any advice on a cheap but nice hotel in manhattan?

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I'll be there for a few nights in midJanuary, need a good affordable place - preferably downtown.

I'm thinking of the Holiday Inn on Lafayatte. I'm not picky but I don't want to stay in a total dive.

any ideas would be really appreciated, I ought to book this soon.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 02:23 (twenty-three years ago)

sorry to use ILX for this, but I suppose it's the type of information a lot of people here will be able to use sooner or later.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 02:24 (twenty-three years ago)

not sure about hotels but a NYC fritz-FAP is urgent + key

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 02:29 (twenty-three years ago)

that could be fun if folks are up for it, im just in from a thursday to saturday

ok here's what I'm looking at for hotels:
The Comfort Inn near central park
Wolcott
Newton
Broadway Plaza
Thirty Thirty
Arlington
Chelsea

anybody got any ideas?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 02:44 (twenty-three years ago)

The Gershwin is highly recommended on this thread, Fritz.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 11:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Ally to thread!

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 12:18 (twenty-three years ago)

thanks for the link, nick! any other ideas anyone?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 14:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I shot my student film in the Gershwin! I still owe them a copy...

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 14:47 (twenty-three years ago)

OK, great as the gershwin sounds, here are the cheapest I've found:

Milford Plaza
270 w. 45th street

Arlington
18 w. 25th st

Manhattan Broadway
273 w. broadway

any ideas on which would be best on the basis of location?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 16:24 (twenty-three years ago)

The last one, on W Broadway.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 16:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Obviously Manhattan B'way! It's in SoHo and everything!

(Tracer, J D*chis just sent me invite to his anti-Xmas party on Monday. Wanna bum-rush?)

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 16:49 (twenty-three years ago)

ooh but i just checked out some review sites and it got "WARNING WARNING BUGS AND FILTH" reviews...

milford is booked up

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 17:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i stayed at the ymca on columbus circle

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 17:05 (twenty-three years ago)

the year before at the whitehouse on bowery, that is cheap, like $25 for a single!

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 17:06 (twenty-three years ago)

I would shudder to think what a $25 hotel room would be like in Manhattan.

― Sean (Sean), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 18:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Very cheap, right across the street from CBGBs:

http://www.whitehousehotelofny.com/index.html

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 19:01 (twenty-three years ago)

"I would shudder to think what a $25 hotel room would be like in Manhattan. "

It's a big room with partitions dividing the beds, with a community bathroom with showers. Most of the people are foreigners. If you intend to spend most of your time outside then this is good. Bring eyeplugs because the beds are squeaky.

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 19:05 (twenty-three years ago)

its not that bad, except for thje first night when someone threatened to murder me..and they were VERY believable

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 19:13 (twenty-three years ago)

i'll post a pic of my room when i get back

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 19:13 (twenty-three years ago)

the room in the hotel that is

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 19:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm traveling with the old lady and in-laws from japan so i don't think the whitehouse would fly.

I think it's down to the arlington, the super 8 in times square, the hotel belleclaire or the bedford hotel.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 19:29 (twenty-three years ago)

WHAT HAVE YOU GOT AGAINST THE GERSHWIN?

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 19:46 (twenty-three years ago)

If you can spend $140 go the Gramercy Park Hotel at 21st and Lexington. You get a key to the park and you can walk to lots of nice places.

http://www.gramercyparkhotel.com/

― dan (dan), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 19:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Not the Riverside Inn on 94th Street West. A bargain, we thought, but we ended up spending as little time there as possible. True, the staff were friendly enough, but it was basically a grubby doss house. And there was (how can I put this?) "stray" poo in the bathroom.

― Tag, Wednesday, 18 December 2002 20:15 (twenty-three years ago)

nothing against the gershwin. it sounds nice. other places are just cheaper.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 20:29 (twenty-three years ago)

But can you cope with "stray" poo? More importantly, can the Japanese in laws?

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 19 December 2002 01:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't speak for the inlaws, but I am against stray poo on principle.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 19 December 2002 01:47 (twenty-three years ago)

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