Comfort Inn Lower East Side

The rooms are tiny, don’t expect to use them to hang out in. Sleep, shower and go. That said, the staff was extremely nice and accommodating. The room was clean, the bed was comfy and the shower was hot. The location is great if you’re hanging out on the LES, plenty of great bars and restaurants within walking distance. Compared to other hotels nearby, the price was a big plus. I would stay again.

Surprisingly nice for a Comfort Inn. Location is key and this one was no exception. Walking distance to the East Village as well as Chinatown and Little Italy. Not far from Greenwich Village/​Bleeker Street area either, otherwise just a short cab/​Über ride away. Many bars, restaurants and other businesses, all within a few blocks radius of the hotel. The room was small, but with updated furniture, new beds (super comfy), flat screen TV and clean bathrooms with a bathtub. Free wifi was also a plus. The mini fridge was great too and not something you’d expect in a tiny NYC hotel room. Came in very handy for bottled waters, drinks and snacks. There are several drawers for clothes and a small open closet area. Our room faced the street, but noise was not an issue, sleeping with the AC/​fan on helps mute out any street noise if you are sensitive to it. Overall, very pleased and we plan on making this our go-​to hotel for future NYC trips.

I booked this hotel for my weekend stay for New York Comic-​Con. I read several reviews which ranged from very poor to pretty good. Well, I had no problems with this hotel and was very pleased with my stay. A lot of people complained about the size of the rooms, but it’s MANHATTAN. If you want a suite, you’re going to pay for it. The front desk was very helpful and polite. The room was very clean, and they offered complimentary bottles of water, which was much appreciated after lugging my heavy duffel bag through subways and up and down stairs. They have wifi, a refrigerator, a coffee pot, a hair dryer, bath essentials (shampoo, soap, etc), an ironing board, and alarm clock, and an iPod docking station all included in the room. I loved that there were only two rooms to a floor. The continental breakfast was not the best I’ve had. They had bagels, eggs, sausage, cereal, waffles, coffee, tea, juice, and more. The food was not the best, and the area was very small. I just wound up taking my breakfast back to my room. It is in a great location. I didn’t have any problems with noise. The beds are super comfortable. There are grocery stores, restaurants, a pharmacy, and several other convenient shops nearby. All in all, I would definitely recommend this place.

Stayed 3 nights at the end of September 2015. The hotel is adjucent to Little Italy and Chinatown and within a walking distance from Wall Street and Greenwich village. The F, M and J Delancey/​Essex station is one block away from the hotel. Thus, while not at the best spot in Manhattan, the location is fine. The infrastructure was in a fair condition and we felt ok to take a shower. The stuff was pleasant and checking in/​out were smooth. The room was tiny and the dining area was even tinier (3 little tables). The complementary breakfast was the «usual» one providing u with enough energy for the long New York morning tours. The main problem was to drag our tired-​selves from Liberty airport to the hotel with two trains and one block between Pennsylvania station and the nearest F station. Another issue is the sink tap, why these are so tiny, why can’t the tap end be more than 2 inches away from the sink? Overall, excellent value for the price.

Pleasant surprise, I was concerned about the area based on some other reviews, but we’re in our mid 6^th decade :-(of life… but even walking around at nite wasn’t an issue. It appears to be an up and coming area… lots of small restaurants and shops.
Subway was close, quick, and efficient getting us around Manhattan and over to Brooklyn.
Hotel staff was very friendly… but room was pretty small. But the price was right!

