Hotel Vertigo

Location is 15 mnts from union square, the only thing acceptable about this hotel. Manager is a nice and professional guy. Looking at the reviews, I don’t understand the 4 stars standard for some people, when you book a 4 stars hotel you expect something fancy, clean, well decorated, nice lobby... I haven’t seen any of those in the hotel, if it was one star or two stars with 30% of the price, I would have said it’s excellent.

Hotel is outdated, decoration is a mess. I’ll start with lobby till up the room: Lobby is big, a few couches, some are colorful some are modern but not compatible with each other. Other then the furniture the lobby needs painting, cleaning and renovation. Elevator: slowest elevator I ever saw in a hotel, if you don’t have luggage, you would loose patience and take the stairs. Once in the elevator, you would think it’s the first elevator that we built, walls need paining, buttons need to be changed, the whole elevator needs to be changed. Once in the room, the room floor is carpeted with a dark brown color, awful. The floor is not straight at all, just like the roads in San Francisco, lots of ups and downs, watch out for your coins, you let one falls, you will have to catch it before it rolls till union square. You have a bed lamp with the shape of horse head, nothing to do with the rest of the room decoration, probably they got a bunch of them at a good price, or probably someone likes horses. The room is not at all soundproof, you can hear people in the hallway, doors shutting. When you open the bathroom door, it will automatically hit the room door, which will wake up the people next door. Room has a window with Neighbour’s view, so you will have to close the curtain all the time. You have an iron board, however when you open it, good luck closing it back, irony if you keep it open so room service will close it, you’re wrong, they will keep it open and place it in the middle of the room. You have 2 phones in your room, they both do the same thing, I do not know why there are 2, maybe they come with the horses head lamp. You have a tv in the room, with the cables all visible on the wall. You have 2 bottles outside the fridge, in any hotel what’s outside the mini bar is complimentary, however in this hotel, the 2 small bottles are for 3 dollars each, you can buy the same in the shop next to the hotel for 25 cents each.

Location is not bad. Clean. Friendly staff

No air conditioner, pretty hot in the room. Poor sound isolation- can hear everything next door people saying or doing.