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West End Studios & Hostel in New York, New York |
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West End Studios & Hostel
850 West End Ave
New York, New York 10025
Call Expedia at: 1-800-551-2409
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West End Studios & Hostel Reviews
| Traveler Ratings Summary for West End Studios & Hostel
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Overall: 2.91 |
Service
3.27 |
Condition
2.45 |
Cleanliness
3.05 |
Comfort
2.73 |
Recommend
86.36 % |
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| West side NYC |
Overall: 3 |
Service
3 |
Condition
4 |
Cleanliness
4 |
Comfort
4 |
Recommend
Yes |
| Great value, great deal for the price.I would stay there again.
Reviewed by traveler from West Palm Beach Fl. on June 22, 2006 |
| Good for the price... |
Overall: 3 |
Service
3 |
Condition
3 |
Cleanliness
3 |
Comfort
3 |
Recommend
Yes |
| If you are traveling in a budget, this is a good hotel. Rooms and bathrooms looked clean, and the location is great.
Reviewed by traveler on June 14, 2006 |
| Great for the Weekend |
Overall: 3 |
Service
5 |
Condition
2 |
Cleanliness
4 |
Comfort
3 |
Recommend
Yes |
| This place is a great place to stay if you are young and traveling on a budget. I have stayed here twice and both times were a pleasant stay - somewhat. On our first trip we stayed for 3 nights and although the hotel wasn't spectactular, we spent less than 7 hours there each day (incl sleeping). This trip we spent 6 nights, and I know now that at 26, I am too old to stay 6 nights at a place where I have to shower with flip flops. The only downside to this hotel is the bathrooms, but what do you expect from a shared bath hotel? This place is great for the low maintenance traveler, just don't forget your flops!
Reviewed by traveler from Birmingham, AL on June 5, 2006 |
| Very cheap, very basic |
Overall: 4 |
Service
4 |
Condition
3 |
Cleanliness
3 |
Comfort
3 |
Recommend
Yes |
| Good place, good price, it is what you pay for (on a New York price scale.
Reviewed by traveler from mexico city on May 31, 2006 |
| Satisfied |
Overall: 4 |
Service
4 |
Condition
4 |
Cleanliness
3 |
Comfort
4 |
Recommend
Yes |
| It's nothing fancy, but for the price I didn't expect it. Location was good. I liked having a sink in the room, but wished there was a garbage can. The elevator makes a good story! Overall, I was satisfied.
Reviewed by traveler from northern California on May 16, 2006 |
| Basic and inexpensive |
Overall: 2 |
Service
2 |
Condition
2 |
Cleanliness
3 |
Comfort
2 |
Recommend
Yes |
| Reasonably priced for Manhattan, worth it to stay near the things you want to see. Compares to some of the more basic accommodations you get in parts of Europe, where proximity and the fundamentals are the main selling point, and hotels are not "American extravagant". Use the money you save to go to museums and nice places for dinner.
Reviewed by traveler from Dallas TX on May 3, 2006 |
| Interesting Experience |
Overall: 2 |
Service
2 |
Condition
2 |
Cleanliness
2 |
Comfort
2 |
Recommend
Yes |
| I read the reviews of this hotel before I took off. Most of them are true, you do get what you pay for. Since this was the first time I stayed in a hostel-like hotel, I didn't find it very cozy. However, for my friends who did, it was not bad at all. The bathrooms were clean and there's a sink in every room. Great location, there's a subway entrance right around the corner. If you are in NYC, you really dont needa sleep that much. Just get out and explore, Don't stay in this hotel too long.
Reviewed by traveler from Chapel hill, NC on October 26, 2005 |
| You get what you pay for |
Overall: 3 |
Service
2 |
Condition
4 |
Cleanliness
4 |
Comfort
3 |
Recommend
Yes |
| This hotel is good for people who want a place to sleep and park their stuff. The beds were comfortable (firm mattresses). We were right next to the bathroom, but were never bothered by noise. The elevator did not work, so it was a hike up to the 6th floor. It was close (3 blocks) to the Metro subway.
