Echo Lake Dog Park

Problems may occur when you booked a hotel without a front desk: 1) basically no in-time reply; 2) when you call the online agent, it will take them quite long to get back to you and sometimes he doesn’t even solve your problem. We arrived before check-in time but we couldn’t use the lockers to store our luggage, while the online agent kept asking us to continue trying and didn’t offer any help😅😅 wasted us almost one hour…. Overall the room is clean, with many kitchen stuff. Remember to bring your own slippers, toothbrush and paste because they didn’t provide. Transportation is very convenient, closed to E/G/F and 7 metro lines. But it also means you can hear sound of line 7 in your room. Think twice if you are a light sleeper. Safe neighborhood.

Spent 2 weeks there and chose this hotel because it was within walking distance to many areas and especially close to the conferences held at the UN. It is registered as a historic hotel, built in 1927. It is a brick and mortar style building.Therefore the furniture in the room reflects that--desk chair, desk, and wall bed. The window panes are the original ones, with no insulation as modern windows have today. Therefore the room can be very drafty even with the windows closed and the shades drawn. I think I had a wall bed or murphy bed. It was difficult to navigate getting in and out of bed because of the sofa-like protruding arms that ran nearly lengthwise along both sides of a king size bed. My room on the 9th floor directly faced 42nd street. Since this is an older building with very little insulation and no soundproofing, it is very noisy day and night with incessant horn-honking, and ambulance and police sirens, plus the usual vehicle traffic. This made it difficult to sleep. Bring earplugs. Nonetheless, the housekeeping staff clean the rooms everyday, unless the do not disturb sign is on your door. They really do a stellar job in cleaning the rooms, and in making up the weird shaped bed. They manage to tuck in the bedding neatly every time in spite of those weird protruding sidearms. The towels and bed linens are spotless and very clean. There is a small refrigerator in the room, an iron, ironing board, a coffee maker, hair dryer, NO microwave, no restaurant.

The Pod Hotel in Brooklyn is so cute and cozy! The rooms are obviously small so don’t expect anything luxurious in terms of space. My partner and I got a queen pod and it was a little tight but overall very cozy. If you have a lot of luggage definitely consider other hotels. The AC worked well, the bathroom was great, the sink is a little small but that’s to be expected. The bathrooms have frosted glass so someone in the bed can see you while you’re on the toilet which isn’t great. The area nearby is amazing!! So many cute shops and amazing food nearby like Birria Landia! It’s close to the subway so you can easily travel to and from manhattan.