Anyone Have Info About HI Hostel on UWS - NYC?
My tiny troop of 8th grade Girl Scouts are looking into a weekend in NYC to celebrate finishing middle school/bridging to Senior Girl Scouts, and we're looking at lodging.
Getting hotel rooms that fit everyone is more expensive than we can afford, so I checked if there was a hostel we could stay in ... and there is.
We can book a women-only dorm style room (3 bunk beds) and meet the "everyone must sleep in their own space" requirement; the bathrooms are communal, but they have women-only bathrooms on every floor that should be OK as long as the girls are using a hallway to get to the bathroom and not going through anyone else's sleeping areas to get to the bathroom.
If anyone here on the BBB has stayed in this hostel, all I really want to know is: is it clean? do you feel safe there (neighborhood is fine; it's a couple blocks away from my brother's apartment)? are the staff knowledgeable/helpful? what else should I know about hosteling?
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Liz
DD (3/2010)
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