CW Hotel

The new management is great. 2 months now.
New painted rooms and furniture.
Incense permeates the halls which is worse than cigarette smoke that one may occasionally smell. Marijuana is the predominant scent in the building.
But its still safe, clean, quite and inexpensive.
I liken it to a dorm at college shared bathrooms, single and double rooms, and neighbors respect and communicate with eachother.
Again safe, quite and respectful management and neighbors.

Absolutely disgusting & ought to be torn down soon on 5^th & Folsom. This place is run by Crooks, the hotel stinks like curry, & the showers & rooms, & shared bathrooms are the likes of a hotel in a 3^rd world country.
$ 265 per week for bed bugs, filth, dirt, noise, & construction behind, & horrid Indian Landlords who play games & won’t work with your budget/​price even after staying weeks: makes this THE Worst ‘hotel’ EVER. Save you’re money & dignity.
They advertise on Craigslist for cheaper buy when you arrive they raise the prices. Nasty frightening place, this is.

TS MTL
By far the worst experience in regards to an SRO I have ever had. I found this place on «Craig’s List». The location was EXCELLENT given it was Dore alley weekend & it was away from the chaos of the tenderloin, but a family of Indians manage this place. The son oldest is like the Norman Bates of the pack and the mom? Well she meets the Hitchcock film to a «tee» the only thing missing from this week experience was then shower scene
The correct phone number is: 1 (415) 348‑1562

Always ask for a cheaper rate if you stay more than two weeks and pay on time. They usually accommodate.

Horrible… just horrible. They gave me a room with a bed that had a broken frame. I reported it the first night in, they wanted to blame me. The place is a flea bag joint and the owners will treat you half way nicely while thrusting the knife in your back. Go elsewhere.

Absolutely disgusting is all I can say! Don’t stay here! Spend the extra few dollars and get a real hotel. Got bites all over arms! First day I was there ambulance was there do to someone passed out in the hall!

So I moved in to this place around February 2014 after staying a full month at a previous hotel in Union Square. I had just started a new job and needed somewhere to live close to work. I came early on a Saturday and asked Shama the woman that works there if they had any vacancies. She said yes, so I felt relieved and happy.
I paid her $ 225 and moved my few things over to the hotel. My first impression was, hey the stairs leading up to the hotel are actually clean. Maybe this place will be awesome. I get in my room and it has a dirty motel room smell. I knew right away it was from the old carpet.
I was happy there was a TV, Microwave, and Mini Fridge. The first week I was actually happy to have found this expensive place so close to work.
After coming up to my fourth week, I knew they were going to ask me to leave so I went ahead and asked if I could stay longer until I found a roommate. She said yes I could stay but that I would have to pay $ 500 deposit. She said I could do weekly payments.
Fast forward a month later I noticed a small dot of blood on my sheet. I thought it was gross and thought maybe it was from a scratch. A few days later I noticed another small blood stain by my shoulders. I started to get freaked out at this point. Then one night I was pulling my sheets back when I found dried blood on my leg with a small bug attached to the sheet. I put two and two together and realized I was being bitten by bed bugs every night.
I got so freaked out I couldn’t sleep without turning the lights on and checking for bugs. Sure enough there would always be one or two on the bed waiting to bite me.
I said fuck this place I’m out. $ 900 a month for a shitty hotel room, broken microwave, insane bed bugs, and the power would short out anytime I plugged something in.
I called her on Monday when I was at work and told her I was moving in to a house that Saturday when my rent was due.
Come Saturday I move my stuff out like clothes and throw away my sheets an blankets.
I come back for my $ 550 deposit and she said they would only give me $ 50 back because the sheets weren’t clean and they saw a stain on the carpet and I didn’t give her a full weeks notice.
First of all this is a week to week tenancy, I never signed any form of a lease. Second of all the carpet was disgusting and stained when I got there. Third of all my sheets had stains from being bitten by bed bugs every damn night at that dump of place run by scam artists.
I fought back and she eventually gave me $ 400 back.
These people are trash, don’t ever waste your time staying here or giving them any money for a deposit so they can pocket it.

This place SUCKS.
There are BEDBUGS and CRACKHEADS
The lady is rude and obviously an arrogant caste member from India.
Most other hotel owners from India I have dealt with have been much nicer and professional especially most of the Patels, this lady was not professional at all
This ladies arrogance and nastiness was unbelievable
She cares only about money and the only time she smiles is when you hand her a voucher or cash. She rips off the veterans and the only reason they put up with it is the shortage of SROs in San Francisco
If you want a filthy room above a LOUD NIGHT CLUB go for it .
Maybe your a drug addict who stays up all night NO SWEAT
I would rather sleep outside

This hotel was a great bargain with a great location, the manager was polite and up-​front about the rooms available. The restrooms are clean and plentiful and the laundry room is a nice plus to have on-​site.

HORRIBLE, I WOULD PREFER TO SLEEP IN THE STREET!
The couple was simply rude and dispolite. I was looking for something cheap but, beleive me, its better to stay in the street than moving to this hotel. The place was a living hell, dirty as you cant imagine and the toilets… OMG the toilets and the shower was like being in a 3^rd world country. Everytime i was going outside the man was looking at me as a mureder.
Saturday night, i was heading to bed after a long day when suddenly i started to hear house music as if there was a techno festival inside my room, there is a club just down the «hotel», so its impossible to sleep until 2 am if you are lucky.
The worst thing was that they didnt gave me back the 50 bucks deposit because they said that i made noise at night, not true of course!! So i spent 250 bucks in the worst place ever, thanks to that my memory of SF is horrible.
I also remember the woman complaining all the time about the American people and the Amercian society (they were from india), if you dont like the United States, why you came here?
Sorry about my english im Spaniard, but remember NEVER I SAY NEVER GO TO THIS CREEPY PLACE!!! YOU WILL REGRET IF YOU DO IT!

