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Calista Organic Hotel

3.0 star property

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Premium bedding, desk, laptop workspace, free WiFi
Point of interest
Point of interest
Point of interest
Lobby sitting area

Reviews

6.6 out of 10

Popular amenities

  • Kitchen
  • Housekeeping
  • 24/7 front desk
  • Free WiFi

Explore the area

Map
1485 Bush Street, San Francisco, CA, 94109
  • Lombard Street
    ‪19 min walk‬
  • Moscone Convention Center
    ‪3 min drive‬
  • Ferry Building
    ‪3 min drive‬
  • San Francisco, CA (SFO-San Francisco Intl.)
    ‪20 min drive‬

Room options

View all photos for Standard Room, 1 Queen Bed, Kitchenette

Premium bedding, desk, laptop workspace, free WiFi

Standard Room, 1 Queen Bed, Kitchenette

  • 23 sq m
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Queen Bed

View all photos for Signature Room, 1 Queen Bed, Kitchenette (Wellness Room)

Premium bedding, desk, laptop workspace, free WiFi

Signature Room, 1 Queen Bed, Kitchenette (Wellness Room)

  • 28 sq m
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Queen Bed

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Premium bedding, desk, laptop workspace, free WiFi

Signature Room, 1 Queen Bed, Kitchenette..

  • 23 sq m
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Queen Bed

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About the area

San Francisco

A stay at Calista Organic Hotel places you in the heart of San Francisco, a 4-minute drive from Ferry Building. .This hotel is 1.2 mi (1.9 km) from Lombard Street and 1.7 mi (2.8 km) from Moscone Convention Center.

What's nearby

  • Union Square - 17 min walk - 1.4 km
  • Lombard Street - 2 min drive - 1.9 km
  • Moscone Convention Center - 4 min drive - 2.8 km
  • Ferry Building - 4 min drive - 3.4 km
  • Pier 39 - 5 min drive - 3.6 km

Getting around

  • California St & Van Ness Ave Stop - 3 min walk
  • San Francisco Station - 4 min drive
  • San Francisco Intl. Airport (SFO) - 29 min drive

Restaurants

  • ‪The Grubstake - ‬3 min walk
  • ‪Starbucks - ‬2 min walk
  • ‪Ben Thai Cafe - ‬2 min walk
  • ‪McTeague's Saloon - ‬2 min walk
  • ‪Route 101 - ‬1 min walk

About this property

Calista Organic Hotel

Colonial hotel in San Francisco with a 24-hour front desk
Calista Organic Hotel offers 28 accommodations with hair dryers and complimentary toiletries. Beds feature premium bedding. Accommodations at this 3-star hotel have kitchenettes with refrigerators and microwaves. Bathrooms include showers with rainfall showerheads.

Guests can surf the web using the complimentary wired and wireless Internet access. Flat-screen televisions come with cable channels and pay movies. Housekeeping is offered daily and hypo-allergenic bedding can be requested.

Make yourself at home in one of the 28 guestrooms, featuring kitchenettes with refrigerators and microwaves. Wired and wireless internet access is complimentary, and flat-screen televisions with cable programming provide entertainment. Conveniences include desks, and housekeeping is provided daily.
Featured amenities include a 24-hour front desk and an elevator.

Languages

Chinese (Mandarin), English

Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in all rooms: Free WiFi and wired internet
  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

Parking and transport

  • Offsite parking available (USD 36 per night)
  • Street parking available

Family friendly

  • In-room kitchenette
  • In-room microwave
  • In-room refrigerator

Conveniences

  • 24-hour front desk

Guest services

  • Housekeeping (daily)

Accessibility

  • If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please contact the property using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
  • Braille/raised signage
  • Lift (120 centimetre wide door)
  • Wheelchair accessible (may have limitations)
  • Wheelchair-accessible path to lift
  • Wheelchair-accessible public bathroom

More

  • 4 floors
  • Colonial architecture
  • Smoke-free property

Room amenities

Bedroom

  • Hypo-allergenic bedding
  • Premium bedding

Bathroom

  • Free toiletries
  • Hair dryer
  • Private bathroom
  • Rainfall showerhead
  • Shampoo
  • Shower
  • Soap
  • Toilet paper
  • Towels provided

