Murray Hill Inn New York City

( 2 stars , New York , United States )

BEWARE!!! This hotel was aweful!!! We stayed at this hotel during December and it was the dirtiest hotel ever. The staff was not helpful and nothing was good.

You need to disregard the reviews from 2007. I stayed at the Murray Hill Inn and was extremely pleased with the property. While the room was small, it was great for my stay in New York. I had a single room with bath. The room was VERY clean, the staff was very helpful and the price was a real bargain for NY. The hotel has a great location. I felt very safe and comfortable I definitely would stay there again. If you plan on spending alot of time in your room, you might want to stay in a bigger hotel. But otherwise the Murray Hill Inn is a small treasure.

Rooms are small but mine was very clean and quiet. I've stayed her twice and each time, couldn't have ask for more for the price. Its a townhouse converted to small hotel rooms, convenient location, transportation close by, good family-style dinner near. Great for mid-town NYC.

This place says it has air-conditioned rooms well they dont have any ...and the windows are paper thin and the streets are very loud and noisy.The only great thing is the coffee house on the corner..

To stay in midtown east Manhattan in February for less than $80 a night is what you get here. Clean (looks like recently remodeled) tiny rooms. No elevator 4 tall flights of stairs (17 steps for each floor). Although they offered help bringing up my luggage, I declined since I wasn't carrying much. Ask to borrow the Iron at check in, if you need one, or you'll have to walk down and up the stairs again.

I stayed there 2 nights in November, 2007. I liked the price, the staff, the manager, and the bathroom. The bed was clean and comfortable. But I got the basement room, which they didn't tell me about when I called and booked it. Just outside the door of the room is a noisy break area for the staff and a computer for guest use. Outside the bathroom window is a sunken alley and a pile of garbage. Inside the room, a few feet from the bed, is a flimsy cupboard sort of thing meant to hide some kind of giant meter that was quiet the first night, but clanking and pinging loudly the next night. I complained twice to the night desk man, who was very nice. I could not sleep at all. In the morning, the manager took $30 off my bill. DON'T TAKE THE BASEMENT ROOM. YOU'LL REGRET IT.

Being my first time to NYC, and not wanting to break the bank, this hotel seemed to offer reasonable rates in a good location. It was perfect. Two single beds (I was travelling with my mom), a couch, TV and reasonable bathroom. Absolutely no complaints. If you are the type to really want to hang out in the hotel a lot, you could probably find some shortcomings, but it was great. All the services I wanted were very close-by, with subway stops at 2 or 3 blocks in either direction, tons of cafes, breakfast places, internet place (check the local newsstands) and small grocery stores. Less than 10min walk to the Empire State Building! NYC in the summer for $129US a night seems about the best deal going. Go for it!

Nothing can offset the fact that we woke up in the middle of the night to find that we were sleeping with bed bugs. Lots of bugs, lots of bites, and red welts that are still with us 10 days later. We showed the bugs to the maid who wasn't surprised. Obviously, this was not the first time.

In prinicpal, a reasonable choice for an expensive place. The location is good, especially if you need to be relatively close to the UN (or need to get your nails done, plenty of shops for that around). Yet apart from location and half-way fair price, there is not much to write home about. The hotel is only good to sleep at (or watch TV from bed). Rooms are small, but bathroom's alright, as mine was more recently renovated. The room was dark as just 1 meter across, another gloomy building stands. Its hard to get a sense of the weather unless one steps outside. To do so, its better to be on the second floor as from the fourth where I was, the walk is longer (no elevator). Sprinkler pipe over the bed is at first a bizarre sight, but as long as there is no fire and you are not in bed...