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The amenities and/or facilities may not be located at this hotel, but within a reasonable distance and additional charges may apply for use. All information has been provided by this hotel.
Check-in: 1500
Check-out: 1200
Local currency: USD
A classic five story hotel, The Opal San Francisco was constructed in 1908 in the heart of the city. The spacious lobby features a baby grand piano, stained glass windows, period antiques, complimentary wireless internet access, as well as a complimentary continental breakfast buffet. Additionally, the reception hosts a complimentary wine hour every Wednesday.
The Opal San Francisco is just blocks from the Cable Cars, Union Square, Japan Town and convenient to Fisherman's Wharf, China Town, Polk Street restaurants, Union Street shops and public transportation. Explore all of these great neighborhoods with their own unique character.
Each of the 164 well appointed guest rooms features central air and heat, cable television, complimentary secure hardwired high-speed Internet access and double paned windows that open in each guest room. The Opal's attentive, friendly staff is always available to assist with dining, sightseeing and entertainment recommendations. The Opal also features a fitness/aerobic center, guest laundry facilities, parking (extra fee) and 24 hour coffee and tea service.
At the time of check-in guest must provide a picture ID and a valid Credit Card. Debit cards are not acceptable at check-in
Check-in: 1500
Check-out: 1200
Local currency: USD
The amenities and/or facilities may not be located at this hotel, but within a reasonable distance and additional charges may apply for use. All information has been provided by this hotel.
Overall score
3.7 out of 5
(161 reviews)
Reviews and scores for each hotel are collected from customers who purchased a stay at that hotel.
Reviewers are asked to rate a variety of hotel attributes on a scale of 1 to 5. The highest possible score is "5," meaning the user was "very satisfied," while "1" is the lowest, meaning the user was "very dissatisfied."
The "overall score" is an average of all reviewer scores submitted for a hotel.
Hotel address: 1050 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco, CA 94109
San Francisco Downtown near Union Square's Shopping, Japan Town, Civic Center, Symphony, Ballet, Oprea, Dining and Theater Districts.
San Francisco International Airport(SFO) Oakland International Airport(OAK)
From the San Francisco Airport: Follow the signs on Highway 101 North to San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge Take Mission Street - 101 North Exit to Van Ness Avenue Stay on Van Ness Avenue The Opal San Francisco is located on the right at Van Ness & Geary Street.
Mel's Diner is a perfect option for the family and is connected to the hotel! Open late and serves Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.
Our Board Room(150 Square Feet) ideal for small meetings.
Please enter check-in and check-out dates to the right to select a room
Check-in: 1500
Check-out: 1200
Local currency: USD
The amenities and/or facilities may not be located at this hotel, but within a reasonable distance and additional charges may apply for use. All information has been provided by this hotel.
Overall score
3.7 out of 5
(161 reviews)
Reviews and scores for each hotel are collected from customers who purchased a stay at that hotel.
Reviewers are asked to rate a variety of hotel attributes on a scale of 1 to 5. The highest possible score is "5," meaning the user was "very satisfied," while "1" is the lowest, meaning the user was "very dissatisfied."
The "overall score" is an average of all reviewer scores submitted for a hotel.
Score
4 out of 5
Fab
Mother / Daughter Combo Nov 27, 2009
Wonderful surprize, jem of a place! ...
Traveler type: Family
Score
2 out of 5
Very bad district, parking charge
Dottorf83 Nov 26, 2009
The hotel was nice, we booked it at a very good price,less than 60$/night but...when we arrived there they told us that the ... parking was not free but was 30$/day more! so our good deal went to the hell, we had to pay 90$ a day for a very very bad located hotel, in the most dangerous district of San Francisco. The room was clean, the personal was quite freindly and the breakfast good. Just we were searching for a cheap hotel and this was not.
Traveler type: Couples
Score
4 out of 5
Clean and elegant, loved it.
Junebug Nov 20, 2009
Close proximity to MD and hosp. ...
