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Reviews of The Sofia Hotel

3.5 out of 5
The Sofia Hotel
150 W Broadway, San Diego, CA

Reviews

8.2

Very Good

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Rating 2 - Terrible. 54 out of 1332 reviews" "

8.6/10

Cleanliness

8.6/10

Staff & service

7.4/10

Amenities

8.2/10

Property conditions & facilities

8.2/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

8/10 Good

Keith

Traveled with partner
Disliked: Amenities
The doorman
Stayed 2 nights in May 2024
Response from The Sofia Hotel on May 17, 2024
Great to see you had a nice time. Thank you for sharing your experience with us.

10/10 Excellent

Andrej

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Excellent location, great staff. Wireless internet could be better.
Stayed 6 nights in Apr 2024
Response from The Sofia Hotel on May 16, 2024
Thank you for staying with us and sharing your experience. Wonderful to see you enjoyed your stay. As a side note, we are currently working on a brand new Wi-Fi solution for the entire hotel that we are really excited about. Have a great day.

4/10 Poor

Lindsay

Traveled with family
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Tv and phone didn’t work, rooms are dark and super small.
Stayed 3 nights in May 2024
Response from The Sofia Hotel on May 15, 2024
Thank you for sharing your experience with us. We will certainly look into the issues you experienced to make sure everything is working and appreciate you letting us know. On another note, we have just completed 4 model rooms ahead of our new renovation and have addressed the lighting concerns in the new design. Once again, we appreciate the feedback and hope you will stay again once the renovation has been completed. Have a wonderful day.

10/10 Excellent

Jack

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Would stay again. Location was very walkable and convenient
Stayed 1 night in May 2024
Response from The Sofia Hotel on May 14, 2024
Hi Jack! We would love to welcome you back to The Sofia Hotel the next time you are in town.

10/10 Excellent

Sinead

Business traveler
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
na
Stayed 3 nights in May 2024
Response from The Sofia Hotel on May 14, 2024
Great to see you enjoyed your stay. Thank you for sharing that with us.

10/10 Excellent

ALFREDO

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
All around great place.
Stayed 1 night in May 2024
Response from The Sofia Hotel on May 14, 2024
We really enjoy hearing how much our guests enjoy their stay. Thank you for sharing your experience with us.

8/10 Good

Jessica

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very nice cozy hotel
Stayed 1 night in May 2024
Response from The Sofia Hotel on May 14, 2024
Thank you, Jessica. Great to see you enjoyed your stay.

6/10 Okay

Li

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
The location is very convenient. my room is close to the laundry room so there were the washing noises all night..somehow there was also construction noises late night that was quite disturbing. Staff are super friendly
Stayed 4 nights in Apr 2024

8/10 Good

Gary

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 5 nights in Apr 2024
Response from The Sofia Hotel on May 15, 2024
Thank you for sharing your experience with us. Great to see you enjoyed your stay.

10/10 Excellent

Lalania

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Just a nice place to stay downtown.
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2024
Response from The Sofia Hotel on May 15, 2024
Great to see you enjoyed your stay. We will look forward to seeing you the next time your travels take you to San Diego.

10/10 Excellent

Chandra

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Restaurants within walking distance. Pier was within walking distance
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Brigitte

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Good in general
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2023

10/10 Excellent

Lawrence

Business traveler
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Loved the room, the cleanliness, the proximity to everything i needed
Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2024

8/10 Good

Mark

Business traveler
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Hotel was clean. Beds are very hard. Felt like sleeping on a board. Staff was very accommodating and friendly
Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2024

8/10 Good

Chrissy

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Super cute vintage hotel! Very quiet and well maintained. Staff is friendly and helpful. Highly recommend.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Magdalena

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
We enjoyed our stay at the Sofia. Great staff room was nice and clean. Very convenient to Gaslamp area as well as Embarcadero. Definitely will be back!
Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2024

8/10 Good

Salvador

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Walking distance to many places to eat is very convenient
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Ricardo, Spring

Business traveler
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Excellent property right in the heart of old San Diego
Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

KARIM

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Nice hotel and rooms
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Eric

Stayed 4 nights in Apr 2024
Response from The Sofia Hotel on May 9, 2024
Thank you for sharing your experience with us. Great to see you had a nice stay!

