The hotel wasn'st so bad. Even if I totally overpaid for the tiny standatd room because I booked it last minute.
The staff was friendly. Check in was super fast. I was shown to my room within 10 min, but again, I checked in around midnight.
Staff seemed short handed. Whenever I called front desk or concerige, I was put on hold for quite a while.
The room was tiny, but no surprise I was warned.
The thing I could not understand about the room deco was that why they would put such a huge desk and drawer in such a tiny room.
Oversized desk and drawer took half space of the room. The bed taking the other half of the space, you really have to struggle a little nevigating around the room without bumping into the furnitures.
They could have utilized the space a lot more with adquately sized desk and slimer/shallower drawer.
And what is with the freaky neon light in the desk? There is the blue neon light and it bugged the hell out of me I kept turning it off. But the maid kept turning it back on everyday, sometimes twice a day. Later I gave up and lived with the light.
Plasma TV meant nothing to me as no one sits around and watches TV in a hotel in NY. When I have infinite choices of flicks from grimiest Indie to the chic-est retro in NY, why pay for a generic movie in a hotel? Besides, you should go out at night. No time to watch TV.
The good things,
Excellent location. Well, I would have prefered down town, but those boutique hotels are not very affordable and this one is right by F/ NR/ 1,9 train the most convenient location for transportation.
The room and the bathroom was very clean.
The linnen was crisp with down comforter. The fruit thing with weather forecast was very cute and helpful.
Bathroom is average but clean and well equiped. There is magazine holder in front of the toillett and magnifying mirror, towels were good.
I didn't bring any toillettery checking in the boutique hotel, And was quite happy to find the Molton Brown ones. It made all the other problems go away but one.
The absolute reason I would never go back there.
There is no full length mirror! Come- oooooon! How coudl you call yourself a boutique hotel without a full length mirror! People who chooses boutique hotel are more conscious of their looks than others.
How could anyone leave out such important detail.
Never mention boutique hotel, I've never been in a hotel without a full length mirror.
For the 5 days there, I had no idea what I looked like. Whether my heels matched my jeans or the new pair of jeans would go with the top I brought, etc, etc.
It's a crime really. I was furious. I would have gotten the hell out of there the next day and move to another only if I didn't pay the whole 5 days in advance with Expedia, in non refundable terms. I chose to be a little mismatched than blow 1300$. So, I am not impressed with Expedia either.
For this reason, I would never ever go back to that imposter boutique hotel. And even though, I can't imagine who, only the people who can live without a full length mirror should go there.
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