Smack in the middle
This is a nice hotel. The hotel rooms are well designed. The patio with possibility for outdoor breakfast in the middle of the hotel is pitoresque and the swimmingpool on the rooftop is nice. The hotel is located in Santana Row, so right where you want to be. Within walking distance (well you could even crawl) you have a number of different restaurants many of them with trottoire tables and an interpretation of a Southern Europe atmosphere. There is music in two locations close to the hotel during weekends. Not everything is perfect though. The breakfast is complementary, but lacks the abundance you would find in other upper class hotels, the gym is small and boring, and some of the staff have a snobby attitude. But Santana Row is worth a weekend, and if so Valencia is the hotel. The hotel offers Valet parking, but this is really unnecessary, there is free parking in the parking house on Olin Street 50-100 meters from the entrance. The Guacamole at Consuela, starters at Left Bank and Selfdesigned burgers at counters are not so bad choices. But you could also try California Bistro which we think has the best food overall in Santana Row or the indian restaurant Amber which has a wonderful musselsoup, and of course listen to latino music in El Jardin sipping on a classic Margerita. Life is good.