Hotel Union Square

Would highly recommend spending a couple dollars more to avoid the "Petite Queen" room. There was barely enough room to walk around the end of the bed to get to the bathroom. Opening the door to the hallway would have been impossible if someone had been sitting in the task chair at the desk. The room really was pretty tiny. I did see other rooms, and the "regular" queen rooms were quite nice.

If you don't plan to spend much time lounging in your room, this hotel might work for you. But be warned that the rooms are tiny unless you are used to travel only in Tokyo or London.Also, if you prepay on [...] and need to shorten your stay, there's no refund.

After an enjoyable and quick check-in experience, a quick ride up to the top (6th) floor, and a winding trip down the corridors to your room (629), you open the door to a 10 foot square, dark room. Your horror begins.Entering, your shin bumps into something, and you stop, search for, and find the light switch. After some experimentation (where you find that the 1-5 scale on the sliders is calibrated such that '1' is the dimmest light, but the fastest ceiling fan speed), you realize that what your shin has encountered is in fact your mini-queen bed, looking lovely with many pillows, but with about an 18 inch clearance around it on three sides.With the lights on, you look around the room in a clockwise direction, from where you've entered. You are in the lower right corner of the room, and to your immediate left, you see a flat screen TV on the wall; something to dodge when travelling in that direction if you're more than about three feet tall. The left wall is filled with a LARGE porthole-styled mirror, giving an illusion of depth, and a door. The wall opposite you has a small radiator, the head of the bed, and a small nightstand with a phone, a clock radio, and a space beneath it filled with a few books.The right wall has a two foot square nook with a shelf holding a splendid array of four cleansing liquids, a pair of drinking glasses, and a hair dryer in a bag, as well as a window to an enclosed oubliette of some sort, and a small pedestal sink. The remainder of the wall holds another door.Behind the doors? One holds a triangular closet with an ironing board, an iron, a small shelf with an extra pillow above a dowel with six hangers on it, and not much room for much else. The other has a bathroom, with a shower enclosure with a glass wall but no door, just an opening to get in, as well as a toilet that barely affords enough room to sit down, although there is a protrusion in the wall to the right that stops you from sitting in alignment with the seat. There is NO coffee maker in this room, but there IS an iPud plug for the clock radio. Sigh.Staff? Was great. Noise? No notice while sleeping, doors tended to slam when closing and were very audible. No notice of other people's talking or TV. Spent 2 days, housekeeping was excellent, refilled everything as requested. With warning that the room was smaller than the cells in Alcatraz, I might have been okay...or I might have gone elsewhere.[...]

great time...very friendly and helpful

Hotel experience was very good, clean and helpful on informing where to go and location, location, location was awe. When we got off the plane we jumped on the Bart and landed half a block of the hotel. we never even thought of the need of a car. this was so cool. next morning took the trolly car to Pier 39 and spent day walking the different piers and went to Alcatraz. Next day went to Oakland on the Bart came back went to Golden gate park, trasportation was so available. We did it all, get ready to see it all from this Hotel Location!!

I was really surprised at how small the room was in the hotel. It was nice, clean, and well appointed but it was really dinky and dark. I almost felt a bit claustrophoibic. The front desk person ([...]) was really nice, responsive, and very helpful. The morning staff was good, as well. I bought a package so I don't know how much the room cost so I don't know if I received good value. I hope it wasn't much. I've stayed in many hotels in SF over the years. This was my least memorable experience.

rooms were very tiny and lack of room service were both negatives. however, great location, nice staff, free wine tasting every night 6-7pm.. did i mention great location. the free wi-fi was a mixed bag, it worked, but if you were inactive for more than 5 minutes, you get booted and have to login all over again. not the greatest. you could stay at st. regis down the block for double the price, but really, how much time do you spend in a hotel room anyway.

enjoyed my stay

My friends and I were in San Francisco to see "Wicked" at the Orpheum Theatre and used Hotel Union Square as a our "home base." We did enjoy the stay, beds were nicer than okay, low to the ground though. The bathroom however was very small and we did a lot of getting ready in the entire room. Plenty of outlets to plug in the various hair things, and laptop and the in-home iHome was awesome for pump-up music. The hotel is very easy to get in and out of and very close to the greatest shopping locations. For a girls weekend this place was perfect! They even printed our return flight boarding passes for us the night before making the transition from hotel to airport seamless. P.S. parking is expensive there- $30 for 24 hour valet for guests and more for others. So two days is another $60 on the total....three is $90 and so forth, It adds up really quick!

We were in San Francisco to attend Wonder-con. The hotel was perfect for us. It is a matter of blocks from the Moscone Center so it only took a few minutes to walk to the convention each day. The rooms are true to the pictures. We had a deluxe queen size room with a good size bathroom. The closet was tiny but there was a decent sized dresser for our clothes. Our unit was on the 3rd floor directly on Powell Street. We could hear the cable cars and traffic but only faintly. We really enjoyed our stay!