Very good accommodations but the food is awful
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 6/23/11
We stayed here June 13 to 21, 2011 for a family vacation. The hotel is built well and overall very quiet especially for its chaotic location. The room was spacious and clean. At ground level you step into a small security lobby with a guard on duty at all times. After 8:00 p.m. you must show a key card to enter the hotel. The lobby is on the third floor. There is a bar/lounge area here if you want to sit and visit. Otherwise you move on to the elevators which take you to your rooms. Inside, the hotel is calm and welcoming.
Our first morning we ate breakfast at the hotel. It was our last breakfast here. The food was OK but the prices were out of this world. $15.00 will get you 2 eggs. Want some meat with that? Another $6 to $8 dollars. Want some toast? Another $6.00. Yes, this is Manhattan, but $100 for breakfast for 3 people is still over the top. We ate a couple of blocks away the rest of our stay and got more food for half the price ~ all very good.
We ordered room service twice. Both times were huge disappointments. The food was terrible! The first time we ordered a chicken quesadilla and club sandwiches. Fries were floppy and miserable tasting. Sandwiches were barely passable. Quesadilla was little better than fast food warmed up. The second time we succumbed to room service, because we were just too tired to leave the hotel, we ordered pizzas. They were mostly bread with a bit of sauce and sprinkle of cheese. Very unappetizing and dry. Add poor food to the high cost and it was highly unsatisfactory.
Location is great and central to much of the city's transportation. It is right in the middle of the theater district, so you are never more than a couple of blocks from any of the theaters. The concierge we worked with was very knowledable and helpful; she helped us find the best options for the sights we wanted to see.
If crowds of people get to you after a while, staying here will get old. Every day 500,000 people pass through these two or three blocks and it often felt as though they were all right outside the hotel doors. Every time we left the hotel we were plunged into throngs of people trying to get somewhere, hawking wares & tickets & transportation, or the oversized crowds waiting to buy half-priced tickets for Broadway.
Nice, spacious and quiet as the hotel was, I doubt we'd stay here again due to the craziness of the location.