1. The rooms are very, very, very small. I think it might be okay if you’re using this room by yourself. There is nowhere to put your luggage. As soon as you enter the room, your leg will hit the corner of the bed.
2. The room has an odd smell.
3. The bathrooms are dirty. They reek of the smell of mold.
4. This hotel is surrounded by bars, so during the evening it is really noisy.
I would only recommend this place if you know you aren’t going to spend a lot of time in here and if you’re traveling alone.

there is not enough room to write all the great things about this quaint hotel and it’s staff! jasmine, sam, angel and housekeeping staff were always happy, smiling and you can tell its a family here. i work in film and t.v. and come to see friends from los angeles and have stayed at many many hotel in manhattan … big clean tub (which was cleaned everyday after my bath-​salts left a green ring:) whole foods down street, every kind of restaurant you can imagine ! which brings me to getting really ill on some street food uptown and jasmine brought me ginger ale. unlike the hilton garden inn who made me wait on my suitcase hours to check in, demanded this demanded that on my last visit. be prepared to see a lotta music and people having fun everyone though. not a place for grumpy peeps. sam even walked me through my first subway trip and now it’s game on. always used cabs before ! room is bigger than rooms in paris and clean and cozy. i bet ‘jason a.‘s review was from a nite of alcohol etc. quite the review but maybe that’s why she’s filing… i will return and hopefully get my 11^th floor penthouse again. oh and the beds… fluff puff cloud scented mass of comfort. damn, i guess what i’m really trying to say is they so made a sic girl feel better and everything worked great. hot water bubble baths daily:) close to katz deli great tv 3 hbo channels and a patio with on bbq on 7^th floor for viwing and having a puff in this smoke free place. i just loved being here gonna be sad to go tuesday. ps spent 6 days here… could have stayed more but back to los angeles and my show ”‘scorpion””
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Staff was good, one guy was really helpful, and the free breakfast was pretty good. waffles, sausages, orange juice, yogurt. Room was a little dingy and tiny, although it is NYC, so everything is more cramped. Also, the area wasn’t that nice, but hey, the inn was cheap. I’d stay here again if I was on a budget…

This hotel did everything it was supposed to do and a little more. Good shower pressure, comfortable bed, clean room. It was small, but then again — if you’re spending more time in your hotel room than in NY you’re doing something wrong.
Even a nice continental breakfast in the morning equipped with a Belgian waffle maker machine and egg and sausage patties to make a sandwich.
Overall, this hotel does a good job with the space they have. Staff is friendly as well.

Clean spacious for nyc standards room. what a great place. You are surrounded by bars and restaurants and has a free breakfast.. Waffles, eggs, etc… highly recommend.

Unbelievable fleabag hotel run by sleazeballs. I had gotten a special rate for the hotel through the Choice website. The manager called me for days, asking me to change the date so he could book the room to a wedding party and get a better rate. I said no. He offered me cash. Still, no go. So, he gave me the worst room in the joint, the handicapped room on the ground floor, with a view of junk thrown onto a low roof. The room was on the dirty side and there were hairs in the shower. Of course, he didn’t show his face that night. He had some lackey take the criticism for him. AVOID THIS HOTEL LIKE THE PLAGUE! You’ve been warned.

Fuck, I think my wife is currently filing for divorce as I type this because I made her stay at the Comfort Inn Lower East Side at 136 Ludlow Street, New York, NY. Shit shit shit.
I usually write about the pros and the cons of every establishment separately. In the case of this hotel, it makes more sense to do it together. You’ll understand why.
Pro #1: You are literally next door to many wonderful bars/​nightclubs/​restaurants.
Con #1: You are literally next door to many wonderful bars/​nightclubs/​restaurants. This means that you can hear every fucking noise made at those wonderful bars/​nightclubs/​restaurants. And until 4AM, there will be a LOT of noise. Drunk people, sober people, honking car horns, trucks screeching to a stop at the stop sign. Literally it’s like the windows are made of paper. So if you are an unfortunate soul stuck with a room facing Ludlow Street, plan to stay awake all night.
Pro #2: The rooms are cozy.
Con #2: The rooms are cozy. Like there is NYC small, and then Comfort Inn Lower East Side small. We literally stored our luggage on top of the shitty coffee machine they had in the room because there was nowhere else to put it. So if you weigh more than 115 pounds, you’re not going to have enough room to breathe.
Pro #3: The hotel is really cheap.
Con #3: The hotel is really cheap. And where do they cut corners? Let’s start with cleanliness. It was a hotel where I felt dirty taking a shower. Yes, I know that doesn’t make much sense, but ask my wife. She took multiple showers, and still left feeling like she had just bathed in disease. See my attached photos for an idea of what you will get exposed to. I sure hope you got your vaccinations!
So please, stay away from the Comfort Inn Lower East Side if you want to stay married. I’ve already spent 30 minutes groveling, and have already spent $ 1200 on Louis Vuitton bags to try to win my wife back for making her stay at this shitshow of a hotel.

