I have been there twice - in 1997 (one week in this hotel) and again in 2002 (not in 2004) I think, this hotel offers best location, close to Broadway, 42nd street, Times Square and all for a reasonable price. I dont know more for stay in New York! Yes, rooms are looking old, but sometimes I like this kind of old glory, for me it makes a pretty interesting atmosphere.

The hotel looks beautiful from the outside, and is located in the heart of Times Square.... The lobby is decorated, and looks wonderful... But all of this is some kind of trick, sort of like the one in Hansel and Grethel, where the witch used the candy house to lure the children in, and then eat them... The room itself is a dump... The television has about 5 channels that you can actually watch, others are not visible. The food in the lobby is overprized to say the least... a sandwich would cost about $5... This hotel is only for underage teens, so they can pile up by the dozen in one room, while paying only for four, buy drinks, get drunk and sleep on top of each other... The showers are hideous, and tiny... they look like they were built in the 1950's.... The rooms are often left messy, whoever cleans them obviously doesnt get paid enough... Some rooms had writing on the walls... Do yourself a favor, and find another hotel... even if its the middle of the night, and you are dead tired..

what a [-] hole, we arrived, the idiots at reception couldnt find our resevation then tried to charge us again, we were given a room on the 17th floor, the room had moldy walls and a carpet for a headboard on the bed, the place stank damp and had bugs walking around, i opened the door to the cloak room and it stank even worse, the ceiling had distemper mould, the shower taps fell of as i tried the shower, we went back to reception and asked to be moved, we tried 4 more rooms ,each one stank and had different levels of filth, we went back to reception and got a room on the 5th floor, this one smelt ok but was still moldy and the carpets were thead bear around the edges of the bed, i lifted up the matress to have a look and found the matress was thread bear to, also in this room the lights in the main bedroom did not work, we complained and the reception gave us a light bulb, strange as there was no power, the tv was from the 1960,s, no arial and a fuzzy picture, outside the window was 8 big aircon fans for the ajacent building which stayed on 24hrs a day for the entire 6 days, this place is definetly a [-] hole, pretty noisy at night with screams ,shouting and pissed people knocking on the door trying to find there rooms, there was live cables joint with insulation tape laying around the skirtings, if you want to sleep in a swat then this is it, its the nearest you will get to living in a derilict building, what a smelly place, rude staff, god i narf miss it, lol..... location was good though, the security were like prison staff, i think they were there to stop the rats escaping, lol... also you were not allowed to bring guests back, i dont think they had any worry of that as you would be to ashamed to, what a lovely place, not

The staf were ok but unfrindly. The room bed sheets were very dirty I had to go out and buy new so I can sleep on it. The location was great.