Sohotel - Manhattan, New York

It was great! The staff were very accommodating. The rooms were a bit small, but that was expected for NYC.

It was a hot night. Air conditioning was necessary. Very, very noisy--made sleeping difficult. Small room & small bathroom. A simple hairdryer would have made the stay much easier for us. Only 1 electrical outlet in the room and none in the bathroom. Liked the style and atmosphere of the hotel though.

The wi-fi didn't work and nobody knew why. The every growing problems of bedbugs in the NY area (due to the ban of propper insecticide) is NOT a problem at the Sohotel! you can stay here for shure.

After checking in late afternoon, water from hot tap was less than lukewarm. Not even tepid at night. Did not take my bath. 77 cable channels available but not one for adult contemporary. Neither any other cable options.

I've been to New York many times, but seldom for pleasure. The ambiance, neighborhood, and vibe for the Sohotel was GREAT!

Good location and value for money by NYC standards. Would definately stay here on my next visit.

We found SoHotel online and booked easily. The room was nice and suited us very well (parents and three children aged 13, 16 and 18). The neighbourhood is facinating and overall we had a wonderfull stay.

Reasonable quality for the price, in very good surroundings, if you like SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown ... we do ...

I've been impressed by the zebra sofa and I've fallen in love whit it

Nice hotel! Nothing bad to tell about it.

Streets around are noisy but -the hotel is super cool - few minuts walk to get in fun areas

Sohotel is a good priced clean and budget/boutique style hotel in the heart of China town. The rooms are an adequate size but not overly large. Bathrooms are clean with the exception that the hot water is only available in the morning... If your looking for a hotel in a good location really only to sleep and relax for a few hours a day - this place is great. It is in close walking distance to Soho, Nolita, Little Italy and the Lower East Side. There are a few subways in close vicinity too - with 1 only 1 block away. There is heaps of cheap food around as well.

A very nice budget hotel in a nice part of the city, just few steps from Little Italy, China Town and near to many subway stops. The room was not too spacious but very clean and very attractive, with its characteristic wall with exposed brick. There was also a large 32" flat Tv with lots of channels available. Highly recommended for people who are looking for a great price/quality hotel, I would definitely come back there in the future!

Very small rooms; no phone, no internet terminal available at the hotel.

Everything was great except that the room was really cold. There was no heating so we freezed a lot but otherwise it was great!

A vert nice hotel, we wouldn´t hesitate to stay there again.

In our second week in NYC we stayed at Sohotel (7 days), so our impressions were strongly coloured by our stay at the Red Roof Inn on 32nd street for the previous 7 days. For only $100 more, total, at the Red Roof Inn, we had the most comfortable bed ever, a more spacious room - a desk, an armchair - breakfast, free newspapers and an ELEVATOR!! That three story climb at Sohotel at the end of a day of museums and subway stairs was a killer! Any external noise was masked by the sound of the air conditioner. Since we are both readers, we really missed a second reading lamp at the bedside. And the mattress was noisy - every time we sat or moved, it squeaked and groaned.

Great value, wonderful place, apparently oldest hotel in new york city - but updated obviously! easy walking distance to little Italy and Chinatown, and Canal street shopping, eating places all around, very charming. Definitely would stay again and have already reccommended to friends

Good location but very small rooms, no telephone inside rooms and very noisy by the traffic, but it's New York

The room was very small but the air aconditioned worked very well,the bed was very very comfortableand it had a very big television set at reception they offered free coffee and tea every morning the hotel hadn´t lift or elevator

I had problem with my luggages and employers helped me. They are very polite. Hotel is located close to Financial District, Broadway and Subway. All around there are so many restaurants, chinese, italian and Thai. For breakfast move to SohoCafè (at the corner between Broome Street and Broadway)is cheap. In early morning, in SoHotel, is possible to taste a very good caffè too.

It was the first time I was coming in NYC. I do not know any other hotel of this category **. However, I thought that the hotel was expensive for what it was. The room was very small, third floor and no elevator, not very clean, walls dated (paint yellow like in an old hospital). The staff was not very welcoming. I would not come back and would not advice it. In my opinion: to avoid!

Sohotel is a great hotel for the value of your money, its location is also a great plus point with incredible shopping just two streets away.

The hotel is very nice,the employees very friendly great for soho, is not that expencive and you are in the zone, evrething near by subway, shopping, dinning.the room was kind of small but you don´t spend much time in the room hotel when you are in new york.

