i'm writing this review in the hotel room. ok, so i got this hotel as a priceline deal and since in the beginning, i knew it was going to be a 1-star hotel. it wasnt that bad at first; when i got to my floor, the first thing that caught my attention was the narrow hallways. i could deal w/ that, its new york, it was pretty cheap, whatever. i had hopes that it was going to be ok, but when i first entered the room, i knew it could only go down from there. the carpet and room in general is just dingy, theres no other way to describe it. not to mention the whole floor smells like burnt bread and in my first couple of hours there, i had a headache from the stench. we complained to the staff only to have them blame the ppl who live in the building. but w/ the price i'm paying for this place, i accepted it. until we went outside to wait for the elevators and some boy found a roach in the hallway. roaches?? then on our way back, we found another roach on the door of the room across the hall. this morning, a roach crawled into one of our bags and just now, another roach walked across the wall behind the tv at least 3x.

to tell you the truth, the only thing good about this place is the free wireless internet.

the cable tv was rubbish i couldnt watch monday nite raw. i got electric shocks of everything thing the lifts were atroucious i could go on for days and days.

Stayed in this hotel on 9-12 March and stayed on the 10th floor. Room itself had seen better days and we could pick holes in it ie there was damp on the inside of the windows, noisy air conditioning, broken bath tap (still worked though!) etc but as a whole it was fine. The room was clean on arrival and regularly cleaned every day. The bed had crisp clean sheets and was very comfortable. Some of the hotel staff were indifferent, others were very helpful and friendly. The location of the hotel was a little away from most tourist attractions but at the price we paid I think it was only to be expected. The hotel is located just by an underground station so a short trip and you can be in the heart of the city in no time. However noise from traffic can be a problem if you are a light sleeper.

I stayed here on a year 12 school trip and when we arrived at the hotel it took up to 2 hours for us all to be assigned rooms, although we were "lucky" in that we got a room straight away, only to walk into it and smell the strongest, most stale cigarette smell despite it supposedly being a non-smoking room.
Fortunately after complaining the staff were very polite and helpful and did in fact move us to another room although much better we found the lamp, hairdryer and toilet didn't work properly (the toilets actually became blocked in several people's rooms including ours.)
All in all I would say that for what you pay and the location the hotel isn't bad but I certainly wouldn't stay there again.