Reviewed by traveler from Burlington, VT on October 26, 2005 |
| Just What I Expected... |
Overall: 4 |
Service
5 |
Condition
3 |
Cleanliness
3 |
Comfort
4 |
Recommend
Yes |
| If you are looking to take a price efficient trip to NYC, this hotel may be the place for you. There is no need to spend lots of time in a hotel while in the city. The city never sleeps so why should you. It is a comfortable bed, convenient location with an awesome staff. What more do you need?
Reviewed by traveler from Houston, Texas on October 7, 2005 |
| You get what you pay for... |
Overall: 2 |
Service
3 |
Condition
2 |
Cleanliness
2 |
Comfort
2 |
Recommend
Yes |
| If you are just looking for a cheap place to crash after sightseeing all day, this isn't a bad place. Elevator was broken, no A/C (luckilly NYC had a cool snap the week we were there), but clean room, clean bathrooms, and in an extremely nice neighborhood in the upper west side.
Reviewed by traveler from Gainesville, FL on August 31, 2005 |
| Miserable Experience |
Overall: 1 |
Service
2 |
Condition
1 |
Cleanliness
1 |
Comfort
1 |
Recommend
No |
| Booked 2 double beds on expedia and got to my room to find a double bed, the clerk at the front desk was incredibly nice and moved us to the only other room they had, which was a room with a bunk bed, no a/c, and worst of all no light. Not even a lamp or anything. It was the worst travel experience I have ever had! The bathrooms were disgusting, spend a few extra bucks and stay somewhere that is at very the very least air conditioned or heated!
Reviewed by traveler from Agawam, MA on July 22, 2005 |
| Bad smell & customer service exp ever |
Overall: 1 |
Service
1 |
Condition
1 |
Cleanliness
1 |
Comfort
1 |
Recommend
No |
| Bad smell & customer service exp ever Please remove that hotel from your web site. It will be good for your business.
Reviewed by traveler from Hamtramck, MI on May 28, 2005 |
| Very old room |
Overall: 1 |
Service
1 |
Condition
1 |
Cleanliness
1 |
Comfort
1 |
Recommend
No |
| The room is very very old.
Reviewed by traveler from New Hampshire on May 25, 2005 |
| Staryed there 3 times |
Overall: 3 |
Service
3 |
Condition
3 |
Cleanliness
3 |
Comfort
3 |
Recommend
Yes |
| This is a no frills hotel (hostel). There is no room service, shared bathrooms only, and no maid service, for the rooms. IT is a cheap place to stay, but is not for the person that wants a lot of comforts. The hotel is older, and the rooms are all painted bright blues, pinks and yellows.
Reviewed by traveler from Edgewood Wa on May 25, 2005 |
| acceptable for the good price |
Overall: 4 |
Service
4 |
Condition
4 |
Cleanliness
4 |
Comfort
4 |
Recommend
Yes |
| Great location, very close to subway and central park. Not a leasure hotel, but for the price it was an acceptable place to stay. I'd go back again.
Reviewed by traveler from Tampa, FL on May 18, 2005 |
| dirty, with bugs |
Overall: 1 |
Service
1 |
Condition
1 |
Cleanliness
1 |
Comfort
1 |
Recommend
No |
| really bad hotel, don't go there
Reviewed by traveler from Washington DC on May 17, 2005 |
| You get what you pay for |
Overall: 2 |
Service
2 |
Condition
2 |
Cleanliness
2 |
Comfort
2 |
Recommend
Yes |
| The location has a lots of character, safe and easy subway access to main tourist sites. The room was what you would expect for less than half the cost of the average hotel in New York.
Reviewed by traveler from LA on May 3, 2005 |
| Not impressed |
Overall: 1 |
Service
1 |
Condition
1 |
Cleanliness
2 |
Comfort
1 |
Recommend
No |
| I don't feel we got value for our considerable dollars at this place. On arrival we didn't get the types of room we'd booked and the clerk coudn't have been less interested. Lift only worked once the five days we were there. Beds uncomfortable, no hanging space, toilets blocked and water either boiling or freezing.Bathrooms WERE clean. Other front desk staff friendly and helpful but some of the domestic staff were surly and hostile eg over using laundry.TV reception was poor. We also didn't feel very safe here. No security measures in place and the door of our room had been kicked in before we arrived and staff were unaware of this (it was repaired promptly.
