The Manhattan at Times Square Hotel

I had read the reviews so I wasn’t expecting the Ritz but it was awful. The room we had booked wasn’t available so we had to have a rollaway bed: they then wanted to charge us an amenity fee of $40 per night!! We refused to pay that of course. The first impression of the room was awful. It had an awful smell, the wallpaper was peeling off the walls, the ceiling was stained from what was presumably a leak, the bath was stained and cracked as was the sink, the tiles on the floor in the bathroom were cracked, the ceiling was stained ..... the list goes on and on. The only positives were that the sheets were clean and the safe worked and the location was convenient. The staff were pleasant and Eddie who checked us out did waive the amenity fee (albeit we left him with little choice) There’s no way I would ever stay at this hotel again. We booked it because it was reasonably priced but then to be presented with an additional fee was unacceptable. We would have queried this even had we not been provide with the wrong room. If you just want a bed in a decent location and don’t care about anything else then by all means book this hotel but be mindful of the additional fee!!