Berkeley City Club Hotel

I love the design of the building, the history, the details a m d integrated gardens. The location is good for me too.

The hotel is near lots of restaurants geared towards students. It’s about a 20 minute walk to campus depending which building you need to go. The architecture is beautiful with lots of sitting areas for hotel guests to enjoy. The breakfast fare was quiche, breads, pastries, cold cuts, yoplait yogurt and Quaker oats which was fine. The room is compact but comfortable. The restaurant’s urban buffet was surprisingly good and priced well (relative to the room rate).

There are lots of events on site for the public and members. It’s not as quiet as you’d think but they are well organized. The breakfast wasn’t what I expected but the dining room was comfortable. Shower takes a couple minutes to warm up.

Incredible building. It's a social club of sorts, and the courtyard, pool, restaurants, libraries were all stunning. We decided to stay on the day of the checkout and had a productive day and a great dinner inside. VERY friendly and helpful 24hr staff.

The rooms were a bit dated, and small. The heater wasn't able to turn off with a broken switch and made a ticking sound all night, but the staff gave us a small discount to rectify this the next day. A big minus is parking is paid - even as a guest. It's something like 28 dollars overnight. We ended up parking in the streets but had to fill the meter (via app) every two hours during business hours. Outside of Vegas, I've never had to pay for parking at a hotel. Very unusual.

I love the architecture of this facility. I really like the pool. In general I like the breakfast - mainly the coffee and the croissants and the sliced fruit when it was available, but also the hard boiled eggs and mini quiches. The person who manages the breakfast is very impressive. The bed was very comfortable. The extra bonus was having the band come marching in on Friday morning for what I assume was a rally for the Cal game against Stanford. That little reading room on the first floor looked very nice, although didn't use it. The ice water with orange slices on the first floor was a nice touch, as was having coffee available even though I didn't have any, other than the two cups I drank at breakfast. I really liked the view out of the windows. (My room faced the Bay.)

Not having the sliced fruit at breakfast every day (pineapple, cantaloupe, honeydew). It would be nice if there were some link sausages. I don't know if using a heater in the room is ever necessary, but when I first checked in, I did attempt to use the portable plug-in radiator; and I think it caused one or both lamps' lights to turn off. In other words maybe that radiator will overload the system (?). As it turned out, I was fine with the slightly cool room temperature. The lighting in my room was inadequate to read with, sitting in the chair.

Excellent Customer Service!

Historical!