Located by Union Square's magnificent shopping, drama and nightlife, the Kensington Park Hotel serves as home to the 1,000 seat Post Street Theatre and the celebrated Farallon restaurant and its coastal cuisine and dramatic lighting from jellyfish like hanging lamps. What's more, guests will find right out the Kensington Park's front door the famous Powell Street Cable Car Line, where they can hop rides to Fisherman's Wharf, North Beach and everything San Francisco.

Built in a Spanish Gothic style originally as an Elks lodge in 1925, the hotel retains much of its early charm, with marble tile floors and hand painted wood ceilings in the lobby, where guests can sip tea and sherry in the evenings and blast off into cyberspace with wireless Internet access. The hotel offers complimentary limos to the financial district and free access to a fitness center at its sister, the Diva, a half block away.

The 90 guest rooms offer exquisite views of Nob Hill or Post Street. Guests will fall fast asleep on comfy beds with mahogany finish headboards, floral bedspreads and decorative pillows. Queen Anne reproduction furniture includes armoires with cable TVs, video game consoles and writing desks.

The Kensington Park Hotel offers leisure vacationers, business travelers and conventioneers the ideal location to everything San Francisco, from internationally known shopping to the Moscone Convention Center, in an ambiance that visitors to this City by the Bay expect. Pretty good for some place that started out as an Elks lodge.