 Room 416Panoramic Vistas and clever design features make it almost impossible to leave the room at Hotel Vitale. Hotel Vitale is billed as the first "post hip" boutique hotel. This means, one deduces, that it's an establishment where guests, while feeling they've checked into distinctive, designer digs, don't spend their entire stay wishing (a) they'd packed their Prada and (2) searching for the Prada stocklist nearest to the hotel. And, true, eight-storey, 199-room hotel is the essence of restrained cool, a boutique-style hotel for grown-ups, on the doorstep of the Embarcadero (San Francisco's grand Bay-side boulevard), the historic Ferry Building (the thinking traveller's Fisherman's Wharf), and the towering Bay Bridge (the Golden Gate you're having...). It's a different, inviting and welcome perspective of a legendary city with rooms that promise to deliver "light, water, and nature." First Impressions As you enter Room 416, you're greeted by a sprig of lavender in a wooden vase, of sorts (doubling as the room numner panel). Then head around the vestibule area, passing the quirky leaning lamp, and down either side of a cleverly designed circular-shaped suite (the bathroom is built into the centre of the space). In the room proper you are confronted by an arresting panorama of the almost three-kilometre Bay Bridge and the refurbished, 19th century landmark Ferry Building. It's the kind of room that, immediately on arrival, you don't want to leave, even in a city with as many allures as San Francisco. A Closer Look 1. Glass Act The suite's main physical feature is a bank of ceiling-to-floor windows, with screens that can be operated via a bedside remote control, allowing you to "black-out" the view by night. 2. Work and Play The desk on the Bay Bridge side of the room serves as a combined workspace and entertainment centre with its LCD television, Bose sound system and Toshiba DVD player and a smartly integrated mini-bar. 3. Cross Looks On the wooden coffee table a copy of Bridges: a history of the world's most famous and important spans is provided. The aforementioned "suspension cantilevered-truss" Bay Bridge – which links Oakland and San Francisco – was completed in 1936. 4. Water View An indulgent "deep-soaking tub" sits behind sheer silk-like curtains on the Ferry Building side of the room – but you'll need to bathe at the "wrong end" to enjoy a view of it. 5. Basin Instincts In the spa-style, limestone-covered bathroom the "rainforest" shower rose stands behind floor-to-ceiling glass partitions. There are Japanese-style cedar stools for those who prefer their ablutions sitting down and wickedly-tempting Fresh products including "sake" bath salt. Checking Out Few San Francisco hotels can boast such an appealing location and vistas. Room 416 is almost the perfect hotel room though you may prefer to opt for a smaller, less expensive one. |
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