Is the Hotel Carter a dump?
Is the Hotel Carter a dump?
#1Is the Hotel Carter a dump?
Posted: 8/18/09 at 1:56pmIt's $99 a night and close to theatres? What is wrong with this picture? Is the place a dump or too good to be true? Im trying to plan a trip in the fall.
trekchristi
Swing Joined: 8/29/08
#2re: Is the Hotel Carter a dump?
Posted: 8/18/09 at 2:03pmI always check out tripadvisor.com because people show pictures of the room. Granted some people have different standards but for this hotel, I'd avoid it.
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#2re: Is the Hotel Carter a dump?
Posted: 8/18/09 at 2:04pm
It's been voted the filthiest hotel in New York.
Google it.
Updated On: 8/18/09 at 02:04 PM
#3re: Is the Hotel Carter a dump?
Posted: 8/18/09 at 2:10pm
I think it's been voted Filthiest Hotel in America, actually.
But yeah, there's a bunch of threads on here about it.
#4re: Is the Hotel Carter a dump?
Posted: 8/18/09 at 2:13pmBut it's always fun to play "Guess that Stain".
#6re: Is the Hotel Carter a dump?
Posted: 8/18/09 at 2:17pm
Speaking from personal experience, the place is disgusting. The smell alone was vile.
There's a recent thread about it on the off-topic board.
Stage Door Sally
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/4/09
#7re: Is the Hotel Carter a dump?
Posted: 8/18/09 at 2:25pmYes it's dump. I have a TripAdvisor tee shirt with a quote about the Carter, "Rats, rats, rats."
singalongsong2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/11/08
singalongsong2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/11/08
#10re: Is the Hotel Carter a dump?
Posted: 8/18/09 at 2:34pm
...and to top it all off, they have bedbugs!! How luxurious.
#11re: Is the Hotel Carter a dump?
Posted: 8/18/09 at 3:54pmKalimba happened to spend a very romantic evening at the Hotel Carter some years ago.
#12re: Is the Hotel Carter a dump?
Posted: 8/18/09 at 4:02pmIf you are looking for clean, basic, no frills accomodation try the Big Appel Hostel on 45th street. I looked at the Hotel Carter once and got as far as the lobby before backing off. It did not feel safe, nor clean. The location is pretty good but there's a reason why they haven't raised their prices in the last 10 years.
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#13re: Is the Hotel Carter a dump?
Posted: 8/18/09 at 4:05pmKalimba and I had a wonderful, romantic time at the hotel some years back! We drank grape soda, played with the rats, and acted out scenes from "Once on this Island"....priceless.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#14re: Is the Hotel Carter a dump?
Posted: 8/18/09 at 4:10pmGrossest hotel I've ever stayed at.....ever.
#15re: Is the Hotel Carter a dump?
Posted: 8/18/09 at 4:10pmYeah, I'd steer clear of the Carter. I remember the story about the prostitute who was found cut up and put into bags and shoved under one of the beds.
#16re: Is the Hotel Carter a dump?
Posted: 8/18/09 at 4:19pmNorman Bates liked the place
#17re: Is the Hotel Carter a dump?
Posted: 8/18/09 at 4:21pmMrs. Bates thought it was a dump though. They fought for hours over it.
jspaeth87
Understudy Joined: 2/10/07
#18re: Is the Hotel Carter a dump?
Posted: 8/18/09 at 4:25pmif you don't need much space, look into the portland square hotel, it's only a little more and it's basically in the middle of times square
tourboi
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/15/05
#20re: Is the Hotel Carter a dump?
Posted: 8/18/09 at 6:52pmI can't imagine that it would actually be legal for them to offer the room pictured. Is it?
DefyGravity777
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/28/08
#21re: Is the Hotel Carter a dump?
Posted: 8/18/09 at 7:57pm
"If you are looking for clean, basic, no frills accomodation try the Big Appel Hostel on 45th street."
I agree with this. It is a hostel and you have to share a room and bathroom with people but it's cleaner than most hotels I been in. At anywhere from $32-45 a night you can't beat the price or the location. It's on 45th St. right in the heart of Times Square.
#22re: Is the Hotel Carter a dump?
Posted: 8/18/09 at 8:56pm
"I can't imagine that it would actually be legal for them to offer the room pictured. Is it?"
Well, put it this way. I used to work in the apartment rental business. Nothing major. Just a few two-family properties that my relatives owned and I helped manage. If we had conditions like that in the units - and we never did except when bad tenants would trash the place - we'd have been sued by angry tenants and reported for violated the "warrant of habitability."
singalongsong2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/11/08
#23re: Is the Hotel Carter a dump?
Posted: 8/18/09 at 9:05pm
So gross. There are almost 300 pics of the rooms on this website. Yuck!
http://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotos-g60763-d93421-Hotel_Carter-New_York_City_New_York.html
#24re: Is the Hotel Carter a dump?
Posted: 8/18/09 at 9:10pmJust flicked through some of those pictures and all I can say is, wow, I must have had one of the better rooms. And that's not saying much.
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