Traveler type: Couples
Reviews represent the opinions of Orbitz customers, not of Orbitz or its staff.
Get to know the bus routes-you don't need to waste your time with the taxis!
--bearsfn, tucson, az Nov 17, 2009
En route to Chinatown in the mornings, you can stop by Grace Cathedral to walk the outside labryinth and sit in the green park facing it where women are practicing their T'ai Chi and Quigong. Exhilerating on a sunny day.
--Elenarose, Seattle Nov 16, 2009
Walking distance to all variety of food choices.
--Cajun Cousin, Loiisiana Nov 11, 2009
Overall score
3.7 out of 5
(161 reviews)
Reviews and scores for each hotel are collected from customers who purchased a stay at that hotel.
Reviewers are asked to rate a variety of hotel attributes on a scale of 1 to 5. The highest possible score is "5," meaning the user was "very satisfied," while "1" is the lowest, meaning the user was "very dissatisfied."
The "overall score" is an average of all reviewer scores submitted for a hotel.
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Score
4 out of 5
Fab
Mother / Daughter Combo Nov 27, 2009
Wonderful surprize, jem of a place! ...
Traveler type: Family
Score
2 out of 5
Very bad district, parking charge
Dottorf83 Nov 26, 2009
The hotel was nice, we booked it at a very good price,less than 60$/night but...when we arrived there they told us that the ... parking was not free but was 30$/day more! so our good deal went to the hell, we had to pay 90$ a day for a very very bad located hotel, in the most dangerous district of San Francisco. The room was clean, the personal was quite freindly and the breakfast good. Just we were searching for a cheap hotel and this was not.
Traveler type: Couples
Score
4 out of 5
Clean and elegant, loved it.
Junebug Nov 20, 2009
Close proximity to MD and hosp. ...
Traveler type: Couples
Score
4 out of 5
Opal Hotel
bluskier Nov 20, 2009
Clean,bright rooms, front desk staff were friendly and accomodating, all in all a very pleasant surprise. Would recommend ... earplugs as the traffic noise is a little ditracting. Mel's Diner great stick to your ribs food!!!! Just what you need after walking up and down hills all day!
Traveler type: Single
Score
4 out of 5
good value
midwest trveler Nov 20, 2009
When we requested more towels and coffee for our room, the staff could not have responded faster. They advertised 2 queen ... rooms but we got 2 doubles. Clean, helpful staff, smallish rooms, internet does not work in room due to weak signel but did work in lobby, continental breakfast adequate. Staff VERY busy at check in, but did well under great stress. Only one person at desk doing it all. Walking distance to many good inexpensive resturants.
Traveler type: Family
Score
4 out of 5
good hotel for sightseeing
Suseldor Nov 19, 2009
We were just there for 4 nights to do some sightseeing in SF. Therefore the location was awesome. You could walk to mostly ... every place. The hotel was good for the price and the stuff were very helpful and friendly. The breakefast wasn't special and everyday the same but still okay. The good thing was the free coffee the whole day. All in all it was really good for our trip and we would go back anytimes!
Traveler type: Friends
Score
4 out of 5
Value stay
San Fran Kid Nov 18, 2009
I thought it was a very good value for the money. My room on the fourth floor facing a side street was very queit. Staff was ... friendly and helpful.
Traveler type: Single
Score
4 out of 5
Great experience
bearsfn Nov 17, 2009
This hotel was in a great central location. All of the staff were extremely friendly from the maintenance staff to the desk ... staff. This hotel couldn't be beat for the price!
Traveler type: Couples
Get to know the bus routes-you don't need to waste your time with the taxis!
Score
2 out of 5
Just okay
Super Mom Nov 17, 2009
A pleasant walk to Union Square and a great location to public transportation if going anywhere else in this great city! If ... you get a room on the same side of the movie house it can get noisy. Although this hotel is clean it is need of new carpet in rooms and new mattress's
Traveler type: Couples
Score
4 out of 5
Clean, good location, friendly, basic
Elenarose Nov 16, 2009
The Opal staff - at the desk, in the breakfast room,and on the floor - were consistently helpful and friendly. Being a single ... woman, I appreciated their tips to get around San Francisco in a safe way. The room was basic, clean, quiet. One more bedside lamp would have been perfect.
