San Francisco & Beyond

There is much to see and do outside of San Francisco from outdoor recreation to wineries and more.

Family Friendly

There’ll be no feuding for a bed with our Family Room, includes one double bed and one twin bed

Explore The Neighborhood

Our affordable downtown hotel is within walking distance of many of San Francisco’s major attractions

At Your Service

We have complementary amenities including WiFi and a continental breakfast

Mithila Hotel

Elegant Design and Flexible Features

 

San Francisco, California Hotel Near Union Square

 

Bring your walking shoes when you stay with us at our affordable downtown San Francisco hotel, which is conveniently close to such popular attractions as Union Square and Chinatown

We’re within walking distance of Union Square, the financial district, cable cars, Chinatown, theaters and world-class restaurants. What’s more, our friendly, professional staff is dedicated to making your stay in San Francisco a most pleasant and memorable one.
 
  • San Francisco, California Accommodations. Our downtown San Francisco boutique hotel near Union Square awaits your arrival with 40 contemporary guest rooms. Each accommodation boasts modern amenities like cable television, refrigerator, microwave and complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access.
 
  • San Francisco, CA Hotel Services. Experience such guest-friendly hotel services as complimentary continental breakfast, concierge desk and use of nearby fitness center at a discount rate.
 
  • Downtown San Francisco Restaurants. If you’re into good food, you’ll want to get into as many San Francisco restaurants as you can. And many of the top eateries are within walking distance of our downtown hotel.

Top Reasons to stay

1. Centrally located minutes away from all San Francisco's attractions
2. Convenient access to public transportation
3. Affordable
4. Comfortable
5. Five Hospitals within 2 miles
6. Great Restaurants within walking distance
7. Shopping
8. Nightlife
9. Modern Amennities
10. Discounted Parking

Top Events

  • Hiking Yoga

    Every Mon., Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat. - Eric Kipp may be brilliant. Without a doubt, the spirit of San Francisco itself pulses quickly in his veins, because he is the creator of Hiking Yoga. It's exactly what it sounds like; you follow the charge up one of our butt-bustin' hills, and once you're up there, the organizer/sherpas hand...

  • Audium 9

    8:30 p.m. every Fri., Sat. - The Audium was started in 1965 by composer Stan Shaff and equipment designer Doug McEachern. Shows are Fridays and Saturdays, and you have to be there on time — they lock the door. The room fits 50 people or so. There are chairs arranged in a semicircle. There are something like 180 spe...

  • San Francisco City Guides Walking Tours

    Daily - As a self-described "logical extension of a free public library," our local free walking-tour company is, like most libraries, a fascinating mash of nerdy and white-hot rad. The San Francisco City Guides walking tours happen every day (except major holidays), are free, and follow in the foots...

  • California Academy of Sciences Free Day

    June 2 - Do yourself a favor: Today is the California Academy of Sciences Free Day. Emphasis on day -- perfect for the funderemployed, who more than anyone deserve a day of brain-melting beauty. So ditch the gray pounding and run-run-run pace of the city, in favor of the 4-story rainforest exhibit, to...

  • The Erotic Reading Circle

    7:30 p.m. fourth Wed. of every month - Finding your voice as a writer is hard. Finding your voice as an erotic writer is all but impossible. In one direction is "awkward and clinical." In another is "Anne Rice." And there's literally hundreds of others that result in the rough equivalent of "I have a headache." Further complicating matte...

  • Go Deep!: Let's Wrestle

    8:00 p.m. first Thu. of every month - Mud wrestling is so over. It's like Dynasty or that mechanical-bull thing that John Travolta made famous about 50 years ago in Oklahoma or Kansas or wherever that movie was. Here in sexy San Francisco -- in the enlightened 21st century -- we have lube wrestling, namely Go Deep: Let'...

  • Writers with Drinks

    7:30 p.m. second Sat. of every month - When you move to San Francisco and ask about the literary scene, Writers With Drinks is likely the first thing people tell you about. For one thing, most of us can get behind drinking as a social activity, especially when it’s being done by the witty and verbose. But the real reason is ...

  • Aquatic Park Bathhouse Building Tour

    3:00 p.m. daily - Politicians and news outlets have started using the term "WPA" again — have you noticed? The Works Progress Administration, of course, put people to work during and after the Great Depression. Even artists were paid to work; the WPA encompassed projects that employed actors, painters, and write...

  • Eve Ensler

    7:00 p.m. May 21 - Eve Ensler is the activist, playwright, and author responsible for worldwide hit The Vagina Monologues as well as the New York Times best-selling book I Am an Emotional Creature, among others. A woman who has spent much of her life exploring and documenting the female body and t...

  • Two Lines Press Launch Celebration

    7:00 p.m. May 22 - The Center for the Art of Translation is without question one of the most impressive literary organization in the Bay Area, and recently it has been kicking things into high gear. On Wednesdays, it celebrate the launch of a new and expanded publishing arm, called Two Lines Press, with the rel...

