Lovely hotel, dubious location
We stayed here for 3 nights as our first port of call on a west coast road trip.
The hotel itself is beautiful, although dated. There is a Starbucks in the lobby which definitely helped with breakfasts.
Sams Diner across the road was friendly and welcoming.
The bedroom in the Whitcomb was small but clean although no means of tea or coffee making.
The receptionist was quite brusk on our arrival but then all other staff were polite and helpful.
"valet" parking is $35 per night, we weren't expecting that!...no other options for parking in the area.
The area around the hotel was decidedly dodgy, there were a lot of homeless people around and at least 10 gathered usually on the pavement where we would walk to head towards the nicer areas, this meant that invariably we would have to catch the tram where ever we wanted to go, rather than walk.