Pickwick Arms Hotel New York City

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230 E 51st St, (formerly Pickwick Arms) New York City, New York, United States, 212-355-0300

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Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Stayed at the Pickwick Arms Hotel New York City
I Got Money in the Background

Travel Tip # 53: When Air Canada gives you assurances on ANYTHING second guess it I walked into the Leblanc's house and before I can get my brand new "walking boots" off, from the computer room I hear Noelle's mom say, "your flight is delayed, it's not leaving until 7:00pm tonight" Please do not joke, please do not joke, please do not joke. If you know Leon and Helen you would know that they are jokers. We had a short stay as it was and this delay would get us in at 3:00 am in the morning, th...

New York City, New York, United States cowtowncolleen
I want to be a part of it - New York

New York Our early evening arrival in New York was cold and wet. We loaded our bags into the back of the shuttle bus that was to drop us off at our Hotel, the van driver was keen to fill the bus before his departure from JFK in order to maximise his profits. So after a tour of the airport visiting all of the terminal buildings fishing for customers - we finally had a full vehicle and could leave the airport, destination Manhattan Island. Shortly we were dropped off at our hotel, the last and ...

New York City, New York, United States gandthoneymoon
Arrived in New York

I arrived in New York and settled in my "pod" room in the Pod Hotel on 51st Street. It's a pretty nice updated hotel but the rooms are pretty small for singles. It's about a 6' x 10' efficiency room and I share the bathrooms. Everything is pretty clean so there's no complaint here. The cool thing is that the hotel provides free internet. A good deal for the price I paid. Tomorrow, I'm going roam around and sightsee before meeting up with my friend.

New York City, New York, United States protaras
Meeting up with my friend

I wandered around just south of Central Park before meeting up with my friend from New Zealand. After many years of talking about visiting each other, Thao came over the ocean first. It was good to catch up and visit before she headed off to London to job hunt. After lunch, we dropped off the shopping bags at the hotel and we headed out again to explore a little more. We walked forever and ended up far south of the island in the Financial district around South Sea Seaport. We ended up going t...

New York City, New York, United States protaras
Day 17, Anaheim to New York

Slept in a bit, we were super tired! Packed the rest of our stuff, and checked out of our hotel, and put our bags into storage there for the day as our flight to NY wasnt until that evening. We went to back to the parks to do our favourite rides once more. We did California Adventure first, We rode the Hollywood Tower Hotel, and California Screaming, we must attract famous people, cause we saw one of the Jonas Brothers we dont know which one he was but we took a photo, we THINK it was Kevin. ...

New York, New York, United States richandleight
Day 18, New York City

TIRED! Our flight from LA to NY was tiring, after the delays and the loooooong taxi ride we finally got to our hotel and all we wanted to do was chill out and lye down for a bit, so it was just aswell the hotel let us check in early, we were so stoked! We chilled out and napped and showered etc. The hotel is awesome! So glad we chose to stay here. A really cool rooftop garden with awesome views of the city high rises, really cool rooms, looks out at another part of the city, a tv that pulls o...

New York, New York, United States richandleight
Day 19, New York City

We ventured out again into the Big Apple! We wernt sure what the actual temperature was, but we knew it was cold, we figured it was about 11 degrees but when we used the converter on the phone it was actually 2 degrees - COLD! We got coffees to warm us up a bit, and walked back to Times Square for a better look around. We wanted to go to a Broadway show, but couldnt figure out which one to see, theres hundreds to choose from, we were thinking about going to Wicked, but then we saw a cheap tic...

New York City, New York, United States richandleight
Day 20, New York

Caught the subway uptown to The Bronx Zoo to meet Leights friend Caroline who came to NZ in 2005 as an exchange student. Leight was reallllly excited to see her, it was donation day at the zoo, most people just walk in but we paid 5 dollars each to help the animals. It's not like Auckland Zoo its alot more open and much much bigger and heaps of animals, some we had never seen before, grizzly bears and mountain cats of some sort and heaps more. Because it was cold alot of the animals were in i...

New York City, New York, United States richandleight
the met... almost

After a little sleep-in we ate breakfast like kings today. We had fruit, yoghurt, orange juice, and cinnamon raisin bagels. After rolling ourselves out of whole foods we headed back to the hostel to organise our next move. Back at the hostel we jump on the internet to organise money and check emails. My credit card account doesn't have an account number' only a bsb number. I send the bank an email so I can pay out the balance. The ipaq has been our journal but the computers at the hostel can'...

New York City, New York, United States simon.kayess
rock on

Breakfast was another whole food market deal. Yoghurt, juice and bagels. We walk down to top of the rock today. The tickets are bought at the rockefeller plaza at the bottom of the building and you have a 15min window to use them in. On the way in we passed a massive pool of pennies that were collected by children in new york schools to donate to the charity of their choice. The penny-man said that there was around one million dollars worth of pennies in the pool. That's the closest simon and...

New York City, New York, United States simon.kayess
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Historical Traveler Reviews of Pickwick Arms Hotel New York City

Cramped, but cheap and well located

from Garnier
I stayed in one of the single rooms with no bathroom. There was a sink, which alleviated the bathroom-less condition somewhat. The room and the common bathrooms were antiseptically clean, well scrubbed, but they are so small you need to position your knees carefully to stand up and turn around. These funny little single rooms are the discount at this hotel.

When you get into doubles with bathroom in the room, you begin to get into prices comparable to any other hotel. But if you're a solitary traveler, the $74 rate I paid for one of these bathroom-less single rooms is just about the cheapest in Manhattan, especially considering that the hotel is right in the middle of midtown, surrounded by bars, restaurants, shops and a relatively safe and walkable part of New York.

