Hotel Abigail

They have allowed students to board rooms for many months which is against the city regulations. They don’t get any tourists anymore because of the worsening condition of the so called hotel. The students get pretty loud and they usually hang outside in groups smoking cigarettes and yelling from the hotel windows. This has been a nuisance to other regular clients and people visiting. The management is weak and am pretty sure this place will not exist anymore if it goes at the same pace. Place is in a great location and has so much potential to thrive. But it’s definitely not a recommendation to any tourists visiting the city. Big mistake!

This place sucks ! Its dirty and your paying $ 27 for valet. This place is run down, dirty rooms, service is horrible and the don’t even try the free breakfast they offer. Location is good with the exceptions of all the bums sleeping on the streets and the crack dealer we saw. Yes an actual crack dealer selling his product, you can find a better place like motel 6

Would give zero stars if possible. Best Value?! Please. Value suggests good quality at a low price. A $ 50 bottle of Scotch for $ 25 is a great value. A bottom shelf bottle of rot gut for $ 15 is just cheap, not a value. This place is rot gut hotel. Yes it’s inexpensive for San Francisco … But not a value in any way. Room was so, so dirty. Sheets did not fit the bed, so every time we rolled over we ended up wrapped in a wad of bedding. Towel rack literally hanging off the wall by one screw. The front desk staff were very pleasant, but there is truly nothing else good to say about this place. Sorry.

This hotel is pretty oldschool ghetto.
Rooms are standard.
No telephone in the room, so you can’t even contact front desk.
There’s 2 working TV channels…
You have to borrow blowdryer from front desk
Showers are tiny
Bed is very uncomfortable
Towels are hard
The only thing cool about this hotel is:
1. location — you can walk around (but it’s near tenderloin, so be prepared)
2. the oldschool elevator
3. Nice staff
This place was expensive for it’s quality. Yeah, if you couldn’t tell, I’m not returning here.

The place itself is not that bad. The shower I will admit was the best part (I really need to get one of the shower heads). The place was under construction so I can understand how they are slowly making it better. One thing I could not stand was the lack of them changing our sheets daily. In fact, during our 3 night stay they only changed the sheets before we checked in and after we checked out. The staff was very helpful and accommodated to us with check in and check out times. The rate was pretty fair for the location. Hopefully the cleanliness gets better.

Awful! Walls are falling apart, the bathroom door locked us out, the elevator is from the 60’s! It took 40 min to get our car from valet. Do not come here even if its to save some money!

never try this place, if u want to enjoy ur vacay.

This hotel has space heaters in the rooms (fire hazard?), no working elevators, no phones in room and power issues. Do not recommend staying here

After reading the reviews for this place I was extremely hesitant to stay there, but as I needed a room on New Years Eve, and I only started looking on the morning of New Years Eve, I had to take what I could get.
First of all, the valet parking is expensive, and they won’t tell you where they take your car, but it’s about five blocks away. That’s scary. Secondly, the elevator was broken and there are about a million stairs to carry your bags up. They did have a little heater in our room. so it wasn’t cold in there.
Since I had read the reviews I wanted to see the room before I committed to s

This was the worse hotel I ever went to. We were so scared to even sleep here… There was exposed wires coming down the walls… The beds if you call them beds looked like a homeless man slept on em for over a week and left his grease print behind… So we went back to the front desk to get our money back when they tried to put us in another room… just as nasty but no wires exposed… As we stand at the front trying to get a refund a mouse runs by… I thought we d be better sleeping in the streets… So after being told we would not get a refund because he considered us in the room for a half an hour… More liked 30 seconds. we took the $ 112.00 loss and left after hearing others complain about bug bites from their first night there… This place needs shut down… words couldn’t even describe how nasty dirty this place is…

The worst hotel experience I have ever had.
1.The elevator was broken and I had to walk up 6 flights to get to my room
2. It took me 40 min to check in because there was only one clerk.
3. It took me 1 hour to check out because there was only one clerk and he had to call the owner for every little detail
4. The ceiling fan looked like it was going to fall any second
5. The lobby was moldy with holes in the ceiling
6. The «non-​smoking» room smelled off smoke
7. The bedside lamp didn’t work
8. There was trash behind the headboard that was never cleaned

I checked in on thursday night, took a shower and the water stayed in the tub and did not drain. The toilet was running constantly every two minutes so I had to shut off the water to the toilet to sleep. When I set the alarm clock, roaches were inside it having a party. When I went back tot he hotel after the gym, the water was shut off to fix the boiler for hours. For two days I asked that the tub be unclogged and the toilet fixed, the third night I did not even stay there and checked out a day early. They told me I would be charged for the last day as well. I tried to roll with the events, but the bugs creeped me out and I could not sleep there… No I would not recommend it…

