San Francisco

The Conservatory of Flowers is at 100 John F.

The de Young Museum is in the middle of Golden Gate Park at 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, and few hotels are close to it.

Four of these five hotels are on The Embarcadero or within one block of it.

Stay this close to Ferry Building Marketplace and the food vendors are minutes away, and you can walk over for the Saturday farmers market before breakfast.

The Argonaut Hotel, in the old Haslett Warehouse on Jefferson Street, has the best guest score here (9.4) and puts you right on the waterfront.

The five hotels on this page are on Lombard Street, between the Presidio's Lombard Gate and Fillmore Street.

Golden Gate Park stretches for more than 1,000 acres across western San Francisco and is home to major attractions including the de Young Museum, California Academy of Sciences, Japanese Tea Garden, a

For an early flight out of Oakland International Airport (OAK), the Holiday Inn Express on Airport Access Road is the closest bed, under 0.25 miles from the terminals.

Oracle Park is at 24 Willie Mays Plaza on San Francisco's waterfront, where Mission Bay meets the southern edge of SoMa.

Salesforce Transit Center at 425 Mission Street is San Francisco's main hub for regional and intercity bus services.

Boats to Marin, Oakland, Alameda and Vallejo all leave from the San Francisco Ferry Terminal at the Ferry Building, and these five hotels are close enough to walk to yours.

For a dawn flight out of San Francisco International Airport (SFO), book the Grand Hyatt at SFO: it's on the airport campus, and the AirTrain gets you to the International Terminal in about 4 minutes.

SFMOMA is one of the largest modern and contemporary art museums in the United States, at 151 Third Street in SoMa.

Nob Hill is one of San Francisco's most historic neighborhoods, known for its hilltop views, classic hotels, and easy access to the California Street Cable Car.

North Beach and Fisherman's Wharf are next door to each other and feel nothing alike: the Wharf is piers and crowds, North Beach is cafes and quieter streets a few blocks inland.

SoMa runs from Market Street south to the Caltrain corridor, and it's the place to stay if Moscone Center, SFMOMA or Oracle Park is why you're here.

The Castro has only a handful of hotels, mostly small and independent, and all five here are within a 10-minute walk of Castro Muni Metro station.

Union Square has some of the city's best transit connections.

Business travel in San Francisco usually splits between two zones: the Financial District for banking, consulting, and legal meetings, and SoMa for conferences, tech teams, and events around Moscone C

Finding a cheap hotel in San Francisco that doesn't trade safety or transit access for a lower rate takes some filtering.

The Orchard Garden Hotel on Bush Street is LEED certified, and the Inn San Francisco has solar panels on the roof of its Victorian building.

Every hotel on this list holds an independent third-party certification or has published measurable sustainability results for its specific San Francisco property.

Every hotel on this list has a pool on site and a sustainability credential you can check yourself, either a third-party certification or a published brand program.

1 Hotel San Francisco and the InterContinental both hold LEED Gold, and both have EV chargers in their own garages.

Three San Francisco hotels hold Green Key Global certification, and one of them, the Argonaut Hotel at Fisherman's Wharf, is Green Key Global's 2026 Property of the Year.

San Francisco has eight Hilton-family hotels, mostly around Union Square and SoMa, plus one in the Financial District and one in the Marina.

Last-minute hotels in San Francisco can be a good deal, especially 4-star hotels in SoMa and Union Square that cut rates to fill empty rooms.

This page covers four LEED certified hotels in San Francisco, all checked against the USGBC project directory, from base Certified to Platinum.

Long-stay hotels in San Francisco often offer significantly lower nightly rates for guests booking 30 nights or more.

Marriott hotels in San Francisco range from full-service properties near Union Square and SoMa to smaller Courtyard and Autograph Collection stays across the city and the SFO corridor.

Plenty of San Francisco hotels say "pets allowed" and leave it there.

All five hotels here are on the Van Ness and Nob Hill corridor, with confirmed meeting facilities and straightforward transit to the Financial District, Moscone Center and SFO.

Plenty of San Francisco hotel gyms have little beyond a few cardio machines.

Eating out in San Francisco adds up fast, and a kitchenette lets you cover breakfast and a meal or two yourself.

Parking is a real problem when you drive into San Francisco.

Finding a hotel with a pool in San Francisco is harder than you'd expect.

Plenty of San Francisco hotels advertise a rooftop that turns out to be a terrace or a guest lounge.

The best months to visit San Francisco are September and October, when average highs are around 70°F (21°C), hotel rates drop from summer peaks, and crowds thin after the August rush.

Most visitors do not need a car in San Francisco.

San Francisco catches visitors out in ways a map won't show.

For anything life-threatening, call 911.

San Francisco is safe for tourists in well-trafficked areas like Union Square, Fisherman's Wharf, the Marina, Nob Hill, and the Embarcadero, where foot traffic stays high and incidents are rare.

Hotels for TechCrunch Disrupt 2027 in San Francisco, picked for founders, VCs, and operators. Verified walking times to Moscone West and honest neighborhood notes.

Dreamforce 2027 is September 21-23 at Moscone Center. Hotels ranked by distance to Moscone, the official block vs booking your own, and value bases.