San Francisco - Resorting - Brief Article

Travel America, Nov-Dec, 2002

Though centrally situated lodgings with intimate European-type ambience are plentiful in San Francisco, a distinctive newcomer can always make an attention-getting impression. The Orchard Hotel, two blocks uphill from shops surrounding Union Square and right alongside the Powell Street cable car line, also gives guests conveniently walkable access to Chinatown, the skyscraper-studded Financial District, downtown theaters, and the Museum of Modern Art.

This 10-story boutique hotel contains 105 rooms (including nine suites; all accommodations are non-smoking), plus the upscale V Bistro and Bar. In-room niceties include accent furnishings made of honey-toned Balinese nyatoh wood, two telephones, Internet access, DVD and CD players, and cotton bathrobes. Continental breakfast is complimentary; so is each morning's newspaper.

Contact: The Orchard Hotel (TravelAmerica Magazine), 665 Bush St., San Francisco, CA 94108; (888) 717-2881; www.theorchardhotel.com.