Sohotel - New York

Hotel: 2 stars

341 Broome Street - 10013 New York

Tel:877-662-6988

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  • Barbara has stayed here and says:
  • Cleanliness of rooms
  • Quietness of rooms
  • Spaciousness of rooms
  • Quality of service provided
  • Hotel surroundings
  • 7.67.6
  • 4.94.9
  • 4.34.3
  • 6.56.5
  • 6.86.8

 ‹‹ great value, wonderful place, apparently oldest hotel in new york city - but updated obviously! easy walking distance to little Italy and Chinatown, and Canal...››

12 Aug 2008 read hotel reviews

About Sohotel

exterior Hotel Sohotel exterior Sohotel is a small, friendly and cozy hotel, housed in a historic building and offering inexpensive accommodation in the pictoresque neighborhood of Little Italy, part of the lower Manhattan Peninsula in New York City.

The property offers free Wi-Fi Internet access in the lobby area, a 24-hour reception and vending machines. Free coffee and tea are available in the lobby every morning from 6 a.m. to 11 a.m.

Close to a number of trendy and colorful bars, shops and entertainment venues, that are to be found in abundance in the adjacent SoHo, Tribeca, Greeenwich Village and Chinatown areas, the hotel is also convenient to visiting all major areas of the Big Apple thanks to impressive public trasportation network.

Also in the vicinity of the hotel, are a number of art galleries, museums and movie theatres. The concierge will be pleased to assist you with tourist information, theatre and city tour bookings. Fax service and safe deposit boxes are also available at the front desk.

With a friendly staff always at hand and comfortable rooms, the Sohotel provides an affordable solution for visitors from all over the world.

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Location of Sohotel, New York

  • Hotel Sohotel 341 Broome Street New York

    City Area:Little Italy – Lower East Side

  • New York area: Little Italy – Lower East Side

    Position of the zone in the city

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The property lies in Broome Street at the Bowery, just a few blocks from Mulberry Street, the heart of Little Italy and close to Confucius Plaza in Chinatown. Columbus Park and SoHo with its 250 art galleries are also close at hand.

The nearest subway stop is just one block north, granting effortless access to all major sights of the Big Apple, including Times Square, the Rockefeller Center, Battery Park with ferries departing for the Liberty Island and Central Park.

Rooms at Sohotel

Hotel Sohotel guest room double room All rooms are cozy and nicely furnished and have a private bathroom. Hairdryers and ironing facilities are available upon request.

The accommodations furthermore feature air conditioning, heating and colour TV.

Non-smoking rooms are available upon request.

  • Air conditioning
  • Fan
  • Hairdryer in each room
  • Hairdryer on request
  • Heating
  • Ironing facilities on request
  • LCD flat screen TV
  • Non-smoking rooms available upon request
  • TV
  • Wireless Internet access
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Hotel Facilities

  • Air conditioning
  • Credit card accepted
  • Entire property is air conditioned
  • Groups welcome
  • Historic building
  • Recently renovated
  • City maps
  • City tour
  • Concierge
  • Front desk - 24 hour
  • Front desk - fax service
  • Front desk - safety deposit box
  • Multilingual staff
  • Tourist information
  • Private parking
  • Shuttle service from and/or to the airport
  • Internet/Email services
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Hotel Reviews Sohotel

9.29.2

John Arne Winsjansen
Young couple
Norway, Jul 2009

Nice hotel! Nothing bad to tell about it.

6.96.9

NS

France, Apr 2009

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

5.95.9

VN
Not Specified
Australia, Feb 2009

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.

8.98.9

Alessio Lanzilotta
Family with older children
Italy, Dec 2008

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!

4.74.7

AP
Single traveller
Russia, Nov 2008

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

7.87.8

AH
Young couple
Sweden, Oct 2008

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

7.97.9

Jes Andersen
Family with older children
Denmark, Oct 2008

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

3.63.6

LO
Mature couple
Canada, Aug 2008

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.

9.89.8

BARBARA TUFANO
Family with older children
USA, Aug 2008

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

5.05.0

LM
Young couple
Spain, Jul 2008

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

6.86.8

OB
Young couple
Spain, Jun 2008

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

8.48.4

Massimiliano Curti
Young couple
Italy, Jun 2008

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.

3.13.1

Gaël Barbier
Not Specified
France, Jun 2008

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!

7.87.8

Weida Goh
Group
Singapore, May 2008

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.

7.67.6

LAURA RODRIGUEZ
Not Specified
Mexico, May 2008

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.

4.94.9

Elizabeth Sanderson
Mature couple
Belgium, May 2008

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

2.22.2

Thomas Dyer
Not Specified
USA, Apr 2008

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.

7.47.4

RP
Young couple
Italy, Feb 2008

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

7.57.5

YX
Young couple
USA, Feb 2008

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.

7.37.3

Dag Marius Johansen
Not Specified
Norway, Feb 2008

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

8.38.3

Linda Farrelly
Young couple
Ireland, Feb 2007

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.

5.35.3

TW
Family with young children
USA, Jan 2008

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

7.57.5

DR
Family with older children
Mexico, Nov 2007

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.

8.48.4

Marisa Wallace
Young couple
USA, Nov 2007

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.

1.61.6

Jannis Rippis
Young couple
Norway, Oct 2007

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.

9.19.1

RC
Mature couple
USA, Oct 2007

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.

6.96.9

TL
Family with older children
Canada, Oct 2007

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

7.97.9

AB
Family with older children
Israel, Oct 2007

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

6.06.0

PP
Group
Spain, Oct 2007

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

2.32.3

Wendy Newhall
Young couple
USA, Sep 2007

Could not sleep due to traffic noise and uncomfortable bed!

5.45.4

CS
Group
France, Sep 2007

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!