I really thought I had found the perfect hotel, Lower East Side (LES) near good restaurants & bars; and not far from the subway. I got a great price and thought I had hit the jackpot. I was wrong.
Before discussing the hotel itself, if you are going on a first time visit to New York, you should know that LES appears to be a little rough around the edges, but we had no problems. Despite that, if I was in my 20s or 30s I probably would stay on this side of town again. This area is perfect for the younger crowd, it reminds me a little of a college town, or maybe 6^th street in Austin Texas, or Montrose in Houston. As two 50somethings, it was fine but we may have been the oldest people we saw there all week. Nevertheless, there are plenty of places to eat here, inside or out (some good, some just OK), and lots of places to stop and have a drink (both with or without alcohol). The subway is about a two block walk, done in about 5 minutes or less. But, if you are not comfortable with walking at night in a little bit of a riskier side of town, you might want to look elsewhere.
1. The elevator was broken for several days, we were on the 4^th floor and the ice on the 8^th. Nobody acknowledged the inconvenience or apologized.
2. The room smelled odd (bad), but that was made worse by number 6 below — they turned off the AC the moment we left the hotel. (Not sure how they knew when we left each time).
3. The noise at night from the street is LOUD. Ask for a room on the other side of the hotel if you can.
4. I requested a pillow several times, and was told someone would bring it to me. (remember the elevator was down) After the 3^rd request and after SEVERAL hours, I had to go back downstairs to get it myself so I can have it to sleep with.
5. Breakfast food was very limited, but OK. They had egg patties (yes patties), sausage, bagels and cream cheese, coffee, a few assorted pastries (a little stale), and you can make a waffle.
6. Someone came in our room EVERYTIME we left and turned off the AC, no matter how long we were gone. In addition, someone picked up my tablet and unplugged it. I had plugged it in as we were leaving for breakfast, so it would be charged upon our return. (There is no question this occurred, since I stopped and walked back in for the purpose of plugging it in before we walked out of the door and it was moved when we returned). However it is important to note that we did NOT find anything missing.
6. The little refrigerator did not work, although the freezer did.
7. The bed was a little hard, but we were able to sleep OK; not great, but OK.
8. The internet was good most of the time, although the last night and last day it kept dropping.
9. They said they had cable TV, but it did not appear to actually be anything more than regular TV. We did not even have the basic NBC and CBS channels.
10. The room was TINY, the queen size bed left little room to move around.
Had there been just one or two of these things wrong, we may have rated the hotel higher. However, there were too many issues in one stay to make the visit a good one. With that said, the room was clean, the staff was polite, just not overly concerned with making the hotel worth returning to in the future. Consequently, we would not return to this hotel or recommend it.
Room Tip: Ask NOT to stay on the street side; request the other side of the hotel. Nightlife noise is greater…

I liked this hotel. Excellent Lower East Side location. Good F, M, J & Z train access. Clean rooms. Nice mattresses and bedding. No smoke smell in our room. Very acceptable bathrooms. Rooms are small, TV in ours didn’t work too well. HVAC system is simple and in the wall of each room.
There’s not a lot to this place but the staff is friendly and helpful and the value is excellent. A good place to stay if your friends are half a block away at the Hotel on Rivington.
WiFi is free and works well.

