DC vs. NYC: a photo comparison
Posted by Isabel on September 11th, 2007. Filed under: Vacations.For the record, this is what $90 a night gets you in Washington, DC:
(note the ample room, two king sized beds, swanky furnishings, and a crib for the baby that you can’t even see because it has it’s own little alcove. Hotel Rouge, we love you.)
And this is what $170 a night gets you in New York City:
(note the see-through sheets, shared bathroom, missing crib and remote control that I’m positive was used in some weird sex act that involved someones a**hole and the bathroom towel. Amsterdam Inn, you are dead to me. And also, your website lies. You are no more a “boutique hotel” then I am Mrs. Rhett Miller. You can suck it.)
September 11th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
UM. SCARY. Did you say…”shared bathroom”? What is this concept as my mind cannot comprehend…$170…must…lie…down…
September 11th, 2007 at 6:51 pm
if you’re lucky you ALSO get bedbugs with your NYC luxury accomodations…
September 11th, 2007 at 7:11 pm
If we didn’t have a free hotel room for our trip to DC (hello, credit card points, finally being good for something after SIX YEARS), I would be googling the Hotel Rouge this very moment.
September 11th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
NYC hotels are the WORST.
September 11th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
I am with Erika. What the fat is shared bathroom? I am not about sharing a room where my wobbly bits are on view…
September 11th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
I thought shared bathrooms were only allowed in $5/night hostels!! And this is why I stay in the Mid-Atlantic, where everything is cheap as hell.
September 11th, 2007 at 7:51 pm
Shared bathroom? Sick.
Thank god one of my best friends lives in NYC so I will definitely have a sanitary place to stay whenever I go out there. After seeing this, I don’t think I’d even consider a hotel, nor would I give my friend the option of not allowing me to crash on his couch.
September 11th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
Shared bathroom? No. Way.
September 11th, 2007 at 9:21 pm
$90 a night?! Where were those hotel rates when my mom came to visit me. But then again, you probably booked more than like 3 days in advance. Also, the Hotel Rouge is right next door to the building that houses the internship program I went through in D.C. It always gives me such a geeky thrill when I recognize stuff that comes up on peoples’ blogs
September 11th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
If I lived in NYC you could have stayed with me and saved the $170.
U are not staying at a hotel in Sydney. NOT. NOT. NOT
September 11th, 2007 at 10:21 pm
hahaha, my heart swells with pride!
September 11th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
Ah. Good old New York City. When DH and I went for his bday last year we actually got a really great deal on Priceline. I know, I know to little to late…..
September 12th, 2007 at 12:07 am
Holy crap. Clearly, you need to return to DC and do it pronto!! The east coast misses you.
September 12th, 2007 at 1:00 am
Wow, you didn’t tell me about the shared bathroom. That’s a no go in my book. Well, that and using remotes which have been up someone’s bum.
Still some residual anger, I see.
September 12th, 2007 at 1:41 am
Fine. I get it.
Janet = hotel recommender Princess
Lizzy = never listen to a damn word ever.
Truth be told: we have Google to thank/curse. And that website lies, mutherf*cker! Boutique? Boutique DOLL HOUSE?
(isabel, please tell me that i did the ‘full discloser’ in my passing that link along. i know i sent you info for the sohotel. right?)
September 12th, 2007 at 3:55 am
How did I not find that hotel when I slogged through what I thought was every single D.C. hotel web site back in March?!? I ended up paying $120/night for a Holiday freakin’ Inn Express in Fairfax. It was completely remodeled, but dangit! Your place looks much cooler and was actually in the city.
September 12th, 2007 at 4:08 am
When I stayed in DC, I paid much more than that. It was like $200 something a night. But I was right on National Mall.
However, when I stay in NYC, I pay $53 per night AND I have my own bath, kitchen, and multiple rooms.
Course, I’m in Brooklyn.But my friend lives right across the street from that hotel, and she pays like $1500 a square foot. So that was a helluva deal, IMHO.
September 12th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
OOOOOO thanks for the recommendation on the D.C. hotel, I have been wanting to go down there for a while now and appreciate someone else’s experiences
September 12th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
You are so witty you make me laugh instead of feeling sorry for you.
Okay for clarification purposes, you came during off season and VERY lucky to find a nice $90 room in DC.
September 12th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
I know, I know. NYC hotels suck, big time. I just booked a hotel for my parents for Thanksgiving and we were thrilled to get a Holiday Inn for under $250. What a rip off!
September 12th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
Damn. A shared bathroom! Hell to tha no!!!
September 12th, 2007 at 4:39 pm
It isn’t beautiful, but it is clean and you get your own bathroom. For about the same price, I recommend Hotel Pennsylvania, right across the street from Penn Station. That’s where my Mom and I always stay when we visit my sister.
September 12th, 2007 at 5:47 pm
Oh man, that 2nd one is…. bad. I much prefer the first one! It’s so pretty! And when you ’shared bathroom’, does that mean you had to share a bathroom with the strangers occupying the room next to you??? CREEPY!
September 12th, 2007 at 8:27 pm
I’m a big fan of the swank-ay red headboards at your first hotel. Good form.
September 13th, 2007 at 2:43 am
That DC hotel is AWESOME!!! I’m in love with those headboards. That second one looks like it belongs in the beginning scene of Law and Order.
September 13th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
And “Amsterdam Inn” wasn’t already a clue?
My first time to NYC… I stayed at the YMCA. No kidding. And I think I may have roomed with the Indian from the “Village People”.
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