I lucked out and had quiet neighbors, but it was clear that the rooms lack sound proofing and if you are stuck with yahoos in the next room, you will hear everything they yell, burp and gurgle.

Close to sites

from A TripAdvisor Member
This hotel worked out great! It was walking distance from most of the sites I wanted to see. I was basically looking for a place to sleep, not experience. The internet kiosk was worthless however. The staff was courteous and helpful. Never saw a naked person. ****! Great neighborhood with many good places to eat and drink. Close to the United Nations.

This hotel had some good points and some bad points

from A TripAdvisor Member
This hotel is quite good for a tourist class hotel but there are some areas in which it needs improvement. The hotel lobby is immaculately decorated and has a nice atmosphere and the corridors on the various floors of the hotels are also nicely decorated. The room that I booked was basic but comfortable and I had requested my own private bathroom which was both clean and convenient. The cleaning staff had not bothered to empty the garbage bag in my room prior to my arrival and the water temperature in the bathroom fluctuated between being scalding hot and freezing cold but otherwise the room was quite a good deal. The demeanor of the hotel staff needs improvement -while one or two were courteous and friendly, the others were rude and even hostile and made no effort to be hospitable or friendly. The restaurant connecting on from the hotel was both overpriced and did not provide the best service but there are several good restauruants nearby. All in all this is a good deal and is conveniently located in the city, but there are one or two areas where the hotel can improve significantly

Very Good Value

from A TripAdvisor Member
I enjoyed a small single room with shared bath in November 2002. The room was very small and austere, but comfortable and clean. The shower up the hall was spotless but very tiny - walk in and back out. The staff were very friendly and helpful. The location was first rate. It was a quiet safe neighbourhood near all the major attractions and transportation. For $79 a night Canadian - how could I complain. I only used the room to sleep in anyway. And I didn't see any naked people walking up the hall - as one reviewer put it. I will definitely stay there again.

Don't Pick this one!

from A TripAdvisor Member
DIRTY, RUDE, AND OVERPRICED FOR THE POOR HOTEL STANDARDS! We arrived at this hotel on a very warm (80ish) early October evening to find the lobby, and corridors, of this hotel are not air conditioned. The rooms are so small there are no accommodations for suitcases or valet items. NO WALKING ROOM, WHAT SO EVER!! We found someone elses shoes (a previous occupant of the room) under our bed. It gives an indication of their poor cleaning of the rooms. The desk staff are extremely rude and acted haughty. When I brought it to their attention, they became MORE RUDE! I couldn't leave here fast enough!! Don't waste your money here~

Its good, so long as you don't get your expectations up.

from A TripAdvisor Member
I found this place perfectly acceptable in terms of accomodation, and great in terms of value. I was in New York on business, and found myself in one of the tiny shared shower rooms. Everything was pretty basic, but there was air con, and the showers were clean - although it was best to get in there early rather than later. The staff were helpful to me and, despite what another reviewer said, the place was clean (well, clean enough for me). If you go expecting a cheap, functional hotel then you won't be disappointed. The location is perhaps the best feature of the place - $70 dollars for a room in midtown is fantastic. The decor might not be great, buts its quiet and seems to attract regular people.

Not great, then, but good enough.

Bargain for Price

from A TripAdvisor Member
A quite nice hotel in a fantastic location (East Midtown) and a very good value in such an expensive area. Lobby and building front are quite upscale and impressive. Shared bath rooms can be had for about $70 on the internet, and while small are clean and acceptable. A handfull of bathrooms are located throughout each floor, and while small, they were very clean. I'm usually quite particular about things like that, but I have to admit it's actually a pretty good setup. We use shared baths at work and at the gym dont we..... For me, it's a ridiculously good value in central Manhattan.

Like a Place that Features the Comforts of an Outhouse?

from A TripAdvisor Member
The place sucks. The staff is unfriendly, it's shocking to see naked people wrapped in towels walking to the "public baths" , the rooms are sorry as can be, etc. The only good feature is it is in midtown and the location is good. Let me relate a quick story: My wife is wheelchair bound. As we prepared to leave I was securing her wheelchair in the van that we drove to N.Y. and the doorman came and told us to "move on". Explained that we had been guests and were just preparing to leave and he threatened us with calling a cop if we didn't move on. He left us alone after I threatened him with violence but the impression of the staff was fixed. If you have VERY low standards, by all means stay at the Pickwick Arms. And good luck. Watch out for the roaches.

Give it a miss

from A TripAdvisor Member
This hotel's web site claims that the rooms are stylish and sleekly furnished with internet connections. Not the ones that my friend and I had! The location may be great but the rooms were horrid. We had a room each and shared an interconnecting shower-room. If doing this, you'd better be prepared to hear every noise from the tiny toilet/shower cubicle and for your every noise to be heard. There was no fan, heater, kettle or even clock in the old-fashioned, gloomy, tiny 10'x8' room. When I first saw it I felt like crying! I know it was a tourist class hotel but surely there must be some basic standards. Most definitely I would not stay in this hotel again.

Pickwick Arms - good location

from A TripAdvisor Member
This hotel is well situated for seeing the sights in New York and has a pleasant location near the upper east side. There is a particularly welcome public open space opposite, with tropical foliage creating a cool and shady place to enjoy a coffee from the snack kiosk, or a take away from the excellent deli on the corner of 51st. The foyer and halls look smart - the room however (a single with shared bath in this case) was small and in serious need of a lick of paint - it did not represent particularly good value. The hotels' two restaurants are trendy and loud of an evening (although this did not filter through to the room) You can get a pleasant but somewhat expensive breakfast at one of them - this is not included in the tariff. And as for the advertised roof garden, well don't get too excited - it's a few plastic patio chairs on a concrete square. The tiny bedroom's air conditioning was a much more attractive proposition on a hot Summer's night.

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