The Allen Hotel

great small hotel

Excellent service. Great food in the nearby area. Hop on hop off bus 10 m from the entrence.

Nothing, great place!

The hotel room was absolutely great. Unbelievably roomy for NYC. And very modern and clean with a nice classy bathroom too, and you felt like you had room to swing a cat unlike some other NYC hotels. And it had a roomy balcony (shared with the room next door but I never saw anyone, but each room has its own outside table and chairs The staff were unfailingly polite, helpful and friendly.

For a tourist of my age, the area wasn't as exciting or as busy as say Times Square but it was still 4 minutes walk to 2 subway stations so that was good. Younger visitors may experience the area differently as there did seem to be a lot of little bars and plenty of people around on the more main roads. I don't really have much time to explore the area but it seemed more residential than near Times Square but as I said, I didn't get a chance to explore much so I could be completely wrong about that..

Facilities were very clean. Bedroom had very good linens and comfortable mattress. The finish of the bathroom is very classic and well maintened! The shower was very good too. The AC worked great. You get complimentary water bottles in the room and tap water in the lobby of the hotel. Location is pretty good for access to the train station. Would definitely go back.

We chose not to have breakfast there, because it was a little limited for our eating habits. Maybe scrambled eggs would help! But there you can find waffles, pastries, juice, banana, hard boiled eggs, coffee and tea.