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.