Traveler type: Single
En route to Chinatown in the mornings, you can stop by Grace Cathedral to walk the outside labryinth and sit in the green park facing it where women are practicing their T'ai Chi and Quigong. Exhilerating on a sunny day.
Score
4 out of 5
Great Experience
Miz Marv Nov 12, 2009
I arrived on the red-eye from Honolulu about 5am. I got to the hotel about 6am with the intention of storing my bags until ... the 3pm check in time. I explained to the front desk clerk, I believe her name is [...], that my flight arrived very early and asked if I could store my luggage. She checked me in early, gave me an upgraded room and invited me to have complimentary breakfast. She asked what I wanted to do in San Francisco and arranged a couple of tours for me. This was my first trip to San Francisco and based on that experience alone, it won't be my last.
Traveler type: Single
Score
4 out of 5
Great Location for the Price
Cajun Cousin Nov 11, 2009
The rooms were quiet and sleeping was uneventful. Great location; walking distance to some entertainment and restaurants, on ... cable car and bus routes, taxies, etc. Great rates for the room and location.
Traveler type: Family
Walking distance to all variety of food choices.
Score
4 out of 5
Great value
katnola Nov 11, 2009
There are numerous bars,restaurants,banks,bakery's,movie theater,within feet of the front door. The hotel was clean and ... quiet, there is a baby grand piano in the front area it was nice to hear a talented guest perform one afternoon, The complimentary breakfast was a good value too. The staff was very helpful and professional.I will stay in this hotel again there is nothing really bad to say other than the neighborhood at night is a bit sketchy so just becareful. I walked everynight with a friend and we had no issues but this is not the best neighborhood.
Traveler type: Business
Tommy's Joynt is great and across the street, Mel'sDiner is attached to hotel. around the corner is Cilantro a Mexican eatery Great!, there is pizza all up and down Polk. There are numerous sushi, and Indian, Thai,all sorts of great places.
Score
5 out of 5
Nice hotel for a good price
happy tourist Nov 9, 2009
Very nice hotel in a convenient location, easy accessible public transportation, very clean room and spotless bathroom, ... great/real breakfast and a nice atmosphere created by international guests. Internet included and wonderful help from the service with printing reservations made online. The neighborhood requires caution after dusk, but it is nothing surprising after visiting other big cities around the world. Great deal for the price!
Traveler type: Friends
Everything is easy accessible from this place using public transportation, 15-20 minute walk to the centre of Downtown; I would say this is a tourist place -- if you want to stay with tourists it is your place, if you are looking for 5 star hotel with all that pampering required -- pay for it somewhere else and no one will miss you there. This place is cute and nice and exceeded our expectations!
Score
4 out of 5
Nice Place
hman Nov 3, 2009
staff was super helpful, and helped us switch room when there was a problem with our original room. Overall very nice. ...
Traveler type: Couples
The Great American Music Hall is a short distance south of the hotel and on O'Farrel st. It is a nice and mostly inexpensive venue for a concert and many new and exciting bands play there. Further south is of course the performing arts and opera centers.
Score
2 out of 5
"The good, the bad, and the really ugly"
Travelor Oct 27, 2009
The hotel location is excellent. It is walking distance to all the attractions. The staff was very helpful and the ... continental breakfast was very convenient. We were pleased until we found bed bugs. Even though this hotel is clean, they still have the infestation which is hard to get rid of. The hotel staff did their best to get us a new room (upgraded to a suite) but it was still disturbing. The area outside the hotel at night is very sketchy...we saw prostitutes only two streets down.
Traveler type: Friends
You will walk a lot in San Francisco no matter what. This hotel was in a GREAT location, close city hall, the Painted ladies, North Beach, Lombard Street, we even walked to the Full House, house.
