San Francisco’s First Motel — Since 1937
Sunset Magazine, September 2010, “20 Best Coastal Weekends”: San Francisco’s hotels cluster downtown. But there’s something to be said for a stay on the city’s saltier, breezier, and less-known Pacific Ocean edge. Out here, a room at the Ocean Park Motel gets you in with the wetsuit-wearing, wave-riding crowd at Ocean Beach, famously foggy in summer but warm and sunny come September. The 1930s streamline moderne motel has a pretty courtyard and (in many rooms) cute kitchens — all at a reasonable price, especially for the city. And it takes dogs, which is handy because Ocean Beach is dog heaven.