I stayed here a couple weeks ago and have intended to write a review ever since. This is a solid alternative to hostels and Motel 6, (and I LOVE Motel 6.) If you’re going to a conference, you’re only blocks from Moscone and you cannot beat the price. The hotel has gone through lots of upgrades since the old reviews below, so while still old and definitely NOT fancy, the bathroom was brand new and very clean, sheets were clean, room had no odors or stains. Cable TV reception was very fuzzy for some reason, but that’s not why you stay at a downtown SF hotel.
Note: This is the very edge of the Tenderloin. It can be intimidating to out-​of-​towners who aren’t used to homeless people and downtown «personalities». We had no problems at all, but your Aunt Bessie and Uncle Herb from Nebraska would have to have a great sense of adventure.
I will definitely stay here again, and recommend it to other budget-​conscious travelers. Lots of European families and couples where there when we stayed.

NEVER stay at this place. Unless you want to experience the following:
–Bathe with ROACHES in a dirty/​dingy tub (with a broken faucet)
–Walk into an empty hotel that has no valet or parking for that matter
–Sleep on a «queen» bed upheld by 2 twin size box springs
–A room with no working lamps and/​or outlets (to charge a cell, etc)
–NO room phone for front desk service
–A room penetrated with smelly/​sweaty human kind of odor
–NO cable
–Barely functional furniture
Oh yea, and you might just get an offer to change rooms – to something a little worse.

I had stayed at this hotel many years ago, and thought it very nice. When I stayed again about a year ago, I found that it had declined a bit. Still, it had a sort of charm that I had enjoyed while staying in some quaint hotels in Europe.
When I returned in early January 2009, the Abigail had gone from charming decline to abysmally poor. Apparently they’re having problems paying the heating bill. The entire hotel was cold. When I asked about the temperature, I was told it would get better when the boiler auto-​started at 8pm (!). At 10pm, the radiator was still cold, and I got moved to another room, being promised that the radiator was working in that room. Before schlepping my things to this new room, I checked it out, and found that it was as cold as the first room. After a 15-​minute search, the desk man found a room with a warm radiator. It was better than the other two rooms, but it still only raised the temperature in about a third of the room. The rest was still cold.
Along about 6am, I woke up and found that the radiator was cold again. I immediately got out my hand-​held internet device and located another hotel closer to the convention center. As I was checking out, the day clerk showed me a spiral binder with page after page of complaints from guests with the same message. Too cold. Can’t connect to wifi.
I have no idea what the time frame the pages represent, but if it’s still happening after the first complaint, even if it was only last week, it’s gone on too long, and not likely to be corrected soon.
Sorry for the length, but you should be warned away from the Hotel Abigail. The clerks were nice enough, but it’s apparent that management cares not one whit about its guests. I couldn’t give a «Zero» star rating here, but I would have if I could.

I agree with Jen’s review. It’s hard to rate this place though because it depends on what you are comparing it to. I’ve actually stayed at Motel 6 that are nicer, but this place has a ton of historic character which I am a sucker for.
The location at first seems a little crappy… most civic centers die after 5pm and a lot of schizo’s milling about outside. But when it comes down to it the location is awesome. Very centralized and easy to get to any part of the city.
One star is entirely for the gentleman working the front desk during the afternoon and early evening. He was patient, helpful, and kind.
Now for the bad: It’s pretty run down. Trying to get in the lift (while charming) is NOT fun with 3 weeks worth of luggage. A huge mirror magically fell off the wall nearly killing me as I made my way to the bathroom. Also, they have no parking. Although I expect that in SF, they charge you more than the room to pay for a valet to take it to some hypothetical garage. Which means we had to take out ALL our luggage we had been traveling with and wait about 20 – 30 min. every time we needed to take the car out. This place is one step up from a hostel– but I’ve stayed at tons of budget hotels that at least have decent breakfast. This place they put out a few muffins and coffee can call it continental. The poor Europeans staying there must have been mortified.
Also beware of the beds that have crazy metal crap sticking out. I struck my foot on one hopping in and really thought I broke something– it hurt for 3 days.
As long as you don’t expect the Ritz (or even a Holiday Inn) this place will do fine– the sheets at least were clean and the architecture cool. But plan on bringing a first aid kit, no car, and your own breakfast.

Value for dollar, this place was great. The phone number written i lipstick on our room wall didn’t bus us. Neither did the horribly mildewing 2.5′ by 2.5′ shower. Because we were paying $ 69 a night and we were way close to most of the attractions we wanted to see.
The staff was friendly and accomodating. And instead of an elevator, they had a lift! How cool is that?
We knew it would be a grody place, but we’re used to staying in Motel 6’s and stuff. You can’t expect much.
Don’t fall down the stairs. They’re really steep.