The hotel has a fun entrance with dark, swanky lighting, a sweeping lobby and plenty of trendy background music that make you feel like you have arrived somewhere special. The elevators look cool, and then voila!... you arrive on a floor that looks like a dirty dorm at college with filthy carpets and broken lights. Then you step into the worlds TINIEST of hotel rooms! Just enough room to get around your bed, a bathroom that you practically have to step over the toilet to get to the shower. If this doesn't bother you ("oh I don't spend much time in the hotel anyway") then these digs are going to be good.
The location is great, close to Central Park & the Time-Warner Center as well as the 1/9 and A/C/E subway stations. The staff was helpful, in particular Alex at the front desk who helped me get over a particularly rude experience with a cook in the breakfast bar.
By the way, no in-room coffee? Or room service to get it? Tsk, tsk. At least Starbucks is practically next door. I'd go back if I got a better rate, it wasn't worth $225 a night, even by Manhattan standards.
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