San Want Hotel, Taipei

Advantages: Comfortable, Friendly, Good Facilities
Disadvantages: Parking at the front of the hotel is sometimes difficult

...base for exploring San Francisco. The only slight disadvantage is that, if you arrive by car, you have to find a place to park at the front of the hotel - this can be difficult as it is a busy area. Once you have parked and unloaded, one of the staff takes your car keys and drives your car away to the hotel parking garage which is elsewhere. This is called valet parking and is a little known concept to us Brits! When you want your car again, you just ask at the reception and, in about 5-10 minutes, it magically appears outside the hotel! From the beginning, the service at the hotel was excellent. The staff at reception were friendly, helpful and efficient and a porter took our luggage up to our room. The room itself was fairly large, well decorated and with a very comfortable large bed! A nice touch was a basket of high quality... Read review

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Advantages: An inexpensive hotel in a decent neighborhood, clean, really kewl claw-foot bathtub, haunted
Disadvantages: Some poorly-designed shower rooms, inattentive chambermaid, parking accommodations are not the most convenient

...Let's face it. The biggest attraction for guests to the San Remo Hotel in San Francisco is the price. For anyone traveling on budget, it offers a bed and plumbing facilities at a rate that won't break the bank of someone with limited resources. I had stayed there when my British girlfriend, Jayne, came to visit a couple years ago. Even though it lacks most of the amenities offered by today's hotels, it has one other attraction newer ones don't have: ghosts. My boyfriend's, Russell's, birthday was coming up. He had never been to Alcatraz and had mentioned an interest in seeing it. After spending my last couple of birthdays with me in Arizona, I wanted to arrange something a little special for him on his. Despite the challenge to our privacy those two nights, I nonetheless found this little hotel charming and may have even... Read review

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Advantages: The price, the location, the staff, the rooms, everything
Disadvantages: ...our shower was like needles

...Introduction: So, we're stuck in Albuquerque, and have pretty much seen about as much desert as we can take. We've 'done' all there is to do. With a spare weekend on our hands, we decided to take advantage of our Geographical positioning and take a trip to somewhere on the west coast. I've always wanted to see San Francisco, and after looking into flights, we found some bargains. So off we go. We looked for reasonable hotels, and came across The Petite Auberge, it wasn't the cheapest we found, but it had an appealing charm that won us over, so we booked. Company info: The Petite Auberge is part of the Joie De Vivre chain, I found this information on their website: "Joie de Vivre Hotels is California's largest boutique hotel company. Started in San Francisco in 1987 by Chip Conley, while in his mid-twenties, Joie de... Read review

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