Entertainment

  • Flat-screen TV with cable channels
  • Pay films

Food and drink

  • Kitchenette
  • Microwave
  • Refrigerator

More

  • Desk
  • Heating (climate-controlled)
  • Laptop workspace

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 4:00 PM; Check-in end time: 5:30 AM
Late check-in subject to availability
Minimum check-in age: 18

Check-out

Check-out before noon
Late check-out subject to availability
A late check-out fee will be charged

Special check-in instructions

Guests will receive an email 24 hours before arrival with check-in instructions; front desk staff will greet guests on arrival at the property
To make arrangements for check-in please contact the property at least 24 hours before arrival using the information on the booking confirmation
If you are planning to arrive after noon please contact the property in advance using the information on the booking confirmation

Access methods

Staffed front desk

Pets

Pets not allowed (service animals are welcome, and are exempt from fees)

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome
Rollaway/extra beds are not available
Cribs (infant beds) are not available

Payment types

Important information

Optional extras

  • Nearby parking fee: USD 36 per night (600 ft away)
  • Late check-out is available for a fee (subject to availability)

The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts credit cards; cash is not accepted
Safety features at this property include a smoke detector

We should mention

Construction is underway at a neighboring building and there may be noise disturbance from the construction work

Property is also known as

Calista Hotel San Francisco
Calista San Francisco
Calista Organic Hotel San Francisco
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Calista Organic Hotel Reviews

Reviews

6.6
Rating 10 - Excellent. 73 out of 182 reviews
Rating 8 - Good. 23 out of 182 reviews
Rating 6 - Okay. 19 out of 182 reviews
Rating 4 - Poor. 18 out of 182 reviews
Rating 2 - Terrible. 49 out of 182 reviews

6.4/10

Cleanliness

6.4/10

Staff & service

5.8/10

Amenities

5.8/10

Property conditions & facilities

6.8/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

8/10 Good

Luke

Travelled with pets, Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Nice place
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2025

8/10 Good

Luke

Travelled with pets, Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Unsafe outside
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2025

8/10 Good

Luke

Travelled with pets, Travelled with partner
Liked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
My bike got stolen out of the hallway in front of my room
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2025

2/10 Terrible

Carlos

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
There was dog feces on the stairwell of the third floor. Also, I had to wait 30 min for two days to take a shower since there was no hot water. I relayed both concerns to management and I was told that the other guests may have used up all the hot water. Plus, the shower is extremely narrow.
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2025

8/10 Good

Ember

Stayed 4 nights in Feb 2025

4/10 Poor

Jose Edgar, Clarksville

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The stay would have been okay had the room not had so many German roaches. Consider pest control.
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2025

10/10 Excellent

Gabriela

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
it was a really nice hotel, clean and comfortable
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2025

2/10 Terrible

April

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Save yourself, book some other hotel!

There is an elevator, BUT! If the gate is open on another floor, it will not operate. DO NOT STAY HERE if you need the elevator for mobility like I do!! All guests I spoke to were missing smoke detectors just like my room was. I had missing lighting fixtures without covering the 4" hole in the ceiling and other miscellaneous holes in the ceiling. Installed shelves in the bathroom were visibly missing. The door to the bathroom is clearly made of particle board and had been water damaged inside and out all the way up past the handle. The middle hinge was completely missing. There were blinds in the bathroom, but no way to close them. The "kitchenette" was missing the following: A door on the largest cabinet, any kind of plates, bowls, cups, cutlery, or ANYTHING to boil water in for coffee or tea. The closet was missing doors of any kind and had 3 plastic coat hangers. The windows have ZERO soundproofing, so I heard the man yelling in the street from 3 am to 3:30 am along with every siren and never ending road noise. There were no less than 5 different colors of paint on the walls and unpainted drywall repairs in the room. I paid for a deluxe room and received the standard room. All messages and phone calls went unanswered including when hotels.com attempted to reach the owner about my stay and our powwow's head dancer's stay. Hotels.com made an exception to the refund policy and refunded my remaining nights. I stayed happily in another hotel.
Overall room view of "deluxe" room I was assigned
Missing shelves in shower
Water damaged exterior bathroom door with missing middle hinge
Overall room view of "deluxe" room I was assigned
Stayed 5 nights in Jan 2025

