Location is great. You will not find another hotel in this price range that is this close to Central Park, Broadway Theatres, Times Square, Carnegie Hall. Right across from Carnegie, one block from Letterman, 4 blocks from T.S.
The lobby is big and attractive. Bell and door service were polite and helpful. Front desk staff was mixed in their performance. Management seemed polite, but desk workers were ambivolent about your service at best.
The website lists 24 hour parking as $35. It is actually $39. The hotel did not seem to care about their mistake. If you stay one minute past 25 hours, you pay the next day's fee.
Rooms are small, but there are smaller rooms in NYC. Not particularly clean. Floor had not been vacumed and the bathroom floor needed cleaning fairly badly. This left a bad impression as I was there with my two children under three years old. Water pressure was horrible. My wife couldn't get the shampoo out of her hair. We were there in February, but it was in the 40's and 50's. When the room got warm, we soon found that the air conditioning wouldn't come on, only the heat.
Generally speaking, this is not a hotel you would pay more than $49 for if you were on the freeway stopping overnight. But for midtown, it was well worth the $129 we paid for two double beds. I actually hope they don't clean up their act too much - they might start charging like other hotels in the area. $129 is worth a little trouble here and there.
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