With its enviable location, The Argent is your gateway into the heart of San Francisco. The guest services team stands ready to assist with all your excursions. Whether you need reservations for one of the City's fantastic restaurants, tickets to world-class theater, tours of famous attractions or a limousine to take you there, we can assist you.
Location
If your business demands leave you a little time to enjoy the City you won't be disappointed. The Argent sits at the epicenter of the converging sports, arts and business enterprises that is turning "SOMA" into the new heart of the city. Immediately adjacent to The Argent are the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the sprawling Yerba Buena Center which includes the Gardens and Center for the Arts, Moscone Convention Center, Ice Skating and Bowling Center, Zeum and Sony's Metreon Entertainment Center. In 2000, the first pitch was thrown at Pacific Bell Park, the new home of the San Francisco Giants, just six blocks down Third Street from The Argent.
The Argent is also within two blocks of Union Square -- the West Coast's most celebrated shopping "Mecca." The Argent's shopping neighbors include spectacular boutiques -- Giorgio Armani, Gucci, Tiffany & Co., Chanel, Christolfe, and luxury retailers Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, Nordstrom and the incredible Macy's flagship store.
Accommodations
The Argent Hotel has a look of its own and an ambiance to match. This is what awaits you at The Argent. Marble foyer leads to The Argent's elegant lobby. Rich woodwork, gold leaf domes and a world-class art collection can be found throughout the hotel.
Travelers come to depend on our thoughtful attention to meeting their needs and exceeding their expectations. Guests appreciate our combination of comprehensive services coupled with the ambiance and personal attentiveness found in a boutique hotel.
Each of The Argent's 667 recently remodeled guestrooms and suites are designed with metropolitan elegance in mind. A multi-million dollar art collection is permanently on display throughout the hotel.
Other guest luxuries include massage services, and a full service health club. Surrounded by walls of windows, The Argent Health Club offers Paramount's state-of-the-art cardio and weight machines, stereo, televisions, fully-equipped locker rooms, showers and saunas.
The Argent recognizes the demands placed on business travel. We go out of our way to create an ideal executive support environment. Your guest room is spacious and equipped for business. Rooms include a full-sized lighted desk, three telephones, and voice mail. Additionally, our high-speed internet in-room service offers you the ability to connect to the internet, access your corporate email (via pre-loaded VPN software) and download files, at speeds of up to 50 times faster than dial-up modems.
On the second floor, a full service business and internet center offers you the convenience of an "office on the road" with PC computer rental, photocopying, faxing, mailing and packaging services.
Dining
As one of the best culinary meccas in the world, San Francisco proudly presents cuisine that is far from a typical hotel restaurant or banquet menu. Chef Joel Guillon is one of only 300 French Master Chefs in the world. For dining, our restaurant is a showcase of true international luxury. And for the hippest new bar to be seen in the San Francisco scene...Jester's Lounge is a South of Market hot spot.
Meetings
As part of the over $11 million renovation The Argent proudly presents over 20,000 square feet of elegant meeting space with vibrant and distinctive meeting rooms that are perfect for elegant banquets or executive gatherings.
Each of our seventeen meeting and banquet rooms were designed to create an intimate, elegant environment for your event, and are wired for high speed internet access. Natural light, mahogany paneling and The Argent Hotel's collection of fine art combine to give each event an individual personality. Events are facilitated by the Argent's experienced meeting and catering staff, and are supported by our in-house audiovisual services, sound and public address systems and portable stages. Our exquisitely appointed Boardroom, with built-in projection screen, elegant conference table and seating for 20 in the comfort of plush leather lends an air of dignified formality.
The Metropolitan Ballroom, by contrast, is graceful and whimsical with hand-printed wallcoverings, anigre mahogany, beveled mirrors and Italian blown-glass chandeliers. With seating for 900 and reception space for 1,200, The Metropolitan has served host to some of San Francisco's most prestigious social and business events.
