We chose Hotel Bijou for a weekend getaway because we love old movies. The concept of this hotel is that each room is named after a film set in San Francisco -- for example, there's the Vertigo room. And in the hotel lobby, there is a tiny theatre that plays a double feature each night of 2 SF-set films. One small downer for me was that the ...

A nice change from the mega-hotels in the Union Square neighborhood - the Hotel Bijou certainly feels small and charming while managing to be neat around the edges. The rooms are clean and comfortable and decorated well. The lobby area and its cinema are cute, but it feels a lot like a second-run movie theatre in a weird part of town when you come ...