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hotel penn in nyc

firecrotch23firecrotch23 Posts: 586
edited May 2008 in The Porch
i already have this hotel booked for the msg shows. ive been reading some of the reviews on trip advisor and the reviews mix from being the worst hotel in the world to it being a good hotel for a night or two. can anybody who stayed there before give me what i should expect from this joint? im only there for the 24th to the 25th but want to know if it is as bad as some of these reviews.
Thanks!
Small my table, seats just 3, its not crowded, its just lucky me
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  • thunderDANthunderDAN Posts: 2,094
    is that the hotel Tom Hanks stays at in the movie Big when he first grows older and goes to the city?


    I've never stayed there though...have heard the same mixed things
  • BudTBudT Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Posts: 60
    I stayed there in '03 its not that bad for a place to crash after the show. The location itself should sell you on it, right across the street!
  • rival.rival. Chicago Posts: 7,775
    several threads about this already. but i am telling you to not book there!

    i work in hotels and worked for a marriott in mahattan for a couple of years and i know hotel penn has been written up quite a few times for bed bugs. stay away!

    hotel industries are HURTING right now... you can find an afforable room almost anywhere in the city right now. check marriott, we can use your business :)
  • AmentsChickAmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    Trip advisor ROCKS!! Someone even started a thread on there looking for a hotel near MSG and several mentioned they were going to the PJ shows...was it you?
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  • thunderDANthunderDAN Posts: 2,094
    singularity wrote:

    i work in hotels and worked for a marriott in mahattan for a couple of years and i know hotel penn has been written up quite a few times for bed bugs. stay away!

    mmm bed bugs...those sound intresting
  • rival.rival. Chicago Posts: 7,775
    thunderDAN wrote:
    mmm bed bugs...those sound intresting

    they sound cool. that is until you wake up in the middle of the night and they are chewing away at your leg!
  • firecrotch23firecrotch23 Posts: 586
    the main reason i booked it was for the location, taking the train up from philly, staying one night and leaving after the second show. im just hoping that the bed bugs are friendly and diseseless :)
    Small my table, seats just 3, its not crowded, its just lucky me
  • Brisk.Brisk. Posts: 11,561
    chelsea hostel ftw
  • Bathgate66Bathgate66 Posts: 15,813
    DONT DO IT !
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  • haffajappahaffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    this is the hotel we're in...
    live pearl jam is best pearl jam
  • HawkshoreHawkshore Posts: 2,157
    doin'the-evolution wrote:
    this is the hotel we're in...

    :eek:
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  • Hunger StrikeHunger Strike Scottsdale, AZ Posts: 229
    Don't stay there!!! Just don't do it!!
  • PegasusPegasus Posts: 3,754
    hostel Big Apple for us..basically $40 a night each, and we booked a whole dorm so no 'sharing' anyway (and sharing isn't always bad anyway..just I'm starting to get a bit old for it, with strangers anyway ;))
  • Sharon_Hearts_PJSharon_Hearts_PJ Bristol, PA Posts: 1,383
    I have a mixed review myself! We stayed there during a brief vacation in 2004. The first room they gave us was awful. Dirty. One small bed (for 2 not-so-small people) with a mattress thinner than a maxi-pad. Nasty old bathroom. We asked to be moved, and they happily obliged. The second room wasn't really on the opposite end of the spectrum, but it was a drastic improvement. Cleaner overall, newer bed.
    I think it's worth if for a couple of nights for sheer convenience-factor.
    If your room is ick, asked to be moved.
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  • U R A Crazy BreedU R A Crazy Breed Posts: 8,370
    any of you new yorkers know anything about the Affinia Manhattan? it is also across the street from msg.
  • nukebootnukeboot Posts: 1,465
    I've stayed at the Penn. Not very nice and the property is in limbo due to possibly being part of the Penn Station redevelopment deal. Doubt they have been spending a lot on maint.

    Several PJers are staying at the Wellington. Decent rates (for NYC) if you book directly through their website. Great location and two stops from MSG on the subway.
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  • nukebootnukeboot Posts: 1,465
    singularity wrote:
    i work in hotels and worked for a marriott in mahattan for a couple of years ... you can find an afforable room almost anywhere in the city right now. check marriott, we can use your business :)

    What's the secret on getting good rates at Marriot?

    The NYC rates on their site are pretty high.
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  • Brisk.Brisk. Posts: 11,561
    anyone wanna try and share a hostel?

    http://www.chelseahostel.com/aboutus.html

    Would half the costs ;p

    $80 bucks each instead of me paying $160. I think its bunk beds ;p
  • vedder_soupvedder_soup Posts: 5,861
    doin'the-evolution wrote:
    this is the hotel we're in...

    it will be good! i don't give a shit, it is a place to crash! it is central!
    I BrisK I wrote:
    anyone wanna try and share a hostel?

    http://www.chelseahostel.com/aboutus.html

    Would half the costs ;p

    $80 bucks each instead of me paying $160. I think its bunk beds ;p


    dude, you can get a hostel for WAY cheaper than that!
    i am guessing you are looking at private rooms!
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    2006 - Reading Festival,
    2007 - Katowice, London, Nijmegen, Rock Werchter,
    2008 - MSG x2, Hartford, Mansfield x2, Beacon Theater,
    2009 - Melbourne, Sydney,
    2010 - I watched it go to fire!
    2011 - EV Brisbane x3, Newcastle, Sydney x3,
    2012 - Manchester x 2, Amsterdam x2, Prague, Berlin x2, Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen,
    2014 - Sydney, EV Sydney x3

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  • TransplantedNewfTransplantedNewf Posts: 805
    doin'the-evolution wrote:
    this is the hotel we're in...

