Spaulding Hotel - San Francisco, USA 

Never again.
Posted: Sat, Jul 14 2007
The best thing this hotel has is its location and they know it, this is the only way I can explain they are still in business. The staff is unexperienced, and rude; there is only one person at the front desk (that is when there is actually one at all) I arrived one hour after the check in time and the room was not ready yet, I had to wait for another hour because "the maid was too busy". When I finally made it to my room the linens were dirty with every kind of stains and hairs you can imagine. I had to request new linens but the maid refused to change the pillow cases because "she had forgotten them", she got very upset when I told them changing them the next day was not an option. The internet connection is awful, most of the times is not working and eventhough this can be solved by resetting the modem, there is only one guy who can do it and he will only do it if you insist a lot. If you are planning an extended stay here, do not bother on paying for cleaning service, the maids will only clean your room when they feel like doing it and they cannot even do the bed on a decent way. The thing that shocked me the most happenned the last day when I tried to check out. It was about 5am and the desk was unattended and the doors unlocked, and it lasted like that for at lest 20 minutes until I was able to wake the person in charge up. ANYONE on probably the most unsafe neighbourhood of the city can get into the hotel at early hours of the morning. Other things I think people should know are: -There is only one elevator, and it is stinky, small, old and very slow. -There is no phone not cable TV in rooms. -The building is old and the floors squeaky. -You might have to share your room with cockroaches as I did. -There are no electronic keys. I have been in budget hotels before but this one should not even be called hotel. I would have changed somewhere else but with Memorial Day around those days every hotel in the area was full but this one, now I know why...

Bed Bug
Posted: Mon, Jul 09 2007
This hotel have serious bed bug problem, please do not stay here to just save a few bucks......I had more that 20 bit marks when I get up in the morning.....especially 5th floor is infested with bed bug.

The place is filthy
Posted: Sun, Jul 08 2007
The place is filthy and noisy. Toilets and bathtub were disgusting. The bathrooms looked like they were not cleaned for months. The pillows and sheets were smelly… TV did not work, we requested a non smoking room and we did not get that… The staff was not helpful at all. They just diapered and left the place unattended...Any way we end up not staying …it was a problem because there as a Oracle conventions going on so it was very difficult t find a place to stay a last minute… but the worst was that after all that the manager was refusing to refund our credit cards. Serious this was our worst experience ever!

Effarant
Posted: Tue, Jul 03 2007
J’ai séjourné avec ma femme dans cet hôtel, qui est franchement répugnant. Il y avait des puces dans le lit ; la pression de l’eau dans la douche était ridicule, on aurait pu compter le nombre de gouttes tombant par minute, et la salle de bains, trop vieille, était sale. Il n’y avait pas de téléphone dans la chambre, pas de climatiseur (le jour le plus chaud, je n’ai pas réussi à dormir) ni d’accès à internet sans fil. Le site de cet hôtel ne reflète pas ce que sont vraiment les chambres. J’ai dormi dans des hôtels pas chers à San Diego et à Los Angeles au cours de ce voyage, mais celui-ci est vraiment effarant. A ce prix vous pouvez trouver autre chose, croyez-moi.

There's pro's and cons ...
Posted: Thu, Jun 21 2007
I spent three nights here on first landing in San Francisco. Located right by Union Square, cable cars and the metro, it was a great base for exploring the city. It's not spectacular in terms of decor but it's clean, the staff are friendly and helpful and, lets face it, it's hardly an expensive hotel - what more do you expect for the price. The hotel seems to be in the process of being refurbished and some rooms are nicer than others. After spending 3 weeks travelling around the west coast of the USA I returned to San Francisco to fly home and checked back into the Spaulding for my final night. My first room was on the third floor at the front of the building and quite noisy. The second was on the seventh floor at the rear of the building and was much quieter.