This is the perfect challenge to tell you about the wonderful interesting room I had in San Francisco a couple of months ago. I wanted to support these people because they are from the Valley. In the pictures the rooms look fabulous.
In their defense, I drove in late, and was lucky to get a room. I got the last available room, and it was in the basement.
Whoever heard of rooms in the basement? Yes, it had a window. It was two stories above the ground level. I know, it confused me, too. The view was unusual _______.
I didn’t care about outdated wallpaper that didn’t match the vintage of the building. My worst complaint wasn’t the bath tub. In fact I looked forward to getting into the spa tub. Until…
I ran the water.
before Marsha
I didn’t need a soak in tan that badly. I fell into bed tired and dirty, and after breakfast the next morning decided to just leave. I phoned ahead for my car because it could take up to 30 minutes to get it. I went down up to the lobby twenty minutes later, and waited an hour an a half downstairs upstairs.
As old hotels in San Francisco go, this one probably rates better than you might get from my review. My friend Sally rented a brochure room when she stayed there.
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Happy Father’s Day to you and V. Having a nice day here. Biz trips have had unpleasant events, ugh, no way with that water!!
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Happy Father’s Day to you too, Sir. You wouldn’t be wanting a nice relaxing spa???? It doesn’t look much different than the river I swam in as a kid in Punta Gorda, FL. They told us that tannic acid caused the water there to turn orange. I was glad to get home, nonetheless.
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Yes, there are a lot of tannic acidified rivers and creeks here. The fish swam merrily on through them, though! a riot.
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Been there, come out with yellow toes! 🙂 Didn’t want it in my bath! 🙂
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yuch. Looking at that bathwater ….. I don’t think I’d be brushing my teeth with anything but bottled water!
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hehehe. Fortunately for you, your teeth got brushed elsewhere! On the positive side, it made the coffee nice and dark. 🙂
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Doesn’t your heart just sink, when you arrive at your hotel, expecting what you see in the brochure online, only to find that your room bears no resemblance at all? That bathwater looks gross. 😦
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My heart was tired and already sunk, but at least I had a place to stay that ONLY cost $200 a night plus parking. I was a lucky girl! The big question was why did I think I wanted to stop for the night in SF?
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ONLY $200! What luxury at the price. 🙂
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I know! Don’t you love sarcasm? 🙂
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It can be very therapeutic at times. 😀
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haha I think so, too. Sometimes it’s either that or cry and whine! 🙂
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Well it did look okay until I got to the bathtub photo. The worst thing is that if you’d had a shower you would never have known how dirty the water was. I wonder why it was like that?
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Probably rusty. I doubt if they rent that room often. I should have run the shower, but at night I’m cold, and I love to soak up the heat. I just didn’t want to soak up the color, too! 🙂
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Instant tan!
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Just what I wanted! 🙂 Every California girl needs a good tan! 🙂
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