With a great central location right on the cable car line, this business-friendly hotel is relatively new, but feels as though it's been part of the...

Opened in 2007, the Orchard Garden was only the fourth hotel in the world to win LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) certification, meaning...

Famous guests are nothing new to the Palace, which witnessed the death of Hawaii's last king in 1891 and hosted Enrico Caruso the night of the great 1906...

A couple of blocks from the heart of the Castro, this smartly renovated Victorian (with an Edwardian annex) caters to gay and lesbian travellers, but...

Add funky styling to affordable rates and parking for tour buses in a 'gritty' neighbourhood, then sit back and watch the hipsters roll in. That's certainly...

One of the more successful olde-worlde hotel operations in San Francisco, the Queen Anne is, as its name suggests, housed in an extremely handsome old...

Still basking in the Summer of Love, the hotel - a red Victorian, funnily enough - wears its hippie heart on its sleeve: wildly colourful rooms revel in...

The Ritz-Carlton has been the de facto choice for dignitaries and heads of state for years. As you might expect, then, the rooms and suites are sumptuously...

It's difficult to imagine this meticulously restored Italianate Edwardian serving time as a boarding house for dockworkers displaced by the Great Fire....

San Francisco doesn't really do beach motels, but this 1960s motor lodge comes pretty close. Most of the large and spotless rooms have at least partial...

Older European travellers. Younger gay couples. Briefcase-toting professionals with child-toting spouses in tow. Airline crews in for a night. Singles...

The pinnacle of SoMa's museum district and a worthy rival to the nearby Four Seasons, this 40-storey hotel and condominium tower seemed to take forever to...

This beautifully maintained, three-storey Victorian building on the edge of Golden Gate Park has been accommodating travellers in fine style since 1904;...

This family-run hotel offers good-value basic accommodation in an excellent location (it's two blocks from Union Square and virtually next door to the...