Room-Mate Grace -- ex hotel QT
New York, NY, USA
The ultimate hip, but affordable, New York City hotel. Hotel QT is located near Times Square and offers a funky and fun environment for design-conscious travellers on a budget. This Manhattan boutique design hotel offers unique features like a pool iin the bar and bunk beds in some rooms.
Lowest price over the last 30 days:
US$199
Formerly Hotel QT, the Grace is the Spanish Room Mate group’s first stateside outing — and it seems the stylish budget chain and the quirky Times Square boutique are a match made in heaven. While the name has changed, the idea remains the same: to offer something cheap but still chic, more inspiring and attractive than the chain motels but stylish enough to attract the right sort of patrons.
Though this is Times Square, you won’t see the usual tourists in souvenir shirts. Instead expect young arts-and-media types, up-and-coming musicians, and anyone else with Mercer style and a Holiday Inn budget. Youth hostels were one inspiration, but we’ve never seen a hostel with free wi-fi, flat-screen televisions, DVD players and Egyptian cotton bedding. Rooms for four are available, with twin bunk beds and an LCD screen in each bunk, perfect for a traveling band or four very close friends.
Other decidedly non-hostel perks include a swimming pool with underwater music and a swim-up window for ordering drinks from the bar. DJs play nightly in the lobby lounge, and there’s a 24-hour coffee bar for anyone exhausted by New York’s round-the-clock schedule. A continental breakfast is complimentary, and there’s even a sauna and a steam room. No restaurant, but given the location, you won’t go hungry for long.
With rates starting at around a hundred dollars for the simplest rooms, this is an excellent value, as cheap as some of the dismal motor inns and miles more stylish. And even if you’re not prepared to rough it, the penthouse at the Grace runs about as much as the most basic room at one of the tonier downtown hotels.
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Room-Mate Grace -- ex hotel QT
125 West 45th Street
New York, NY, USA
140 Rooms
Style: Cutting-Edge
Atmosphere: Happening
Reviews
There are 95 review(s) for actual stays at Room-Mate Grace -- ex hotel QT. View all 95 reviews.
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hotel QT review
by Jean-francois from Montreal
Stayed May 2008
Overall rating: Good
I Liked
the location, the designI Disliked
the heating and cooling was not very good.
it was extremly cold in the lower portion of the room, and extremly hot in the upper portion.
it was not soundproof, people were doing a party on the floor under me, and it was very noisy
some attendents were not very happy and polite
299 user(s) found this review helpful.
Hip, well located
by Rodolfo from Miami
Stayed May 2008
Overall rating: Excellent
I Liked
Very well located, reasonably pricedI Disliked
Somewhat small room
676 user(s) found this review helpful.
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by Janet from Pensacola
Stayed April 2008
Overall rating: Good
I Liked
GREAT EXPERIENCEI Disliked
NOT ANYTHING
1228 user(s) found this review helpful.
Terribly Tacky
by Matt from Chicago
Stayed March 2008
I Liked
Good Price and simple clean roomsI Disliked
Imagine walking into a Ricky Martin video while pasty white guys jiggle to bad dance beats at the pool in the lobby hoping for girls to arrive and you've got a sense of the place. The construction next door is terribly loud, so don't expect to sleep or think between the hours of 7 am to 7 pm. And, absolutely don't leave your computer alone in your room. The hotel staff is clumsy and reticent to admit it when you return to find your machine with new dents or a twisted power port.
854 user(s) found this review helpful.
The QT is a perfect hotel
by Sarah from Beverly Hills
Stayed February 2008
Overall rating: Excellent
I Liked
I cannot say enough good things about the QT. Not only is it affordable, but the service is truly exceptional. The people who work there have gone out of their way to meet my every need and remember me on every visit. It is a joy to stay at this hotel. Plus the rooms are calm, quiet, and lovely. The beds are so comfortable; the sheets are perfect. I love this place.
Customer Service is the new marketing and the QT understands how to make folks feel at home and keep them coming back for more.I Disliked
Nothing...
856 user(s) found this review helpful.
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Amenities
- Private Bathroom
- Two-line speakerphones
- Complimentary Continental Breakfast
- Complimentary Local/800 Calls
- Complimentary WiFi
- Complimentary WiFi
- Complimentary WiFi
- Complimentary WiFi Throughout Hotel
- DVD Player
- Egyptian Cotton Sheets
- Flat Screen TVs
- Gym with steam room and sauna
- Ice Machine
- In Room Movies
- Individual Climate Control in all Rooms
- Internet
- Kiosk/Front Desk with periodicals, NY essentials and supplies to stock your own mini-bar
- Lobby Bar with Nightly DJ
- Lobby pool with underwater music and terraced lounge seating
- Mezzanine Breakfast Room
- Non Smoking Rooms
- Platform beds and bunk beds
- Safe
- Smoking Rooms
- Voicemail
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Rating & Reviews
Average feedback score from 369 people who have actually stayed at Room-Mate Grace -- ex hotel QT.
17.5 out of 20
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Rooms
17.5
Service
17.5
Public Spaces
17.5
Overall
17.0
Kids Services:
0
Spa Services:
0
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