Priceline Hotel: 2* San Francisco (Civic Center South-Hayes Valley) Good Hotel

[Colfax]

When I bid this Good Hotel was in the Civic Center zone. The next day Priceline split the zone and now it's in Civic Center South-Hayes Valley zone.

$63 sounds high for a Civic Center 2* but this was a Friday/Saturday night stay and rates around town were fairly high. Rejected bids:

$80/3* USE, USW, SOMA, Embarcadero, Civic Center

$75/2.5* USE, USW, SOMA, Embarcadero, Civic Center

$60/2* USE, USW, Civic Center

I'm not sure how much price break I got because Good Hotel showed Sold Out on all websites I checked, including the hotel's own. For other dates I see Good around $69-$119. I thought I might get bumped but that didn't happen.

From Good Hotel's brochure:

Featuring 117 rooms the Good Hotel is San Francisco's hotel with a conscience. The philanthropic nature of this hotel is designed to inspire the "good in us all". The eco-friendly hotel decor highlights pieces designed from recycled, reclaimed, or reused materials, and is located in the SOMA district at the corner of 7th & Mission.

I've never stayed at a hotel with a conscience before. "BE GOOD" was stencilled in large letters on the wall of my room. Prominently posted in the lobby was a phone number for locating volunteer work in SF. Union Square and Fisherman's Wharf? Not this trip...I'm delivering Meals on Wheels.

Eco Friendly too. Bicycles in the lobby for hotel guests to use for free (with credit card deposit). A sign in the bathroom mentions two water sources--fresh water for bathing and gray water for flushing the toilet.

Good Hotel is geared towards younger travellers on a budget. There's a penny arcade style photo booth in the lobby where you can snap four photos, then thumbtack them to the hotel's Photo Wall. I perused hundreds of pinned photos and saw few faces over forty. The crowd was mostly 20's and 30's, international, piercings and tattoos abundant. At times I felt like I was at a hostel in Europe more than a conventional American hotel. Being at 7th & Mission there's some street noise but on the inside the hotel's not raucous or wild. There's uniformed security after dark and elevator requires a hotel key to access.

Room was generously sized with a platform style bed. Lime green and banana yellow motifs, reminded me of IKEA. The hotel restaurant is called Good Pizza. I didn't try. Parking $20. Internet free. Guests can use the gym at Best Western Americania across the street, under the same ownership.

I probably won't seek Good out again, but fun for a change and not a bad backup in a pinch. It was Good Enough.

Bids placed through the BetterBidding PRICELINE link.

[thereuare]

Thanks for recap of this property... sounds like an interesting property, and while not everyone's style, appears to offer a nice change of pace as you put it.

Thank you for using the PRICELINE links on the board to begin your bidding and for the update to the Priceline Hotel List.