Get your pets into San Francisco hotels.

Pet friendly hotels can be tough to find and with limited choices. After our last trip to San Francisco – we built this list of some of the best pet-friendly hotels in San Francisco. We got tired of accepting whatever hotel would take us with our dog and cat – no matter how small or well-behaved. After some more detailed research – we built this list of GREAT hotels that will be a fun place for you and all your pets. Don’t hesitate to write on other hotels or pet-friendly (or unfriendly) experiences you’ve had around San Francisco. In a way – all pet owners help to set the standard of how we treat hotels with our pets. Like an outdoor hike – our motto is to leave things better than when we came – as if there was no pet at all.

Hotel Parking in San Francisco North of $45?

Hotwire users are reporting finding out the hard way that a hotel can charge more for parking than they may have paid Hotwire for their hotel room. It’s also a great ad for cabs and public transit in San Francisco. Among other downtown hotels, the Sir Francis Drake hotel in San Francisco is charging $46 per day for parking. If you win this hotel on Priceline or Hotwire – you may want to leave your car at home.

Very Best Eight Hotels in San Francisco

We’ve compiled our favorite eight San Francisco luxury hotels, when money is no object. These are great, luxurious hotels with excellent service that have been featured on our site for many years. Each hotel is summarized with why it might be your best choice, plus linked to our detailed review and discount hotel reservations. Please leave comments at these hotels on the experiences you’ve had – every review helps our community to have even more amazing trips to San Francisco. These are stack-ranked, in order — the best hotels in San Francisco from the editors of sfTravel.

1. Four Seasons Hotel – San Francisco
2. The Palace Hotel
3. W Hotel San Francisco
4. The Clift Hotel
5. Westin Saint Francis
6. Fairmont San Francisco
7. Intercontinental Mark Hopkins
8. Hyatt Regency at Embarcadero Center

San Francisco Hotel Prices Are Down by 25%.

Hotwire research by city shows that most hotel rates are down 25%-30% from the same month last year. This is a huge drop and it is giving much better prices for San Francisco hotels that we are seeing at all of our reviewed properties. You can check reviews and information on San Francisco hotels at sfTravel.

San Francisco Downtown Hotels for $75 or Less

Covering the San Francisco hotel industry, we see a lot of prices North of $200, and even “bargains” in the $150 range. When we saw our readers increasingly booking a basic, value hotel – we wanted to share it.

The Opal Hotel is right on Van Ness in San Francisco and thankfully a bit away from the Union Square tourist traps. Its a basic, older hotel – but with good quality rooms and service. Right now – they are regularly selling rooms for under $75 and we expect that to continue with the US recession.

Check out Opal Hotel and their ridiculously low rates.

Save Huge Travel Dollars: Predict Your Priceline Hotels.

If you want amazing deals on hotels, without getting just “cheap hotels” – Priceline is an interesting tool. Priceline has great deals, but you don’t know what hotel you’re going to get with the “blind” bidding process. A number of sites help you narrow down these predictions and even understand the general level of bidding prices on Priceline for a given market. The sites have been around for years, but exist “undercover” since they move into a grey area of subverting the channel segmentation that allows Priceline to offer excess hotel inventory at lower prices. We’ve used the sites and saved regularly 65% or more from the posted hotel rates at major brand hotels including Marriott and Doubletree. Check it out for your next trip – if you can take a bit of randomness with your hotel selection – Priceline “prediction” sites help to narrow that down considerably and set the lowest possible bid.

Priceline Predictor Site

One Dollar Hotel Rooms in San Francisco – No Joke.

The Orchard Hotel in San Francisco is offering one room per night, beginning on April 1st, 2009 for just one dollar. Yup, a hotel room at a very nice hotel for just a buck. The catch is there is only one per night, you’ll need to call them (call very early in the morning!!!), and there is only one “One Dollar” room per night.

San Francisco hotel prices have been falling with the recession, but a one dollar hotel room is unheard of. Get it if you can. The phone number for this unheard of deal is (415) 362-8878. Operators are standing by!

If the rooms are gone – here’s a good hotel for under $75 which our readers are snapping up – the Opal Hotel in San Francisco.

Get Away to Sausalito – Goodbye Army — Hello Green Luxury Hotel

Cavallo Point hotel and spa has arrived in Sausalito and is an incredible new option in enjoying the relaxing environment of Sausalito and the San Francisco area.  Converting the former Sausalito Army base into luxury hotel rooms has been a labor of love for the new hotel.  Guests are raving about the comfort, luxury, and reasonable convenience into the city.  For a relaxing vacation – Sausalito’s Cavallo Point is an amazing alternative to the City’s hustle and bustle.

San Francisco’s Hottest New Hotel: The Intercontinental is Open.

The InterContinental San Francisco is an amazing tower of translucent cool-blue glass windows. The Intercontinental tower’s 32 stories are above the vibrant South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood, and is fast becoming a stunning San Francisco landmark. As the first new hotel in over two decades, it isn’t surprising that InterContinental San Francisco is creating a buzz among both locals and tourists.

Located right next to Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco’s luxury Intercontinental is in an excellent location for both business and fun in San Francisco. With excellent business convenience to Moscone conferences and conventions – the Intercontinental is also within easy walking distance of premium shopping areas—including the famed Westfield San Francisco Center, trendy and upscale restaurants / nightclubs, and several excellent tourist attractions including the Museum of Modern Art and Yerba Buena Center.

Check out our full review of the Intercontinental Hotel – San Francisco’s amazing new hotel landmark.

Fastest Changing Hotel in San Francisco

San Francisco’s Crowne Plaza Hotel at Union Square is still there, but it is no longer a Crowne Plaza.  An investment firm  ("Felcor") has purchased the property and renamed it to Hotel 480.  There are future plans to improve the property – which at over 400 rooms is one of San Francisco’s biggest hotels and in a very convenient spot at Union Square. 

The location is great and although we liked Crowne Plaza – we applaud the upcoming improvements to the property.

Check out Marriott Union Square – San Francisco’s "newest" (named) hotel at SFTravel.

 

2009 Update – It seems like Felcor had bigger plans for this hotel and the Hotel 480 name was merely a stealth way to conceal the amazing new renovation. This property is now the San Francisco Marriott at Union Square. Get your Marriott Rewards card ready! What will it’s name be next week — we can only speculate!!!