Coastal Traveler - Winter 2008 - (Page 24) San Francisco’s St. Regis Hotel, near SF By Bonnie Tsui THE BASICS The St. Regis brand has opened a hotel in the Yerba Buena arts district of San Francisco. Its 260 rooms are in a 41-story tower joined to the restored century-old Williams Building and sharing space with the striking Museum of the African Diaspora, which opens onto Mission Street with a three-story glass wall. The hotel joins a luxury market already occupied by the Four Seasons, Fairmont, Ritz-Carlton and Mandarin Oriental. Elias Assaly, the general manager for the St. Regis, also opened the neighboring W San Francisco eight years ago (both brands are owned by Starwood Hotels and Resorts). The contemporary-with-character interior design isn’t terribly surprising; while the lobby’s showpiece is a 16-foot-long open fireplace, it is powered by gas, and other than the three commissioned public art pieces outside, the wall sculptures and tastefully framed drawings within don’t compete with the cutting-edge pieces at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art next door. THE LOCATION Third and Mission was once the city’s skid row, but it’s pretty well-heeled now. It is a short walk to the Montgomery Street BART and Muni station, within walking distance of the modern art museum, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Sony Metreon mall and the Union Square shopping district, as well as a good selection of galleries, clubs and independent bookstores. THE ROOMS My deluxe room was done in a neutral palette, with dark wood doors, white Pratesi linens, pillowtop mattress and a creamcolored chaise positioned by the windows with views of downtown. It was the first hotel room I’d visited in which everything — including motorized curtains, room temperature, lights, alarm clock and do-not-disturb light — was controlled by a touch-screen phone on the nightstand. Recessed closets, along with the CD/DVD player and minibar, were concealed behind wall panels, though a 42-inch flatscreen television sat front and center on the wall across from the bed. 24 coastaltraveler winter
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