Relative new and conveniently located on Route 9 W, this hotel is clean, well maintained and near shopping, colleges and Hudson Valley sights. Mediocre breakfast and terrible coffee, but lots of good places for dinner or lunch nearby.

We recently stayed here while on a "road trip" of the Hudson River Valley. Everything about the hotel experience was "as expected" for a chain hotel, clean, predictable, efficient. The location is suburban, however and Hwy 9 is a busy 6 lane highway. The hotel serves only breakfast, so if you want to be able to walk to a restaurant or have more choice in the neighborhood than your typical national franchise, I suggest you explore other locations.

We had to switch rooms because the Jaccuzi didn't work, so we moved from rm 402 up to

502. Starting around 830 there was a lot of noise from across the hall, it continued and

increased to the point where we could not sleep. They had a stereo blasting and a steady flow

of people entering and exiting through the fire escape stairs which we were directly next to.

We observed large amounts of alcohol and what apeared to be underage young men and

women with open containers of beer and wine in and around what had become the Bar-

houseparty across the hall. I called the front desk twice to ask if they could try and handle the

situation and although they said they would, nothing changed. At one point my wife opened

the door and asked them if they planned to make noise all night, and they told her "go back in

your room and go to sleep (insert offensive term for negro here)!" I called the front desk again and told them we felt our

safety was threatened and they needed to call the police. After another 15 minutes of the

party continueing across the hall with no attempt to stop it, I tried to call the police myself

but the phone system would not allow me to dial out. I called the front desk and they said

they would call the police for me, and asked what the problem was as if they had no idea? I

told them we wished to have the police escort us out since the violent party was now going on

in the stairwell and parking lot, and they now knew we had called the police on them.

Watching and listening through the door I observed several of the young men talking about

how the front desk had called the cops and we better get out of here. I know it was new years

eve, but we chose to stay at your hotel to avoid this sort of trouble and I am not sure if we

could ever return after this trauma. It is my belief that the hotel staff knew these people and

were trying to protect them and get rid of us. The Manager offered to move us to another

room and allowed the people across the hall to remain in place, We finaly fled for safety at

@2am.

Very clean and comfortable. Not too far from FDR Museum and Hyde park locations. Staff was very helpful, Breakfast was very good for a continental breakfast included.