The Sofia Hotel is a stone’s throw from the Gaslamp District. It’s a boutique hotel with a European feel, gladly, not your typical midwestern Holiday Inn. The building on the outside looks historic and nondescript, built in 1926, but when you get inside the lobby it is heavily stylized.Although it’s an old building, the interior has been rebuilt  with modern features.

They let us check in early and the staff at the hotel were above par. The valet even let us park in the passenger loading area and looked out for the cops so we can check in and head out to explore more of the city. When we finally did visit the room we didn’t know to keep our key cards and our cell phone seperate so when we got to the room the card didn’t work. When we got new ones and finally did open the door someone was already using the room and thankfully wasn’t naked or doing something embarrassing.