230 West 101 Street, (at 101st Street and Broadway)
| New York City, NY 10025
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“Dangerous to health”
Dec 16, 2009Lolitocha, Finland
When I arrived in the hostel late in the evening tired after travelling for 10 hours, I was greeted with a note by the NYC council; on the Hostel front...
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When I arrived in the hostel late in the evening tired after travelling for 10 hours, I was greeted with a note by the NYC council; on the Hostel front door saying "Warning this building is dangerous to health". Nice! You would think that the hostel would have contacted booked customers about this but no. They changed us to another hostel down the road, but this was ridiculous?! « less
“Nice but unorganized and unfriendly staff - be careful!”
Dec 7, 2009Katjamaus, Shenyang
We stayed in this hostel from 27. Nov to 6. Dec. Well we actually stayed until 5th because they closed the hotel on our last day. We arrived one day...
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We stayed in this hostel from 27. Nov to 6. Dec. Well we actually stayed until 5th because they closed the hotel on our last day. We arrived one day in the hostel and there was a sign on our door stating that we have to contact reception. The staff then told us that they didnt pay their insurance fee and so they had to close down the hotel. But however they also promised us that we would get the same room in another hostel just one block away. We didnt care at that point but when we arrived at the other hostel we found out that nothing was organized and they wanted to put us in a bedroom for 10 (although we booked a double room). We found out that Broadway Hostel staff did not organize another accommodation at all!
Besides that unfortunate event our stay during the first couple of days was nice. Bedrooms are very small but we expected nothing else for that price. Bathrooms are clean and staff cleans and changes linen every day. However, one day we did not have warm water and the other day electricity did not work. We often asked staff for help and recommendations on what to do and where to go and often they were helpful. However there were two girls at reception who were pretty unfriendly and showed us a hotel on the map which turned out to be not excising... so i thought they had no idea about the city.
Well, I dont want to write negative things only. The lobby was great and there was free wifi which i although thought was great. They had a kitchen which was very clean and they even had a chimney which we thought was very nice. Security was excellent - we couldn't get in without showing the key and the location was also excellent. Was located very close to the subway but also very noisy.
Would not recommend this hotel because of our experiences at the end of our holiday and because of the noise in the rooms. « less
“shut down”
Dec 7, 2009carrocarola, milwaukee
When we got to the hostel they told us that it was shut down due to security problems. We could sleep there for one night and then we needed to...
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When we got to the hostel they told us that it was shut down due to security problems. We could sleep there for one night and then we needed to find another hostel. They couldn't give us a good explanation for why it was shut down... We where 7 people and it was hard to find another hostel and the one that the broadway hostel recommended where full too. My recommendeation is to not stay here! They didn't call us or send an email that told us that it was shut down. We found out that when we got to the hostel at 9pm... « less
“Decent but cramped”
Dec 6, 2009robso, Divonne-les-Bains, France
Some rooms are newer & nicer than others - ours was full of beds which were incredibly squeaky. Two bathrooms per floor (about 6 bedrooms with 6 people sharing them)...
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Some rooms are newer & nicer than others - ours was full of beds which were incredibly squeaky. Two bathrooms per floor (about 6 bedrooms with 6 people sharing them) so gets dirty and long waits... Decent location but expected more for the price « less
“its big but no organised...”
Nov 21, 2009bjornie, Belgium
I stayed in this hostel for 3 nights and the hostel is first of all really big! Unfortunatly not enough staff, not organised at all, so if you wanna ask...
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I stayed in this hostel for 3 nights and the hostel is first of all really big! Unfortunatly not enough staff, not organised at all, so if you wanna ask some information you dont get the right answer or you need to wait more then a halfanhour for the wrong answer. I had also problems with the keydeposit that they didnt wanna return, because I gave the key but didnt get the money.After I came back in the afternoon the staff was really unfriendly because of even they mad the mistake, try another hostel!! « less
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