THE MOSSER HOTEL

The Mosser Hotel, located in the heart of downtown San Francisco, combines Old World elegance with sleek sophistication. Guests staying at the Mosser will enjoy easy access to Union Square's swank shopping and hopping entertainment, the Museum of Modern Art, the Moscone Convention Center, cable car lines and light rail trains that will whisk them to anywhere in the Bay Area, including Fisherman's Wharf, Chinatown and North Beach. Just around the corner, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and Metreon Center offer entertainment for all ages. In addition to art exhibits and theater and dance performances, the Yerba Buena Center's gardens are the spots for free concerts. Metreon is a multimedia entertainment complex with a high tech game arcade and 15 movie theaters, including an IMAX. Built for the 1913 Pan American Exposition, the carefully restored Mosser showcases beautiful Victorian period fixtures and décor. In 2002, the hotel was redesigned to fuse contemporary interior design with the original Victorian theme with a touch of hip ambience. The results were very attractive, snug and stylish guest rooms, appointed with minimalist and modern décor with Asian undertones. Earthy olives, blacks and tans are offset by fuschia and lime green highlights. The rooms include cable TVs on swivel stands, custom platform beds with drawers underneath, ceiling fans and CD stereo systems. Fifty five of the rooms share bathrooms. The hotel's restaurant, Annabelle's Bar and Bistro, is a favorite local haunt for classic San Francisco cuisine, from crab cakes and steamed clams to rotisserie chicken. A percentage of the hotel's profits will fund rain forest restoration and literacy projects.