Clarion Hotel

RIP old Clarion. I had great memories of staying in this hotel must say this hotel was too messy. My church came to this place for a retreat and I must say I had a C game time. I was expecting this place to be better but instead has a run down flavor. The floors were outdated and the layout is really bad. However their food was okay, not the best hotel food but is enough to make sure you are filled up. The walls and the roof are not sound proof. I could not sleep a whole entire night due to the poorly constructed roof. After this place my mom’s church stopped using hotels for retreats or special events. The only good thing was I got free parking due to the fact that I was attending a special event. There is not enough room if you have a special event here. Now Aloft hotels is here but they are so much better than the old Clarion.

The room was dirty, the bed sucked. The free breakfast was terrible. I would not stay here ever again. I guess I should of listened to my wife.

Airport Parking Review.
Rates via airportparkingreservation are very good. Shuttle frequency is decent. Have used it more than half a dozen times when flying from San Francisco. Wireless has been free in case you have to wait for the shuttle. Clarion Hotel, San Jose also has pretty decent parking rates and shuttle service if you are flying from SJC instead of SFO.

Worst hotel ever? Not quite, but it finds new ways to disappoint each day. The room is clean but creaky, from leaky bathroom fixtures to the noisy air conditioner and sporadic short bursts from the smoke alarm. Breakfast selections are surprisingly weak, with tubs of strawberry Yoplait the star of the show. On my third night the parking lot could not fit my car (although the hotel will still charge me $ 14 for the privilege) and the room Internet service failed to function.

The rooms here are decent, and the lobby is nice. But the hallways to/​from need some serious work. The elevators are also a bit worn down, but I’m mostly concerned about the rooms, which were satisfactory. The TVs are outdated… no flat screens. Parking was $ 14 extra. That was a surprise. Make sure to read the fine print. Oh, and the free breakfast was pretty substantial and much better than most continental breakfasts I’ve had. Overall its a very solid budget-​minded place to stay.

I paid $ 99 for a room plus $ 24 for parking (they charge a dollar per hour)-clean room, friendly staff, small bar but nice bartender who supplied me plenty of intoxicating beverages.

I’ve stayed in a lot of nicer places, but this place isn’t that bad. I read one of the reviews complaining about a single bug in her room and she gave the place one star. Really? A bug in your room and you’re going crazy?
Anyway, my room was clean and had plenty of room. The bathroom is small, but just fine for one person. The internet is free, though you have to plug in to an ethernet line.
I found the staff to be appropriately courteous.
I wouldn’t bring my wife her for an anniversary stay, but maybe if we had an overnight layover in SFO airport.

Rooms are clean and sufficient. Front desk is willing to help.
The hotel is a quick 5 min drive to the airport, shuttle is available.
Close to many restaraunt options with many budgets.
Rooms service doesnt have many options.
$ 800 for a 2 week stay.
Been to many events and the food isnt the best! Bland «catering» chicken and steak, veggies.
Ehhh.

The Clarion seems to really have its act together.
I was going to be gone for a week over the Christmas holidays and had a 7AM flight out of SFO. The departure time was a worry because I’d been through one nightmare a few years ago where I almost missed my early morning flight due to a horrendous traffic jam at the toll booths on Hwy. 92.
The Clarion has a special deal called «Sleep and Fly.» For $ 135, you get one night’s stay and a full week’s parking with security, etc. SFO’s long term parking fee is $ 28/​day (7 days x $ 28 = $ 196), so it’s a substantial savings on just the parking fees and it’s as if the one night’s stay is free.
The room was very nice, clean and modern, pleasing to the eye, quiet and relaxing, with a comfortable bed, super soft /​smooth sheets, lots of pillows in varying degrees of soft and firm. I usually have a hard time getting to sleep in a hotel but it was no problem here. The room was fairly large, laid out perfectly, with a big built-​in desk set up for business use and two phones (one at the desk, another bedside).
My 4AM wake-​up call was right on time. The free shuttle to the airport runs every 20 minutes and was on time. The driver took me to the right door for my flight, etc.
On top of everything else, the blizzards on the east coast delayed my return by three days so I was past my 7 days of parking and expected to have to pay additional fees when I picked up my car. I don’t know why but they didn’t charge me anything extra at all.
Overall, this was the smoothest and best experience I’ve ever had with a hotel and shuttle. This was very definitely a 5-​Star experience in every way. Highly recommended.
Here’s the URL to the special deal:

Excellent location with Free shuttle to the airport. Breakfast buffet, and not just toast or cereal with coffee, but eggs, bacon, and potatoes, make a great value when looking for a place to stay. Internet in the room is hardwired, but FREE. It’s definitely not the newest and most updated hotel, but for the price, it’s not too shabby at all.
Most people have forgotten that this hotel was shown in the movie Bullitt featuring Steve McQueen. Every now and then, a few fading stars still stay here. Makes for an interesting stay if/​when you should meet one.

Not a bad price for an ‘ok’ hotel by the airport.
Pros–
Close to airport
Cons–
Strange smell
Dark hallways
Sub-​Par Customer Service
With the Bart being so handy, I don’t see myself staying on the south end of town again… too inconvenient for a night life.

IF I COULD GIVE THIS PLACE ZERO STARS I WOULD!
WORST HOTEL EVER!
I found a HUGE UNKNOWN bug in my room so i called front desk to complain, This girl came in and tried to catch the bug and it ended up falling in my purse!
She wasn’t able to find it for the longest time!!! She finally caught it and said «yeah they come from the garden outside»
Ew so this happens ALOT? GROSS.
No upgrade no NOTHING!
The manager was as rude as can be… NEVER STAYING HERE AGAIN!

I really hate giving bad reviews, but places need to learn, and how can they if they don’t know what the problem is. I went to a celebration here the other night. It was your typical dinner banquet and we were seated pretty close to the head table. My son had a child’s meal and all of us had our little marked cards so the servers would know what to give us. Well, all the adults got served and my son waited… and waited… and waited. I asked three different servers for his dinner and they kept saying they were checking on it and walking in an out of the side door, without coming back to us. I even saw one person take a tray of covered plates back with more kids meals (I knew because they had the fruit cups on it that was supposed to come with to kids meal) walk it out of the side door. By this time, everyone was finishing their dinner and dessert was starting to be served. We found the head waiter or banquet manager to ask again for his meal. She went to check and then came back to tell me they were out of kids meals. She offers to make him an adult chicken dinner instead, which I knew he wouldn’t eat.
I’m sorry, I worked in hospitality before and this was unacceptable. Three people over the course of 35 minutes couldn’t figure out that they were not going to be able to serve dinner to him and let me know? What did they think, that he would forget about eating when everyone around him has full plates?
On a side note, I almost choked on a piece of meat during dinner (OK, I actually did choke and was able to get the piece dislodge — not something I’m proud of). Why mention it? Well, the prime rib was served without steak knifes and the meat was very tough. Butter knifes just don’t cut it — no pun intended. If you are serving a fairly thick cut of beef, you need to provide the right flatware. The table should not be shaking because the people that are having beef are struggling to cut it.
The only good thing was that I got to see family celebrating together here. I’m very thankful for that. But otherwise, I don’t think I would recommend this place for your banquet needs.

