January 28, 2009
The worst of NY travel: dirty, fake and dishonest hotels
Here’s some bad hotel news you’re not likely to see featured on the recently-lauded NYC & Co., the official marketing and tourism organization for New York City:
New York City’s Hotel Carter is still the dirtiest hotel in America. And management doesn’t care.
“We are not bothered at all,” hotel manager Erwin Lumanglas told the Daily News. “Even when they tell us we’re the dirtiest hotel in the world, people are still interested in coming because of the price and the location.”
The crappy crown was awarded by TripAdvisor, which put two other New York City hotels on this year’s list. New York Inn on Eighth Avenue, another repeat offender, clocks in at No. 3.
New to the dregs is Ramada Plaza Hotel at JFK Airport in Queens. It comes in at No. 9 on the worst list.
TripAdvisor reviewers indeed hate it.
But dirty hotels aren’t the city’s only problem. There’s also a number of places running hotels that aren’t licensed to do so.
Even the General Theological Seminary’s Desmond Tutu Center is skirting the rules, Chelsea Now reports. The city has ordered that “the rooms will not be rented to the public or anyone without an affiliation to the General Theological Seminary.”
The center’s own website mentions no such restrictions, and a quick Internet search reveals an archive of TripAdvisor reviews. And although the property has been booking rooms for the general public on Hotels.com and Quikbook, they’re no longer taking reservations.
The local Fox station has a report on violations at the Broadway Hotel, the Royal Park Hotel and the Marrakech in a report you can watch online called New Yorkers Not Welcome at Local Hotels.
And last but not least, Vijay Dandapani, COO and co-founder of Apple Core Hotels, writes on his blog about a complex fraud scheme that tricks people into booking rooms through sites that have nothing to do with the hotels.
Picture credit: Amy Langfield/NewYorkology
(Fox link found via Gothamist.)
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January 28, 2009 9:41 AM in Cheap Stuff, Hotelology, Midtown, Out of Manhattan
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