A bar with rooms on top
The Clift is a nice hotel with friendly staff, clean and comfortable rooms in a good location on Geary and Taylor (near Union Sq). However it is also a series of rooms on top of a loud and dark bar that's full of prostitutes looking for business travellers. The music pumps throughout the whole ground floor, and it's difficult to relax and chill out when you're surrounded by fat and balding business travellers being fawned over by 20 year old hookers. The bar could be nice, but it's the customers who bring it down - if you want to feel depressed to the point you would welcome some righteous wrath of god type cleansing then sit in the Clift bar on a Saturday night.
The Clift could be good, but it just needs to decide whether it is a late night bar or a hotel. I've stayed here many times over the last few years for work (forced to because of business rates) and I've had enough. Never again.