This is a fashionable boutique-style hotel right at the corner of 26th St and Broadway, so close to Fifth Avenue shopping and an easy walk to Penn Station and Times Square. My room wasn't large but was well appointed with contemporary furniture, including electric drapes controlled from a bedside switch. The bathroom had the tech gimmick of a TV built into the mirror (which I had no interest in, and which, when switched off, meant there was a dark rectangle in the mirror when I was shaving). The shower was a highlight: a combination of overhead rain showerhead and front-on body sprays: you could select either or both with the rotating knob. The main problem with the accommodation was that no amount of flashy technology could conceal the underlying dated infrastructure. The heating was crude: every few minutes it came on with a huge whirr and blasted the room with hot air until it began to feel oppressive, then it switched off again and the temperature dropped away until the cycle was repeated. During the night I switched it off to avoid the noise and the big temperature swings while I was under the covers. But at least the room had heat: the bathroom, on the other hand, was distinctly chilly. It seemed that there was no heating there at all, except when you opened the door to let a little drift in from the room. Hotel staff were very friendly but another annoyance was the restaurant/ bar on the ground floor, where at check-in a band was playing so loudly that I asked for a high-floor room. The receptionist chuckled, obviously knowing exactly what I was talking about, having had to work with it all evening. In summary, a great location and nice fitments in the rooms, but with issues caused partly by their own making and partly by the fact that this is a conversion of an old building.
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