Difficult to rate as building work underway and hotel facade was draped in nets etc. Very clean inside but kind of creepy!

Extremely loud. Loud music until 2AM. Told the staff, they said they would do something but didn't. Traffic was very loud also, all night. Oh, they said I wasn't booked until I found the receipt. Very bad.

A very good price/quality! Clean but small. Employees very kind. Only for young people. I would like to come back.

My name was in the hotel computer and there was a room for me, but they thought I wanted one night when I reserved two and charged me a little over what venere.com said I would pay. When I got to the room, I found out that there were actually two double beds instead of one, which is what I thought I would get. It was nice to have two, though, and I thought the room was spacious for New York City.

Nice and clean hotel. Great bathroom :) Friendly staff.

The room was perfect for what we were looking for, somewhere to put our head down and no more. Main conern was whether the bathroom was clean, no complaints there. Room was small but didn't expect a big room. The main plus for me was the district it was in, just around the corner from Little Italy so in the evening we hadn't far to walk for dinner. Main disadv was that you could hear guests leaving or returning during the night but not bad enough to not return.

The noise is terrible. Outside our windows was the area where the employees go out to smoke. Outside our room was the drink machines and you could hear the coins drop. The floors are wood and sound traveled and there is no elevator so people would go up and down the stairs which were outside our room too. We were woken up mulitply time each night. The front desk tried to help. New years eve was the worse for they allowed groups of young people to fill the rooms. Needless to say we will not stay here again

Helpful staff, speak spanish. A little bit noisy at night. Safe area, a bit dark though. Maybe the name should be Chinatel :) just kidding! It's in Chinatown. Yes, I would recommend it.

Sohotel was exactly what we needed, an inexpensive hotel (for NYC) in a good location. It was near the #6 subway which made it very convenient to everything we wanted to do. We needed a cheaper place to stay so we could spend more money on restaurants. It was also near one of our favorite breakfast spots, Balthazar. The parking was not as easy as I thought it would be. There didn't seem to be any valet activity at the hotel and so I had to find a spot in the neighborhood and pay separately. There was lots of street noise from cars and trucks. But, what can you expect for these prices in NYC. You get what you pay for and if I had wanted to spend over $500 per night, I could have had silence and an elevator. We wanted to spend money on food and not the hotel. The room was European small, which was fine by us. No room service. No mini-bar. But we didn't need those things. If you want a clean spot in a convenient location so you can spend your money on other things, this hotel is perfectly fine.

In my opinion this establishment can not be called a hotel. Not clean.Unprofessional to the extreme.Not a place to bring your family, and of course I regret bringing my girlfriend to such a place. So forget the vision of a small and simple, though clean and nice place. This is not it. I have traveled quite a lot, in Europe, America, North Africa, and this is for sure the worst place I've stayed. First we were offered a room worse than anything I've seen, not clean and more institution like than a hotel, then we changed to an other room too noisy to sleep, above a bar with lots of music and noise through the night.The third room had blood on the bed sheets just belov the pillow. We ordered airport transport to and from the hotel.The hotel managed to make a mess out of it, as they did with so many other things.This hotel leaves the general impression that it is of no importance wether the guests enjoy their stay. Not very expencive, but as I see it price can not justify staying at this hotel.

A great hotel for the price in Little Italy/Chinatown. Very clean, quiet and nicely decorated (Soho style), though the room was very small -- but this IS New York. Pleasant service, too. Be aware there is no elevator, so some schlepping is involved. But a nice touch is that they serve coffee in the lobby in the morning. The subway is only a few blocks away, and the local neighborhood is just different and fun.

It would have been a perfect stay had street noise not been so loud!

The double bed room is very big. The hotel is actually located in China Town and not in SOHO. Overall- good value for money.

Es un Hotel que se corresponde perfectamente al precio y calidad ofrecido. Para estancias cortas que no se pasa mucho tiempo en el hotel, es perfecto

Could not sleep due to traffic noise and uncomfortable bed!

Good price for a hotel in NYC, standard room with standard services but incredibly noisy hotel, walls are like paper and if you are looking for a quiet stay, go somewhere else or buy ear plugs!

