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

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.
Ride the world-famous cable cars to several top tourist spots like Fisherman’s Wharf and Ghirardelli Square. Savor great meals, superb shopping and live theater-all practically right outside the front door of our San Francisco boutique hotel. What’s more, many more wonderful Bay Area attractions are a scenic car ride away, such as Sonoma and Napa Valley and the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
San Francisco, CA Area Destinations. There is much to see and do outside of San Francisco. Take a breathtaking two-hour drive down Highway 1 along the incomparable California coast and you’ll come upon Monterey, home to historic Cannery Row and the must-see Monterey Bay Aquarium where incredible sea creatures abound. View high-definition footage of amazing deep sea animals and try out underwater robots and other high-tech tools used by scientists in the cool exhibit, “Mission to the Deep.” About half the distance to the north you’ll discover incredible beauty of another kind in Northern California Wine Country. California’s wine industry was born in the Sonoma Valley more than 100 years ago and it’s never been lovelier-or bubblier. Sonoma Valley produces an extensive range of wines, including Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Merlot, Zinfandel, Cabernet Sauvignon and Sauvignon Blanc. The Napa Valley is one of the world’s great wine-growing regions, producing such Bordeaux grapes as Cabernet Sauvignon and Sauvignon Blanc. Make a day of it by packing a picnic lunch or indulging in a great meal in one of the area’s many fashionable restaurants.
San Francisco, CA Attractions. Walk out the front door of our downtown San Francisco hotel and within one-half mile you’ll encounter Union Square, Chinatown and the classic cable cars.

San Francisco, CA Area Attractions
  • Union Square - ¼ mile
  • Cable Cars - ¼ mile
  • Chinatown - ½ mile
  • Asian Art Museum - ½ mile
  • Moscone Center - 1 mile
  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - 1 mile
  • Japantown - 1 mile
  • Lombard Street - 1.5 miles
  • North Beach - 1.5 miles
  • Ghirardelli Square - 2 miles
  • Fisherman’s Wharf - 2 miles
  • Alcatraz Island - 2 miles
  • Palace of Fine Arts - 3 miles
  • Exploratorium - 3 miles
  • Golden Gate Bridge - 3.5 miles
  • University of California, San Francisco - 4 miles
  • San Francisco Zoo - 7 miles
  • Wine Country - 45 miles
  • Monterey Bay Aquarium - 120 miles  [Top]
Nearby Cities
  • Sausalito - 9 miles
  • Berkeley - 14 miles
  • Palo Alto - 33 miles
  • San Jose - 48 miles  [Top]
Airport & Transportation
  • San Francisco International Airport - 14 miles
  • Oakland International Airport - 20 miles
  • San Jose International Airport - 47 miles  [Top]
Directions
    • From the South (San Francisco Airport) on Highway 101. Take Highway 101 North towards San Francisco. Stay to the left, following the signs for the Golden Gate Bridge/Civic Center. Take the first exit, Ninth Street, which empties onto Bryant Street. Travel across Bryant Street and stay on Ninth Street for five blocks until you get to Market Street. Go across Market Street where Ninth Street changes to Larkin Street. Stay on Larkin Street for eleven blocks. Make a right turn on Post Street. Within two blocks make a left on Leavenworth Street. Make an immediate left on Sutter Street. The Mithila Hotel is one half block on the right side at 972 Sutter Street.

    • From the East (Oakland Airport) via the Bay Bridge. Take Highway 80 towards San Francisco, and cross the Bay Bridge. Stay in the left lane and exit at Fifth Street, which is a left lane exit. At the light on the Fifth Street off ramp, merge softly to the left onto Harrison Street. Go one block and make a right turn at Sixth Street. Four blocks later, Sixth Street intersects Market Street. Cross Market Street, where Sixth changes to Taylor Street. Continue on Taylor for seven blocks and make a left turn on Sutter Street. The Mithila Hotel is two and one-half blocks further at 972 Sutter Street on the right side.

  • From the North on Highway 101. Take 101 South towards San Francisco and cross the Golden Gate Bridge. Take the Lombard Street Exit and proceed on Lombard for approximately 1 mile. At Van Ness, turn right. Go 14 blocks to Bush Street and make a left, using the left turn lane at the intersection of Bush and Van Ness. Continue on Bush for 6 blocks then make a right turn onto Jones Street. Head down the hill for one block to Sutter Street and make left onto Sutter. The Mithila Hotel is on the right side at 972 Sutter.  [Top]
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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

  • 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...

  • 6:00 p.m. fourth Tue. of every month - Sketch Tuesdays, founded in 2006, is a monthly event where 20 or so local artists hang out and make their art on a small scale. When the artwork is completed it becomes available to purchase by the audience mingling nearby -- and often for cheap! If you like the funky fresh art up on the wall...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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'...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 7:00 p.m. May 25 - Thanks to his steady work on the hit crime drama NCIS: Los Angeles, LL Cool J is better known as an actor than a rapper to a whole generation of hip-hop fans. Of course, it hasn't helped that most of his output since seminal 1990 effort Mama Said Knock You ...

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  • 9:00 p.m. May 25 - The wind on this Thursday night in Austin sags with the din of a dozen hopeful rock bands and the stench of stale beer. In a dark alley behind of a row of clubs on Sixth Street, Mikal Cronin leans into an alcove and tries to light a cigarette. It's tough...

  • 9:00 p.m. May 25 - Lights Down Low has come a long way since its humble beginnings in the closet-sized basement of 222 Hyde. Now one of the most respected party crews in San Francisco, the party will celebrate its seventh birthday with an epic, house-oriented bash...

  • 9:00 p.m. May 25 - Sometimes, it's best to completely disregard musicians' thoughts on their own work. Case in point: Elliphant architect Ellinor Olovsdotter described her music as "pop punk with some electronic influence" in one interview. Based on that assessment...

  • 9:30 p.m. May 25 - For a while there, it didn't look like the Sacramento trio Tera Melos was ever going to get serious about anything besides keeping its songs both technically proficient and structurally and semantically indecipherable. But then it found a way to shape up a...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 9:00 p.m. May 26 - It's easy for just about anyone with a laptop to create decent electronic dance music. But while these new tools are powerful, they often lack the creative unpredictability associated with the hardware of yesteryear. This discrepancy has caused many contemporary producers to look to the past for new...

  • 6:00 p.m. May 28 - The wind on this Thursday night in Austin sags with the din of a dozen hopeful rock bands and the stench of stale beer. In a dark alley behind of a row of clubs on Sixth Street, Mikal Cronin leans into an alcove and tries to light a cigarette. It's tough...

  • 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’...

  • 9:00 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...

  • 8:00 p.m. daily 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 ...

  • 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 regimen...

  • 7:00 p.m. every Wed. - Still reeling from the stiletto-sized hole in your heart since The Golden Girls Christmas Episodes closed for the season? Us too. But you can wipe the glitter-encrusted tears from your eyes, because Trannyshack is back with drag renditions of the popular, cosmo- and shoe-obsessed HBO series S...

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