Man oh man, luckily I could reach the top of the closet...had to store everything up there. The room was very clean; the bathroom was adequate. the TV was nice. It was just too small. I know this sounds like an exaggeration, but if both of us were in the room, one of us needed to be in the bed (unless the other person was in the bathroom). I also picked this location because of it's proximity to Greenwich Village. It is true that Greenwich Village is about six or seven blocks away. However, the hotel is also on the "final glidepath" to the Holland tunnel. What this means is if the traffic is backed up in the Holland tunnel, it can take you 45 minutes to travel the last three blocks to your hotel. It also presents a problem when trying to check out. Overall, I would rate this as a fairly serious problem (I parked four blocks away. The morning we left it took me almost an hour to go around the block because of the Holland tunnel traffic).
Also, getting ice is a total drag. You have to use your key to make the elevator move. You also have to switch elevators in the lobby and take a separate one to the basement. As if that were not bad enough, the ice bucket they give you is probably 20 ounce capacity. Honestly, it is so small, that you almost laugh when you pick it up. Really, I have never seen anything like it. It is just a joke. And the glasses were also very small. Now that I think about it, it is almost like they were afraid to pick normal size tools or implements for fear of making the room look as tiny as it was.
The one thing that I really liked about this room is that you could open the window. You know how it is: you're in a small room high up in the sky with an obstructed view. It's nice to be able to open the window a few inches and get some fresh air and hear some city noises. Somehow it makes it seem less claustrophobic. also, to be fair, the bed was comfortable. Internet was free. However, these positives were probably not enough to make me want to stay here again. Let's put it this way: I would examine a lot of other options before I selected this hotel (oh and did I mention that parking is $65 per day?)
Something that happened really wasn't the fault of the staff. However, they clearly did not fret very much about it. For some reason, probably alcohol induced, several women in a neighboring room chose to go out in the hallway at 2 AM and have a "cat fight." I am sure this woke everybody on the floor up. The problem is the hotel staff took 10 or 15 minutes to get up to the floor. By that time the fight had fizzled out and the girls had returned to the room. No apology was offered by the management. When we made an inquiry the next morning we got this response "what… Oh yeah, I heard something about that... sorry."
While this was not a hotel horror story, I was semi-desperate when I booked this room. I probably would have to be semi-desperate to stay here again.
hotel reviews