Just came back from Christmas Shopping in New York and this hotel was the cheapest I saw when I booked.

The hotel is superbly located for the price. 10 minute stroll and you are in Central Park. 1 minute walk and you are at an express subway station - Times Square in under 10 mins. Statue of Liberty ticket office just 25 minutes away. Most places in Manhattan are near subway stations and all trasfers are easy. Just follow the Number/Letter of your route and you find the platform no probelm. There is a McDonalds and Starbucks accross the road and a 24hr Doughnut and Coffee Shop nearby as well.

The hotel itself was as advertised. Cheap and Chearful. The room was basic but big enough for me, my spouse, our luggage and our shopping. We used the shared bathroom and had no problem. For those used to only electric showers beware of cold and hot streams of water as the pressure changes in the system (think Homer in the Simpsons - ooh ahh ooh ahh!) but given that these seem to be an american norm I expected this. The hotel is very very clean. The heating was on a lot and it got hot for us (we are from Scotland and our definition of cold weather is different) but we opened a window and all was well. Simple really. I never heard the central heating at all and our TV had Fox(whoo hoo! Simpsons)/CNN/ESPN and a local New York Channel. I asked the maid for extra towels and got them each day and I sleep with three pillows at home and I just asked for a couple extra and got them no problem. There is also internet access in the lobby (for a fee), a drinks vending machine (Pepsi brands only- ugh!) and and ice machine (free).

As a base camp and storage for shopping and sight seeing this hotel was excellent. The dinner next door delivered breakfast every morning, we went shopping, came back to ditch the bags and then we sight seeing and dining in the afternoons and evenings. If you actually want to stay indoors all the time then this is not the hotel for you. If you only want somewhere clean and cosy to sleep and wash then this place is for you.

The hotel itself was fine but when booking online I choose a "DOUBLE" room instead of a "DOUBLE/DOUBLE" because I called the front desk and was told that the DOUBLE rooms were the same size as the DOUBLE/DOUBLE rooms, just with one fewer bed. Since I was travelling in a party of two and like rooms with some walking space, I thought the DOUBLE room would be more suitable.

That turned out to be a terrible mistake. The room we were checked into was barely bigger than the size of the double bed in it. There was about two feet between the bed and the walls, and there was certainly no room for an extra double bed in there. When I went to the front desk and complained about misrepresentation, I was told that there was nothing they could do about it as I had placed a reservation for a DOUBLE room, which they had honored. After I pressed them a bit more, they let me have a room with two singles, but I was given no apology of any sort.

The next day we walked around the corner to the Quality Hotel and found a larger room with a queen bed for $10 less, and so made arrangements to cancel the rest of our stay at the Newton.

The bottom line is, if you are drawn to this hotel by guidebook reviews that say they have big rooms, book the DOUBLE/DOUBLE instead of the DOUBLE. When I booked, it was only $5 more expensive, and it's the only way you can guarantee not getting a tiny room!

We stayed 3 nights at Hotel Newton and the hotel was really awful. This is why...
a)The front desk clerks were not willing to honor the rate that was given to us by the reservation agent. I had specifically reserved a room with 2 double beds for 4 people and even had the reservation agent repeat my request. When we got there, they wanted to charge us $50 more per night which was brought down to $20. There is something to be said about a hotel that put more value on $60 than customer satisfaction and honoring their promises.
b) We met about 6 front desk clerks during our stay and each one was more impolite and rude than the last.
c) The room (with a view of a dirty alley) was clean-looking enough but everything is very old. The arrangement of the room is very akward and the TV can only be watched from one of the beds, meaning that 4 people have to squeeze together on a double bed to watch TV together. And, we actually found a COCKROACH in the bathroom!!! When we told the front desk clerk about it, his only response was "that's weird" and he continued doing whatever he was doing before signaling the end of that conversation.
d)The hotel was very noisy, especially in the middle of the night and early in the morning. The heater makes a lot of loud random noises. The maids talk on the internal phones in the hallways at all hours of the night. And we heard a banging noise at 7:00 a.m. that lasted for about 2 hours. We tried calling the front desk about 20 times with no answer. After 2 hours, at 9:00, i finally got through to the front desk and when i told the clerk that i had tried to call 20 times he asked what number I had called so I said that I dialed "5" he said, you should have dialed "0" so I said well it says "dial 5 for front desk" on the phone. So, he said "anyway, what do you want?" and I told him about the noise and he said that it was probably construction on the building next door and asked if there was anything else and hung up.

I was really not impressed at all by this hotel and the staff. This is the worse hotel I have ever stayed at and would not recomend it to anyone. I would understand the bad service and ugly hotel room if the price was cheap, but it's not. Plus, the hotel is far from everything and you end up spending more on taxis and subway tickets than you would have in a mid-town hotel that is a lot nicer, closer to everything, but only a little more expensive.

The only good thing I can say is that the diner 2 dors down "Key West Diner" was great and cheap, the service was very fast and staff is very polite. We had breakfast there every day.

First trip to NYC. Wasn't sure what to expect, have been reading reviews online. We had a room with 2 twin beds and bathroom. I thought it was extremely clean and nice. We were out seeing the sites and weren't in the room much at all. It is a little way from everything, but not bad. I thought it was quite and I felt very safe. The front desk was very helpful. Would stay there again without hesitation. If you want a good deal, clean room so you can spend other money shopping....this is the place.