Stayed 6 nights at the Salisbury - first trip to NYC. Great location, large rooms and really clean - housekeeping did a great job. Were on the 9th floor. Only negatives were street noise seeping in from the seal around the airconditioning and slow lifts. Breakfast good value only $5 for continental breakfast. Ideal location for central park, 5th avenue, times square, sightseeing buses. Really recommended for mid priced hotel in NYC.

The going rate on any (reasonable) NYC hotel room is around $250. And that is what we paid for via hotels.com. After staying in the Pennsylvania and the New Yorker for the same price, this was far better!

When you enter your room, you have the NYC-appartment feeling: a kitchenette (microwave, coffeemaker, fridge), a spacious living room (huge LCD!), separate bedroom (another LCD) and a bathroom (clean, good hot water). All that for $250 at such a location.

As stated in other reviews, the walls could use some paint here and there (so does my appartment at home!), but it is clean. The carpet is clean and not stained, the room is fresh.

We contacted the hotel via e-mail, asking for a room in the rear of the hotel. Within 48 hrs frontdesk replied, to state that they will do their best. And they delivered: room 1118 was ours, and it exceeded our expectations. Clean, spacious, comfortable. And the location (with 2 major subwaystations within one block, and Central Park right behind you) is perfect.

Stayed at the Salisbury for two nights in Sept during our stay in New York City. We booked via Expedia so got a pretty good deal.

Check in was nice and easy. Our room was on the 10th floor, as we got out of the elevator we saw we were right next to the elevator and were like nooooo, it's going to be so noisy, but we needn't had worried as we didn't hear a thing. Thank goodness!

Our room was lovely, two big double beds, little kitchen area with sink and fridge. Nice big wardrobe with an iron and board to use. Bathroom was fine, bath with shower over, which was not very powerful, but did the job. Room was spotlessly clean and had no real issues.

On the second night, we were just about to crash into bed and we noticed water running out of the ceiling light fitting in the bathroom, we were like errrr water & electricity, that can't be good! So we phoned reception and within 10 mins someone was up, they had been to the room above us and they had had a shower, but didn't put the shower curtain inside the bad tub, so they had managed to flood the bathroom, and some of the water found its way to us. So no real problem, but nice for them to act so quickly. But then with it being water and electricity , I
suppose they had to check it out quickly!

So previous reviews stated the elevators were really slow, we never experienced any problems at all, sure they weren't the quickest, but we never waited more than a minute or so... are people really in that much of a hurry on holiday..?

We only ate breakfast there once, and only because it suited us on our check out day. Cost was $4 per person and it was all you can eat. It included cereals, croissants, pastries, toast, fruit, juice, tea and coffee. It was nice enough, but we preferred to eat out for breakfast as there are some lovely cafe's in Manhattan. We paid for breakfast at reception, upon check out.

The location was great, right up by Central Park and lots of restaurants near by. We would not hesitate in stopping there again.

If anyone has any questions, please do not hesitate to ask... : )

My daughter and I stayed at the Salisbury Hotel for 1 week and although we booked a double room, we asked if we could have a bigger room, this was given to us right away. The doorman is amazing! he had a whistle around his neck to hail cabs for us. Every time (a lot of times) we asked for directions around New York he had the answer. Breakfast was included for us, and consisted of a variety of cereals, eggs, muffins, tea and coffee. The queues can build up by 8.00p.m. but you do not have to wait long. The beds were clean and the mattress was firm (which I like). We chose a back room because there is less noise from traffic. We had a flat screen television, alarm clock/radio, a fridge, sink, coffee maker and a adequate bathroom. You do have to adjust the water temperature, but when you get this right there is no problems. The air conditioning is noisy but we only needed it on while we were getting ready to go out in the morning. The hotel is central for everything - 2 blocks from Central Park and 15 minutes from Times Square!! I would recommend this hotel.