The MAve is well-located and well-priced--these are its main recommendations. The place has some style, the free wi-fi, flat-screen tv and iPod dock are nice touches, and the staff is friendly and helpful--but in the end, the selling point is a clean room in a prime Manhattan location. We are former New Yorkers coming back for a visit, and we just needed a place to sleep and leave our stuff in an area convenient to everything we wanted to do--and this fit the bill.
We had the most basic room category, which has a full bed--not a queen, as another reviewer said--and is about the size of a decent walk-in closet. But that was fine--we knew what we were getting into. The room was very clean, with crisp white bedding and a modern bathroom. A couple downsides: the humidity in the room was never quite right, so the sheets often felt damp, and the blinds let in a lot of light come morning. We got a lot of use out of the free wi-fi and certainly appreciated that amenity.
One suggestion I would make is not to have such sharp corners on the beds in such a tight room, which invites people like me to smash open a toe on them. But whatever, I am clumsy. The part that concerned me was when I asked for extra pillows to elevate my foot and a staff member (who had come very quickly with band-aids and antiseptic wipes) told me there were no extra pillows in the entire hotel. Seriously? In a hotel? To be fair, he managed to produce some fairly quickly after that.
Despite any such issues, overall it was decent value in the amazingly overpriced world of Manhattan hotels. The location was really the selling point--right in the very central Gramercy area, easy walking distance to Union Square, close to the subway.
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