This is my rating AND I stayed in a renovated room!
The location is fantastic and that is where this ends. While you are waiting for your room you are sitting in an open area with hotel Nazis that watch it to make sure no luggage goes in there. They are nasty about telling the guests this. A simple sign could have sufficed. my 5 days stay - two rooms (yes I am a glutton for punishment) had the maid NEVER knocking and opened the room several times a day even when I was dressing. I called the Russian head of cleaning and the woman yelled at me telling me it was my fault for not locking it with a dead bolt. Are you kidding? REALLY. I complained to management who did nothing.
I was not treated as a guest but as an unwanted relative. The renovated rooms they make a big deal about because compared to the non renovated ones look like heaven. They suffice- if you like sleeping with no blanket. They charge you to watch your bags (another disaster). Every place in Times Square is nice and I will be choosing another one. Do not walk- run!