The CW Hotel is not for the faint of heart, and if you have problems following rules you will not like this place.
The good: this place is very affordable, and it is centrally located at 5^th and Folsom. The neighborhood is not bad, a few clubs and some automotive shops. there is a new condominium building being constructed directly across the street. The owners if you treat them with respect they will treat you with respect. it is a two way street.
The bad: the rooms are not as clean as I would have expected, the mattress is way old but I supplemented with padding and fresh linen. My one window overlooks an air shaft. The bathrooms are communal which with me being in the military I could care less but some folks are very shy. If you stay on the 1^st floor of this establishment expect to be kept awake all night due to the Omega club on the 1^st floor of the building they play until 0200 in the morning. UGH. There are a lot of folks who do NOT follow the rules which the managers are very strict about so there are a few disagreements in the hallways at ANY hour (mostly just the 2^nd floor).
For the most part if you look past the bad the rooms are very affordable, if you are going to stay there for a long time (some do) you can paint/​decorate the room to your tastes.
I have been in the room since October — Dec 2012 and have had no problems with either the manager nor the room, other than PG&E cutting a line for electricity and taking 18 hours to reinstall it.
So if your looking for very affordable at $ 800 a month, and you want central location. If you don’t mind no: smoking, friends, drugs, etc then this is a good place to stay. SF is very expensive so I found this to be a great place to stay, beats the hell out of sleeping on the ground during military exercises.
Gregg

I was looking for a cheaper place to stay until I could find my own apartment. So I head over the the CW Hotel (more like motel lol) I call and find it really hard to understand the lady (who said her name was summer). Well after all this and that the room ended up being like $ 150 a week. Ok, thats not bad then I ask about internet, she said yeah we have it but its another $ 40. (yeah a weeks internet for about a months price) Then she said there is also a deposite of $ 50 dollars. So I fork over the $ 240 and she takes me to my room. First off the whole place smells like a trash can, and the blankets are more than questionable. But I just have to suffer cause I dont wanna sleep on the streets.
I call my best friend and long story short she said I could stay at their house until I found an apartment of my own. So I go back and ask if it was possible to be charged the NIGHTLY RATE of $ 57, so as not to lose the rest of my money. The lady said «no refunds». I was like ok. Then some guy from inside her door screamed out at me «And if you dont like it you can complain.» Lol and who would I complain to I thought.
So basically stay away from this place unless you have no other place to stay.

«$ 129 weekly rooms in safe neighborhood!» on Craigslist.
«So the room is $ 129 a week plus tax, right?»
«Yes, $ 160. $ 129 plus tax.»
«Erm…»
I ended up biting my tongue, based on the fact that the room is about four times the size of the bedbug-​infested sardine can I just moved out of, and (after about a 25% «tax») five bucks cheaper.
This place is a waking nightmare. The couple that manages it are generally unprofessional and the husband especially is rude. I would constantly be getting woken up by him yelling at someone. I asked for a receipt and got grumbled at, I had to go buy my own soap, towel, shampoo, and even toilet paper. They won’t hire a night agent and yet act like it’s your fault they get woken up.
And yet I put up with it all, the lying, the grumpiness, and the constant yelling. Why? No bedbugs.

I’ve lived here on and off for over 15 years. For a temporary, long term or short term place to stay. it is great. Its a SRO of the finest quality. It is a CLEAN & SAFE place.
Most of the residents are long term, meaning they’ve lived here for over ten years.
The management is friendly, accomodating and helpful. They watch over the place and keep it clean, as well as fix things as needed which is better than many apartment buildings in the city. Common areas are clean and bathrooms are well maintained.
Mostly working people, retired seamen and local blue collar worker inhabit this place, but at least you can live here without fear of over regulation. Close to public transport and very conveniently located.
Great place to live. PRICE FOR MONEY!!!

The rooms are medium size, plenty of space, personal sink, but please make this residential hotel the LAST one on your list. You will be personally violated and deal with managers who are uncooperative, unsympathetic, and in for the money, but also in joint conspiracy with the owners who they are related to. No one takes the blame for anything that goes wrong, and there are no refunds even if someone violates your room by entering without consent. The policy should be no refunds including stolen property from your room which you thought private.
Someone without permission went into my room. This someone is not just anyone but the janitor who is a socialite especially with the permanent residents. I carry no cash, I leave no cash, and so he was unable to succeed in taking what he wanted, but when I asked him about it he said he thought it was another room he had to clean. When I told the managers, they said they could not do anything about it.
I did not mind the constant dirty bathrooms, plugged bathtub, nor the cup-​o-​noodles dumped into the bathroom sink, but I question the such strict CW policy who hires a janitor whose worked there for three years, who has more time to sneak into other peoples’ rooms than do his job and keep things sanitary.
This place is a nightmare and a living hell.

This place is a bit overpriced for SOMA, compared to places at similar cost in other neighborhoods such as nob hill, they are cash only which means that disputes are 100% in their hands, and I woke up this morning to a rat feasting on my medicinal cookies. The shared bathroom has no toilet paper, you must be rationed by management, who are difficult to get ahold of.
Also keep in mind the no guests policy mean that if someone wants to meet up with you at an indeterminate time, where you are staying, they’ll have to stand outside until you are ready.
Finally, you’ll find that while the Indian lady who handles keys is quite polite, her husband is ill-​informed as to whom is whom, and will accost everyone coming in the door if one of their residents is unpaid.
It’s better than sleeping on the streets, and it’s not in the tenderloin, but that’s a weak positive statement. I take rats over bedbugs, but what a choice to face.