Argonaut Hotel, San Francisco

Location

Very comfortable bed

Argonaut went above and beyond for our recent birthday stay. The room, location, staff, amenities, restaurant, etc. were first class! Always on our list for return visits.

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The Argonaut Hotel is in a wonderful location, right on Fisherman’s Wharf. The staff were incredibly kind and welcoming. Bed and pillows were super comfortable, and despite being in a busy area, it was a quiet and peaceful experience.

The restaurant hotel, The Blue Mermaid, left a lot to be desired. While it’s convenient for early morning grub, it’s overpriced for the quality of food you receive. You do get a $15 daily credit during your stay, which is helpful, and the service is decent. But there are better food options nearby for less (the Buena Vista, for example). My only other critique has to do with the general “perfume” of the hotel. I was surprised at the distinct smell emanating from the lobby and hallways on each floor. It wasn’t an unpleasant smell, but it was really strong on certain days. As someone who’s sensitive to perfumes, this was a drawback for me. While I appreciate an environment that smells good, I prefer to not have distinct scents super prevalent in the hotel I’m staying. This is just personal preference, however, and may not be a negative to everyone.

Pillows were a bit soft.

Location

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Beautiful, historic, and great location

Very convenient with lovely adjacent restaurant , friendly staff and big rooms

No tea/coffee making facilities in room

It’s a bit loud

It was clean, nice, great!!

Perfect location. Staff was incredibly helpful and friendly. Room was clean and amenities were well kept up.

Hotel doesn't meet the "luxury" prices, but I guess you're paying more for the location

Great location! The staff were very friendly and helpful. Rooms were clean and well decorated. We will be back.

The bathrooms could use a remodel.

Loved the location. Restored canning factory transformed into a luxury hotel. The bartender Jeff is so friendly and gave us superb advice about what to see and what places were t worth the trouble. We were so glad we followed his advice to visit the San Francisco Science Academy. Amazing experience. The rooms are comfortable and clean. Housekeeping came every day. Loved it.

What’s not to like?

Pleasant and helpful front desk staff

Location, cleanliness, size of rooms & modern interior style room was fantastic. Concierge was exceptional & breakfast/restaurant terrific. Definitely stay here again & will definitely recommend to others. Just brilliant.

We loved the location on Fisherman’s Wharf. 5 minutes from Pier 39 and 5 minutes from the station for the cable car. We were offered a free upgrade for the room: highly appreciated. The staff were friendly. I loved chatting with the lady at the concierge desk. Elegant hotel, very nice gym and interesting historical details to discover in the huge building that was once a can factory.

Great location, comfortable beds, interconnecting rooms

Good location, beds were very comfortable, towels were thick and good.

Price quoted for parking overnight, horrendously expensive. Regular TV channels were limited

Nice hotel great location for tourists.

Authentic, very charming,

GREAT LOCATION!!! AWESOME STAFF!!!!

Perfect location and friendly staff

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The rooms were clean and the bed was comfortable.

Everything was great but I sure would love coffee by the fireplace for early risers.

A fantastic hotel with superb friendly staff. Stayed for my Wife's birthday and we were treated amazingly!

Location great for Fisherman's Wharf, nice bar/restaurant connected.

Only down side the walls of the room are thin and you can hear next door. The coffee machine was rubbish!

Great location at Fisherman’s Wharf and great to walk and even for swimming in the ocean. Spacious room. Very competent and organized “lost and found department “.

Bathroom a bit small. Overnight parking is crazy expensive, feels like a ripp off.

Location

Value for money

Friendly Staff, nice room

Coffee machine inside the room

Excellent staff, cleanliness and location

No complimentary water

Location is great near the water. Nice bar and restaurant

Great location and fun hotel. Liked having restaurant on site

Our room could have used a new bed. A bit lumpy with divots

Great location, big beds, lovely good size room, lovely big mirrors and great magnifying mirror . Good to have hairdryer in room but the heat setting was a bit too hot for me. Loved the pumpkin contest for Halloween and the decorations. Loved that we could store luggage - all staff above and beyond excellent found all to be really helpful, friendly, knowledgeable and polite. Blue mermaid excellent again great staff, food was outstanding and really complemented the red wine.

Stayed in 3 different rooms and the last was the best and couldn’t fault. The previous 2 rooms both had noisy fridges - motor keeps firing up and did disturb my sleep. Hairdryer temp too hot. Would have been nice to have a little pack of biscuits with the tea/coffee machine and hot chocolate sachets - found the light lamps a bit difficult to turn on/off but did love the lighting in the rooms

Amazing location and view! Our room was excellent with several nice touches including the toiletries.

fun location. i like the nautical motif

getting a little tired. needs updating in area. our mattress needs to be replaced

Everything! The staff, the room, the lobby, all fantastic!

Didn’t know you could self park until after we checked in. Valet was $75 for one night.

Beautifully appointed room. Great ambience in the lobby

Position

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A very solid hotel, and obviously well run, and with helpful and engaging staff. Stayed for two nights after switching from another hotel that was underwhelming (Hotel Enso on Sutter Street). Quiet rooms, good restaurant - both breakfast and dinner were absolutely fine for the solo business traveller. Shout out to Angel on the Front Desk and Tony the General Manager, who helped to sort a couple of issues with room availability and modifying my booking, and which generated a lot of goodwill.

Not much to be honest - rooms are short of sockets if you need to plug in anything away from the multi connector they provide. Shower flow is a little on the shy side, but did not detract from the room experience.

Breakfast was very average food not very hot and not the big American breakfasts that we'd heard about and quite expensive therefore only taken once because of this

Shower could have been more powerful. Coffee wasn't good

Proximity to the swim park

Wait for a room and the bathroom wasn’t the cleanest

Location!!!!!

Location, location, location…….

We wish we could have stayed longer

Beautiful brick building, but all renovated indoors. I had the bay view room. Excellent location to run to GG bridge, take the trolley or walk to the hill, ferry building etc. Staff super nice and helpful.

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Lovely hotel, highly recommend. Rooms are a bit of a funny shape but they work well

We were woken by an alarm in the room next door that continued for about half an hour at 6:00am. Not the hotels fault but realised that the walls were thinner than we thought.

Location was exceptional.

Having more time to spend in SF.

There was an event that cause noise and parking issues

Friendly staff, lovely hotel overall. Upgraded on arrival for no additional cost to Spacious room overlooking park and golden gate bridge. Great position near wharf area and also near cable trams which was great for us. Plenty of restaurants nearby.

location, room with a great view, comfortable bed and a wonderful front desk staff (especially Isaac--very helpful) very good dinner in the Blue Mermaid restaurant

lower rates and taxes

Location. Room size

Stunning hotel in the perfect location

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inability to open windows