gypsyluce

please, has anyone stayed at either of these? what are they like ? My family suffers from allergies and asma and really needs a clean hotel, carpet free bedroom if possible, and in a great central location like these two. Would you recommend them or please suggest others.

wliwl

Ummm...The Hotel Pennsylvania is the dirtiest, most disgusting hotel in NYC, and is well known as such.

LOL. They also just hosted nearly every dog in the Westminster Dog Show -- so that can not be good for allergy suffers. Especially since I'm sure they haven't even vacuumed since. (Or, for that matter, since last year's show.)

gb944

Do not stay at the Hotel Pennsylvania.

As wliwl said, dirty, disgusting, old, in need of repair.

wliwl

Here's a great article about the Hotel Pennsylvania:

http://www.observer.com/node/39264

I especially like this quote from the owner: "The hotel’s own proprietor, the New Jersey–based Vornado Realty Trust, described the building in 2005 as “a placeholder, sort of like a parking lot.”

The last time I stayed there (a long time ago thank God) my room was still dirty from the previous occupant (although I had been checked in) and it was 1:00 a.m. (Did I mention I was 4 months pregnant - you know, when you're SO TIRED you could sleep in the street.)

When I finally walked down to the lobby with the sheets in my arms demanding to see a manager I was informed there wasn't one, as he had just walked out (quit) earlier that afternoon. LOL

doug_stallings

It's a tall order to find a carpet-free hotel room. I can't think of a single example in all of NYC. Though there must be a hotel with wood floors somewhere in NYC.

Anonymous

I've stayed in one hotel suite in NYC, a converted apartment building, that I think had no carpet. But it wasn't very clean. Perhaps it had a carpet that I'm suppressing.

Here's the Observer's review in which the owner referred to the Pennsylvania Hotel as a placeholder:

http://www.observer.com/node/39264

Here's Dave Barry's excellent review of the "Hotel Shpennsylvania":

http://web.dailycamera.com/community...es/02pbar.html

Anonymous

Sorry about the repeat of the Observer review link; I came across it while looking for a new link to Barry's article (since the Miami Herald's link to the original article is dead) and forgot that it had already been posted.

nytraveler

The Hotel Penn isn;t even good enough for the dogs that stay there.

Have never heard of the Park Savoy - so can't comment. Have you looked at tripadvisor.com?

Also have never seen a hotel in NY that didn;t have carpeted bedrooms.

I think your best bet is a place that's as new as possible - so the allergens haven;t had a chance to build up.

ilana25841

Thanks for the Dave Barry- made my lunch hour after lots of time looking at hotel reviews!