Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Hotel complete with ‘hair, stains and mould’
The Times Square inn, voted the nation’s sixth-filthiest hotel and the Big Apple’s worst last week by travellers on Tripadvisor.com, was a throwback to the dirty old days of the 1970s when hotels like this one rented rooms by the hour, not the week.
The beat-up facade on Eighth Avenue, near the corner of West 47th Street, sported a faded blue and white sign. Inside, guests were greeted by a smiling clerk who waved them up a rickety staircase.
In Room 307, the Post found orange mold in the shower, a chipped toilet seat, ill-fitting ceiling tiles stained with water and piles of dust behind the headboard.
“Like drugs, rats and prostitution? Stay here,” wrote “Singo” – an English guest who entered his room to find a hotel cleaner sitting on the bed, smoking and watching TV – on Tripadvisor’s website.