New York stay
The online pictures of this hotel are decieving, not what the rooms really look like, older and in need of some updates. My friends and I stayed at the Belvedere on July 4-July 8, 2012. The rooms only had window air conditioners which were installed in the windows with the bare wood showing, tacky for a hotel, yes I did say window air conditioner that would only cool to 64 degrees, not cool when you are in NY on days when the temps are over 100 degrees and the sun shining fully into your room, the room was barely cooling which means that bathroom wasn't cooling at all, no ventilation either, so you were already soaked in sweat before you could dry off from the shower, also, bathrooms are very small no room to hang your clothes and no place to sit you toiletries. There were 4 ladies sharing a room, the first morning we were there we were preparing for our day, two of us were trying to dry our hair one in the bathroom and one in the bedroom, the power goes off, we called the front desk they sent maintenance to check it out, the maintenance man said that the building was only wired to use the hotel hair dryer which was provided and you could only use it in the bathroom outlet (never had this issue before), after a few times of this nonsense they moved us to another room a bit larger but still could only dry hair in bathroom with their dryer and the window airconditioner still didn't cool the room. The only cool part of this building was the lobby, it was also the prettiest part of the building. The hotel manager did give us a complimentary breakfast in the restuarant which was buffet style, the breakfast was so so, it normally runs $14-$15 per person, glad I didn't pay for it. Hotel was very convenient to the sights and walking distance to lots, all in all it was okay, but it could have been cooler and updated. I wouldn't stay there again.