Decent Budget Hotel
I stayed at the Hotel 17 back in March 2004 and many changes were present, some rather good and some things I didn't like. I've been staying at this hotel since 1998 and came every year since 1998 on a 2-3 month basis just to visit the hotels staff and the area is great. For me though, I could easily pay 500.-700 dollars a night at the W-New York on the corner of Park and 17th but I use to like the staff, the old Manager was the nicest guy I ever met. his name was James and I also liked his assistant Manual a lot. Neither one of these fellows is working at Hotel 17 anymore and I was disappointed.
When I first came to Hotel 17 back in 1998 James was having the most interesting conversation about a new Artist he met, Manual was talking about a club he liked. These people mainly James were really cool, someone I would never meet in CT, or even at the W-New York Hotel. He knew NYC downtown inside and out, the best clubs, rest/bars, galleries, and NYC in general!
If Hotel 17 lost James to another Hotel then Hotel 17 lost a great employee, and where does he work?!?! If NYC lost James to another city or town then NYC lost a prominent East Village pop-culture figure!!
All in all Hotel now offers more services, its a little cleaner, a decent budget hotel was the staff is boodless and boring@!






