Status: closed and rebranded. The Mandarin Oriental, San Francisco closed in 2019, and the Mandarin Oriental brand no longer operates a hotel in the city. The tower it occupied at 222 Sansome Street now operates as the Four Seasons Hotel San Francisco at Embarcadero. This page is kept as a correction so searchers get accurate information; it is not a booking listing.
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What happened to the Mandarin Oriental San Francisco?
The short answer: it closed in 2019 and was rebranded under new management. For decades the Mandarin Oriental, San Francisco was one of the city's landmark luxury hotels, occupying the upper floors of the tower at 222 Sansome Street in the Financial District, with some of the highest guest rooms in the city. The Mandarin Oriental brand exited the property, and after a transition the hotel reopened as the Four Seasons Hotel San Francisco at Embarcadero, which is the name and operator in place today.
Because the Mandarin Oriental no longer operates in San Francisco, we have removed it from active consideration on our Top 50 Business Hotels ranking. Presenting a closed or rebranded hotel as bookable would be inaccurate, so rather than delete the page and lose the history, we have corrected it to point you to the current property and to better-fitting options for a San Francisco business trip.
Where should you book for business in San Francisco instead?
For a downtown deal trip, the successor property in the same building, the Four Seasons Hotel San Francisco at Embarcadero, is the closest like-for-like, keeping the Financial District address and the high-floor rooms. Beyond it, the city's strongest business bookings cluster around the Financial District and SoMa, close to the Salesforce Transit Center and the Moscone convention campus. Our San Francisco city guide lays out the current options with verified details, and the Top 50 Business Hotels list and business occasion hub map the field by what a work trip actually needs.
If your priority is proximity to a specific meeting, book by neighborhood rather than by brand: the Financial District for banking and legal, SoMa for tech and conferences, and Union Square for a walkable base with the widest choice of rates. Confirm current rates and cancellation terms directly, because San Francisco pricing swings hard around major conference weeks.
Honest note on this listing
We are transparent about the trade-off here. Correcting a page like this costs us the search traffic that a live five-star listing attracts, but publishing an accurate closure notice is the only honest option. A hotel that no longer exists under this name cannot carry an editorial score, cannot be ranked, and should never be shown as bookable. If you arrived here expecting to reserve the Mandarin Oriental San Francisco, that is no longer possible, and the links above take you to the accurate current alternatives.