Chinatown is not a great area for non-chinese people to stay in, unless all you want to do is eat chinese food. It lacks some of the conveniences and variety of other parts of the city. There is no elevator, and you must walk up a full flight of stairs just to get to the lobby. I don't think the ad mentioned this. There are no rugs in the rooms or corridors, making it very noisy. There are no curtains and there is a skylight which has no cover, so the room is brilliantly brlght, not so good for taking a nap. Privacy was not an issue, however, because there was a brick wall that came more than halfway up our one little window. The hotel has a dorm-like quality, including screaming and giggling young women coming back from a drunken evening at 5 am. There is no street parking, and the garage around the corner charged us $75 for 28 hours. I would never recommend this hotel. With tax it was $206.

Room very small.near chinatown and little italy, but so far from new york center, although there are 2 subway stations near.it would be better if the location would have been 3 blocks to the west, more near to soho.friendly personal(speak spanish),and rooms very clean. The most important thing to know for the travelers it´s that there isn´t elevator, and there are 3 floors to go up. No es mal hotel,es bastante economico, aunque en una zona no del todo estupenda , por el contrario hay buena convinacion de metro y bus.la proxima vez intentare buscar un hotel en pleno soho, es lo mejor.

This hotel, even if called sohotel, is quite close to Chinatown. We were astonished when they asked us to pay the entire amount of our stay as we arrived. It had never happened to us before. Be ready to pay all the amount in advance as you put foot in the hotel! Small room, clean but noisy, quite cheap hotel. You know what you pay, don't expect too much from this hotel.

Excellent hotel for the price. The location is fabulous with lots of good restaurants and shopping nearby. The street the hotel is a little run down. But once inside you meet a different picture - a clean and well run hotel.

The staff was very friendly and accomodating. The lobby definitely has a European feel. Excellent candy at the front desk. The room was small but very clean and well kept. There was no phone in the room and the shower was small (which may not be comfortable for large guests). All amenities worked well and the beds were comfortable. We were a family of four and felt cozy but comfortable in the double room. Very quiet at night. We felt the name is a little misleading, as it felt a lot more like a Chinatown / Lower East Side location than SoHo. A VERY short walk to both of these neighborhoods. Great value for the money!

Very good hotel, front is not very nice but rooms are nice. old walls from old buildings, it is very nice. rooms are confortables, nice equipped and free wifi. location is ok, in the hearth of soho...roots..next time i will go again.

We had a pleasant stay at Sohotel. Rooms are quite small though:since we were aware of that, we booked a 4-person room and used it as a double room (enjoying our queen-size bed). Rooms are well-furnished and the employees are friendly. The surroundings are worth seeing: Chinatown, Little Italy, SoHo, NoLIta, Lower East Side. Very close to Bowery subway station, and to Broadway. Good relationship between price and quality. -------- Il soggiorno al Sohotel è stato piacevole. Le camere, tuttavia, sono piccole: sapendolo in anticipo, abbiamo prenotato una stanza quadrupla ad uso doppia (godendoci il letto ad una piazza e mezza). Le stanze sono ben arredate ed il personale è amichevole. I dintorni sono da vedere: Little Italy, Chinatown, SoHo, NoLIta, Lower East Side. Molto vicino alla fermata Bowery della metro, e alla Broadway. Buon rapporto qualità-prezzo.

First room we had, the heating didn't work, water was pourring down and the plumbing made more noice than the cars outside the window (infront of wich we had to put up a blanket, so that the frozen air wouldn't get in), and when we asked for assistance, we were told, that this was the oldest hotel in NY, and therefor there was not much to do!!! After a first night nearly freezing to death, the manager finally decided to help us, and gave us another room, where the heating worked perfectly. Sadly, this room was placed on the corner of two very buissy roads, so the noice was overwelming, without earplugs, it wouldn't have been possible. All this being said, we were actually very happy about this hotel: authentic, nice, and welcomming. Recommended for those who wants to experience the real Soho NY.

I know that New York hotels are expensive in general, and the relationship between price/quality is poor in my opinion (I am Spanish), but in general I would recommend the hotel if you want a hotel cheaper than the rest and clean, because the hotel is not new but is very very clean, and the temperature is good, in spite of the weather of the street.

Staff were okay, not very accomodating, but not rude. The room was incredibly small, almost like a bowling alley, long and narrow. Rooms were clean, but the walls thin so very noisy.

The hotel insisted I pay for my 3 nights stay at checkin. This is extremely unusual and wasn't expected. I nearly "lost" the room after my first night as I could only pay for one night at checkin. The fact that I had booked 3 nights via Venere was irrelevant to the hotel. No pay, no stay. I think you need to highlight this on the site.