My son and I spent three nights at the Smyth Thompson during Labor Day week. We had a double delux room that I booked through the hotel web site a couple of weeks in advance at an average nightly rate of $542.
There's nothing really bad to say about the Smyth, and if you want to stay in Tribecca, it's as good a choice as any and better than some. It's just not a $500+/night hotel. Maybe $300+, but certainly not $500+. The lobby is small but chic, and our room was a good size, particularly by Manhattan standards. The room design is the ubiquitous "minimalist" but in the Smyth's case, it comes across as simply looking cheap. For example, the "desk" (an open front narrow table) had an unsightly tangle of multiple cords underneath it. The walls are essentially bare. The bathroom was nice, although we had to have maintenance fix the drain in the tub our first day because it was clogged.
The beds are comfortable, but the room got very hot on two of the three nights we were there making it difficult to sleep, particularly since--like most hotels--your only choice of cover is a duvet. No amount of fiddling with the a/c controls helped, so it may be an automatic setting. On the plus side, the soundproofing is very good. There was construction on the corner right below our room, and we never heard it in the mornings.
Would I go back? Perhaps, but at a much lower rate. It's just ok.
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