Reviewed by traveler from Australia on January 29, 2005 |
| the dirtiest place I have ever been |
Overall: 1 |
Service
1 |
Condition
1 |
Cleanliness
1 |
Comfort
1 |
Recommend
No |
| It is dirty and old. I don't know how you can have it in your list. Next time I'd prefer to go outside in the street rather that going there. It is the worst place I have seen in my life, and, believe me, I have seen many bad things in europe. Please ERASE it from your database.
Reviewed by traveler from Bellevue, WA on January 19, 2005 |
| No Housekeeping!!! |
Overall: 1 |
Service
2 |
Condition
1 |
Cleanliness
1 |
Comfort
2 |
Recommend
No |
| Finding the hotel was a complete disaster... the directions we're inaccurate... The check-in process was quick, but the room without a private bathroom made the hotel really uncomfortable. The "cable/satellite TV" was a tv set that hardly can be seen. If you want a quick stop, cheap, just to sleep, and do not care about things like the mentioned above, take it.
Reviewed by traveler on January 14, 2005 |
| Ricketty |
Overall: 1 |
Service
4 |
Condition
1 |
Cleanliness
2 |
Comfort
1 |
Recommend
No |
| This hotel should only be used if you can't find anything else to fit your budget. The rooms are not very nice. The carpet is thrown down. The paint is bad. The mattress is thin. The cable doesn't work. But it is cheap and warm and dry.
Reviewed by traveler on January 13, 2005 |
| West end studios |
Overall: 2 |
Service
1 |
Condition
1 |
Cleanliness
3 |
Comfort
1 |
Recommend
Yes |
| It was good but the elevator was out of order and they dont have tv in all rooms, and some people had them and I dont know why.. they dont have mirros in the rooms and If you want to wash your hands u need to ask for soap they should put more there.
Reviewed by traveler from Sonora, Mexico on January 13, 2005 |
| Dry and Warm |
Overall: 3 |
Service
3 |
Condition
3 |
Cleanliness
3 |
Comfort
3 |
Recommend
Yes |
| Upon our arrival we found the staff to be friendly enough. The room was fine...but the 2nd bathroom down the hall did have a few drips coming from the ceiling that you kind of had to dodge...the trick was keeping the toilet paper dry enough to be useful. The beds were kinda creaky and there was a steel pipe in our actual room that made rather obnoxious banging sounds at all times of day and night. If you are as tired as I was these things wont cost you any sleep....Hey, it was ok besides those things, like I say, it was dry and warm, a place to lay your head and a fairly convenient location.
Reviewed by traveler from London on January 13, 2005 |
| worst experience I have ever had |
Overall: 1 |
Service
1 |
Condition
1 |
Cleanliness
1 |
Comfort
1 |
Recommend
No |
| Not as advertised on Expedia. The room is tiny,dirty. The heating system makes great noise at night. Reserved two double bed room, was placed in a bunker bed.
Reviewed by traveler from boston on January 12, 2005 |
| A complete disgrace! |
Overall: 1 |
Service
1 |
Condition
1 |
Cleanliness
1 |
Comfort
1 |
Recommend
No |
| The staff are incredibly rude...all of them. The manager is never around to address the concerns of customers, staff do not pass on messages. I was told at 5pm (NYC time) that I had a room with two single beds, but when we got there, they had given us a room with a double bed. They told us they were full and would move us the next day - a telephone conference between me, Expedia and the hotel later revealed that they had rooms available that night, before they hung up on us. The first night in the new room, the heating was not on and it was freezing. This was corrected the following night. The room had bunks and was tiny - we could barely fit our luggage in the room. It took ages for the hot water to come on and when we were talking to the front desk, they answered the phone in the middle of the conversation and ignored us. When we left, I asked for the copy of my credit card that they made. They refused, first telling me it was in case of vandalism (although how they could tell the difference is beyond me) and then for identification, even though they had a copy of my licence. The person at the front desk refused to give me his name and ignored me completely after that.
Reviewed by traveler from Palo Alto, CA on December 17, 2004 |
| The cheapest you can find in Manhattan, the filthest one you can get in your travel life |
Overall: 4 |
Service
4 |
Condition
5 |
Cleanliness
5 |
Comfort
4 |
Recommend
No |
| Don't expect too much for this amount of money you paid for it. Some of the receptioniest were all right, some just ok. Stayed two nights there, shared bathroom was just acceptable to have shower. The corridor and room door condition could be worse than you can imagine.101st Street, is close enough to reach downtown for a new york traveller.
