travel42 Hotel Review: Fairmont San Francisco

Fairmont San Francisco travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

This property is located at the crest of San Francisco's most famous hill, opposite the more intimate Mark Hopkins InterContinental, just up from the junction of the California and Powell Street cable cars, three knee-buckling blocks up the hill from Grant Street (Chinatown) and five north of Union Square.

The Fairmont is smoothly run, but its luxurious edge has lost some of its gleam over the years, principally from its size that attracts large group bus...