San Francisco's Element Hostel |
 It's officially known as the Elements Hotel, but it's really more of an upscale hostel. But for young folk visiting San Francisco on the cheap, it's an excellent place to crash. For one, the rooms are clean, safe and cheap ($30/person for a queen bed room, based on two people sharing and $25/bed in one of the four- or six-person dorm rooms). There's a computer room with free Internet access and wireless access throughout the building. The Mission neighborhood location means you're right in the middle of tons of restaurants, bars and stores ranging from vintage shops to used bookstores, trendy clothing boutiques to off-beat art galleries. But for anyone who likes to party, the bonus is that the hostel is attached to Medjool, a huge Meditteranean restaurant-bar-club that serves a complimentary breakfast to hostel guests and happens to be a hotspot for locals who come to feast on skewered meats at dinner or kick it on the amazing rooftop terrace on warm, windless afternoons and evenings (if they have their outdoor heaters working, it's still a cool spot to hang out even when it's windy and foggy). On weekend nights, the downstairs restaurant tables are moved and the space transforms into a huge dancefloor where well-dressed young folk boogie to the DJ's tracks.
I'm a little too old and crotchety to go in for a place like this now, but seriously, when I was 21, I would have loved this place. It's a young, single 20-something's dream destination for fun times in the big city.
Elements Hotel San Francisco
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POSTED BY SYSADMIN AT 2:05 AM
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