The Argonaut Hotel offers eight meeting rooms, about 9,000 square feet of event space and 252 guest rooms at 495 Jefferson Street, San Francisco, on the Fisherman's Wharf waterfront. The largest room, the Golden Gate Ballroom, holds up to 380 people. The hotel hosts company meetings, receptions, private dinners and weddings.
Seminars and company events
The meeting offer covers eight rooms, so a conference can run a plenary in the ballroom and breakouts in smaller rooms on the same site. The hotel describes the space as historic and waterfront, and a dedicated meetings line handles quotes. A catering menu is published as a PDF on the site.
The Del Monte Courtyard is a brick-lined outdoor area between the hotel and the Cannery Building. It is available for outdoor events and suits a welcome reception or a lunch between sessions.
Weddings and receptions
The hotel's event space page presents the ballroom, the courtyard and the meeting rooms for private celebrations as well as business events. Receptions of up to 380 guests fit in the Golden Gate Ballroom. Smaller dinners can be held in the Blue Mermaid Restaurant, which also offers private dining.
Rooms and capacities
The Golden Gate Ballroom holds up to 380 people. The other seven meeting rooms are smaller, and the site does not give their individual capacities in the text, so organisers should ask for the room list with each layout. Together the rooms total about 9,000 square feet.
The Del Monte Courtyard adds outdoor space for part of an event. The hotel states no capacity for it.
Accommodation
The hotel has 252 guest rooms, including 13 luxury rooms or suites. With this number of rooms on site, most of a 100-person conference can stay in the same building as the meeting rooms, which saves transfers between sessions and the evening event.
Catering
The hotel publishes a catering menu as a PDF. The on-site Blue Mermaid Restaurant offers private dining for groups that want a dinner outside the meeting rooms. The site does not state whether outside caterers are allowed, so that point should be confirmed when asking for a quote.
History and setting
The building is described as a historic waterfront property in the Fisherman's Wharf district, next to the Cannery Building. The hotel's site gives no construction date. It cites a reputation of 20 years as a meeting venue.
Getting there
The hotel is about 15 miles, or 40 minutes, from San Francisco International Airport. Fisherman's Wharf is a tourist district on the northern waterfront, so guests should expect busy streets at weekends. The meetings team can be reached on 415-345-5504.
