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  • 1/5 Enrique Deluna J. 7 years ago on Google • 52 reviews
    You get what you pay for.. And what I got, was a dirty cot in a wooden make shift frame attached to the wall, a couple of coat hangers, a "closet".. And I use the term loosely.. All in an area about 3'x'10', complete with chicken wire as a "ceiling" under the actual floor ceiling that houses the central air cooling/heating system. The walls are little more than glorified dividers, and you can clearly hear other guests snoring, eating, talking, etc.. I found blonde hair on my sheets, and pillow. The bathrooms are nothing less than disgusting, with broken-to-no-door handles. Leaks coming from above, dirty stalls, toilets barely flush. I'm amazed this place even bills itself as a hotel. But, to be fair. It offers a roof, and place to crash for those on a budget. But next time I'm in NYC, I'm going to treat myself to an actual nice hotel where I'm not being monitored, and where I can actually use elevators. And where everything is actually clean, safe, and sanitary.I owe it to myself.
    4 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 Apoorva K. 7 years ago on Google • 10 reviews
    Very unsafe hotel for women. I was fooled by an online deal when I reserved a room. I was about to check in when one of the staff wishpered vulgar about my friend to his colleague thinking that we couldn't hear him. We noticed earlier that he was ogling her, but couldnt take more after his vulgar mess. I had to confront that staff and he apologized when I was about to call cops. I didn't even care to ask my money back. I left that hotel and stayed at another nearby hotel.
    3 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 Cameron F. 7 years ago on Google • 8 reviews
    So the room was a hostel (own room but all you have is a bed and the room only about a foot wider than the bed). It was fine. However my family was somewhat uncomfortable staying there. I didn't stay any of night there. I tried to get a refund--they said no which is understandable because I used my room for two days (even though I didn't sleep in it). However, I checked out a day early and they didn't give me credit for the day I didn't use. The salespeople were rude and said because I checked out a hour late (but my room was untouched so they would not have to clean it) they would have to charge me for the whole day. Front office staff wouldn't even meet me halfway when I tried to compromise I was just told I paid for three days so they would charge me for it. Also there is no air conditioning (unless you count a pathetic fan) and no tv. I don't know if the owners wrote the description but I wouldn't put it past the people to straight up lie
    3 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 Julia K. 1 year ago on Google • 131 reviews
    Don't know whether this place ist still operating, for the good of people I hope it's not - we visited this place in 2015 on a student budget so we were actually just looking for a place to crash after days spent on sightseeing. Price was high for hostel standards, or to be more accurate - lack of ANY standards. The room was 2x2 big, it had no window, our luggage barely fit it. The air conditioning was always on and it was ice cold inside the room so I asked whether there was a possibility to turn it down a little bit, the response was 'no'. Rooms had paper thin walls, so you could practically hear someone whispering in the room beside you
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 2/5 David D. 7 years ago on Google • 22 reviews
    Bed bugs in one girls room turned me off from this place, the bottom floor looks really nice but the upper guys "dorm" areas are stuffy way too cluttered and just old out dated. They staff is nice and try to keep it clean but the place itself isn't. If they do upgrades and hopefully control pests etc than it would be set.
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 QUEEN V. 9 years ago on Google
    I had a great time here at sun bright hotel nothing like the terrible reviews I read. I stayed from Nov 21-23 , 2014. It was clean. Comfortable and just the right price. I don't know why y'all lying like that. lol that's ashame the hotel is descent and in Chinatown/little Italy neighborhood with a subway nearby. You get what you pay for, a clean place to sleep and clean bathrooms. Can't beat it for the price in NYC.
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 Pierre-Emmanuel C. 6 years ago on Google • 16 reviews
    That hotel is awful. There are cockroaches in the lobby, we found a spider in our bed, the towels they provide are dirty, there are only 2 bathrooms for 20 bedrooms. Also, there are no walls, just partitions between the rooms so you can hear all the other travelers. Plus, we had made a reservation on the internet and provided our credit card information as a guarantee but the reception said they don't have our reservation. If I had known, I would have ran away right away. That hotel is dirty and noisy, I don't recommend it at all.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 walia solutions Amit W. 8 years ago on Google
    It was the worst hotel experience for me and my collegue. Because we had booked in advance, we didn't get any refund. By the way, we paid $50 per night. We had only three nights to stay, thats why we decided to stay. We always remained out till late and left very early. We rather slept on a bench outside, than among the bedbugs and all the roaches. The beds were stinking, the floor and basin in the bathrooms were dirty and either full of hairs or toiletpapers. It wasn't possible to take off the shoes at anytime. Even under the shower, I weared the flip-flops. On the homepage the hotel was praised as good with clean photos, but I am sure, that all these pictures have been taken at the opening day. If your health and time in New York has a little worth to you- STAY AWAY from this hotel!!! All the positive comments here are fakes and are probably bought by the owner. No human with a sound mind would recommend this hotel ever!
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 Deon V. 7 years ago on Google
    The worst place I have stayed at in my entire life. At 7am we woke up to people drilling and breaking down tiles in the bathroom right opposite our room. The noise was insanely loud. No one informed us that there will be people working in the bathroom at 7am. It must have woken up everyone in the hotel. When I eventually got to the bathrooms to take a shower so that I can escape from Alcatraz, it looked like pigs had a party in there over night. The floors were black and the shower full of hair and sand. Please dont put yourself through it to stay at this place. Rather pay $20-$30 extra and stay somewhere where there is basic principles in place.

