The hostel is located on Nob Hill. It's great to explore San Francisco.
But there is not a lotmore good reasons to pick this hostel.
The free breakfast sounded great. What you;ll find is a pancake mix.
You will have to do pancakes with Maple syrup everyday. Some cereal or something would be a great alternative.
We stayed 7 nights in the same room and there was nobody who even vacuumed the floor or clean the bathroom. Our room was located in the basement and it got really cold the two nights temperatures dropped below 50 (outside). We could fix that with some more blankets.
The service is good. They are nice and help you right away if you have a question.

This hostel is situated quite close to Union Square and a cable car ride to fishermans wharf (which is great fun). Hostel is located up a few hills but that is the story of the city. To get anywhere you have to climb hills. The dorms were specious with a bathroom which was good. Staff were friendly and the facilities including laundry facilities were good.
The only negatives about this hostel was that despite being pretty warm outside they kept the radiators on for hours and hours which made the rooms like ovens with no air con. The bunk beds were also fairly dangerous. They have no rail to oprevent you falling off the top bunk and ladder to climb up. You have to be very athletic to climb on the top bunk because of your not you quite simply can't get up there.
To summarise good location despite lots of homeless in the surrounding vacinity, good staff and facilities, if your a good climber I would recommend this place!

Quite good location close enough to Union Square to give you some up hill to bed excercise after a hard day poking around SF. Clean enough, a few cockroaches aroudn the kitchen, but so what. Good internet with 3 computers. Helpful staff. You can buy a dozen eggs at a close by corner store to add protein to the provided pancake mix. A great way to spend a day is to rent a bike close to Fisherman's Wharf and bike across the Golden Gate Bridge to Saulsalito, have lunch, see the boat house community and take the harbor ferry back to Fisherman's Wharf.

First I need to admit that my rating is biased as I have not actually stayed in this hotel. I was GOING to; however, when I entered the building and approached the office, (which smelled heavily of B.O) I was told by the worker that I am not allowed to look at any rooms before I book them. I explained that this doesn't make any sense. And he stated that everyone who has booked in this hostel has never actually seen the rooms in person before they book. He explained that I must look at the pictures on the internet as opposed to seeing what the rooms actually look like. A boy passed us hearing our conversation and told me he is more than willing to show me his room, then the worker said with a straight face that there are "no visitors allowed" so that i could not go and see what the room looked like.

The boy then preceded to explain to me about the conditions of the room saying they were "decent". I chose to stay in a different hostel (there are MANY in the same location) where I was allowed inside and showed the rooms and given a tour of the facilities.