hi. im going to nyc in april,and i got an ok price for this hotel, is it ok??.been many times to nyc, but first time on this hotel,so i want to know if anybody stayed there,and what do you think??. i dont need a "fancy" hotel. its located on 215 west and 94 street.thanks..

Have never been inside but have noticed that it seems to be used by quite a few european groups (smaller groups arriving in a large van - perhaps their version of package travel rather than a tour).

thank nytraveler..
is it an ok area?? i have never been that far up town before.

Hi,Jannik.
I live in the general area, so I can certainly say you'll be in good company! The neighborhood, the upper west side is very diverse demographically, so you'll be sharing space (and subway platforms)with celebs and yuppies as well as more modest working class people. It's a 15 minutes subway ride into midtown from a subway that's right across the street. You should feel comfortable even at night since it's a busy area with restaurants and stores (including 24 hour delis)

Also, some friends of mine stayed at the hotel recently (NYC apt sizes often don't allow for putting up guests!) and they said it was pretty nice--spacious and clean. An yes, lots of groups at certain times of the year -- in the spring I see southern & midwestern h.s groups coming out of buses (but they don't look like rowdy "spring break" groups)

Neighborhood is okay and have readsome favorable comments on the hotel. There are plenty of restaurants within a five minute walk. Subway entrance is across the street. Walk around the block and without crossing a street you will encounter 8 restaurants (Tex-Mex, Peruvian, indian, Mexican, Italian, Cuban/Chinese, Thai and a Diner. There is also a take out CHinese restaurant. Do a search under Quality Hotel and you will find a recent post about the dining experiences of a recent guest at the hotel.

I live nearby and the neighborhood is wonderful - typical upper west side - a mixture of rich ($10 million coops 2 blocks away on Central Park West and Riverside Drive), poor (there are some city low income projects nearby) but mostly middle class New Yorkers of every possible race, creed, national origin and gender orientation. It's one block from the subway and Broadway bus and 2 blocks from the crosstown bus. You can walk to several major sights - Museum of Natural History/Planetarium, Lincoln Center, Met, Guggenheim etc and there are tons of good and inexpensive restaurants nearby.

Hope you have a great time!

Sorry - another thought. New Yorkers work so much that we eat out or order in all the time. So for great/ inexpensive restaurants tourists should go to neighborhoods like this one where restaurants that are bad or expensive have trouble surviving.

I urge you to read the reviews on tripadvisor here

http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserR..._New_York.html

While the neighborhood may be fine, some of the problems people describe are not. Unless you're a party of more than 2 wanting 1 room, I can't understand why you wouldn't bid on Priceline. For $75 you can get a very good room. People keep reporting bidding 2.5* in midtown east at $75 & getting Courtyard Marriott or one of the big chains with great rooms. Just my 2 cents. Also look at applecore.com-a chain of discount hotels that are good.

Well it certainly seems as if this hotel got very mixed reviews. I'm not sure what kind of rate you got - but unless its super low you might want to consider looking into some of the other upper west side options.

thanks to all for the info.i know that upper west side is one of the best part of town, last time i was there (in august)i did stay at empire hotel at 63rd street, but that hotel does not exist anymore, and we did a lot of walking around that area,and it was great, but we was only walking up to 83rd-84th street, so thats why i want to know whats the neighborhood around 94th street is like. as for the hotel i dont neede any fancy, as long as they have a safe-deposit box, and a shower at the room.
i have one more thing to ask you new-yorkers: from 94th street and up to bronx, is that a safe walk??, cause the last thing i think about is geting into any problems at all. thanks again for all the info.

I'm not sure where you' want to go in the Bronx but I would not recommend trying to walk for two reasons:
1)From 94th to the Bronx would be a really long walk - several miles or more depending on your destination
2)From 94th st up to the lowewr 120's is fine to walk (Columbia University neighborhood and mainly middle/working class residential) but some of the neighborhoods you would have to walk through after that would definitely not be very safe - there has been a Harlem Renaissance and some formerly "bad" neighborhoods are gentrifying - but some areas are still not pleasant with substantial amounts of street crime. And many parts of the Bronx are the unsafest areas of the city

Let us know where you want to go and someone can suggest alternates - probably the subway - or perhaps MetroNorth

thanks nytraveler..i was just thinking to walk up to bronx, cause the 5-6 times i have been to nyc, it has been consentraited around midtown, upper east side, and lower manhattan,, and a few times to brooklyn, so i was thinking about bronx this time,but every thing is about safty, but if you say its ok to walk up to 120th street, i will do that, i have never been takeing the subway in nyc before, just been useing taxi and bus.since i have been there 5-6 times i think its ok to some other neighborhoods to, so thats way i pick the bronx.thanks again for the help.

If you want to go into the Bronx, you certainly wouldn't want to walk it from Manhattan!! (Unless you were all the way up by 207th St, in which case the walk would be short!) You have the Bronx Zoo and Yankee Stadium which the beginning of baseball season will be April, so that's an option, but for that I would recommend taking a subway or cab, as most of lower Bronx (or South Bronx as we know it) is a pretty bad area. Riverdale, on the other hand, (north of 207th Street) Pelham Bay, and City Island are good areas. You can also find really good seafood on City Island.

When you walk north on Broadway from the hotel consider a visit to The Cathedral of St. John the Divine. It is at 112th and Amsterdam.