Downtown’s Mandarin Oriental hotel completed a renovation in May that added two meeting rooms, bringing the property’s total event space—billed as the largest meeting facility in the city—to 5,145 square feet. The new California room holds 100 in a contemporary setting that offers sweeping city views.
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The first hotel set inside Presidio National Park, the forested expanse at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge, Inn at the Presidio opened in April. The 22-room historic red-brick building includes two meeting rooms that hold 25 people each.
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The 253-room Argonaut Hotel introduced a new look in January 2012 with a redesigned lobby, guest rooms, and 9,000 square feet of meeting space. The nautical theme plays off the property’s Fisherman’s Wharf setting.
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A former Clarion property adjacent to the San Francisco International Airport became the Bay Area’s first Aloft Hotel in September. The 253-room Aloft San Francisco Airport has one 675-square-foot meeting room, which includes a 50-inch flat-screen TV and seating for 30.
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The circa-1929 Hotel Adagio in Union Square unveiled a significant remodel in September, expanding its meeting space to 5,500 square feet. In addition to a new 630-square-foot, semiprivate reception space off of the lobby, the 171-room property offers Floor Sixteen, a private penthouse with 3,300 square feet of indoor-outdoor space.
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