San Francisco Hotel Review: Hotel Zoe Fisherman's Wharf

Hello everyone!

A little different review as I went to San Francisco! I thought I should go to San Francisco at least once before my official move in next year. I'm super excited!

 

Location:

This hotel is close to Pier 39 which has a boardwalk full of shops and food stalls. There’s even a spot to watch seals! Fisherman’s Wharf is known for their clam chowder and crabs so expect many places with those two options available. There is a large cafe, shop, restaurant called Boudin which is known for their sourdough! You can watch the workers bake from the outside window. No worries if you don’t like those two options as there is an Applebee’s, In-N-Out burgers, McDonald’s, and Krispy Creme donuts to have satisfy your chain food cravings. Right next to the hotel is a World Foods Market that you can purchase snacks or beverages and Ross for clothes. A block or so down is a Trader Joe’s and across the street is a Safeway. 

Hotel:

There is a parking garage right next to hotel so good if you want to self-park. There’s also a little half-circle driveway that is perfect for drop off and pickup for ride share apps. The street itself is mostly not busy so even if there wasn’t that half circle it would be fine for curb pickup. If you want to valet that is also available. The staff there by the door is really nice. Multiple times I have noted that there was a doorman who opened the door for me.

Amenities:

There’s a daily fee about $39 per day quite hefty and the amenities don’t make up for it. Let me explain. The most disappointing feature is that there is no inside fitness center. You do have access to the 24hr fitness which is across the street and inside the 2nd floor of a rather old and empty building. There’s also fruit included water right across the elevators but that’s nothing special. Inside of having coffee maker in the room, they have a coffee bar in the morning that you can also get tea or hot chocolate. Upon arrival, you also get a coupon for 10 off lunch or dinner at their attached restaurant. If you like to bike, they do have bike rentals on a first come first serve basis. If you prefer to pay to ride a scooter there are ones available as well.

 

Room:

The room is decent size and the bed is pretty comfortable. There is a chance that the window of your room faces a brick wall. I looked at online reviews that said sometimes position of the bed maybe right by the door. Overall the theme of the room is Nautical/Beach themed. I was on the fourth floor which is the highest floor. Other than the occasional people talking and walking down the hallways and there was onetime my neighbor forgot to turn off his tv, overall pretty quiet room. You do have an option to forgo the housekeeping to get a $5 per night on the honor bar, restaurant, or room service.

The only downer is that the tv channels doesn’t have TLC.  

The bathroom is good size with the the other exception is the door opens up unless you close it completely. There was Q-tips, makeup remover, cotton balls. The counter space is small but still have a decent amount of room to lay stuff down.

As part of the packaged I booked, there is free breakfast for two every morning at their attached restaurant. It’s a basic continental breakfast so like fruit and toast or muffin. Yeah only used it for one morning because I rather eat bread at the comfort of my hotel room.

Overall: 4.5/5

I would choose to stay in this room is I can in the future. The only real disappointment was the gym. The location is such a big plus and thus making this a great hotel to stay at.

Fisherman's Wharf 

There is a perfect spot to view the seals at Pier 39 which I totally recommend! It's right by Fisherman's Wharf. Additionally, there's plenty of food places and as well as shops in this area. i really liked how they had a Biscoff shop there!

Japantown

Originally, I had planned to stay at a hotel at Japantown but due to hotel being fully booked I didn't. There was some pretty cool architecture there.

The most exciting thing about this area is all the shopping centers are semi-connected. I love shopping at Daiso which I have been to one while I was at Seattle. There were many good places to eat and especially for Japanese food!

So happy to find a fish ice cream place! I got the matcha one!

This was probably about $10-15 but worth the money for how cute it was!

Chinatown

I stopped by chinatown as I wanted to stop by to where the my office was. The fortune cookie factory was a must see!

Downtown

I met up with my friend and her friend at Hakkasan. This restaurant is hakka and cantonese-style. For warned that this place is pricey! For the three of us it cost about $70 per person. The service of the waiters and waitress was phenomenal. We always had our waters filled. In between the main dishes, they cleaned our table as well as giving us new plates. The picture above is an appetizer that's so cute with tiny bit of crunch. 

This is the duck salad. 

I don't remember what this dish is but it is some sort of vegetarian dish. 

I really wanted some noodles so I asked our waitress what was popular. This is so good. It's the hakka style noodles. 

This was some sort of meat and it was delicious.

Overall I was super excited that I had made this trip.

XOXO

-M