  • Boris: From the Past, The Present, and Through to the Future (performing Flood)

    8:00 p.m. May 22 - Formed in the early '90s, when guitarist Wata, bassist/guitarist Takeshi, and drummer Atsuo met while attending a Tokyo art school, the Japanese experimentalists in Boris have traveled a bewildering path from their early roots as drone/doom merchants. Ear...

  • Shaping Sound

    8:00 p.m. May 22 - In 2012, the Oxygen network premiered the reality show All the Right Moves. It followed Emmy-nominated choreographer Travis Wall as he started his dance company Shaping Sound with three lifelong friends. Could they make it as upstarts in today’s competitive dance industry? Would ...

  • American Tripps, Singin’ and Pingin’

    6:00 p.m. May 24 - Musical chairs, ping-pong, and a karaoke DJ walk into a theater together — no, it’s not the setup for a bad joke — it’s the hilarious event concept from American Tripps, Singin’ and Pingin’. A semi-regular occurrence, tonight’s Pingin’ will mix ...

  • Live at 851

    8:00 p.m. May 24 - A little over a year ago, Janey Smith started putting on readings in the derelict apartment above her own: Without electricity, The Squat is lit with an abundance of tea candles and authors read from a stage composed of dirt swept up from the unfinished floors, surrounded by a huddle of attendees. T...

  • Carnaval S.F. 2013 Grand Parade

    9:30 a.m. May 26 - “You don’t cancel Christmas, and you don’t cancel Carnaval,” said organizer Roberto Hernandez back in March, when it looked like the cultural festival might not happen this year due to fiscal troubles. Since then, Hernandez and a coalition of nonprofits have been hustl...

  • San Francisco Comedy Explosion

    8:00 p.m. May 26 - The Hella Gay Comedy Show, one of the Bay Area’s active gay comedy groups, is getting hella straight this week in honor of its strongest comedy-world allies. Normally the Hella Gays shine the spotlight on LGBT comedians in the Bay Area, but now they’re switching it up to let their allies...

  • DocFest

    7:00 p.m. May 28 - If you are so excited about documentaries that you always can’t even wait another minute to see one, you’re in luck. Two of the most talked-about documentaries showing during SF Docfest will be previewed Tuesday night at the Roxie. There’s the film 10th Parallel, in which a Brazili...

  • Funkytown: Tuesday Night Skate

    7:00 p.m. May 28 - Think love in the roller rink only happens in ’70s cult classics and that thoroughly enjoyable (we swear) 2005 flick Roll Bounce, starring Bow Wow? San Francisco’s very own Godfather of Skating David Miles met his wife of 32 years while skating in Golden Gate Park, where he’...

  • Sunday Open Gyms

    Every Sun. - Large American cities during the industrial age had amateur baseball leagues made up of blue-collar workers who created their own little societies unseen by the general populace. Men formed their teams — representing factories, power plants, and other facilities — developed rivalries, and ...

  • Raw SF

    7:00 p.m. May 24 - Sure, standing around in the stairwell of 49 Geary drinking champagne during its First Thursday gallery openings can be fun. But it's not a great way to see the best artwork this city can offer (unless you view getting trampled as a form of crowd-sourced, contemporary performance art). Switch your b...

  • Loni Love

    8:00 p.m. daily from May 24 until May 26 - Thank goodness Loni Love quit her electrical engineering job to pursue a career in comedy. Electrical engineering is cool, sure; I mean, circuits? And there’s money and probably some stability in it, but when your friend’s dad tells jokes about, say, how he’s thinking about ...

  • Kunst-Stoff Arts Fest 2013

    Daily until June 7 - They say it takes three weeks to create a habit, and the third annual KUNST-STOFF Arts Fest gives you three and a half of them to take dance classes, participate in workshops on choreography and creative-intuition, and attend performances loosely centered on the theme “Inhabit.” C...

  • Anna and the Annadroids presents Dullface

    8:00 p.m. daily from May 29 until May 30 - Plastic, fantastic, sarcastic robot dolls on the loose: Anna and the Annadroids presents Dullface, the newest quarter of their tetralogy Man(u)fractured. Anna Sullivan’s works are surrealist meditations on replication, mechanization, and objectification danced by a regiment of kabuki-fa...

  • Mark di Suvero at Crissy Field

    Daily from May 26 until May 26 - With Mark di Suvero at Crissy Field, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art starts off big with its plans to go beyond its walls during the museum’s expansion project. In partnership with the National Park Service and Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, eight of di Suvero’s la...

  • Family Kayak Trip

    11:00 a.m. every Sat., Sun. - If Hollywood ever tries its hand at Escape from San Francisco, we hope there are kayaks involved. There just aren’t enough kayaks in action films, you know? We imagine the little boats riding a tsunami, hurtling toward the bad guys who have taken Coit Tower hostage, somehow managing to d...