Dont belive the Hype!
Stayed from 22nd until 27th March in a Delux King on 30th floor.
Hotel is modern and has a contempory interior, we booked on the basis of the good reviews but am slightly disapointed as they are not that acurate as set out below.
Location- at least 4 blocks from anything resembling a restaurant and main shoping areas start about 6 blocks away so not exactly in the heart of things but not bad (small diner for next door and starbucks across road for breakfast)
Room- Quite small (but this is NY afterall) well presented, fantastic comfortable bed, but overcomplicated controls (lights and blinds) very noisy air conditioning (kept us awake and too hot to leave off could not open windows), not the best designed room with silly TV in bathroom which could only be viewed from the sink and seemed pointless and no soft closure on WC door which banged. Our bath (although not used by ourselves) was dirty (lovely tide mark 3/4 of way up) and was never cleaned on our stay,the coffee and coduments were not topped up every day, the complementary sowing kit had been opened and needles were missing, and on windy days/ nights the bedroom windows rattled and in the corridoors you can hear wind noise. Also the sound deadeneing leaves much to be desired and we could hear clearly other guests throughout the night.
Other points to note - The footprint of the hotel is small compared to most of the other similar hotels so the rooms are spread out over many floors and as only 4 lifts we always had to wait for the lifts (upto 10 minutes at busy times). Also the lobby would get crowded quite easily due to its small size and layout, and although very attentative the bell boys were generally busy with other guests so were unable to open the huge and extremly heavy front doors which my wife could not move.
Overall not a bad hotel, but for the price and the reviews we had read its a bit of a disapointment, think it will have to be the Gansevoort next time.