THE PALMS, Oakland CA
   

 

 

 

I can’t get the same angle as the card, because there’s a van blocking it in the Google Street View images. You get the idea: still there, although the THE fell off and the sign somehow moved in a swankier direction.

Reviews from three years ago are not happy. Not at all.

“Point your speed dial to at least 3 different numbers for any public health authorities, two local and one federal, before you book your stay.”

Recent reviewers are less appalled, but seem to have elastic standards.