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

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...

  • Sketch Tuesdays

    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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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’...

  • DocFest

    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...

  • WTF: Women's, Trans/Genderqueer, and Femmes' Night

    6:00 p.m. second Fri. of every month - In the name of Miriam Bengoetxea, Basque bike engineer (of Orbea Orca fame), we command you to attend WTF: the Women, Transgenderqueer, and Femme bike-fix night! Bengoetxea is one of the only women in the world designing carbon-fiber bicycle frames, partly because she's had the support of the...

  • China's Terracotta Warriors: The First Emperor's Legacy

    Every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until May 27 - He unified China, started construction on the Great Wall, introduced innovations like chariots and swords, built roads, and had his enemies buried alive. The First Emperor, Qin Shihuang, started planning for his death when he was 13 and built himself a tomb that contained a vast underground city gua...

  • DIVAfest 2013: Rebel Without a Bra – A Burlesque Cabaret

    8:00 p.m. every Fri., Sat. until June 1 - Despite modern burlesque's associations with elegantly taking one's clothes off before a live audience of hooters and hollerers, burlesque is an art form that was originally intended to make us laugh. The word itself derives from the Italian burlesco, which means to jest or joke, and its ...

  • DIVAfest 2013: You're Going to Bleed

    Every Thu., Fri., Sat. until June 1 - If Quentin Tarantino turned his attention to the quiet unease of American suburbia, we imagine the results would be similar to You're Going to Bleed, a dark comedy by playwright Melissa Fall about modern malaise, sex, and revenge, which premiered at the S.F. Olympians Festival and ...

  • 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 ...

  • Drunken Spelling Bee

    6:00 p.m. last Sun. of every month - “L-L-L-L-Lfffff.” What word is spelled like that? Nothing, but you never know how you might start spelling words when you’re drunk. That’s the idea behind the aptly-named Drunken Spelling Bee, during which competitive spellers can get all the beer they want for just $15 until...

  • The Dream Queens Revue

    9:30 p.m. fourth Wed. of every month - In a city that prides itself (see what we did there?) on having one of the most prominent and active LGBT communities in the world, how do you determine the best place to see a drag show? By going to the place with the most glitter! Described by one Yelp reviewer as "a slightly skeezy gay bar from t...