The last time I was in New York, I was there for a English Language
course and I stayed in student dorms. Kind of a dream come true after
watching to many American movies. This time I was there for fun and so
we needed to find a hotel. The good ones are all expensive and the cheap
ones are all... not that good (or at least the reviews online said so).
So we searched for a cheap but good hotel / hostel.
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| The street where the hotel is located. |
That was when we found YMCA Vanderbilt. We did some research and we came
to the conclusion that it was good enough for the price we had to pay
for it. So we booked our room, we booked our flights! The lady who
checked us in at the MYCA Vanderbilt was really lovely.
We had seen enough pictures online to not be surprised by the size of
the room when we entered. Yes it's really tiny. Yes it's the size of a
closet. But two girls with two huge suitcases fitted into it, so all was
well. Yes the rooms are old and it's showing, but you're in New York. You
only going to be in your room when your eyes are closed.
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| The room! I so need a wide angle camera lens ;-) |
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| Hallway to the rooms and the bathrooms |
We had to share the bathroom with a lot of other people, but we only had
to wait a few times for our turn and the bathrooms were pretty clean as
well. There was a gym, but we didn't use that. We did enough walking
without going to the gym.
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| Yes, there is enough room for all your shopping bags |