We thought the NYE party at Hotel Gansevoort would be a great way to celebrate. It disappointed on several fronts.
We had dinner there first, but the staff seemed like a bunch of chickens with their heads cut off. The dinner did eventually trickle through, and was superbly prepared, but the service and timing was so poor that it was hard to enjoy the dinner. It didn't help that they offered a choice of complementary champagne or vodka with dinner - since several tables went for the vodka and grew louder and more obnoxious by the second.
The ensuing party quickly degraded into a bunch of too drunk people puking, falling over and in one instance, not able to hold her bladder in the line for the washrooms. Maybe it's unfair to fully blame the hotel for attracting the wrong crowd but even if there hadn't been as many overly drunk guests, the evening would have still been less than acceptable because of the poor service.
Hopefully the staff are more capable in their daily hotel routines...
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