Long Past Its Prime – Not for the Business Traveler
Sadly, this may have at one time been a grand hotel, but that day is long past. It is on the absolutely worst stretch of Market Street in San Francisco. There is nothing along this stretch but boarded up storefronts and a couple strip-joints. Luckily there is a Starbucks adjoining the lobby as this is what you get! And, no coffee in rooms. No room-service. And, listening to the staff at the desk – this is a “groups” hotel. Yeah, groups from out-of-the-country, groups of teenagers, and groups of unknowing Midwesterners. The plumbing is from the 1930’s. The bed I tried to sleep in was actually lumpy! I have never had a hotel-bed be wrecked, and – it was on three legs. I thought it would fall over! And, smoking in the hallways! This is not a good place for a business traveler. It may be a place for a teen spring-break wild-vacation.