Chelsea Star Hotel, New York City > Reviews

Advantages: good location, friendly staff
Disadvantages: limited facilities, small, no disabled access

The Chelsea Star Hotel is situated on the corner of 30th street and eighth avenue in Manhattan. It is quite a small hostel with dorms as well as single and double rooms which are all custom designed. The bathrooms are nice and the place is always clean but there is nowhere to sit and relax - something you long for when you are staying in a dorm. There are phones, an internet machine and a coffee machine and good tourist information. I found the ... Read review

Advantages: Fab Location, very helpful staff.
Disadvantages: Small Rooms, No Communal area.

...booked. Upon phoning the Chelsea Star they too were fully booked however, helpfully offered me a pull out bed in one of there dorm rooms for a discounted price. On arrival the staff were exceptionally helpful, offering advice with what to do for my stay and carrying my bags to my room (as someone who had been staying in hostels for the past 3 months this was rather a surprise!). The room was a crowded 10-bed doom with me on a little put up bed ... Read review

Advantages: None
Disadvantages: BED BUGS

This has got to be the worst place I've had to deal with. >Although the room was very tiny, it was worth what we paid for. The only >problem was that we should have paid less for having to share the room >with BED BUGS!!!!!!!!!! There were all over the place. At first I didn't >know what they were until I did a search on Bed Bugs and behold there were >snapshots of our friends there!!! The first night we thought it was just >the blankets ... Read review