2/10 Terrible

Briana

Travelled with group
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
There was no one onsite to talk to about any of the issues I had. I arrived early (12pm) simply to leave my bags, with the understanding that the room may not be ready to actually check in yet. Right as I was about to use the code, I heard noises from inside the room. The previous hotel stayers (I’m assuming) were still there, and a man stepped out while I was in the hallway trying to figure out what to do, in no rush only to take out his trash (which was in the hallway floor). The entire building reeked of disturbing smells, there were strange noises, and no one to fix it. Please do NOT stay here!!! I had to go to a different hotel last minute because I felt so unsafe. I didn’t confront the man because I am a female traveler and I wasn’t going to put myself in that situation. This place should be shut down. The pictures are NOTHING like what is advertised, I genuinely feel scammed. No clue where any good reviews are coming from because there’s no way anyone thinks this place is good in any way. Have yet to contact management for a refund and explanation for what I experienced, but many Google reviews suggest it won’t matter and I likely will not get my money back. Lesson learned, READ the reviews, don’t just rely on the stars.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2025

2/10 Terrible

Michelle

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Nobody told me that this hotel was a converted SRO building. I didn’t like my stay there. My forest night there, I had people knocking on my door. I didn’t answer it. I read in previous reviews that some people have gotten their rooms broken into on the first night. On the floor above me, some guy was also abusing his girlfriend. I called 911. I was supposed to stay Friday night through Monday morning, but I only stayed Friday night and left for another hotel Saturday morning. DO NOT BOOK HERE. The rooms were falsely advertised. The steps going from the basement to the 2nd floor smell like piss, not to mention people smoked inside their rooms. If I could give this 0 stars I would. This place was not what I had imagined it to be.
Stayed 3 nights in Jan 2025

10/10 Excellent

Martin

Stayed 1 night in Jan 2025

8/10 Good

Erika, Carmichael

Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Staff & service
Nice room! Would have been better if customer service responded faster and if staff were present.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2025

10/10 Excellent

Sashanaz

Travelled with family, Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
It was walking distance to our destination. The keyless entry was easy with no hassle. The room was clean and everything worked as it should. All in all great experience. Would definitely stay here again.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2025

10/10 Excellent

MENG WEI

Stayed 5 nights in Jan 2025

10/10 Excellent

Hsiangchun

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2025

10/10 Excellent

AJ

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2025

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
No cleaner to provide room service.
Stayed 6 nights in Jan 2025

4/10 Poor

Leo

Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2025

10/10 Excellent

Francis

Stayed 1 night in Jan 2025

10/10 Excellent

Paulett, Hyrum

Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2025

10/10 Excellent

Luis

Business traveller, Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The area. Other than that great experience!! :)
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2025

2/10 Terrible

David

Travelled with family and small children
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Extremely dirty, bathroom didn’t have functional lights. No towels/linens provided. No toilet paper provided. Almost felt like this was an extended stay homeless center and not necessarily a hotel.
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2025

6/10 Okay

Melissa

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 3 nights in Jan 2025

4/10 Poor

Rolyn Jan

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
I was one of those people that didn’t bother to read the reviews. And of course that put me in the wrong place. PLEASE READ THE REVIEWS. I will also be uploading videos and pictures on google reviews for ya’ll to know. I planned to extend my stay but when I called customer service the guy I talked to was extremely rude. No matter how I tried to change the mood by politely saying “sir” he kept answering me in a rude and as if he was mad ‘tone’. That was my biggest red flag before even knowing what this place holds. Thankfully no homeless people were there when I went in. The security code they have seem to be fine and modern. Going in, luckily they probably fixed the piss odor problem in the other reviews so I wasnt hit by it. But there was definitely a smell of musk. Tried using the elevator but there was unknown fluid inside so I didnt bother. Stairs are pretty old looking and the building itself looks like it was a rundown apt. turned into a “hotel”. Walls are thin and when somebody uses the bathroom on the other-side (other room) ud hear it. Thankfully the room I got in was relatively clean. But I definitely felt unsafe being there and the air definitely didn’t feel clean to breathe either. Would I book again over here? Maybe if I really NEEDED a place to crash with a microwave and fridge. BUT PLEASE if you can find somewhere else that’s better, do so. There are more places and hotels out there.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2025

10/10 Excellent

Jason

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2025