unpleasant
Whilst it's inexpensive, I expect a little more even for the price I was paying. I'd suggest looking elsewhere. In sum: rough area, unclean rooms, no internet connection and unfriendly staff
- It's based in Tenderloin, a more sketchy area of SF. There are vagrants outside the doors.
- The room was unclean when I entered; I did a lot of dusting and by no means got it all dusted
- There were bugs in the drawers and on the floor
- There is NO INTERNET CONNECTION. Well, technically there is, but it doesn't work unless you're sat in the lobby of the hotel, and even then I had problems connecting on both mac and windows. You may as well assume there's no internet connection here and feel lucky if you get one
- Despite a "do not disturb" sign on my door, the staff still try to walk into your room, sometimes without knocking. Thankfully there's a lock on the inside you can use. But more often than not, there was a loud thumping and a shout for room service despite the sign.
- The shower temperature wasn't stable, and kept shifting from hot to warm to hot to... regardless of how much tinkering I did with the faucets/taps
- The staff were unfriendly. Whilst I had people knocking on my door for room service, another person I overheard in the lobby did not. The management made up a number of excuses as to why it wasn't done, each one of which was followed by an explanation from this particular customer as to why that could not have been the case. Eventually the management claimed that because he was in his room there would be no room service; yet they were quite happy to do mine whilst I was in the room.
- The windows make a banging noise. You can reduce this by pushing pieces of cardboard between the frames, but some of the rattling comes from the glass in the old wooden pane rather than between to the parts of the window, so it's not possible to push something between them.