Y.M.C.A.
Hostel
San
Francisco
The Green Tortoise - NOT Recommended...
Cheap Hotel Alternatives:
Grant
Plaza Hotel - very popular budget hotel near Chinatown
and the Financial District...
Renoir
Hotel - popular centrally
located large budget hotel with character... Our #2 most
reserved hotel in January 2001.
Its
Not Fun to Stay at the Y.M.C.A.:
"For those of you who think staying at the YMCA
men's hospitality rooms in Chinatown in San Francisco on Sacramento
Street, please be advised to think again. This place is the
worst dump that I've ever walked into, it's not like the YMCA buildings
in New York city that are safe, spacious and decent for a budget
traveler. Don't be fooled by the YMCA gym that is on the bottom
floor, once they give you a key, you have to go around to the side
which is highly dangerous and dark at night.
I
walked in and there was garbage all over, on the floor, in corners,
the whole place stunk like rotten food and urine. What I then saw
truly disgusted me, the room they expected me to sleep in. The rooms
are grotesque, no human should have to be
subjected to something like that. These are flop house rooms, pure
and simple, nothing has been invested in them, NOTHING! The bed
is dirty and from the 1940's,
it is one of those spring coil types with a smelly mattress that
is probably original and on top of that it had some sort of flea
or bed bug which gave me bite marks on my legs and I woke up with
a strange rash on my face. There was no lock on the door either
so I had to push the bed against the door in fear of my life.
The
carpet, what was left of it, is all torn and has stains on it. For
those of you seeking to watch a few nights of TV, there is none,
I had to cozy up with a book by Dostoyevsky to pass the night hours
away, take it from me, reading 'Crime and Punishment' is not something
you want to read in a place like this. The furniture (an ugly dresser
and one small nightstand with knife marks) is dirty and smelt bad.
This place is a DUMP! Be warned, don't go using the restroom or
shower either, I went in there and some guy was asleep in the toilet
and some other guy was shooting up his arm in the shower. There
are cockroaches and it seems that no one cleans the place.
I quickly went down to the Chinatown Holiday Inn to do my business
and brush
my teeth. Traveler's don't come here it seems, it's more of a junkie
hangout, throw in a few former cons and just plain scum bags and
that is what they have. I got ripped off for $50 for one night for
this awful experience, I had to get out and demanded my full week's
payment back from the irate Chinese service desk man or I would
sue them, he quickly complied after I told him I would turn him
over to the Health
authorities for numerous violations, including having rats running
around like a pet shop. After that, I went to the Holiday Inn on
Van Ness, let me tell you,its very worth the expense..."
Oslo - February 2001
Jason writes
in September 2001, "Hey, love you site, been to it several
times. I have a different oponion about the YMCA. I
have NEVER stayed at the Chinatown YMCA but the other Y's hostel/hotel
( I think it is the Central YMCA) is great. You get a clean
well kept room, your own bathroom if you pay for it, free breakfast
and I even used the gym before. So, just wanted to let everyone
know, I liked the Y I stayed at and it is cheap."
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