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The View From Hotel Boheme Is Not a San Francisco Treat

Where: 444 Columbus Ave [map], San Francisco, CA, United States, 94133

You know the scene. You open the door to your brand new hotel room, run over to the window, open the blinds and bam, you are hit with the anti-view. Maybe you are looking down a dirty alley, witnessing a drug deal, staring at an air shaft in the face, or seeing a brick wall. Whatever you are viewing it is not extremely pleasurable. Help out your fellow hotel mavens by uploading your anti-views to the HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool, or by sending the photo along to us. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number with the not-so-easy-on-the-eyes view.

Does Rice-A-Roni still call itself "The San Francisco Treat?" Because it's welcome to keep that slogan forever, since it certainly doesn't have much competition for that title — well, not from Hotel Boheme in San Francisco, anyway. More accurately, from the hotel's views: a San Francisco treat this is not.

This shot comes from Flickr user Dominus Vobiscum, who uploaded a whole album of interior and view shots of this San Fran hotel. Something like a 10 or 15-minute walk from Union Square, Fishermans Wharf and Chinatown, the hotel (according to some TripAdvisor reviews we read) has "staff that are fantastically helpful" — and one reviewer mentioned complimentary sherry at night (oooh, yes please).

Unfortuntely, this particular room's view totally sucks. Also, the rooms are on the smaller side — or so we seem to be reading over an over on most of these TA reviews — and the hotel has no AC. So hopefully, if you get stuck in this room, whatever that thing is hopefully isn't too loud if you've gotta leave your windows open. Rooms start at $174, and WiFi is free.

[Photo: DominusVobiscum]