My husband and I stayed here last november for our seventh anniversary. I booked it online, not knowing anything at all about it, other than that the pictures on the website made it look really nice and that the prices were pretty cheap for San Francisco. I was a little worried about what we would find when we got there, but we were not disappointed in the least. The hotel was established in 1916, and according to a brochure in our room, was used just before that as a temporary city hall while the original city hall was being restored after the earthquake of 1906. Parts of the jail cells are still intact in the basement, and you can actually take a tour of them, although we ran out of time to do that. The rooms were very small (probably one reason for the low price of staying there), but more than adequate if you’re planning on being out and about for most of your stay like we were. There’s also an excellent restaurant inside the hotel, as well as a gorgeous bar with backlit stained glass on the ceiling. We loved that we got to stay in such an elegant place with so much history for so little cash! I would certainly stay there again.