Score
3 out of 5
It was ok! 5 mins to Fisherman's warf
ps Oct 22, 2009
It was an ok experience. I chose this hotel as it was close to everything. It is a 5 mins less than 7 dollar cab ride to ... fisherman's warf. It is 10 blocks (1 mile) to civic centre. it is uphill and so if you have to carry luggage and walk it is impossible. The hotel had bf which was good. The rooms are neat but small.
Traveler type: Family
Score
4 out of 5
An Excellent Value
Underground Oct 21, 2009
I'm in San Francisco often for work. I had been staying in the suburbs to save money on the hotel, and then traveling into ... the city on BART. But I decided to try again to find an inexpensive but decent hotel in the city. I spent a lot of time reading reviews and comparing prices, and settled on the Opal. It seemed that everything else was either too expensive or too sleazy I was not disappointed. The room was big enough to be comfortable and very clean. It was also very quiet. I never heard any noise from surrounding rooms (maybe they were empty?). The mattress was firm, but comfortable. The pillows were more firm than usual, which I like, but you may not. The breakfast buffet was good for this price range: toast (white and wheat bread), bagels with cream cheese, croissants, hard-boiled eggs, Cheerios and Raisin Bran, etc. The neighborhood is not the best, but is safe enough. The hotel is on Van Ness, a very busy street even at night, so I felt safe outside even late at night, as long as I didn't wander down any quiet streets. The fitness center is very small, but no one else was there the two times I went there. It has dumbbells up to 50 pounds, which will allow me to stay in shape while working in San Francisco. The worst thing about the Opal was the slow internet connection. I ran speed tests at various times. The speeds were always around 250 kbps, which is only 5 times dial-up speed, which is fast enough for text-based work, such as reading and e-mail, but too slow for video and fast picture viewing. I paid $66 plus tax for my room. In the suburbs, I was paying $60 plus tax plus the cost of the BART to get into the city. For appoximately the same cost, I'll be staying at the Opal from now on, and walk 5 or 10 minutes to my work at the Civic Center. Yea, I get to sleep in longer!
Traveler type: Business
The attached diner, Mel's Diner, was okay, but a bit expensive and nothing special. It seemed to be more about image than substance. The cheeseburger was too ordinary, but the quality of the meat was good. The fries were above average. I found an excellent Burmese restaurant a few blocks away: the Larkin Express, also known as the Burmese Kitchen. I ate there three times, and ate three excellent meals. The Tea Leaf Salad was especially good. If you like Thai food, you'll like Burmese food, which is similar. I've travelled in Southeast Asia, although not in Burma. The food at this restaurant seemed to be authentic, and up there with the best restaurants I ate at in Southeast Asia.
Score
4 out of 5
San Francisco Baby!!!!
Miss P Oct 20, 2009
We went to San Francisco for a music festival, so the location of our hotel was essential. The Opal provided us a place with ... a great ambiance, extremely helpful staff in a central location. I would like to explore other hotels when I visit San Francisco again, however I would recommend this hotel to others.
Traveler type: Friends
Didn't we meet at Mel's??
Score
4 out of 5
very good for the money
Ray Clark Oct 20, 2009
the staff was super friendly and helpful, the rooms nice and clean as well as quiet. ...
Traveler type: Family
this hotel is on the edge of the Tenderloin District with lots of interesting prostitutes and homeless. We found it's best to keep walks in the area between the hours of 7am-dark. There were several good restaurants, mainly for breakfast, within a block.
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Get to know the bus routes-you don't need to waste your time with the taxis!
--bearsfn, tucson, az Nov 17, 2009
En route to Chinatown in the mornings, you can stop by Grace Cathedral to walk the outside labryinth and sit in the green park facing it where women are practicing their T'ai Chi and Quigong. Exhilerating on a sunny day.
--Elenarose, Seattle Nov 16, 2009
Walking distance to all variety of food choices.
