beware!
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 5/15/07
This is probably the worst value and the most misleadingly advertised accomodation in NYC. Our stay was kind of nightmarish.
Although the building had been renovated a few years ago, it has had zero maintenance. Hallways smelled (and were) filthy. We stepped over a used bandaid in front of the door as we entered. My brother and I planned to share the one bedroom apartment. The walls were scuffed and dirty. The upholstery on the fold-out couch was dirty and torn. When my brother pulled out it out to make a "bed", the springs were broken and it was unusable. He put the mattress on the floor, but found that there was no linen. There was also no soap.
When I went downstairs to request linen, the doorman was the only person who was in charge. When I asked for linen and expressed my disappointment in the general scene there, he refused to make eye contact and told me that we'd just have to use the one bed because the person in charge had left and he couldn't help me. I called the 1-866 number and reached someone in the London office. That person asked to speak with the doorman, but he adamantly refused to speak with her or to help me at all.
Finally, my brother went downstairs, and after negotiating with the door man, managed to get the key to another apartment. On that floor, the hall carpeting was similarly filthy, except that the smell was specifically of urine. We were given linen (two contour sheets (thread count about 10--and no blankets). Springs were broken on that sofa-bed, as well. My brother slept on the floor. In that second apartment, the towels were torn and the towel rack had been torn off the wall. Walls were similarly scuffed and dirty. Apartment smelled bad enough and was muggy enough to have to sleep with the windows open, and I was wakened at six a.m. by a half-hour symphony of large-scale garbage collection across the street.
Next day, a young man named Ken who appeared to be in charge there, apologized profusely and asked if we needed more towels and offered a workman to fix the springs in the sofa-bed. Still cost us over $350 per night. People--don't go there. WooGo does not deserve a cent of your money. Unless you really are after the flop-house experience.