Tour of the Chelsea Star Hotel in Manhattan, NY...

[bke77103]

That room looks awfully small, what number did you stay in? Apparently room 100 (where sid and nancy stayed) was renovated and made into two seperate rooms to stop people wanting to see the room as a 'shrine'

[nitel10]

madonna stayed there i belive

[Kaijuafterhours]

Don't confuse the place that Dylan hung out at with this place. Apparently they are not the same. Again, my feelings were mixed because the staff were decent people and it was as advertised, but the decor was amazingly barren.

[nitel10]

i stayed there and i loved it. the room was airconditioned but the heat was terrible.

The staff was reall ynice though especially the chinese looking guy

[deatheater459]

idk chelsea star hotel?

i thought it was like Hotel Chelsea

what was the address?

[Kaijuafterhours]

300 West 30th Street

at 8th Avenue New York, NY 10001

Toll Free: (888) 271-1237

[Kaijuafterhours]

I'm not prepared to address the drug usage issue(although the proprietors discouraged eating in the rooms....) but this is NOT the same hotel that Dylan stayed in. It's jsut a small corner place a couple blocks form the more Dylan-esque Chelsea Hotel.

[5quinto5]

PLease help me. I booked this hotel for one week in september. please say me if you should sleep again there, even if your video is clear.

[StudioKaiju]

The intent of the video was never to dissuade customers from doing business with the Chelsea Star Hotel. Much of what I was amused by related largely to the idea that I am not a native NYC resident, and some of the issues that plagued me are common to many hotels around town, the largest being the nearly complete inescapability of outside city noises. As I prefer to travel light and inexpensive it's quite possible I might stay there again if they decide to do something about the bed noise.

[deatheater459]

you should do some researching. it really is a suuppperfamous hotel. a lot of famous people lived there and a lot of drugs were done there haha

i want to stay there next time i visit nyc

[StudioKaiju]

That wasn't on the brochure...

[StudioKaiju]

It was a costing issue. Besides, I was not completely unhappy with the place, just amused at the level of good and bad, and the impressive use of polished diamond-pattern deck plating. Despite all the drawbacks though, I couldn't find myself to hate the place, just be amused by it. My son tells me Bob Dylan stayed there before...

Why is it so famous/infamous?

[irenechietti]

you should ask for a suite then! you slept in one of the most famous/infamous hotel in the world!