Just got back from NYC where I stayed at the 70 Park Avenue Hotel for 3 nights. Had a standard room with a King at $325/ night.
The staff was terrific, extremely accomodating. They have a nice bar attached to the hotel. A wine tasting every night and a coffee bar set-up in the morning is a nice touch. Centrally located 2 blocks south of Grand Central Station for those who use the train.
However, the Hotel is tiny. When I say tiny, I mean everything is downright liliputian. The lobby is beyond small. The front desk couldn't be more than 5 feet long. The elevators, of which there are two, are extremely small, and can fit no more than 3 people with bags. The hallways are dark, gloomy and extremely narrow.
I had a corner room with a king bed. To say it was small would be an understatement. It felt like I was sleeping in a closet. The bathroom was calustrophobic. Fitting two people in a King room for more than a night is an adventure in contortion. Sharing the bathroom sink in the morning is out of the question. The door to the bathroom is a slider....always a bad sign...to save on room space. The funniest thing was the huge 40" Plasma bolted on the wall that absolutely dominated the room. Unfortunately it was opposite the door, rather than the bed and had no swivel arm so you could never watch it straight on. And closets? Well, there are none. Just an armoire for hanging clothes.
The upshot of this is that you just can't keep the place neat and orderly because there's just nowhere to put anything. Bags have to sit on the only open floorspace where you get to trip on them, clothes get strewn about the room. It was if I was back in my dorm room at college....well at least I had a good laugh over that. Thankfully, the top-rate hotel staff always came in to neaten up each day, They must all be experts in storage solutions.
The linens were very nice, but the mattress I had felt like it needed replacing. Great control over the air conditioning and heat, hot showers in the morning.
But, would I stay here again? Absolutely not........not unless I shrink to half my size. And I'm really sorry to say that...because the staff there is so good. I almost felt sorry that they had to make up for the hotels, ahem, "short"comings. They deserve a better hotel to work at.
Anyone who gives this hotel a great rating is, I assure you, doing it out of pity for the staff. There is almost nothing else to like about it.
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