Reviewed by traveler from UK on December 17, 2004 |
| good location, but nothing else |
Overall: 2 |
Service
4 |
Condition
1 |
Cleanliness
1 |
Comfort
1 |
Recommend
No |
| broken bed, filthy bedroom. ensuite toilet had no door- not even a curtain- and was terribly cared for. shared bathroom was slightly better, but the shower was broken, and there was no temerature comtrol. Scalded my scalp badly!!! radiator in room was broken and stuck on full, making it uncomfortably warm and dry, so had to sleep with window open, resulting in loud street traffic. location was amazing, though- if the building were refinished and modernised, it would be a great place to stay
Reviewed by traveler from England on December 10, 2004 |
| Absolutely horrible. |
Overall: 1 |
Service
2 |
Condition
1 |
Cleanliness
1 |
Comfort
1 |
Recommend
No |
| My first room was closet-sized, with no TV and absolutely dilapidated conditions. Whole hotel smelled strongly of bug spray. My second room had a TV that got exactly 2 channels. Terrible, terrible disappointment. I didn't even stay there the last night even though I'd paid for it.
Reviewed by traveler from Lincoln, NE on November 23, 2004 |
| Terrible experience |
Overall: 1 |
Service
1 |
Condition
1 |
Cleanliness
2 |
Comfort
1 |
Recommend
No |
| We arrived at 11pm at the hotel and found out, just as another few late arrivals, that the hotel was overbooked.They send us (by foot) to another "hotel" of the same owner nearby which was the worst hotel I ever stayed in in in the US. Room was NOT bigger than the bed, dirty shared showers and bathrooms (not ven a mirror), elevator not working...
Reviewed by traveler from DC on November 18, 2004 |
| Don't stay here! |
Overall: 1 |
Service
1 |
Condition
1 |
Cleanliness
2 |
Comfort
1 |
Recommend
No |
| The price is right, but the room photos are very misleading. The sheets are thin, the rooms paint is peeling and it is not clean enough.
Reviewed by traveler on November 17, 2004 |
| Yuck |
Overall: 1 |
Service
1 |
Condition
1 |
Cleanliness
1 |
Comfort
1 |
Recommend
No |
| The room was dusty. The bed frame was not tighten together. The wheels to the bed frame were bent over to keep them moving, thus leaving the bed with a slant from head to toe. The sheets were thread bare, mattress lumpy. The sink leaked on the floor. The carpet/room was dusty. Horrible.
Reviewed by traveler from Chicago, IL on November 15, 2004 |
| ITS OK, ANYWAY, YOU JUST WANT SOME PLACE TO SLEEP |
Overall: 3 |
Service
3 |
Condition
2 |
Cleanliness
1 |
Comfort
2 |
Recommend
Yes |
| well, me and my friends were on vacations and went out all day so we just use this hostel for sleeping, the rooms and cleanliness is not so good, beeing honest, but, anyway, when you are traveling just with your backpack with a long list of places to visit, you just want a secure place to sleep, and yes, the rooms were a little dirty but the zone, the neighberhood was amazing, completely secure, yo can be walking around 300am and you just see people with their dogs walking around, its so peaceful.
Reviewed by traveler from GUATEMALA CITY on November 8, 2004 |
| Cheap and clean |
Overall: 3 |
Service
3 |
Condition
3 |
Cleanliness
4 |
Comfort
3 |
Recommend
Yes |
| If you don't mind sharing the shower/ bathroom (2 for 6-8 rooms per hallway), it's a reasonable, cheap solution. Old and a bit primitive, but my room had a fresh coat of paint and was clean and quiet. One drawback: a squishy mattress. Close to subway and bus. There are no guest services (no one makes your bed), but desk staff were polite and friendly.
Reviewed by traveler from Chapel Hill, NC on October 30, 2004 |
| don't go to this hotel |
Overall: 1 |
Service
1 |
Condition
1 |
Cleanliness
1 |
Comfort
1 |
Recommend
No |
| cheap but dirty, rickety room door, completely used carpet, without private bathroom, nor heating, electric wire not fixed, the list of reasons to not go to this hotel is long.
Reviewed by traveler from Boston, MA on October 29, 2004 |
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