Place to sleep: White House Hotel, New York City, New York, United States

White House Hotel Room

White House Hotel Room by Joshua Blankman

The place was literally 7'x4', no ceiling (so you can hear everyone around you and the bathroom and the street), the doors have spaces between them so you can peek into other peoples rooms, and shared bathrooms and shower with the floor (a couple of the shower doors don't even close completely, you just close it to a 45 degree angle with the wall and put a small latch to lock it) But for $35 in a great area in New York City, what do you expect?

White House Hotel Room
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White House Hotel
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About this place:

Introducing Bowery's Whitehouse Hotel of New York, the newest and coolest hostel in the No-Ho District of New York City/Manhattan for students, backpackers, and travelers on a budget.

Just blocks away from NYU, Cooper Union, The Time Cafe, Greenwich Village, CBGB's, and New York's hottest night spots and restaurants, The Whitehouse is close and convenient to everything New York is famous for. In fact, it is the ONLY student hostel in New York City with single and double air-conditioned accommodations at dormitory-style rates! You can even have Cable TV in your room if you wish!. So no more worrying about your personal items. At the Whitehouse, you get your own accommodation which only you have access to so you and your personal items are SAFE!

In general, travelers are forced to choose between two types of accomodations: inexpensive dormitory beds in hostels where you have no privacy whatsoever and share your sleeping space with strangers, and expensive hotel rooms where you pay a fortune for a room that you barely use and need only for sleeping..

We "bridge" the two: We offer you privacy at extremely low rates. We can do this very inexpensively because our rooms are small (just large enough to sleep in), and simple, and the ceilings consist of open "latticework" so that sound does travel across the entire floor of rooms. So you are not getting the luxury of a regular expensive hotel room. But that would cost a fortune! And you do get physical privacy, i.e. your own room, with a lock on it, and no sharing with strangers. And you get that privacy at a price that simply cannot be beat!

Postcards about White House Hotel:

  • Joshua Blankman

    16 April 2008
    From:
    Joshua Blankman

    Well they call it a "hotel." I just took a vacation to New York City and stayed in this hotel. It has a nice location in the middle of the west village and the price was unbeatable... probably the homeless man under the bridge would charge more to use his box than this place did. Each night cost $35.. that should have tipped me off before I went. I brought my own sleeping bag because I don't trust $35 beds in NYC. The place was literally 7'x4', no ceiling (so you can hear everyone around you and the bathroom and the street), the doors have spaces between them so you can peek into other peoples rooms, shared bathrooms and shower with the floor (a couple of the shower doors don't even close completely, you just close it to a 45 degree angle with the wall and put a small latch to lock it), and I still stayed in it for 4 nights. I think a homeless shelter would have been nicer, but again it was only $35/night in Manhattan.

340 Bowery St.
New York City, New York, US
Telephone: 212-477-5623
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