Worst value of hotel I have stayed in my entire life
I travel 100 nights per year, high end hotels, lower end hotels, the whole range. Rooms were limited in NYC 16 May 2012. I picked Paramount. The room was a tiny 10 feet x10 feet, the shower was 3x3. Paint was peeling off the walls. The A/C did not work, and it took engineering 2 hours to fix the problem. There were 5 exercise machines in the gym for 567 rooms in the hotel. 2 of the machines did not work. Needless to say, there was no possibility of working out.
If the room were $50 per night, that might have worked. For $800 per night, including tax, this was the worst value for a hotel I have ever experienced. People in the elevator were randomly complaining about the hotel on every ride in the elevator.
Avoid if you can, unless you like overpaying or wish to be adjacent to the Scientology Church in NY.