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The W Hotel San Francisco is a 31-story hotel with 404 guestrooms. Historically this hotel is expensive. los angeles animal shelter A low rate for the W SF is $159 to $179 per night. Rates most frequently hover around $219 to $249. San Francisco's Moscone Convention Center across the street frequently pushes rates into the $350 to $450 per night range.
Currently there is a Fantastic Suite promotion for a 700 square feet room with 2 full baths. Lower floor suites are $500 per night and upper floor suites are $575. The clause in the booking rate states:
The parking entrance is located on one-way Howard Street just past the fire station.   This is downtown San Francisco and the blare of sirens comes gratis with the territory. A Howard Street facing room will guarantee more siren noise.
I pulled in to Wheels. Valet attendants promptly surrounded our car. The hotel front desk had at least 8 separate guests los angeles animal shelter and couples waiting for check-in.   I joked with the parking attendant that I would be leaving los angeles animal shelter the hotel to park and probably get back to the hotel before Kelley could reach the front desk.
The cost of parking is the primary complaint I see in W San Francisco hotel reviews. Parking is $45 + 14% city tax; over $51 for the night. Hybrid cars get 50% parking rates. San Francisco hotels have outrageous parking fees. As always, my advice for parking with the Starwood Hotels in this area: W Hotel, St. Regis, Westin Market Street, and The Palace Hotel is to park at the Hearst Garage on Third Street and Stevenson. Hearst Garage charges a flat rate $20 for 24-hour parking, but no in-and-out privileges. The W Hotel is the farthest los angeles animal shelter Starwood los angeles animal shelter Hotel in SoMa district from the garage los angeles animal shelter at about 250 yards up Third Street. In other words, Hearst Parking is centrally located to these four Starwood Hotels, Marriott San Francisco, and Four Seasons.
Back at the hotel, Kelley was waiting and the line was down to one guest. She was surprised at how slowly the line had moved and the fact that a second staff person did not appear until people had been waiting for about ten minutes. We still waited five more minutes while the one guest at the counter had an extraordinarily long check-in time. The second staffer had already departed.
My reservation using a free weekend night was upgraded from a 300 square feet Wonderful Room on a lower floor to a 400 square feet (or so they claim) Fabulous Corner Room on the 26 th floor. Our luggage was already stacked on a hotel cart and sitting in the lobby.   There were no staffers in the lobby to assist with the luggage after receiving the room key. I pulled the cart to the elevator myself and headed to our 26 th floor room.
W Hotels are a sensory experience. Colorful lighting, aural ambience, and tactile entertainment are the trademarks of a W Hotel stay. The elevator ride has color, smells from fragrant sticks in the corner, and music.
The lobby has high ceilings and several couches and chairs for guests. I read in some other hotel reviews that internet is free access in the lobby but not free in the rooms. I will have to test out lobby internet wifi on a future trip.
San Francisco is my frequent hotel stop and I still get a thrill from the W Hotel room city views. The location across from Yerba Buena Gardens and Moscone Convention Center means about half the rooms have an open view across the southern and westerly los angeles animal shelter city landscape where few high-rise buildings block the view. Our "Fabulous" corner room at 2609 had windows with views from the northeast los angeles animal shelter to the southwest. Seating benches in front of each of the three windows maximized the utility of the room's los angeles animal shelter high rise urban setting.
los angeles animal shelter The room was incredibly bright on a clear sky day with abnormally high temperatures in the 90s throughout the entire city. We had driven through the city from Golden Gate Park where hundreds of shirtless guys and bikini-top clad women were heading to the first day of the three day Outside Lands Music festival. Parading bare skin is not unusual in San Francisco where nudity is tolerated to a large degree at public events, but walking around near bare due to the hot weather is a truly rare site for the regularly windy and fog-enveloped city of San Francisco.
Attention guests of St. Regis and W Hotels. Anyone los angeles animal shelter with working far-sighted vision can see the 120 yards from building to building. Standing naked in your room with blinds open is not too discreet.
My impression over the years is the W San Francisco hotel rooms are a bit small. On this stay I pulled out the measuring tape and found the room to be significantly smaller than the 400 square feet advertised on the website for a Fabulous room. If the room had been a linear shaped rectangle the measurements would be 14 ft. x 26 ft. for a 364 square feet room. Those were the longest coordinates in the room and the room design ate into some of that space.
The room was so far off the stated measurement that I wrote a note to the hotel General Manager stating my measurements for 2609 do not come anywhere near the 400 square los angeles animal shelter feet listed for Fabulous Rooms on the website. Actually the room is much closer to 300 square feet. Ceilings at 8 ft in most of the room provided more spaciousness than a typical hotel room.
I had a pleasant swim and the two staffers who came by and walked through the pool area did not inhibit my swimming at all.  The pool was so cool, literally when I entered, and figuratively as I settled los angeles animal shelter into the groove los angeles animal shelter of good music playing loudly over the stereo system in the pool area in the early morning hours.
A cool design feature is the symmetry of the spa tub when sitting and looking up. The spa pool is centered with the W building. The glass roof of the pool showed pink light illuminating the side of the W building.