6/10 Good
Sep 28, 2023
Style over Substance
The location was handy, the staff is very nice and helpful, and the place is spotlessly clean. But understand you're paying for the chic, candy-colored lobby/restaurant. The rooms are Hampton Inn but with cheaper appointments and thoughtless design. Beds are very soft, which I guess is a preference thing, but no daily maid service? Fine, but then give me a place to dry two towels, not just one, and supply more than one domino-sized hand soap and a thimbleful of body wash, shampoo, etc. Make sure the bathroom faucet hangs over the sink by more than half an inch so the water doesn't go all over the floor when I wash my hands. Pitch the shower drain so that if my wife takes a shower after me she's not stepping into a pool of my dirty water. Put some sort of sound dampening on the ceiling/walls so our voices don't echo while having a medium-volume conversation. This is minor stuff but it adds up to feeling like the place is a little chintzy. More important are the paper-thin walls, that had me up at 6 AM with my neighbor. I could easily make out the dialog on their TV show, and when they dropped the toilet seat it sounded like a bomb going off. Voices in the hallway echoed — again, lots of hard surfaces, and there was a gap beneath the door I could put my hand through. And FWIW I'm actually a heavy sleeper — I've lived in various parts of NYC for my entire adult life. While the lobby was a nice distraction, I was at the Quirk primarily to sleep and couldn't, which was a problem.
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