Hotel Howard Johnson Express Inn Queens^{(2 stars)}

The rooms are a bit small. For two large suitcases there is hardly any space. In addition there is a wardrobe with hangers for max. 2 jackets, a closet. The rooms are clean, we got fresh towels every day and soap. There is also a hair dryer, a plug for international Steckerformen unfortunately not. The TV shows English channels. The safe cost 2.25 euros for $1 per day in the room must be paid. At night it was sometimes cold (December) because we had turned. The blower of the heating/air-conditioning unit was a bit noisy. The air-conditioning, we didn't test it in December. We paid for 7 days on average 70€ per night double room.

For breakfast there are muffins, donuts, cereal, coffee, hot chocolate or hot water (tea) from a machine. There are two chairs in the foyer to be "breakfast" food and the bowl, the plate in your hand.

The reception is manned 24/7 . The staff is friendly but more interested in to surf the internet.

The hotel is clean and has smoking room (basement) and non-smoking rooms (1. /2 . Floor). We had a room on the ground floor as non-smokers and it was not a problem. The breakfast offered in the lobby area and a Grtränke/sweets machine. In addition you will find it here in a wooden cabinets a laptop outside the times can be used for 15 minutes.

The hotel is located in Queens, Woodside circa 10 minutes (walking distance) from the underground station Woodside away (within walking distance). From the underground station ride is about 15 -20 minutes to Times Square. Also the way from JFK to the hotel you can take a metro (approx. 30 - 40 minutes. ). The multi-lane Queens Bvd where the hotel is situated wasn't bothersome if you like we, the rooms on the back. If you take a taxi from the hotel you want more stand on the street and a taxi stop. If you ask at the hotel, one of these black called Italy & where you usually paid more.

The rooms are very small, but clean. The condition is satisfactory. Everything somewhat older. The furnishings were also rather than finely tuned thrown together. Everything is somewhat unprofessional. As I said is but functional and clean. Our room had the window to the street, with the windows open to hear is. Closed for us without any problem. Was quiet at night. The rooms have private bathrooms, a hair dryer, daily fresh towels, electricity (USA-adapter necessary! ), Internet, coffee maker, air conditioning, telephone (possibly Expensive? 1 ), desk, chair and a good-size free safe (smaller Notebook no problem).

The continental breakfast is to be expected in a Inn a disaster for anyone like breakfast. Cereals, as Americans under cereal imagine (2 sorts of Kellogs) + 3 kinds of muffins + 3 kinds of packed cakes, 2 juices (minute Maid) and coffee. It is better than nothing, because you didn't have for the first coffee extern must and muffins yes also can bring breakfast but it is something else. Especially in the lobby (the breakfast room) no spot for breakfast and the breakfast so perforce out with table, where a narrow with only one chair waiting on you. You don't think that breakfast in other Inns in NYC is better.

You get what you pay for. It's a very cheap motel in New York. So bad, as all the other reviews I'll let the staff not get away. If something was missing or you have any questions, you will get attentive service and helpful responses. By itself but nothing happened.

There is a TV with standard cable channels. No HBO and no German TV (the latter is however anywhere standard in the US). Free high speed internet is rather to name but a few.

The hotel is a typical for the United States is quite "inn" - so a motel with limited service. The hotel is absolutely functional decor, on Not much eye candy has been omitted. Functional and optimized on low operating costs. I didn't have a problem with that, you should just no lobby as at the Rockefeller Center. A visit if you want to book in NYC reasonably cheap, sooner or later stumble about this hotel, as it was together with a handful of other motels in New Jersey at the lowest level and was only by hostels with shared bathroom hit. The whole hotel was clean, offers a continental breakfast (more on that later) and free internet (on a laptop in the lobby, as well as via cable and wireless internet in the rooms). Convenient, smaller laptops (macbook 13", each mini-Notebook) in the free safe in the room fit the bill.

The hotel is located in Queens, right on the Queens Blvd. This is a 12 lane road with rather overtaxed during traffic. We stayed in the room but did not hear it. It was quiet at night at any time (and we had a room on the side facing the street). To the subway you would walk around 10 to 12 minutes. Stop at Woodside, from there you are in about 20-30 minutes. On the Grand Central Station / Timesquare (subway line 7 - purple). The journey time in train was too bad, though you had to frequent time - they are just always lots of interesting people in train - it is certainly very multicultural, and also always filled. A bit annoying was then the walk from the station to the hotel. Especially on the way back from Manhattan: Considering the "miss-mosh-walked my feet", the mountainous 10 to 12 minutes. Easy. Anyway, we generally a bit how much we underestimated on Manhattan has already started walking, so we were way into the hotel as I said a bit of a pain. The walk to the subway runs through a middle-class residential area, we felt comfortable and had the way fear at any time. One tip is to take in Google Maps just the address of the hotel and the Streetview functionality, so you could enjoy the way to the subway already very carefully, as everything was abfotografiert. As the Queens hotel is, you'll want to JFK if you land or LaGuardia. These airports from, is also a taxi affordable (From JFK about $35 , LaGuardia a little cheaper). By public transport: - Take the AirTrain to Jamaica Station (cost $5 per person, as of May 2009 ) - change to the E-Train (blue line E) toward Manhattan - at station "Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Avenue" change to the subway line 7 direction Times Square/Manhattan - If you get off at the station Woodside not tremendous luggage with you or move the luggage/rolls, is the O. G. way no problem. I wanted to carry your luggage up from JFK to get to the hotel. By car from JFK to the hotel is "stressful", but I wouldn't recommend no Sat Nav, especially since the traffic in the motorways a ships German drauflegt downtown traffic. Not so abenteurlich like maybe Mexico City or Cairo but much harder than every German city. It was perfectly with sat nav easy to find. Here I only recommend, beforehand in Germany familiar with the Adresseingabe. This is surely navi to Navi mixed, typing in particular the Strassennamen differs from the famous German standard from: 65-09 Queens Blvd, Woodside, Queens, New York one just has to be in first navi can enter ... Denied. The New York State must also be selected in advance. Go to the subway from the hotel was very easy and the hotel staff, a right a little card in the hand - perfect. Please note: you should land in Newark, the check in much more difficult. In the case of a similar class I would rather cheap motel New Jersey easily, from which you also relatively fast Manhattan is (for example Super 8 motel North Bergen). From Newark Liberty International Airport by taxi should be 3 digit, with public transport although feasible, but stressful. By car is the above applies to drive, above Manhattan does tolls (about $13 For the crossing - but it was an experience)!