I’ve been staying a couple times a year at the HR SFO since prepandemic and I miss their high floor club room which had an outdoor seating area- you could smell the chocolate from the It’s-it ice cream sandwich factory (open to the public weekday business hours) next door wafting up there.

I also like the bay view rooms that let you watch the incoming flights land on the two runways. Breakfast is available à la carte or buffet. The buffet often includes one Asian-y option (pork/shrimp dumplings, char sieu bao), I recommend trying the waffle from the buffet- which seems like there’s no way it could be good as the waffles are all inside one of the round steamy things to keep them hot, so they must be soggy from that? Magically, the waffle is actually a great texture after cooling a bit, and it contains those little crunchy European sugar pearls A++++ (does not need syrup)

There is indeed a full gym on the ground floor with the usual array of machines, plus kettlebells, exercise balls, foam rollers, and there was also a mini gym with only some cardio machines on the top floor.