10/10 Excellent

ARIEL

Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024
Response from The Sofia Hotel on May 9, 2024
Thanks for taking the time to share your experience with us. Have a wonderful day and see you next time!

10/10 Excellent

Evelyn

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024

8/10 Good

Jessica

Traveled with partner
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities
The lobby is beautiful, staff was helpful and friendly. Elevators are small. property is quiet which we loved, we were there for a show at the balboa theater and were able to walk. gaslamp is also within walking distance. cleanliness could be better. We had some dirty towels. you ciuld tell counters/ lamp tables had not been cleaned in a while.One of the TVs in our room didn't work
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024

8/10 Good

Yung, Pelham

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This is a conveniently located boutique hotel in walking distance to the Gaslamp quarter and the convention center. The staff is friendly and helpful. The rooms are in need of updating, though. Some drawers were broken, lighting is a bit dark, and carpets seem worn.
Stayed 4 nights in Apr 2024

6/10 Okay

Annie Yann-Ling

Traveled with partner
Disliked: Amenities
We were given a really small room when we first checked in and were told that we would be charged $25 usd service fee per day. We had booked a queen size bed but the one we had seeemd more like a double bed. We later inquired if there was a bigger room and the lady was kind enough to transfer us. To be honest the hotel is old and does not have good amenities. Yes it’s convenient and within walking distance to many places in the downtown area but I would stay at a different hotel next time.
Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Anna

Business traveler
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great choice with short walk to convention center and gaslamp quarter. My room (free upgrade!) was fantastic!
Stayed 4 nights in Apr 2024

6/10 Okay

Vincent

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2024

8/10 Good

Anita

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
good
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

8/10 Good

Kun

Business traveler
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Within budget while still walkable to the gas lamp district
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

ANTHONY

Traveled with family and small children
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Such a quaint property. Hotel staff went above and beyond with our stay. They even kept the Easter decorations later for us to take pictures with the baby. Will definitely return!!
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Joan

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Property located very close to San Diego convention center, where my son ran a half marathon. Rooms were tiny, but very well maintained.
Stayed 3 nights in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Tris

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Nice, quiet hotel.
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2024

6/10 Okay

Enrique

Traveled with group, Traveled with partner, Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Recommend
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Yessenia

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The staff was nice and they even upgraded our room for free! Would stay again
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Thomas C., Lexington

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Cute place to stay. Thanks for having me as your guest!!
Stayed 4 nights in Mar 2024

6/10 Okay

Iris, Basking Ridge

Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Ekachai, Riverside

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Great stay inside lobby area was clean rooms were small but clean satisfying stay.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

6/10 Okay

Maria

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed here for a night.Parking is valet only $50 per day with hotel fees and tax added upon checking out for me is over priced. Cleanliness can be improved , found previous guest dirty socks behind dresser but overall the property looks well maintained for its age. we managed to have a good stay.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Angel

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Awesome place.... staff is amazing
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

6/10 Okay

Emily

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 5 nights in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Nereida

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The property was close to the Gaslamp district and old town
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Steven, Pasadena

Business traveler
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This location was a two block walk to my SD office and a few more blocks put you in thr heart of Gaslamp. Clean and quiet, so it was the perfect place for me.
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2024

8/10 Good

Tatiana, New York

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
The hotel is in a quiet area of business downtown. Bed was very comfortable- pillows strange. The shower was a joke- almost no pressure - we were on the top floor. The AC was soo loud- we were happy it was chilly at night- no way you can sleep with that sound. Valley parking was convenient but expensive
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

8/10 Good

Jianxin

Business traveler
Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
location is great。
Stayed 5 nights in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Aibin

Traveled with group, Business traveler
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
NA
Stayed 5 nights in Mar 2024

4/10 Poor

Oliver

Traveled with family
Liked: Staff & service
Small rooms, looks a lot bigger in the advertising. Also the A/C & Heating systems is on a motion sensor that shuts off off no movement/activity is detected.
Stayed 5 nights in Mar 2024

6/10 Okay

Derek

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Eugenia

Business traveler, Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
It’s was quiet. Great location. Close to the airport and Charles Parker pancake house . Just a little walk to the pancake house. Friendly staff at hotel.
Stayed 6 nights in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Marcela

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Wonderful place to stay, it was quite, staff was very kind, rooms were cozy and clean.
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2024

4/10 Poor

alejandro

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very old and poor maintenance
Stayed 4 nights in Mar 2024