--Cajun Cousin, Loiisiana Nov 11, 2009
Tommy's Joynt is great and across the street, Mel'sDiner is attached to hotel. around the corner is Cilantro a Mexican eatery Great!, there is pizza all up and down Polk. There are numerous sushi, and Indian, Thai,all sorts of great places.
--katnola, SanDiego Nov 11, 2009
Everything is easy accessible from this place using public transportation, 15-20 minute walk to the centre of Downtown; I would say this is a tourist place -- if you want to stay with tourists it is your place, if you are looking for 5 star hotel with all that pampering required -- pay for it somewhere else and no one will miss you there. This place is cute and nice and exceeded our expectations!
--happy tourist, Chicago, IL Nov 9, 2009
The Great American Music Hall is a short distance south of the hotel and on O'Farrel st. It is a nice and mostly inexpensive venue for a concert and many new and exciting bands play there. Further south is of course the performing arts and opera centers.
--hman, Reno, NV Nov 3, 2009
You will walk a lot in San Francisco no matter what. This hotel was in a GREAT location, close city hall, the Painted ladies, North Beach, Lombard Street, we even walked to the Full House, house.
--Travelor, DC Oct 27, 2009
The attached diner, Mel's Diner, was okay, but a bit expensive and nothing special. It seemed to be more about image than substance. The cheeseburger was too ordinary, but the quality of the meat was good. The fries were above average. I found an excellent Burmese restaurant a few blocks away: the Larkin Express, also known as the Burmese Kitchen. I ate there three times, and ate three excellent meals. The Tea Leaf Salad was especially good. If you like Thai food, you'll like Burmese food, which is similar. I've travelled in Southeast Asia, although not in Burma. The food at this restaurant seemed to be authentic, and up there with the best restaurants I ate at in Southeast Asia.
--Underground, Los Angeles, CA, USA Oct 21, 2009
Didn't we meet at Mel's??
--Miss P, Denver Co Oct 20, 2009
this hotel is on the edge of the Tenderloin District with lots of interesting prostitutes and homeless. We found it's best to keep walks in the area between the hours of 7am-dark. There were several good restaurants, mainly for breakfast, within a block.
--Ray Clark, Austin TX Oct 20, 2009
Check out the renovated City Hall, the new Asian Museum and the gift shop at the Opera - all down Van Ness at the Civic Center.
--Lowdown, Central Coast, CA Oct 15, 2009
Palace of Fine Arts - SMUIN BALLET - MEDEA - SINATRA FABULOUS - THRU 10-11-09 Holiday show will begin rehersals in November for December opening.
--George -Sales Mgr, Glendale, CA Oct 4, 2009
Try out the whale tours, that was really amazing. We saw 15 whales and that was the best thing with our 4 weeks in CA. [...]
--Cat, Gothenburg, Sweden. Oct 1, 2009
Fog Harbor on Pier 39 on the waterfront was excellent-great views and food! I am from Massachusetts and it was some of the best clam chowder and seafood I have ever had!
--Katie, Los Angeles, CA Sep 22, 2009
Check out the Pier, about 10 min away by taxi or car.
--Wine Lover, Albuquerque, NM Sep 15, 2009
We could walk to Union Square or to the music center.
--Judy, Roseville, CA Sep 12, 2009
Kyoto Sushi a few blocks away on Van Ness. way more reasonably-priced than in Little Japan and they have 99 cent Sapporo on draft all day every day! really good sushi and a nice atmosphere.
--Philo, Mobile, AL Sep 12, 2009
One note, the secured on-site parking is limited so don't show up too late.
--MicHenn, Hollywood, CA Sep 2, 2009
To park in the hotel lots it costs about $28 per night. However, I found it worth it with the amount of traffic, lack of parking, and street meters in San Francisco. Plus, the bus line only costs $2 per person and you can ride and/or transfer buses for several hours.
--Fellow Traveler, Modesto, CA Aug 27, 2009
Great continental breakfast service .. always busy so go early if possible.
--Weary Traveller, Ontario Aug 27, 2009
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