Beach Motel - San Francisco, USA 

horrible hotel + rude management - never ever stay here
Posted: Mon, Jun 16 2008
Absolutely HORRIBLE place. Quite possibly the worst hotel I have ever stepped foot in. First as I parked I noticed there was only one available spot in the lot so not enough room for me and my friend to park our cars. I walk into the lobby and it smells old and dingy. Their website is also broken. I made a reservation for two people and two beds and it made it for one person and one bed. I walk into the lobby with 3 friends and the first thing the clerk says is he doesn't want that many people in the room. I explain to him that only two are spending the night. He finally agrees and checks me in. I get up to the room and then notice there is only 1 bed. It is also old, smelly, and dirty and the lights by the bed do not turn on. I call downstairs to say how I reserved a room with two beds and the first thing the guy says is he doesn't want that many people and he wants me to leave. I say fine because I've had enough of the dirty, smelly, and broken place. My friends and I spend a few minutes collecting our stuff and before we exit the room he calls to make sure I'm on my way downstairs. I go return they key and say I want a refund and he refuses to give one and yells about a no cancellation policy. I'm disputing the charge with my credit company. I instead went to the Hilton and had a great time for only ~$50 more - money well spent. Never ever stay at this place. With service like the above hopefully they go out of business soon.

would not stay there again if it was free!!!!!
Posted: Fri, May 30 2008
My wife had a doctor appointment at UCSF medical center and I was having trouble finding a place with reasonable rates. I did not know it was graduation for UCSF and that the Bay to Breakers race was that weekend. the place was easy to get to from the north. There were no rooms available on the first floor and my wife has a bad hip, so we had to go up the stairs since there is no elevator. The room was kind of funky. we were overlooking Judah street. The noise from the bar was very loud and made it hard to sleep. Plus the transit trains running up and down the street all night woke us when we did finally get to sleep. The one good thing about the place was that there is good water pressure and the water temp stayed the same through the whole shower. When we have to go back down for other presurgery appointments we will probably stay near the airport. There are more hotels near there, and they can be had for about half the $85 dollars I paid for this place!! My wife just reminded me that there was no shampoo or conditioners provided in the room and that the towels were old and scratchy. Also there were no fans in the rooms and no way to open the windows for fresh air. Although with the noise from the bar we wouldn't have been able to open them anyway.

Don't stay here!
Posted: Fri, Nov 23 2007
I was looking for a place to stay while visiting my father, who was having surgery at UCSF Medical Center, and somehow came across this place. It is near Ocean Beach and close to the N Judah Street Car. So far this sounds ok. Was going to stay here with my elderly mother and shuttle her back and forth to the hospital. Surgery went well, while Dad in recovery room, went to check into the hotel. Was not expecting anything fancy at $99/nite in San Francisco. Drove out to motel--it is built over a bar! Not any bar, but a bar with barred windows, several chopper motorcycles parked outside and a pretty rough group standing outside smoking! This was at 3PM. Decided to look inside hotel, reception desk had bullet proof glass! Room had a funky smell. Decided that I couldn't stay here with my 80 yo Mother, who was looking kind of nervous, waiting in the car. Sacrificed my one nite deposit and started looking around for another hotel. Luckily found a really nice hotel, Hotel Tomo in Little Tokyo.