My Friend and I stayed at The New Yorker for 10 days in December 2010 during our first overseas holiday.

I don't have one negative to share amount our stay there. The Staff are very friendly and helpful and the rooms where clean, comfortable and very reasonably priced.

Our stay was during the festive season and many Hotels in the same league were double the price.

The New Yorker is about a 10-15 Minute work to 5th Ave and Time Square and right opposite Penn Subway Station so getting around NYC was very easy. Should you have to travel further and require a Cab the Doorman of the Hotel will have one ready for you in no time at all.

Another bonus is the 24hour Diner that's attached to the Hotel.... Great service, cheap and decent food... We ate there at least one meal a day.

All in all it was a fabulous Hotel to stay in and should I ever find myself back in NYC this is where I will be staying again!

The New Yorker is a famous landmark classic art deco hotel built in 1930,
somewhat renovated in the 90's after is was bought by "the unification church" ( a religious cult).

Pros: Great ocation at 34/8 right next to Penn Station. The rooms are clean although on the small side, free wireless internet, a nicely equiped gym and a 24 hr diinner attached to lobby. The servie and security are top notch, as good as most 5 star hotels.

Cons: (and the list is long) the rooms can get quite cold in the winter (ours was cold even wt the thermostat on highest seting. No safe, no bar/fridge, no coffee makers, outdated bathroms, very low pressure in shower and lukewarm water only at times. Gym had only machines ( nice new Precor brand) but no free weights.

NOT worthy of a 4 star hotel and I would not go back unless i had no better option.

My husband and I stayed at this hotel twice in the past 2 years during an annual dance competition event, which was held next door in Manhattan Center. The hotel staff was very accommodating in giving us a room that we wanted. We had few problems with our stays: 1) We did not receive points/miles for our hotel stay though we paid over $523 including fees and taxes, because according to Wyndham Rewards rules group rate ($ 149/night) does not qualify for any points. I think that this rule is very unfair to customers. We compared this to Hilton or Marriott, where we always earn points regardless of the group rate. If Wyndham Rewards program does not allow earning points, I recommend staying in non-Ramada/Wyndham chain of hotels, if possible. 2) The passage to Manhattan Center was not opened and dancers including us had to go out onto the street in cold wet weather in our costumes and enter Manhattan Center from the street. Hotel management could have coordinated with Manhattan Center management the passage opening either on the 1st floor or 11th floor. 3) bathroom was in dire need to updating (chipped and old tiles, painting was very old, there were 2 huge round chips in the front 2 corners of the bathtub, i.e. the size of tennis balls. This was probably due to a poor quality of bath tub resurfacing/re-grazing

Check in was very pleasant. There was not a line on a Friday at 3:00 pm and we asked for an upgrade when we got there since we booked through Hotwire. Mohammad was very accommodating and found us the best room available. For $30, we got a corner room with big windows on two walls on the 32nd floor with an almost full view of the empire state building. The room had two double beds, a desk with a chair and a small dresser with a tv on top and a closet that fit all of our stuff for the weekend. It was a small room but for an old NY hotel it is a typical size. The bathroom was small and old but functional. As soon as we got in our room Mohammad called from the front desk to make sure we were happy. For the amount of time we spent in the room the size was not an issue. The heat and hot water worked fine. The bed could have been a little softer, the mattress was a bit too firm for me. I prefer the soft pillow tops. The walls are very thin and there was a dog show in town and we could hear some barking from the rooms in the same hallway as ours. The street noise during the day was loud but sleeping was surprisingly quiet. The location is very good if you plan to use the transit system. The hotel is right across the street from Penn Station and there are subway stations all over the place. It is just about a 15 or 20 minute walk to Rockefeller Center, times square and the theaters. Macy's is just a 3 minute walk away. Overall our stay was very enjoyable. One thing that I would recommend is if you drove your car and had the hotel park it for you, be prepared to wait a long, long, long, time for them to get it for you. It took almost an hour for the valet to get our car and it was a bit frustrating but besides that, the stay couldn't have been better.