Nice with reservations; slightly sub-standard Kimpton hotel
This is a series of pros and cons. * Service: quick and courteous, not forced. The clerk's accent was so strong that she was hard to comprehend. * Value: mightily expensive room (but it was the weekend of St. Patrick's). * Sleep quality: not good, because I had a room on the 3rd floor facing 11th avenue and the windows are not sound proof. But they can be opened, which is what I really like sometimes. Furthermore, I never leave home without earplugs, so in a way I am oblivious of street noise, and in fact it's not the hotel's fault that the city does not want to sleep. * Cleanliness: dust in places, but the bathroom and the bed linens were clean and maintained carefully twice daily. * Location: for me it was fine because I was looking for something which is a bit out of the way and yet within walking distance to the subway. * Rooms: sort of average for a 4-star hotel. * Other: noisy lobby, in the afternoon and evening hours everything is dedicated to bringing people that even did not appear to stay at the hotel to the top-floor entertainment, which I absolutely did not care about. I would call Ink48 a slightly sub-standard Kimpton hotel, giving it perhaps 3.75 stars. But I admit that my sample is small: I have only stayed at one another Kimpton hotel, which is the Marlowe in Cambridge/Boston, which beats Ink48 and truly deserves its 4 stars.