I booked via Hotwire and was quite concerned after reading all the negative feedback on Tripadvisor. Sadly, I found out a lot of it is correct.
The good: The service. The staff was friendly, helpful and welcoming. It was freezing in our room, but we immediately got offered a space heater and some extra blankets. We changed rooms as the first one was really small and we wanted separate beds. First room was horrible. Second room was spacious with two double beds.
The bad: The first room we had was small and cramped, not very well cleaned and was right next to the staircase, so it was extremely noisy when drunk people were coming home from a festive night out. The cleaning was...well...you could tell the cleaning staff did a (very) quick job, we found leftovers from other people in both rooms (hairpins, hair on the floor in the bathroom and even one in the bed, ew) There's only wi-fi in the "lounge" and it's pretty slow, we went to the Starbucks next door and used the wi-fi there.
The ugly: The carpet.
To sum up: the hotel is not great. The beds aren't comfy and the hotel is kept in dark colours (red and blue) maybe to cover up the fact that the hotel is a bit run down and old. However, it was a cheap deal via hotwire and the hotel is located fairly well seeing as it's close to the subway (Line 1, right outside your front door). The area is nice, with a lot of good restaurants esp. the Hungarian Pastry Shop on 1030 Amsterdam Avenue is worth a visit.
Would I return? No.
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