As a former New Yorker, I like staying in apartments
and the Chelsea Suites, a few doors down from the
Chelsea Lodge seemed a good option rather than
a vacation rental off Criagslist. I wanted the daily
room service. I was disappointed to find that my
"Garden Suite" was not the same Garden Suite
on the website, but actually a smaller apartment,
with low ceilings
beneath the web site room -- which which has high ceilings,
large windows and is the same price. When I complained to
the young woman at the front desk she did not apologize for
the "bait and switch" and said the other room was
booked for the same week I was there. Make sure you get
the upstairs Garden Suite if you decide to stay here. And be nice
to the tenant below and walk softly. Those upstairs
tenants woke me up every morning clomping around on the
hard wood floors. The maids
did make the bed and clean the bathroom, but
they never swept the floor. By the end of the week it was
littered with leaves from the garden and the usual dirt.
The halls had old wallpaper
with dirty carpeting and overall it was a little depressing. The bed
was hard and felt like cardboard under the paper thin sheets. The quilt
bedspread was worn, faded and looked dirty. But it
was lovely to lay in my bed and look out on the
verdant, private garden with a nice tree which had
changed it's leaves to gold. It's hard to find this kind
of garden apartment on a pretty chelsea street at this price
and for that reason alone, I'd consider going back.
But I'm going to look closer at the Craigslist vacation
rental apartments first -- which are half the price.
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