I stayed at the Courtyard to be close to a business meeting on Madison Ave. This was, unfortunately, one of the least appealing hotels I've stayed at in a while. It's not that there is something WRONG with the hotel room. It was large enough, the bed was OK, etc. But everything had a very cold and sterile feel, with nothing comfortable about it. Maybe it was the color of the compact fluorescents, or the high ceilings, but it felt like being in a hospital instead of a hotel.
There were two really bad parts to this property, however. The internet service was terrible. I was getting latency in the 2-4 second range (yes, that is seconds, not milliseconds) which made computer use painful at best, impossible at worst. This was true for both the wired and wireless connections.
The second problem was traffic noise. I'm no hick, and I've visited midtown Manhattan before. But, I was on the 15th floor, and I had to use earplugs to get to sleep. It was almost as if a window was open, or single-glazed (I checked, they are double-pane windows). Whatever the reason, this hotel had more traffic noise than I had experienced when staying in Times Square for New Years even a couple of years ago.
All in all I wouldn't stay here again. There are too many other choices, and this was neither particularly cheap nor particularly nice.
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