Hotel Spaulding - San Francisco

Average rating:  3.5

Guest type: Single traveller

stayed in Dec 2007

Really unpolite employees. No wifi available. Continental breakfast was a misery.

Guest name: DG, Mexico

Average rating:  7.6

Guest type: Single traveller

stayed in Nov 2007

Decent budget hotel close to everything. Hard to beat the price for the location. Clean bathrooms and good mattress. Great for young travellers who want to be close to everything.

Guest name: NS, USA

Average rating:  8.9

Guest type: Single traveller

stayed in Oct 2007

A good value and a great location. Small hotel that's perfect for sleeping, showering and stashing your stuff. No air conditioning, cable TV, or phones in the room. Otherwise, as good as most other hotels around Union Square.

Guest name: JP, USA

Average rating:  4.7

Guest type: Single traveller

stayed in Sep 2007

The hotel is close to the main means of transportation. Its downtown location is good because you can get anything you want and get anywhere you want. The hotel needs ot be renovated and the decoration in the rooms is so-so. The staff is friendly and you can easily make friends with the other guests in the internet area located on the 2nd floor or waiting opposite the front desk.

Guest name: DP, France

Average rating:  0.4

Guest type: Single traveller

stayed in Sep 2007

It was my first trip to San Francisco which was not a good experience as the Spaulding Hotel was an old run down hotel, which had bathroom towels which smelt of chlorine, the bedsheets where dirty, I specifically requested 2 single beds, when I was given a small double bed, the front desk person barely spoke english, which was not helpful as I wanted to do some tours, there are no phones in the rooms...this is an awful experience in which I would not recommend anyone to be staying in.

Guest name: MT, Australia

Average rating:  6.5

Guest type: Young couple

stayed in Aug 2007

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Guest name: KR, USA

Average rating:  2.4

Guest type: Not Specified

stayed in Aug 2007

The hotel is very well situated but is not at all good. It is not expensive but quality is bad,it is not clean and employees are not nice and not competent. I will never recommend this hotel.

Guest name: Luis Patricio, Portugal

Average rating:  5.3

Guest type: Single traveller

stayed in Jul 2007

The breakfast was not included. In fact the included breakfast consisted on a ticket that you have to give to the restaurant next door to obtain a $2(!) discount or a bagel with a cup of coffee... There is no parking. A good quality/price rate anyway. It should be ok to stay there one or two nights.

Guest name: Jean-Vincent LE LAN, France

Average rating:  2.5

Guest type: Mature couple

stayed in May 2007

Would not recommend this hotel - am not sure how others compare in price but would be better to stay in a youth hostel or pay a little more if needed. Hotel very old and in bad need of a makeover or demolition

Guest name: Thomas Derrig, Australia

Average rating:  10.0

Guest type: Single traveller

stayed in Oct 2006

i'm stayd october 16 to 17 , it's excellent locatian nice and low price amazing hotel ,the good thing i'm stay again this hotel ,every one go to stay spaulding hotel it's down town sanfrancisco

Guest name: Ulaan Ganbaatar, Mongolia

Average rating:  4.4

Guest type: Young couple

stayed in Oct 2006

Really nice, competent housekeeping and lobby staff. However, the room was in desperate need of renovation. There were paint splatters all over the toilet and sink, which were both old. The toilet seat sat 3 inches to the side of the actual bowl. Low water pressure in the shower. Heavily bleached towels gave me a headache. Bed was incredibly uncomfortable and only had a flat sheet on top of it rather than a fitted sheet. tv had 3 fuzzy channels and no sound. there is a restaurant/sports bar next to the hotel. the kitchen staff was outside in the alleyway below our window loudly chatting away on cellphones all night. there were people talking and yelling all night. but considering that it was a huge 6-convention weekend and all the hotels were booked up, i suppose i am glad to have found the spaulding at all.

Guest name: CH, USA

Average rating:  2.2

Guest type: Single traveller

stayed in Sep 2006

I'm not usually very picky, but I didn't enjoy my stay there. To start with they had lost my booking. It took hours and a great deal of complication to get a room. The staff was useless and unfriendly, just about polite. Everything was dirty, from the cloths of the guy at the reception, to my bathroom. The room was last renovated in the mid-70's, was dirty, dark and stinking. There was some blood on my sheets... No soap or shampoo in the disgusting bathroom. The only upsides are that it's cheap, and the location is excellent.

Guest name: Nicolas Masse, United Kingdom

Average rating:  3.1

Guest type: Not Specified

stayed in Sep 2006

The place was a dump, literally! I mean, the room which I stayed in was terribly dirty and the on top of that, the maid was to lazy to tidy up the place. She didn't even care to change my bed sheets daily. It's not like I didn't ask for a renovated room, 'cause I did, but what I got was a roach motel, so to speak. The concierge was quite friendly, though. Also, the location is central, but the place isn't grand.

Guest name: Alvard Mushkambaryan, USA

Average rating:  5.9

Guest type: Young couple

stayed in Sep 2006

Great Location, in the heart of union square. The hotel was more like a crapy college dorm. The hall always smelt horrible. The bathroom was falling apart.

Guest name: Paula Sierra, Spain

Average rating:  4.1

Guest type: Young couple

stayed in Aug 2006

My opinion is that if somebody want to really visit San Francisco may by stay in a motel/hotel near the center. So Spaulding Hotel is ok for this kind of accomodance.

Guest name: SALVATORE SORRENTINO, Italy

Average rating:  1.9

Guest type: Single traveller

stayed in Aug 2006

My experience at Hotel Spaulding was a very bad one. I have never stayed in a hotel that was so dirty. It should have been a clue when I had to sign a sheet that said "I have seen my room and find it acceptable" prior to seeing it. First, there were matches and crumbs on my room floor when I walked in-it was obvious the maid did not vaccum the room. Second, they offered a daily breakfast of donuts and coffee but there were always flies swarming around the donuts-gross. Third, after referring to it as the "roach motel", I actually did have a roach crawling on my bedspread when I woke up the next morning after my first nights stay. It was not worth the $70.00 I paid for it or even half of that. I did not complain-I just spent the majority of my time outside the hotel room. I definitely felt dirty staying there.

Guest name: TO, USA

Average rating:  2.6

Guest type: Not Specified

stayed in Jul 2006

The room smelled like cigarette smoke the whole time, even though it was a "nonsmoking" room. The website said that electric fans were in every room, but when I asked at the desk for one, I learned that they don't have any, even upon request. We got the shared bathroom, which was a hotel room with a bathroom attached. On the second morning, I went to use the bathroom and found 2 guys sleeping on the floor in that room. The only way to show that the bathroom/room was occupied was to use the chain. Also, only 1 out of 5 hotel employees was at all helpful or friendly. Most acted as though I was inconveniencing them by asking questions.

Guest name: Ashley Kuehl, USA

Average rating:  5.7

Guest type: Young couple

stayed in Jul 2006

Do not take the cheapest room type! It's definitely worth paying a little more for rooms with an own bathroom. Makes a huge difference! Shared bathrooms are often not on same floor and of poor quality. All rooms without bathroom face busy street to the front!

Guest name: JL, Germany