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A Semi-Secret, Super-Luxe Hotel Option in San Francisco

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 900 North Point [map], San Francisco, CA, United States, 94109
January 15, 2010 at 4:23 PM | by | Comments (0)

Topline:

Unique residential rooms with every amnity you can imagine
Great common areas, feels more like a vacation rental then a hotel room
Not located in Union Square


Tivo Tease
Valet service needs to be more timely
In-room food choices aren't always delivered the way you order them

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Inside the Somewhat Stealth Fairmont Ghirardelli Place

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 900 North Point [map], San Francisco, CA, United States, 94109
January 13, 2010 at 3:47 PM | by | Comments (0)

Now that our hangover has finally worn off, we can tell you that we were lucky enough to stay at the Fairmont Ghirardelli Place on New Year's Eve, part of the Fairmont Heritage Collection. We still consider this very much a stealth hotel, as it was developed, billed and marketed as a "residence club" when it opened in the first quarter of 2008.

While FGP is still very much in the fractional residence game, a lot has changed since 2008, especially in the "luxury fractionals market." Hmm....Come to think of it was there ever really a luxury fractionals market or was it just a lot of marketing speak? We tried to run the numbers on fractional ownership of the unit 214, the unit we stayed it, but our numbers kept crunching in the negative.

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Inside The Argonaut Hotel in San Francisco

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 495 Jefferson St. [map], San Francisco, CA, United States, 94109
January 12, 2010 at 11:28 AM | by | Comments (0)

Longtime readers of HotelChatter know The Argonaut Hotel is one of our go-to hotels in San Francisco. Why? Good rates, comfortable beds, kitschy nautical theme and free WiFi (for Kimpton's InTouch members.) Oh, and most importantly, we don't have to deal with the glut of Union Square that makes life with a rental car extremely difficult.

Caveat emptor; you must be able to put up with Fisherman's Wharf (we actually have grown to love the area if you take a left instead of a right out of the Argonaut front door and avoid the Powell & Hyde cable car debacle), and on this trip we figured out parking was a whopping $43.00 a night.

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