Best line from TripAdvisor reviews of the Hotel Carter in NYC

batshit crazy reviews on trip advisor is my most favourite thing ever, thanks roxy

I love how there's rats and guys living in the hall and then "the curtains in your room were sewn in the early 60's"

voted for 'FOIL as a mirror,' it's the caps that does it, also love that it works in the sense that somebody can be somebody else's foil

right now really feeling the power of "Looks like a scene from a bad movie that takes place." however "There are bums defacating in the lobby" offers a strong challenge

BELL PEPPERS is good too... it's like youre in a real life AD&D game with a DM who has a sense of humor

voted "There was a man who lived behind a vending machine in a small gap whom the staff did nothing about." without even looking at the other options

the room key that opens every door on the fifth floor is like a feature from a fairy tale. a fairy tale with a bum defecating in the lobby

you mean defacating

I do indeed

I first noticed that my room door was broken in two!

I like this because it sounds like the fact that the door was in pieces snuck up on the person.

Disembodied butts defecating

wish I did not just GIS Hotel Carter NYC

FYI 2008 really to have been a banner year for the Carter in terms of amazingly awful reviews/pictures. Yes, I've spent the morning reading back that far and have no plans of stopping any time soon. What? It's a slow summer Friday afternoon!

When you walk into this awful hotel you spell a strong scent of BELL PEPPERS.

I love this whole sentence.

"the whole place is a no go area."

The fire escape routes showed floor plans from a different hotel!!

^^^ voted this on the grounds that it is the most terrifying

I read these all the way back to some time during 2004 last Friday. Amazing material.

wikipedia page on this place is fascinating...

On August 31, 2007, a housekeeper found the body[43] of Kristine Yitref, 33,[44] wrapped in plastic garbage bags and hidden under a bed in Room 608. Sex offender Clarence Dean, 35, was charged with homicide.[45] Yitref, as Mistress Kris, was formerly a member of the goth rock group The Nuns.[46] She had turned to prostitution at the time of her death to support a drug addiction.[47]

WOAH

"Sex offender Clarence Dean" o_o

The Carter Theater in the Carter Hotel presented Aesop's Fables in fifteen theatrical styles in November 1979. The play was produced by the Theater Workshop and the Broadway-Times Theater Company.[31] The off Broadway musical, Ka-Boom!, debuted at the Carter Theater in November 1980.[32] The space is now occupied by Cheetah's Gentleman's club.

omg the bay area Nuns?

"I didn't catch anything during my visit, but your luck will vary."

^has grown on me. WILL vary. lol.

Top 15:

we had FOIL as a mirror.
they found a dead body in a room, so we decided to leave one day early, but they refused to give us our money back!
As soon as we put the heater on, white things started coming out in the air, so we shut it down.
Looks like a scene from a bad movie that takes place.
Upon arrival we were greeted with a blood stained bath, not to mention rancid carpet.
The fire escape routes showed floor plans from a different hotel!!
When we went back to our room, there were people meditating right in front of our door, which we could not open
You know it's gonna be a bad start when the entrace to the hotel has a display of nutcrackers in the window
We witnessed cockroaches and mice and there was a blow up doll outside our window!
I discovered that my room key opened every door on the fifth floor.
I first noticed that my room door was broken in two!
If we'd found the prostitutes in the lobby it would have been a highlight.
I got verbally assaulted by one of their ' employees' that thought that I was an undercover cop
-We found maggets on our beds. -There were moles everywhere in the bathtub.
Upon trying to lay in bed for the night I found the sheets were covered in some sort of biological mess.

This is really hard. I kind of like the ones that juxtapose a fairly common complaint with something just completely bizarre like moles, floating blow-up dolls, blood stains, etc. Kind of feeling "I first noticed that my room door was broken in two!" which reads like text-adventure narration, or the setup for a decision in Choose Your Own Adventure or something.

I love how this poll has a two month end date, as if to encourage us to go visit New York this summer and check out the veracity of these claims first hand. Only lacks an option for "create your own".

I still feel like Sic let us all down as a community by not staying here during his recent trip to NYC.

Kind of feeling "I first noticed that my room door was broken in two!" which reads like text-adventure narration, or the setup for a decision in Choose Your Own Adventure or something.

haw, otm. it's also just so terrible. broken IN TWO? also lol that something was that terribly wrong before even opening the door to the room.

i didn't mean to make this poll last forever and a day tbh

If they'd read TripAdvisor first, they could have just changed rooms by taking their key down the hall to some other, still-intact door.

I'm just imagining that person on the fifth floor trying every door, horror mounting as each one opened based on the same key

i wonder if they tried it on any other floors

Second floor's where you've really got to watch out.

http://static.rogerebert.com/redactor_assets/pictures/scanners/viewers-guide-the-keycard-to-room-237/237key-thumb-510x382-53776.jpg

I chose the fire escape routes showed floor plans from a different hotel!! for total absurdity & because it seems to really capture the whole attitude of the hotel.

agreed, that one is so bizarre!! why go through the trouble

like did they just google + print "floor plan" or

I would not rule out the possibility that the hotel has... changed.

kind of want to go here

the best is image searching the pictures and thinking... ehh, that's not _that_ many stains on the mattress

i should add that the full quote, which wouldn't fit up there, was:

with request from the small chinese man received nothing but hard heart ache and pian from the fact that his hotel had nothing to offer except but rudeness, smell and disease.

I voted for that one because it made me lol super hard just now

you go down the list but oftentimes you just want to return to 'There was a man who lived behind a vending machine in a small gap whom the staff did nothing about.'

This thread delivering biggest laughs in recent memory.

I have a Word document full of uncensored highlights collected over many months

I still feel like Sic let us all down as a community by not staying here during his recent trip to NYC.

nothing stopping you from going p much any weekend u kno

loving this garbled metaphor

We did not watch any TV, but turned it on to muffle the air of desolation in the room.

I keep seeing the name of the hotel and thinking it has something to do with Jay-Z

jay z should buy this hotel

Hotel Carter sits atop a semi-preserved turntable-based bus-station from the turn of the Depression: http://www.scoutingny.com/

specifically: http://www.scoutingny.com/?p=6766

Guy on the phone beside me trying to book a hotel: "What's your hotel like? Do you know the Hotel Carter? Is it better than that?"

a friend of mine said his band stayed in a hotel which was full and he had to stay in essentially the same room as the concierge which was separated by like, a blanket nailed to the ceiling. and the concierge jerked off to porn all night "2 ft away from my head". i thought of the hotel carter

also, that was their first night ever being in america. lmao