Banana Bungalow hostel 69th & Broadway New York
Dont. Just don't.

After spending the summer backpacking the USA this hell hole was the most expensive and yet the worst place I stayed.

I ended up in a grotty dark bunk room with similar properties to a boiler room and certainly the heat.

Fresh air was provided by the permanently open window which opened onto a central light well in which the noisy air con units (supplying where I don't know!) spew their fowl fumes, further tainted by about 6 inches of pidgeon poo.

You'll be treated to the noise of plumbing anytime someone on the 20 something floors flushes a toilet, the snoring of lucked out travellers or poorer residents of the big crapple. I lay there awake... for hours every night for a week. Literally wondering why I didn't just leave the room and sleep on the street outside.

I could start on the decor and overall lack of maintenance but I'd be wasting my time, seriously who in a right mind would pay to stay somewhere so bad you cannot get any sleep anyway???

Amazingly I would then spend the days sleeping in central park where the cool breeze, sunshine and grass made for a far more relaxing experience, despite the risk of mugging.
(golddust QOTW now revolves around being a cunt, Wed 23 Jan 2008, 11:34, 1 reply)

Truely horrible
Yes, I stayed there once. God, that place was a horrible. You have re-awakened deeply buried memories of a sheetless, stained slab of cheap foam, masquerading as a bunk. I feel sure that it wasn't expensive though I dimly recollect parting with $10 for the privilege of sleeping there.
(lardaholics anonymous, Wed 23 Jan 2008, 12:17, closed)