Huntington Hotel transports one to Gay Nineties' Nob Hill
All of the superlatives about the Huntington Hotel are truly well deserved and service, setting, amenities, food and beverage service and settings, and almost anything else which can be cetgorized is terrific. Still, there are always some compromises to be made when visiting back from the 21st to the late 19th Century, and they are not always so easily described by a word, but can be described in a way a traveler can understand: one arrives on Nob Hill and settles into a cute and period room with antiques and armoire and a modern though minimal bathroom, and dines superbly on American cuisines, and retires at 11:00 pm with the Pacific Union Club, Fairmount Hotel and Mark Hopkins as neighbors. Then, loudly morning announces itself prior to dawn, for the large and efficient though noisy garbage trucks are in the alleys behind the hotel carrying out the day before's garbage and it is impossible to sleep through the racket so you are out of bed by 6:00 am every morning you sleep in a rear room of the hotel. Demand a room facing California Street. Otherwise, go to bed at 8 pm and arise at 4:30 am before breakfast can be served and take a cab to an all night restaurant for you don't want to experience the garbage pick up as it ruins the ambience of 1890.