Hotels near Pier 27

No hotel sits on the doorstep of Pier 27, the James R. Herman Cruise Terminal. OpenStreetMap maps none within half a mile, so every hotel in the table above is at least a 14-minute walk or a short ride from the terminal.

The table has 30 hotels:

• 11 in Fisherman's Wharf, 14 to 23 minutes' walk from Pier 27
• 6 in North Beach and along Broadway, 17 to 19 minutes
• 5 in the Financial District, 15 to 20 minutes
• 3 on The Embarcadero by the Ferry Building, 20 to 22 minutes
• 5 near SFO, 21 to 26 minutes by car

What we say about each hotel comes from its own website or its brand's page for the property, as it read on 3 November 2026. The times are ours, measured on OpenStreetMap from each hotel's address to the terminal building, without traffic. We print no room rates.

The table lists hotels by the walk to whichever cruise pier is nearer, Pier 27 or Pier 35, and shows the time to each. So check your pier before you book. 4 of the 101 sailings on this site show Pier 35, which the Port of San Francisco puts about 6 to 8 minutes' walk north of Pier 27. The terminal guide covers both.

Which hotels are closest to Pier 27?

Hotel Zephyr, at 250 Beach Street in Fisherman's Wharf, is the closest on our routes: 0.8 miles and 14 minutes on foot, or 4 minutes by car. Hotel Riu Plaza Fisherman's Wharf at 2500 Mason Street and Club Quarters Hotel, Embarcadero at 424 Clay Street are next, both 15 minutes. Hotel Zoe, The Wharf Inn and The Jay follow at 16.

Those six are on two sides of the terminal. Zephyr, the Riu, Hotel Zoe and The Wharf Inn are west of it in Fisherman's Wharf. Club Quarters and The Jay are south, at the north edge of the Financial District. The walk is about the same either way, so choose by where you want to spend the rest of your stay.

The farthest city hotel here is the Argonaut, 23 minutes on foot. Its own FAQ puts it 1 mile and a 5-minute drive from the cruise terminal. Our route is 1.2 miles walking and 6 minutes by car.

Nobody on this site has walked these routes. They are OpenStreetMap times at a steady pace, without bags, so allow longer with luggage.

Can you walk to Pier 27 from your hotel with luggage?

All 25 city hotels are inside the 25-minute limit the table uses for a walk. Whether you'd want to walk depends on your bags:

• Under 17 minutes. Hotel Zephyr, the Riu, Club Quarters, Hotel Zoe, The Wharf Inn and The Jay. If you plan to roll your own cases to the ship, start with these.
• 17 to 19 minutes. All six North Beach hotels, plus Holiday Inn Express & Suites Fisherman's Wharf, Kimpton Alton, the Marriott and the Travelodge on the Wharf, and the Hilton Financial District.
• 20 to 23 minutes. Hotel Caza, the Courtyard Fisherman's Wharf, the Omni, the Four Seasons, 1 Hotel San Francisco, Hotel Griffon, Harbor Court and the Argonaut.

The ride is short from any of them: 4 to 6 minutes by car without traffic. The port says taxis and other vehicles may drop cruise passengers at the terminal hall entrance, so a taxi or rideshare is the easy answer for anyone with more than a carry-on.

Where should you stay in San Francisco before a cruise from Pier 27?

Pick the area first. The walk to Pier 27 only varies by a few minutes, but the areas differ in what they cost to park, how close they are to Pier 35 and what kind of hotel you get.

Fisherman's Wharf has the most choice, 11 of the hotels here, and the shortest walks to Pier 35. Four of them add a fee on top of the room, as published on 3 November 2026. Hotel Zephyr charges $35 a night plus tax, Hotel Zoe $40 a day and Hotel Caza a $41.19 daily destination fee, tax included, plus a sustainability fee. The Argonaut has an amenities fee but didn't print the amount.

North Beach has the small independent hotels. Washington Square Inn and Hotel Bohème have 15 rooms each. Some rooms at the San Remo share a bathroom. Royal Pacific Motor Inn and SW Hotel are on Broadway and Columbus Inn is on Columbus Avenue. All six are 17 to 19 minutes from Pier 27, and two of them have the only free parking in the city list. Washington Square Inn has a virtual front desk only and asks for online pre-check-in before you arrive.

The Financial District puts Club Quarters and The Jay 15 and 16 minutes from Pier 27, with the Hilton, Omni and Four Seasons 19 to 20 minutes away. It suits a stay spent mostly downtown. It is the wrong side for Pier 35, which is 20 to 23 minutes' walk from these five.

The Embarcadero by the Ferry Building has 1 Hotel San Francisco, Hotel Griffon and Harbor Court, 20 to 22 minutes from Pier 27 and 25 to 27 from Pier 35. Two of them charge a fee on top of the room: $48 a day plus tax at 1 Hotel and $41 plus taxes at Harbor Court. Hotel Griffon has no parking of its own and points guests to the public garage next to its entrance.

Do any hotels near Pier 27 have a cruise shuttle?

No. None of the 30 hotels publishes a cruise shuttle, a cruise package or a park and cruise offer on its own site, as of 3 November 2026. Plan to walk or take a taxi or rideshare for the last part.

