Society Hill Hotel, Philadelphia

Filthy, unsafe, no amenities. Only 1 in 4 lightbulbs are functional. One checks in through a bar in which no one bothers to assist you. The manager gives you no information about the hotel. There is duck tape on the windows, dust on every surface, exposed wiring on 2 levels of this 3 level hotel, nonfunctional electronics, no extra pillows, inadequate bedding and heating, no soap, coffee grounds in a jar with no way to prepare a cup of cofee- just awful. Location good, but for $112 a night plus tax, there are three other hotels in a 2 block radius that are much better. Also, this place promotes itself as a quaint, historic b/b- it may be historic, but not quaint. it's dilapidated, mismanaged and provides no breakfast.

Filthy and disgusting! We concur with every negative review. Our room had a window air conditioner under which our bed was wedged blowing the cold directly from outside and across our bodies. We had to wedge the make shift ironing board in front of it to break the frigid air. There is absolutely no one to complain to as they abandon ship around dinner time. The rug was sporting a huge stain. The light that had a shade required my husband's expert rewire to get it to function properly. If you enjoy sleeping on a bed as comfortable as a bag of (very) dirty laundry, this is your place. There were no towels in the room to which we were abruptly moved on the second night of our stay. We dreamt of crashing in our son's dorm room but couldn't bear embarrassing him. The crowning blow was the discovery of a used crack pipe under the remote-less TV. We presented it to the clerk who was apologetic but very surprised that we had complaints. Every piece of furniture had some broken feature. The bathroom floor was tiled with highly glazed wall tiles that felt so greasy under foot that I cringed every time I walked in there in my bare feet. Taking a shower in the tiny stall with a totally clogged drain resulted in the disgusting feel of dirty water climbing up to my ankles. My husband gallantly allowed me to shower as two people would have created a flood. Because the window was, in effect, open all night due to the window air conditioning unit music and drunken reveling from the bar below continued until after 2 am. I was absolutely exhausted when we left this place. Please do not even consider that you are made of stronger stuff than we are. This is a place of comfort only for those who have been living under a bridge somewhere...and then they might leave in disgust as well.

I came home after a one night stay with bites all over my body, which I can only assume are bed bug bites. Although the location was great, you get what you pay for. The room was shabby, the chairs in the sitting room were ripped, there was hair on the bathroom floor. It needs a major upgrade.

I travel no less than 2-3 days per week and have been doing so for the past 3+ years. This "hotel" was by far the worst place I've stayed in in years. I typically take hotel reviews with a grain of salt but I will say that all negative reviews are correct. While climbing three steep flights of stairs with my suitcase (no elevator), I noticed a very musty smell in the building. Although the description states that the hotel is "newly renovated," there is absolutely nothing new in the place. My room had old lamps that didn't even work and no overhead lights, the one lightbulb in my bathroom didn't work at all thus leaving me to shower in the dark, the doors are thin and the locks offer little security, and overall I felt like I didn't want to touch anything in the room because nothing seemed clean or sanitized. For just a few dollars more, there are many other places to stay in Philly.

This place is a disaster. Sticky, disgusting carpeting, hair on the blankets, stains on the bedspread. The lock on the door couldn't keep out anything. I walked out and went straight to the Hyatt. I didn't expect a lot of amenities for $75.00 but I at least expected it to be clean.

Society Hill was listed on my corporate travel website within our per diem...however there were no pictures. So I decided to Google the hotel. What I found was the SHERATON Society Hill hotel that was lush and full of ammenities...so I booked. BAD BAD choice. This hotel is not conducive for business travlers...or human traveIers. had to be at a conference the next morning. No iron to iron my clothes...no front desk or attendant to even request one.I was a female traveler alone in Philly for the first time. I was terrified in the place. It was the most disgusting place I had ever stayed. Ditto on all the other comments about the flith and seediness of the place. I slept fully clothed on top of the covers. This place is on the line of an hourly rental quality...only for those that are looking for their quick fixes if you know what I mean. I only stayed one night...I was told I would only be charged one night....I hope they keep their word on that. When I checked into the Crowne Plaza the next day...it was like I went from the shelter to a palace....that is my Cinderella story. I would recommend the bar however. Great food, atmosphere and people.

The mice and general uncleanliness of the room. It hasn't been freshened up in years, all the curtains and furniture are dirty and dusty and the mattress was just awful. When I checked in their was no power in my room (the whole floor actually). I avoided the room as much as I could; couldn't wait to check out.

dislikes, dirty carpets in hall. dirty carpets in the room. dirty walls. dirty shower. 13" TV. small rooms. no parking. likes (passes) location bed is comfy service was OK i guess Never seen anything like it, cmon try, you can find somewhere better than this.

poor hygiene; heating didn't work and wind come into the room through windows. Feels as if you're sleeping in the middle of the street. Bathrooms not clean with water pooling in the shower. Entrance through a bar/restaurant. Way overpriced!!

Incredibly seedy-- peeling paint, exposed rotting wood trim, broken glass, stained carpets, malfunctioning and/or disabled smoke alarms, and a unreachable "manager." The place is like a squat you have to pay for. At the advertised $99 a night, it's WAY overpriced. At first when we "checked in," we figured we’d make the best of it, as it was only for one night. But when we came back in the evening, we found that not only did the light switch by the door not do anything, but of the 3 lamps in the room, two did not work, the third was unplugged (I had to fumble around in the dark to plug it in so we could see), AND the smoke alarm was chirping as if the battery had run down. Several others on our floor seemed to be doing the same. The telephone number for the hotel had been disconnected. (I’d noticed earlier that their website was gone as well.) The manager wasn’t in his office, which was locked and had a wad of paper stuffed in the hole where the doorknob would normally be. We happened to find the “manager” on the sidewalk outside smoking, accompanied by a young woman. We told him about the smoke alarm, and eventually he went upstairs. He came back down a few minutes later to say he couldn’t fix it and offered to move us to a room on the 2nd floor. We agreed, and he let us down a hallway stacked with crates of restaurant glassware and old furniture to another, slightly larger room with the same peeling paint and stained carpet tiles. And diappeared again. The smoke alarm in this room was hanging off its mount, completely useless, and that there was an odd bolt-like piece of what looked like rebar sticking out of the wall beside the head of the bed—just the thing to bash yourself on in the middle of the night. I finally had to admit I didn’t want to take my shoes off in this room, much less get into the bed. We could no longer find the “manager,” so we gathered our things, dropped the key through the drop slot in the office door, and left the place for another hotel down the block. The attendant at this hotel told us they often get "refugees" from the Society Hill, and that they've heard it rents by the hour. I called my credit card company to keep them from paying the place, but two weeks later I discovered they must have charged my card that morning. I wish I'd read these online reviews before I booked the place. Could have saved myself $100. I've stayed in funky places all over hte world, but this was by far the worst place I've ever been charged money for.