Yes, the rooms are nice, clean, bedding is more than comfortable, and the staff are friendly.
Furthermore, showers are spacy and water pressure more than adequate and temperature stable. Those who have had to fight with shower temperatures in the past will rejoice.
We had booked two connecting rooms that weren't available on arrival, but that was fixed next day by a very cooperative guy called Andy.
What bothers me most is the fact that hotel policy is not to turn on air conditioning as long as outside air temperature is below 65 Fahrenheit. So, in practice, you either sleep with your window open and wake up by 4 a.m. by the steady stream of trucks rolling into Manhattan, or suffocate.
I like to sleep with room temperature at or below 69 Fahrenheit, but even now, early April, with windows closed it shows 74 degrees, which I feel is way too hot. If you consider sleeping is already a problem for jet lagged visitors from Europe, well, don't fall asleep over lunch...
Another point of surprise: TV offerings. Nothing worthy of being called serious news there: no CCN International, no BBC World, forget about France 24. Not 'even' FOX News.
Oh, yes, there are no double doors to the rooms, so corridor noise gets through pretty much unfiltered, but to be fair, that subsides pretty much after 10 p.m.
All in all, I think this hotel is a reasonable deal, due essentially to its location and the positives mentioned, as long as you're not someone who - like me - insists on sleeping in those all too hot hotel rooms with airco all year long.
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