The Westin San Francisco Airport - Hotel Review

Recently we visited San Francisco and arrived on a late night, after work flight. Being late we did not want to venture into the city just yet and opted for a hotel nearby the airport for the night. There are no hotels in or connected to the airport so we booked a room at the nearby Westin San Francisco Airport ($180 if you booked with them directly, $150 for us since we found an online price deal from a third party). Most of the hotels shared shuttles so they came frequently and the airport had many signs to direct you to the proper waiting area.

River, don't touch the water

We are SPG Gold Preferred Guests so we were offered a complimentary room upgrade at check-in. We had an incredible view of the airport runway and planes departing over the bay. The soothing sounds of the planes taking you off really put you to sleep fast.

Our View

When we woke up, there is a nice walking area along the bay which we enjoyed with nice views of the bay and planes taking off. Surprisingly the area (Burlingame) was pretty nice. Our experience with hotels near airports is that they are predominantly in ghetto areas because who wants to live next to an airport. 

The shuttle comes along every 15 minutes or so and we rode that to the SFO airport international terminal. The terminal is connected to the BART subway system which we used to head out to downtown San Francisco.

Overall, it was a pretty nice start to our trip. The hotel completed a $10M renovation in 2015 and it really shows when you walk around the property.