Holiday Inn Chinatown
this hotel really should be called the Holiday Inn, Chinatown. We were literally a block from Canal Street (which was cool), but if you walk one block in front of the hotel, you were in Chinatown. Nothing wrong with Chinatown at all, but the impression of the hotel is SoHo and I'm sorry, but it is not SoHo from what I gathered that this neighborhood entails.
Again, being that close to Canal street was pretty cool, but since I checked in that night, to wake up on this hustling and bustling street with people selling a ton of bags and leather goods, it caught me off guard a bit.
The security to the hotel was great. You had to take an escalator to get to the front lobby. I liked that aspect because it is pretty dark and creepy outside this area at night due to the proximity to a residential neighborhood like Chinatown.
The hotel room was pretty small. okay, it was a shoe box. No window view, it was tiny too. The restroom was a decent size, but there was no room to even place your bag or your luggage in order to get anything out of it. I didn't like that, but I already figured that an older New York hotel wouldn't have the much needed space (for me). The tv was pretty old too.
Decent deal for the money, but I would rather have a hotel that was really in SOHO than one that was REALLy in Chinatown instead. The hotel title is a bit misleading.
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