Great hotel, cool location, beautiful rooms
This hotel is located in a small cosy street with a lovely entrance directly in SoHo. Everything's just right around the corner, especially if you want to go shopping. Subway Station Canal Street is 2 minutes away, so it's easy to get anywhere in no time.
We had booked a standard room but received after one day a really nice upgrade to a deluxe room in the 22th floor from the very kind guy at the reception - thanks again for that (all the staff at the reception was really kind, not stiff, nice and helpful).
If you can affford it, book a superior or even a deluxe room. It's really worth it. As usual in NYC the rooms are not superspacious but very clean and really really cool and nicely decorated with attention to detail.
The bed is really comfortable (even the blankets are not these superthincheap-ones) , the view from the higher floor rooms is great. There's free WiFi and a iPod docking station, so you can listen to your own music. Of course there's a room safe. The windows are very well isolated, so it's quiet when the windows are closed. If you're on a higher floor you even can sleep with the windows open.
They don't have a pool or spa (but they do have a Gym), and the Minibar is quite expensive (but as there are lots of stores right around the corner you shouldn't need the minibar anyway).
This hotel is really a blast for an amazing good price-value for anyone: couples, singles, business travellers. I'd always come back anytime when I'm in NYC.