    I'm just gonna bring a rag and some cleaner and hope for the best. ;)
    ...it can't be THAT bad, can it?
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  • Sharon_Hearts_PJSharon_Hearts_PJ Bristol, PA Posts: 1,383
    stop at duane reed and grab some lysol :)
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  • Brisk.Brisk. Posts: 11,561
    vedder_soup wrote:
    it will be good! i don't give a shit, it is a place to crash! it is central!




    dude, you can get a hostel for WAY cheaper than that!
    i am guessing you are looking at private rooms!

    that hostel is 15 min walk from MSG if not less and i think its 40 bucks a night so that comes to 4 night = 160 bucks so 80 and 80 rather than 160 ;p
  • Bathgate66Bathgate66 Posts: 15,813
    oh yeah forgot to mention the outbreak of bedbugs at the place ,

    along with the Lysol,

    youd better get some sort of hairnets to sleep with.

    ;0
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  • haffajappahaffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    vedder_soup wrote:
    it will be good! i don't give a shit, it is a place to crash! it is central!

    you get the floor.
    Krisdababe wrote:
    I'm just gonna bring a rag and some cleaner and hope for the best.
    ...it can't be THAT bad, can it?

    of course not! not if we're there... it'll be all kinds of awesome, and everyone raggin' on our hotel'll be swimming in jelousy... woohooo!
    live pearl jam is best pearl jam
  • vedder_soupvedder_soup Posts: 5,861
    I BrisK I wrote:
    that hostel is 15 min walk from MSG if not less and i think its 40 bucks a night so that comes to 4 night = 160 bucks so 80 and 80 rather than 160 ;p

    gotcha, i was looking at a few before i found out i was at penn hotel, this was one of them. Some of the others that you may know have booked the big apple hostel! check that out maybe as well!

    doin'the-evolution wrote:
    you get the floor.

    :( well no bed bugs at least!


    doin'the-evolution wrote:
    of course not! not if we're there... it'll be all kinds of awesome, and everyone raggin' on our hotel'll be swimming in jelousy... woohooo!

    the place will be rocking! with us lot there, it will be great!
    2003 - Sydney x3,
    2006 - Reading Festival,
    2007 - Katowice, London, Nijmegen, Rock Werchter,
    2008 - MSG x2, Hartford, Mansfield x2, Beacon Theater,
    2009 - Melbourne, Sydney,
    2010 - I watched it go to fire!
    2011 - EV Brisbane x3, Newcastle, Sydney x3,
    2012 - Manchester x 2, Amsterdam x2, Prague, Berlin x2, Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen,
    2014 - Sydney, EV Sydney x3

    I wave to all my Friends... Yeah!
  • Brisk.Brisk. Posts: 11,561
    vedder_soup wrote:
    gotcha, i was looking at a few before i found out i was at penn hotel, this was one of them. Some of the others that you may know have booked the big apple hostel! check that out maybe as well!




    :( well no bed bugs at least!





    the place will be rocking! with us lot there, it will be great!


    ya they have, its sold out for that time ;p

    so im staying all by myself little self in a hostel much closer to MSG :D:D
  • haffajappahaffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    vedder_soup wrote:




    :( well no bed bugs at least!

    remind me to bring my accordian.
    live pearl jam is best pearl jam
  • vedder_soupvedder_soup Posts: 5,861
    doin'the-evolution wrote:
    remind me to bring my accordian.

    :D
    2003 - Sydney x3,
    2006 - Reading Festival,
    2007 - Katowice, London, Nijmegen, Rock Werchter,
    2008 - MSG x2, Hartford, Mansfield x2, Beacon Theater,
    2009 - Melbourne, Sydney,
    2010 - I watched it go to fire!
    2011 - EV Brisbane x3, Newcastle, Sydney x3,
    2012 - Manchester x 2, Amsterdam x2, Prague, Berlin x2, Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen,
    2014 - Sydney, EV Sydney x3

    I wave to all my Friends... Yeah!
  • PegasusPegasus Posts: 3,754
    I BrisK I wrote:
    that hostel is 15 min walk from MSG if not less and i think its 40 bucks a night so that comes to 4 night = 160 bucks so 80 and 80 rather than 160 ;p
    you can't share that.. it's $36 and it's per person.
    as I said for Boston, hostels=bunk bed, not doubles you can share like in hotels.
  • my2handsmy2hands Posts: 17,117
    we stayed there in 2003 and it was not bad at all... we have a room booked there now but things could change since that was 5 years ago


    it seems the people saying to not stay there are not saying if they have stayed there or not?
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