I wouldn't recommend the Vanderbilt. Maybe things have changed in the last three years, but when I used to live there (yes, live--my school rented dorm space there for many years) the bathrooms were never clean, the place always smelled horrible, and there actually was a reported bedbugs outbreak. Whatever the cheap cost to put up there, it's not worth it.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body