What stood out to me was the character of the employees,desk staffed 24hrs, which I like and everyone was very professional and polite and seemed happy. As abusiness owner myself and having traveled extensively for a publishing company, morale typically starts at the top and works it's way down so everything was clean, the employees friendly and very affordable and in North Beach the location how can you beat that!
I had stayed here two times previously and had honestly been underwhelmed. Simply remember that this hotel ralways ranks near the lowest cost hotels in San Francisco Francisco. it's dark and not well kept