Ok so I have stayed here once. Given that I pretty much got what I paid for meaning, the room was basic, the hotel restaraunt had ok food. I did however have one thing that stood out during my stay at this hotel, it was the Front Desk clerk Stephanie. She was very nice, and welcoming as we checked-​in, and told us that if we needed anything to ask and she would try her best to help us. I was thouroughly satisfied with her service, and think she helped our stay be a bit more enjoyable. :)

I found this hotel to be rather nice for $ 50 bucks a night, well I guess it’s technically $ 62 because you have to pay $ 12 to park. I wish they would have told me that when I called to reserve the room.
They must have remodeled recently because it was pretty nice in the lobby. The front desk lady wasn’t the friendliest but the gentleman I dealt with on the phone was. Our room was updated and clean. The bed wasn’t that comfy so that’s why I only give them 3 stars.
A huge plus is how close it is to the airport and how cheap it is. You’re getting more than you pay for here but nothing exceptionally luxurious.

I was not going to book my wedding block here.
Because on the outside this place looked pretty bad.
But then my block at the Westin, across the parking lot was full and the hotel was literally totally sold out and I was near a breakdown and I no longer had a choice, if my guests were to be able to not have to drink and drive from my wedding reception. So this was it.
Upon my guests coming here though I got quite a few that told me it really wasn’t as bad as they had thought it was going to be based on the reviews. (The most recent ones seemed to be in the summer of 09 and my wedding was in the mid fall of 2009). I think that it had been remodeled since the reviews. And the week of the wedding I came in and checked out the rooms too with my friends and yes they looked better than the pictures showed.
So yes it was better than we thought. Good job. And they matched the parking rates for the Westin and had lower rates for the rooms than the Westin (would hope so since the rooms were not quite as nice!)
Thank goodness Clarion!

Ok, I wasn’t expecting much for $ 55 a night, but I figured it is a good chain, maybe I’ll be surprised. I wasn’t. While the rooms are large and clean with a spacious desk and a comfortable bed, everything is kind of dated. The halls are in desperate need of a makeover. The only in-​room internet access is wired. Trying to use the business center PCs to print out my boarding pass for free was useless and I ended up hooking the printer directly to my laptop (which I am sure I am not allowed to do). My room was a long haul from the elevators. Was this because I got the AAA rate? Don’t know, but arriving in San Francisco & departing, I was placed way at the end of the very long hall. The hotel is real convenient to the airport though. The pool area looked nice (didn’t take a dip, too cold for me). The do charge for parking… $ 10.00 overnight. I’d stay here again before flying in or out of SFO, but I wouldn’t choose to stay her for anything more than that.

Oh Lord… this place is TERRIBLE!!!
My step-​dad booked our first trip to Hawaii when I was in high school and we stayed here the night before our flight out of SFO early in the morning.
First of all this place was run by some shady looking people but that is not the WORST part.
When we walked into the room that we were staying in it REEKED of massive B.O. and if that weren’t enough to make you dry heave there was a pair of men’s hunter green, bikini underware lying on the floor SOILED!
I shit you not, no pun intended! It was the most FOUL experience I have ever had in an hotel!
Of course we switched rooms but I still couldn’t sleep that night knowing how disgusting that room was and thinking what could possibly be wrong in the one we were in! FOUL, NASTY PEOPLE!

What a dump! This place was once a good place to stay, but somebody aint takin care of business! It’s probably about to lose its affiliation with Clarion because it is really rundown. I think somebody from India must have bought it and is just letting it go to hell and making a few bucks until they won’t let him call it a Clarion anymore! Then you can stay there for $ 39.95!!! It’s a 1 star at best. I’m cheap but not that cheap! Stay nexy door at the Westin if you need to catch a flight.
Steve
Tuolumne Ca.

Decent hotel — very reasonable rates. However, they do charge for parking AND for internet.
My beef with the internet is that it’s WIRED (hello — it’s 2008!), so if you’re traveling with someone, you can only have one computer accessing the internet at a time. Rather inconvenient.
The beds are very comfortable! The rooms are spacious with nice large desks and comfy reading chaises. This hotel is also pet-​friendly.
The bathrooms are in serious need of updating — pretty small and in disrepair. Thankfully, though, the shower has both great water pressure and hot water!
All in all, at ~$ 80/​night for the room, it’s a decent deal — close to just about everything on the Peninsula.