  • 1/5 Ms. J. 1 year ago on Google
    Don't know whether this place ist still operating, for the good of people I hope it's not - we visited this place in 2015 on a student budget so we were actually just looking for a place to crash after days spent on sightseeing. Price was high for hostel standards, or to be more accurate - lack of ANY standards. The room was 2x2 big, it had no window, our luggage barely fit it. The air conditioning was always on and it was ice cold inside the room so I asked whether there was a possibility to turn it down a little bit, the response was 'no'. Rooms had paper thin walls, so you could practically hear someone whispering in the room beside you.

  • 1/5 Victoria R. 9 years ago on Google
    During my stay at this... Hotel... I was having a rather unpleasant night in the beds provided. It seemed I had some uninvited company within the sheets and no, it was not room service, but rather unsightly bed bugs. Don't worry, I did not let them bite me. Ohh no. But that was not the worst part. I would say the tasteless cockroaches! What a wondrous night view in the NYC. And whats a review without a remark on the unpleasantness of the help. Customer service was about as helpful as a broken nail holding a picture frame. Me being the fabulous picture was dropped OOH TOO MUCH! UNSATISFIED! You, Sun Bright Hotel are an irredeemably insufferable ninny and a horribly atrocious menace to, not only society, but all living creatures.

  • 1/5 Lucia D. 9 years ago on Google • 1 review
    This is 100% the worst hotel I've ever had the displeasure of staying. I stepped into the room and could smell the obvious scent of feces. The bathrooms were reminiscent of a zombie flick and within moments of entering the room spotted cockroaches skittering across the floor. When I'd contacted the desk about it they informed me that there was nothing they could do and that I would simply have to deal with it, and continued to act like they had a barbed wire-wrapped stick shoved up their rear end, though who wouldn't be that way when forced to work in this pit of the abyss. The first night was a horrendous experience, and I opted to, instead of sleep in bedbug infested covers, play a game of Cards against humanity with the cockroaches, as there were enough to make a small army. In fact, the cockroaches seemed to be friendlier then the staff, though they were equally as rude, choosing to help themselves to my food before I had the chance to finish it all. The walls were stained as though eons of sewage water were dripped through them. The rats in the walls also did not make my ability to sleep any better. All in all, this place felt restricting, and it was literally pulling the lifeblood from my veins, and giving it to some bedbug brood mother. Do not ever waste the money to stay here, I would thoroughly suggest another hotel that is actually pleasant.
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 Martin D. 9 years ago on Google • 1 review
    Ahh, Sun Bright Hotel. I remember my stay and it's a quite the story too. When I first arrived, I was met with the receptionist. She was a nice gal, I had high hopes for this place and when i grabbed my keys and made my way up into my room....you can forget the nice receptionist. I was greeting with a overwhelming smell of urine, my nostrils haven't been invaded like that since the year of 2012 where I worked as a sewer inspector. I was wanting my room to smell like cotton candy and a slight hint of Pineapple, not of Asparagus and 4 liters of alcohol consumed the night before whatever cretin had sprayed all over the walls of hotel room. That's right, I assume this man was also not pleased with the hotel management and had decided to leave a gift for the cleanup crew. I think they decided to go a for few brews of their own instead of deciding to clean up the torrent of florescent yellow gunk that stuck to the walls like that gunk from the Alien films. I thought about sucking it up for the whole week, but after just one day I was greeting with what I can only describe as a titan sized rat crawling around the floor. To be completely honest, I helped this little fella out because even rats need standards, so when I plopped the little creature at the front desk I was escorted out the building. I rant and raved about the urine cube room but they never listened. My stuff was handed back and I was told in some very nasty words to never return. Never got a refund either, absolutely shocking. 3/10, If I could return, I wouldn't.
    2 people found this review helpful 👍


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