Can anyone help? Eight friends (male and female)are visiting San Francisco for four days in early November (before driving the Pacific highway finishing in San Diego).

We are looking for an appropriate area of the city to stay in together with a good, clean but cheap hotel, which doesn't suffer too much noise at night.

As we will be sampling the nightlife, we don't want one with a curfew either.

Can anyone assist?

Please define "cheap". We need to know what sort of budget you are actually talking about - one person's cheap is another's too expensive.

As we are on a budget for the whole holiday, we do not want to spend too much on our accommodation in San Francisco. So to define "cheap" I mean no more than £50-£60 GBP per room per night.

Ooh - that is a tall order. £50-£60 is only $90-$110 dollars. That is pretty low for SF. But there are a lot of moderately priced motels along Lombard street (not the famous steep/winding bit you see in posters and videos but farther west)

Some to check out would be the Cow Hollow Inn, Chelsea Motor Inn, Marina Inn, and the Coventry Motor Inn.

Oh - I didn't mean to scare you off - you can find decent rooms in your price range. Just not in full service hotels in areas like Union Square or the Wharf. The motels along Lombard St are fine - especially if you will have cars since they have parking -- whereas a hotel will charge $25-$30 a day per car.

A "hotel" for $90 would most likely be pretty bad or in a seedy neighborhood.