I dropped the ball. I completely forgot to book my hotel for a business trip to NYC and all hotels near my office were booked!
gave me some 1 star rating hotels where the reviews all included the words «bed bugs.» Hell to the naw. Here is where Unilocal,once again, saved my life.
Arrived late on a Wednesday night and was greeted by a pleasant guy. Within two minutes I was all set up. He showed me where everything was, informed me of the continental breakfast, and I was on my way. I had really low expectations for this place because it wasn’t one of the swanky hotels I typically stay at in NYC (yes, how snobby of me). I don’t know if it was due to exhaustion but I was really happy to be in my hotel. Large queen bed, not a lot of space to move around, but I had everything I needed. The room was small but the space was used efficiently but not to the point of making me shower over my toilet. The bathroom was clean, towels didn’t have a weird smell, and my bed was comfortable. Perfect.
Only dings on this place were the noise level outside and breakfast. Can’t blame the hotel for the drunks outside so if you’re a light sleeper (which I’m definitely not), you might want to bring ear plugs. New Yorkers party hard on Wednesday nights apparently. The breakfast was okay. Not that many options — I had an egg patty on top of a sausage patty, all protein baby! — and the space was really small. Would I stay here again? Absolutely. Great price for the location and space (about $ 200/​night).

Appreciate this wonderful little hotel. Perfect location in great neighborhood. Clean rooms and even has mattress covers. We stay here whenever we are in NYC.

DO NOT STAY HERE!!! ROACHES AND FLIES!!! AND MILDEW SMELL!!! My experience here was horrible. It appealed to me due to the price and photos. Unfortuantely both turned out to be a let down. The price is not as advertised. When I checked my bank statements I was charged an addtional $ 120. When I inquired with management they informed me that their «free» parking vouchers were not free. in fact they were $ 30 a day. The garage was over a mile away and the actual rates of the gargage was $ 17!!! I was charged $ 30 for a $ 17 garage and the manager refused to refund me. Also the photos are misleading the room is to small for the bed. You have to crawl over the bed to get to the other side of the room. There was a HUGE nyc fly in the room and roaches in the bathroom. This place SUCKS! not worth the headache!

I would have been ok with my stay if this had been a lower priced property, but for two hundred prior to taxes, this hotel was very disappointing. Under the in-​room coffee pot tray, which I had to shift over because I needed counter space, the most unpleasant stink arose. Obviously that area had never been cleaned. One cannot fully open the bathroom door because it runs into the toilet. Also the bathroom door had a foot high of severe water damage. The amount of space to walk around the bed was very tight, and I am a slim person. Breakfast consisted of what tasted like microwaved frozen food and I kid you not, fake powdered orange juice. Also, checkout was 11 am, whereas at most hotels it is noon. The only positives were an upgraded hairdryer (tourmaline) and a small refrigerator, but neither of those were enough to make up for the overall room experience. At this price point, this is really a shameful Comfort Inn.

If you’re looking for an affordable room in Manhattan this is a pretty decent option. Nothing fancy or luxurious, but not dirty or sketchy either. The rooms are little on the smaller side, but its enough space to work with. The street it’s on has a TON of local bars and good night life, so not a bad choice if you’re looking to explore that scene. A little bit farther from tourist sites, but the subway is close by and pretty much takes you anywhere you want to go.

Comfort inn was the closest and most affordable hotel to our wedding venue. It is a small hotel so we booked out most of the rooms.
All of our guests enjoyed the hotel. The rooms are small (common to most LES hotels) but very clean, cozy, and the staff is extremely hospitable. They even got us a cake and wine to celebrate. Kumar, the hotel manager was great. He worked with us on adjusting hotel days and figuring out rates for our guests. We couldn’t ask for more helpful staff.
The location is phenomenal. Close to subways, restaurants, and centrally located in a great neighborhood.
Thanks Comfort INN LES. We’ll definitely be back.