A few offers sound closer than they are:

• Hotel Zephyr's Park, Stay & Play package begins "Cruise into San Francisco", but it is parking for the nights you stay.
• 1 Hotel San Francisco has electric house cars that go "within a 2-mile radius", first come, first served. The hotel doesn't mention the cruise terminal, so don't count on one for boarding morning.
• The parking offers at Hotel Zoe, Hotel Caza, the Omni and Holiday Inn Express Fisherman's Wharf cover the nights you stay, not the days you're at sea.

Which hotels are closest to Pier 35?

Stay in Fisherman's Wharf. On our routes Hotel Zephyr is 7 minutes' walk from Pier 35, the Riu 8, Hotel Zoe and The Wharf Inn 9, and Holiday Inn Express & Suites Fisherman's Wharf 10.

From the Financial District and the Ferry Building hotels, Pier 35 is a 20 to 27-minute walk. A taxi is 3 to 5 minutes from there without traffic. The Pier 35 page lists the sailings that use it, and the Pier 27 page the rest.

Which hotels near Pier 27 have free parking?

Two, and only for the nights you stay. Royal Pacific Motor Inn includes one standard-size space per room. Columbus Inn has free parking with direct bookings. Neither says you can leave a car there while you sail.

That matters because the port provides no temporary or overnight parking at the cruise terminals. It points cruise passengers to Metropolis on Francisco Street, and our cruise parking guide covers that and the other options.

The other hotel parking rates, as published on 3 November 2026:

• $15 a night at The Wharf Inn if you book direct, $30 if you book through a third-party site, which it says includes Booking.com
• $31.50 self parking at Hotel Caza with its Park & Play offer, booked direct
• $35 a night at SW Hotel, first come, first served
• $45 a day at Club Quarters, in the Embarcadero Center garages
• $55 a day plus tax at Hotel Zoe
• $65 a day at the Hilton Financial District, and $65 plus tax at Hotel Zephyr and Holiday Inn Express Fisherman's Wharf
• $70 to $91.20 a day at the Courtyard and Marriott on the Wharf, Harbor Court, Kimpton Alton, the Argonaut, 1 Hotel San Francisco, the Omni and The Jay, most of them plus tax

The San Remo and Hotel Griffon have no parking of their own. Washington Square Inn and Hotel Bohème don't mention parking. The Riu, the Travelodge and the Four Seasons list parking without a price.

Check the end time too. At SW Hotel parking expires at 11am, and at The Wharf Inn it runs from 3pm check-in to 11am check-out.

Should you stay near SFO the night before your cruise?

Only if you land late. The five SFO hotels here are 21 to 26 minutes from Pier 27 by car without traffic, against 4 to 6 minutes from the city hotels, and none lists a ride to the port. What they do have is a free airport shuttle:

• Westin San Francisco Airport and Aloft San Francisco Airport, Millbrae. Every 15 minutes from about 4am to just after midnight, with on-call pickups overnight.
• Courtyard San Francisco Airport, San Bruno. 24 hours.
• Holiday Inn Express San Francisco-Airport South, Burlingame. 5am to 12:30am.
• Crowne Plaza San Francisco Airport, Burlingame. Free, with two different sets of hours on the same page.

The Courtyard and Aloft pages also say, in another section, that the hotel "does not provide shuttle service". Confirm with the hotel before you land.

Parking costs less out there: $24 for 24 hours at the Crowne Plaza, $25 a day at the Courtyard, $30 at the Holiday Inn Express and $54.70 at the Westin and Aloft. The Crowne Plaza's Park Stay & Go keeps a car for up to 4, 8 or 15 nights, but it is written for flyers, names no cruise and says airport transfers are not included. Ask before you plan a cruise around it.

A simple way to decide:

• Landing by early evening. Stay in Fisherman's Wharf or the Financial District and walk or take a short taxi in the morning.
• Landing late at night. An SFO hotel with a free shuttle saves a late trip into the city. Boarding day is then a 21 to 26-minute drive, longer in traffic.
• Driving in. None of the city hotels here publishes parking for the days you're away, so price the hotel's parking and your cruise parking together.

For the trip from SFO to Pier 27 by BART, taxi or rideshare, see getting from the airport to the port.

What about check-out and luggage on cruise day?

Check-out is 11am at Hotel Zephyr, Hotel Zoe, the Argonaut, Kimpton Alton, The Jay, The Wharf Inn, Royal Pacific and the San Remo. It is noon at Hotel Caza, Harbor Court, 1 Hotel San Francisco, the Omni, the Riu, Holiday Inn Express Fisherman's Wharf, and the Courtyard and Marriott on the Wharf.

Check-in is 3pm or 4pm at most of these hotels, so after your cruise a room may not be ready when you arrive.

The port offers no luggage storage at the cruise terminals. It points to paid self-service lockers at the California Welcome Center at Pier 39. Some hotels hold bags:

• Hotel Zephyr, while you wait for your room or after check-out
• Hotel Caza, free for registered guests before check-in and after check-out
• 1 Hotel San Francisco, if your room isn't ready
• SW Hotel, which lists luggage storage
• Washington Square Inn, "at guest's own risk"

Which hotels near Pier 27 aren't listed here?

We leave out any hotel whose own website we couldn't read, rather than fill it in from travel sites. Hyatt's site loaded blank, so Hyatt Regency San Francisco at Embarcadero Center, Hyatt Centric Fisherman's Wharf and the Hyatt hotels at SFO are missing. Hotel North Beach's website showed no hotel content. Hilton's SFO hotels aren't here because Hilton's hotel information pages wouldn't load when we checked, and the Holiday Inn Express at SFO North didn't finish loading either.