Not bad!
Stayed here the first week in July with my friend. We booked the room through another booking website back in January. On arrival, the porter came and took our bags from the taxi and brought them to reception with us for check in. Reception dealt with our check in quickly enough but weren't exactly over friendly either. Our room was as you'd expect in New York, small and just enough room to walk around the bed. However, it was still slightly more spacious than another hotel room I've previously stayed in and the room was clean and tidy. The only problem I'd have with the room in general was the shower. For a hotel that's supposed to have been "renovated and updated", they seem to have forgotten the shower! We spent more time trying to adjust the water temperature than we actually spent in the shower itself! This I really feel needs to be looked at. The bathroom itself was clean enough. The location of the hotel I found was excellent; only a few blocks from Times Square and even closer to the Empire State Building. There was also plenty of shopping nearby. There's a 24 hour Tick Tock Diner in the hotel block which we went to for food on our first evening there and for breakfast another morning. The food is average, the service was good, but I wouldn't have rushed back. There was also a slightly classier restaurant called Coopers at the other side of the reception/lobby area. We ate in here on the 4th July before going to the Fireworks. The food was ok, I wasn't as impressed as I felt I could have been for the price, but our time there was enjoyable all the same. I think I would return to this hotel more so for it's location as I found it was so close to everything we wanted to access.