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Subject: Re: Motel in LA - request Posted on: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 17:19:26 +0000 (UTC)

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Icono Clast wrote:
> PeterL wrote:
> >>Icono Clast wrote:
> >>>... Danger is everywhere. What scares you might differ from what scar=
es me.
> >>
> >>I am thinking I'd like to stay away from "high crime areas".
> >
> > For upscale tourist area in SF, you are talking about Union Square.
> > Try hotels in an area called Union Square east.
>
> There is no place in San Francisco that is called "Union Square east".
> Union Square, being a rectangle, has a side in that general cardinal
> direction but I've never made such a reference and have never, 'til now,
> seen or heard such a reference. But, then, I was only born here and have
> lived here all of my life so you might know something about downtown San
> Francisco that I don't.
>

It's of course not identified on a map as such. But if you use
Priceline to book hotels you'll find that they identify two areas of
Union Square: east and west. The pricing are different between those
two areas, with "Union Square East" being more pricy.

> > St. Francis, Marriott, Hyatt.
>
> The Saint Francis is across the street from the generally Western side
> of Union Square. The Grand (Hyatt) is across the street from the
> generally Northern side of Union Square. Marriott does not have a
> facility on any side of Union Square. There is no hotel on the generally
> Eastern side of Union Square.
>

Again, those are terms used by Priceline.

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