Originally Posted by
sfvoyage
For the Radisson Waterfront, I got a good promotional rate which is not much more than the Park Inn Foreshore. However, the Park Inn is much more convenient for us - walking distance to transport hub, bus and train stations, my rental car office, airport bus station, etc.
Is the Radisson that much more elegant and nicer overall to warrant the inconvenience?
I ended up choosing the Radisson Blu Waterfront and had a 4-night stay there a couple of weeks ago. I wouldn't necessarily call this hotel elegant. It's a decent but standard Radisson Blu; it looks like a motel from the outside. The rooms are nothing special. I don't have status and did not get an upgrade, although they said they gave me one of their better standard rooms.
The location is convenient to the V&A Waterfront, but that's about it. The Park Inn Foreshore would have been a better choice for me, as it's close to most of the things that I was interested in: restaurants, transit hub, car rental agency, museums and other sightseeing options. I did not visit the Park Inn, but the photos of the hotel and their rooms look fine to me (unless the photos don't represent reality).