travel42 Hotel Review: The Ritz-Carlton, San Francisco

The Ritz-Carlton, San Francisco travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

This hotel may be located one steep block down from the crest of Nob Hill, but thanks to the continued cost-cutting going on up there it remains the best on the hill, certainly the most civilized.

A discreet and regal refuge, it fills a neoclassical palace once known as the Temple of Commerce, a name that still has currency given the vocation of most of its clientele.

It was built in 1909, and though the hotel's florid period decor long represented Sa...