3.83.8

AK
Mature couple
USA, Aug 2007

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.

5.65.6

Hugo Belenguer
Young couple
Spain, Aug 2007

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.

5.15.1

SM
Young couple
Italy, Aug 2007

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.

7.07.0

Rob Tobin
Family with older children
Denmark, Aug 2007

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.

9.29.2

John Peplinski
Family with older children
USA, Jun 2007

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!

8.38.3

Gregory Masuyer
Family with older children
France, Apr 2007

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.

7.67.6

Lorenzo Madini
Group
Italy, Mar 2007

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.

6.66.6

ThomaS Landbo
Gay Couple
France, Jan 2007

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.

4.44.4

BM
WITH A FRIEND
Spain, Dec 2006

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.

4.94.9

MH

USA, Dec 2006

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.

6.86.8

WD

United Kingdom, Aug 2006

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.

How to reach Sohotel

By car
From JFK International airport take the motorway Belt Pky. At the Linden Blvd sign follow N Conduit Ave-N Conduit Blvd until Kings. Turn left, follow Atlantic Ave. Turn right, follow Flatbush Ave and then Flatbush Ave Ext. Turn right and follow Alabama Ave. Turn left and follow Broadway for 4.5 km. At the Bklyn-Qns Expwy/Verrazzano br sign turn left and follow Flushing Ave. Then take Nassau St and at the Manhattan Bridge sign follow Manhattan Bridge for 2.1 km until New York. Turn right, follow Chrystie St, then make a left on Broome Street. The property is located on Broome Street at The Bowery.
From LaGuardia International airport follow Ditmars Blvd, then turn right and follow Astoria Blvd N. At the Staten Island (I-278 W) sign follow the motorway Brooklyn Queens Expy E. Then at the Northern blvd follow the motorway I-278 for 11.5 km until Kings. At the W'burg Bridge/Manh sign take exit 32A and follow Williamsburg Bridge until New York. Then take Delancey St. Turn left, follow The Bowery. The property is located on Broome Street at The Bowery.
From Newark international airport follow the signs for Garden State Parkway(I-78)/New Jersey Tpke South(I-95)/Ny via Turnpike/Newark-Elizabeth(Us-22)/Ny via Skyway(RT-21) and take motorway Us-9-Us-1 & 9-Us-1-Rt-139 for 14.6 km until Hudson. Follow 12th St, then Boyle Plz. At the Uptown(Rt-9a)/West st./Downtown/Brooklyn/Canal st. sign follow Holland Tunnel. At the Downtown/Brooklyn/Canal st. east sign follow Beach St, then follow Walker St. Then follow Canal Street and turn left, following The Bowery. The property is located on Broome Street at The Bowery.

By train
From Pennsylvania Station walk one block east to Herald Square and take the orange subway line (B,D,Q) until the Grand Street stop, one block south of the hotel. From Grand Central Station take the green subway line (4,5,6) until the stop on Bleecker & Lafayette Street, then walk one block south to the orange line stop (B,D,Q) on Houston street and follow the indications above.

By airplane
From JFK International Airport take the New York Airport Service Express Bus for Midtown Manhattan/West Side until Pennsylvania Station and follow the indications above. You can also take the Super Shuttle Manhattan, which offers a shared door to door service to any address in Manhattan, including all hotels. Another option is to take the Air Train Jfk until the Jamaica subway stop. There take the brown subway line (J,M,Z) until the stop on The Bowery, just one block north of the hotel.
From LaGuardia International Airport take the New York Airport Service Express Bus for Midtown Manhattan/West Side until Pennsylvania Station and follow directions above. You can also take the Super Shuttle Manhattan, which offers a shared door to door service to any address in Manhattan, including all hotels.
From Newark International Airport take the Newark Liberty Airport Express Bus for Midtown Manhattan/West Side until Pennsylvania Station, then follow the indications above. You can also take the Super Shuttle Manhattan, which offers a shared door to door service to any address in Manhattan, including all hotels.

Transport Services Sohotel

  • Private parking
  • Shuttle service from and/or to the airport

The property has a private parking facility, located one block from the property, subject to availability.
A shuttle service to the airports is available upon request and subject to charges.

Hotel Policies

METHODS OF PAYMENT
Venere.com does not debit your credit card for your reservations. You will be asked to insert your credit card details which will be sent to the property only as a guarantee of the reservation. The bill will then have to be settled directly at the hotel. In case your chosen hotel needs a deposit, this information will be included in the "Cancellation policy" section and the deposit will have to be settled directly with the pre-selected property. It is not possible to cancel your reservation if you selected and booked a room indicated as "PREPAID/NOT REFUNDABLE". In this case, the total amount of your stay will be charged to your credit card by the hotel at the time of booking.

CHECK-IN & CHECK-OUT
Check-in:
the rooms are available at any time after 3 p.m.
Check-out: it is necessary to leave the rooms not later than 11 a.m.

INCLUDED/NOT INCLUDED IN THE PRICE
Parking is not included and costs $30.00 for 24 hours.
Shuttle service is not included and costs approximately $17.00 per person or $45.00 per car. Prices may vary.

CANCELLATION POLICY
1 night charge penalty if no cancellation 48 hours prior to arrival rates are subject to legal taxes of united state 5% city taxes 8.38% state taxes $3.50 occupancy taxes per night per room. All reservations made for arrival december 29th , 30th or 31st, a deposit of the first three nights will be charged, non- refundable at the time of booking. Thank you.
You may cancel your reservation without penalty up until 2 days before your arrival date, by accessing the Your Reservations page. It is not possible to cancel your reservation if you selected and booked a room indicated as "PREPAID/NOT REFUNDABLE".

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  • 877-214-4288
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