SOMA garage

Parked here to attend an event at the Orpheum Theater. At this time, it's $28 for 4-8 hours while Trinity around the corner is $35. I think you should save the $7 and walk around 2 mins.

You get a ticket when you drive in and pay at the kiosk before you go back to your car. Payment can be paid with credit card or with tap.

Wednesday afternoon had plenty of parking. It was well lit but I saw no staff members. For a $28 parking lot, there should be someone?

It's relatively safe only because a lot of people walk together from the Orpheum event to the parking lot. It's about a 5 min cold walk.

As some other reviewer said, be careful on the way out. You pay attention to the cars then there are also people on the sidewalk.

Caveat emptor.
If you get in before 8:59am, it's fine. If you get in AT or after 9am, it's $24-28. If you happen to stay until 5, it jumps to $40. Next door, at the Trinity garage, which has more parking and the same security level, you get the $20/day deal if you get in at 9am, and if you don't, it's only $25 for the whole day. The price differential between the two makes it clear that taking advantage of tourists and first timers is their business model. My mistake -- never again.

After booking theatre tickets at the Orpheum, Spot Hero, whose service fee is $1, advertises to reserve parking through them. Having read the reviews of recommended parking lots, they were quite frightening due to all the smashed windows, theft, and lack of recourse. Needless to say, I was nervous about reserving here, but SOMA garage had less bad reviews than good. Moreover, I made sure there was nothing in the car that attracted anyone's attention.
During the day, I did return to check up on the car and felt relieved that it was unmolested. When the play was over, it was a quick walk to SOMA garage which was a block away. And my car wasn't damaged!
Parking spaces are small to medium so do not bring your large vehicle. If you do book online through Spot Hero, which was frustrating to use, you need to scan the QR code at the entrance and exit when you leave. On the way out, making a left hand turn accesses the freeways but causes somewhat of a jam.

Would you park in a city with 31,000 auto break ins each year?

Was going to the Orpheum Theater in San Francisco to see Hamilton, and needed a place to park my car. Took the fifth street exit from highway 101, making a left onto Mission street, and then a right into this garage, taking a ticket from the parking meter machine at the entrance.

The old adage that "the good ones are taken, and the only close ones are handicapped" doesn't apply here, as there are plenty of compact spots on the ground floor available an hour before the play Hamilton starts. Bring a full size car, pickup, van or SUV and you are SOL, and have to park at a higher floor.

These are really subcompact spots, requiring a shoe horn to park into tiny spots at awkward angles, usually next to stairs or elevators, with concrete poles or walls, requiring a truncated parking spot. Occasionally you will see two compact spots side by side, but inevitably with a full size SUV or van straddling the parking line between the spots, rendering the remaining compact spot unusable, except to a motorcycle.

I find a spot no more than 160 inches long right next to the stairs, and back my 2017 subcompact Honda Fit into the spot. I back in, as the spot is right next to a concrete wall, blocking your vision as you pull out into the corridor. Wife can barely open the door enough to get out, as she is right against the wall.

No valuables in sight in the car, and nothing in the trunk, as thieves will punch out the key lock in a locked trunk with a crowbar in seconds, or break a window, and pull the interior trunk release, if something heavy is in the trunk. At least there are cameras around here in the parking garage.

At the end of the play Hamilton, I'm already out the door, running the quarter mile distance to the garage, and the automated parking machine. Insert my parking stub, and pay $16 for 4 hours. Would be $24 a few minutes later, for 4-8 hours. Had a friend who parked at the Pier 39 parking garage for just over 4 hours and paid $60, @ $12 per hour, or fraction of an hour!

Go to my car and it is intact, with no broken window. The conviction rate on the 31,000 break ins annually is less than 2%, even with cameras.

Sold our 2013 Prius to my sister-in law after heard dozens of cases of thieves removing the 120 pound $3500 electric battery packs from parked Priuses in San Francisco in less than 23 minutes.

Toughest thing about the garage may be making a left turn at the exit to go north onto Mission to hit Fifth street to get to 101 south. Got to go cross southbound two lanes, onto the northbound lanes of Mission. Not for the squeemish in congested San Francisco.

Come back to your car after 6pm on a Sunday, and you'll find the place locked up, and you joining the homeless until they open at 5am Monday!

My car was broken into TWICE here over the past month. The security guard said there's nothing they can do. There are no cameras that are facing anywhere near my car so they don't know who did it. Anyone can just walk into this garage and smash a bunch of windows and leave with no penalties, it seems.

That's $600 down the drain, or more, plus the $250/month parking fee to get my car windows smashed again and again. No point in wasting time filing a police report because they have absolutely no security and no cameras.

Very expensive but was the closet parking to my event. It's in a sketch area so if you're parking at night, make sure you're not alone. Luckily my event was in the daytime.

I am writing this review as a monthly parking guest here. I can only speak highly of the director of operations, Jon de Uriarte and his staff who works here. Everyone is so diligent, hard working and kind. I am especially grateful to Lilibeth and Willie for their warmth and positive attitudes whenever I saw them, even at their busiest. I am thankful to this entire team. There is always someone present at the garage and there is security toward the front as well. I have to give props to all the staff here.

What I also found reassuring is that there are security cameras all over the parking garage. And in their office someone is usually actively monitoring these screens. So awesome.

Thank you so much to this team and the service you provided me while I was a monthly patron of this lot. 5+ stars all around.

If you're going to the Orpheum and don't want to walk far, want safety and ease of getting there.. Park here.

DONOT GO HERE!! They tax you for parking

I parked here over night from 8pm-11am so my charge was $36 but they also charge me for tax which was $9 so my total was $45. I have never seen a place charge that much as a tax and I have parked at a lot of garages in SF it had never exceeded over $30 for overnight parking.
AVOID THIS PLACE AT ANY COST

Soma Garage, 1160 Mission St, San Francisco. Last Friday, June 24, 2022, I accidentally pulled into the Soma Garage during rush hour traffic and street closure(s). My intended garage was Trinity Garage located (Angelo's Alley) right next to Soma Garage. The older male garage attendant said this is Soma Garage and opened the gate to allow me to turn around. He did not tell me that in order to turn around and exit the way I came in, it would cost $'s to exit. There was no one behind me when I came in, so I could have backed up to exit but thought he was trying to help me. There was another car in the same situation ahead of me at the exit on Mission street and he was trying and succeeded in getting her to pay him money to exit by using his key to get the lever/gate to open. Since I was not interested in being scammed he made me exit out the back of the garage onto Odd Fellow Way, to 7th Street (shut down street by Police) and back to Mission street to Trinity Garage.

As I indicated to the attendant, that I am a Grandmother who had her 9 year old Granddaughter in the car, and we were heading to her first Broadway show and that being nice and not rude to patrons should be required. I have parked in the Soma Grand many times when I have attended Orpheum Theater, this experience at Soma Garage with the attendant had my Granddaughter in tears and wanting to just go home after the mean man. The experience with this attendant is unacceptable and he should be held accountable. How does Ace Parking Management, Inc feel that their employees should interact with patrons?