We spent the weekend at Stay on 47th Street (just off 7th Avenue) in Midtown. You simply can't beat the location. You can leave the hotel and be at a Broadway show in 10 minutes. That being said, our room, as other reviewers have said, was minuscule. Think cruise ship. There's about 18 inches of floor space on the 3 sides of the bed that are not against the wall. There is nowhere to elevate your bag and it won't fit in the 12 inch closet; so it has to be on the floor, which means you're stepping over it constantly. But that's fairly typical of New York rooms. Other than that, the towels were cheap and threadbare, and the drain in the shower couldn't keep pace with the shower; so I had to keep turning the shower off to avoid flooding the bathroom.

The nightclub noise didn't bother us on the 4th floor, but I have three additional gripes. First, the hotel is very under-elevatored. There are two elevators (I think there are 8 floors), and each one can hold a maximum of 4 people, or two people, each with a bag. If you are on a low floor, forget trying to get a down elevator. Every one that opens on your floor is already full from the higher floors. I recommend asking for the highest floor you can get; otherwise you'll never get out of the hotel. There are stairs, but if you have bags, you don't want to have to cart them too far up the stairs, and if you get a room on a floor low enough to use the stairs, the nightclub noise will bother you.

My second gripe is the ice procedure. You have to call the restaurant and they'll bring it up. I tried twice, both around 11 pm when we returned to our room. Both times, the ice didn't arrive till an hour later, at which point we had given up and gone to sleep (only to be awakened by the doorbell). The lack of ice machines is also fairly standard in NY hotels, but it bugs me.

And third -- the bellman is the same person as the doorman. This mean that if you want help with your bags, or if you're trying to put your bags in storage or get them out of storage, you have to wait for him to come back in the hotel. Yesterday he was out trying to flag taxis for several guests, so we waited about 20 minutes to get our bags out of storage. As a result, I missed my plane. My bad for cutting it that close, but 20 minutes is too long to wait, when all you need is for somebody to unlock the closet door so you can collect your stuff.

My recommendations if you're considering this hotel, which you should if location is important to you (I would stay here again, with reduced expectations provided I could pay what I paid this past weekend) --1. Priceline it. We paid $215 per night for Friday and Saturday through Priceline. I don't know what the regular rates are, but $215 is the right price for what you get. I wouldn't pay more than that to stay here. 2. Ask for a high floor if you ever want to catch a down elevator. 3. If you store your bags, allow a lot of time to get them back. 4. If you want ice, buy it yourself at a liquor store before you go up to your room.

This hotel started off quite well......the location was great.....a stones throw from Times Square.....and I mean a normal throw not some pro baseballers throw!

I checked in fine and was shown to my room which was very small but I had expected that so wasn't too annoyed.

The first two nights were fine and then it all went wrong! Friday night being the start of the weekend I returned to the hotel to blasting club music in the lobby. Turns out they turn the bar and restaurant into a nightclub and crank the volume to the max.....great......if you want to party.......not so good if you are a jetlagged tourist who just wants to get some sleep in your hotel room.....above the bar!!!!!!! Oh yeah and the party goes thumping on til 4am.

That was my main problem with this hotel.....no warning when checking in that the place transforms and nothing that can be done about it once you are there.

Other than that there were a few niggles like the housekeeping didn't replenish anything that I had used like shower gel, toilet roll etc. Also for some reason my tv remote was replaced with another one that didn't work.....very odd.....and frankly annoying when noone will pick up the phone in reception for you to tell them you need something. I kid you not.....it rang and rang for about five minutes.....only for it to be put straight down......not good service especially for somewhere that is not cheap! It's these little things that if done right make you want to come back to a hotel. I would happily go back to Stay if they sorted the little things out.......and if I was on a rowdy weekend away with the lads!

Our stay at this hotel was a perfect experience. The architecture and design of this hotel are one of a kind. I would recommend coming to see the Stay even if you are not going to be rooming there. The aspen social club is very unique as well and turns into a cool hangout on Friday and Saturday nights. The rooms were small but I've stayed in many hotels in New York city and this one was very well layed out. The bathroom was gigantic in comparison to other Manhattan hotels and featured an awesome two person shower. Overall my experience with the staff was awesome as well. When asked where a good restaurant was or which club was good on a Saturday night they always had the answer. Definitely stay here. Awesome awesome awesome!

This hotel is in the heart of the Times Square, actually about 10 meters away from it! The hotel is really trendy and you can see that the owners spent a lot on it. But on the other hand the hotel staff is quite unknowledgeable and what was most important - the room is SOOOOOOOOO tiny small.