Dream Downtown is a hipster hotel in Chelsea in New York. This place has 2622 reviews and an average rating of 4.0 of 5. This is a rather good rating.
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Reviews from visitors:
Amazing stay. Loved every bit of the room, wish I could remember the number to book for a later date. The balcony was absolutely phenomenal! Can’t wait to go again!
Were here in July 2019! This place is non stop party! By the pool during the day, at night on the PHD rooftopbar! Had a really great time! Great facilities! Large and comfortable room! The location could be better and the staff were not the most friendly.. But overall, Nice place!
Arrived in NYC during rush hour and decided to take the subway to Manhattan because only suckers pay $50 dollars for a 5 minute faster commute. Tables are turned however when I get on the E line and the train gets stuck for an hour and a half.
I say this, because when I finally arrive at the Dream hotel I am a bit tired and grumpy. I am a little disappointed to see that this is not a boring hotel, but rather an Experience hotel. It is very dark with very loud music. The bar is built into a wall covered in roses and is Very Cool, but also kind of looks like the wall of blood from The Shining. I think this is a premonition.
I try to go to my room. One of the elevators is dedicated to shuttle VIP guests to a VIP party. It has a red rope with a red carpet and is being held open by a bouncer. After pressing the up button on the elevator bay a dozen times, I realize that I can't call the elevator until the bouncer lets the VIP elevator doors close. I try asking the bouncer about it and he answers by telling me that the VIP elevator is for VIP partiers. Yes, I am not a VIP, but I try to convince him close the elevator momentarily so I can get to my room. He is a bouncer, and has years of experience of people arguing with him, and tells me to wait. I go look for another elevator bay, but am unsuccessful. I come back to a group of people also mashing the up button, confused. Luckily, VIP partiers finally arrive, and the VIP elevator closes. The Normal Loser-people elevator is now callable and we rush into the breach.
This is an Experience hotel, and we get to Experience an elevator that is also an escape room. We try to use our key cards to unlock different floors. The key card swipe must be timed exactly right, and we obviously suck. We travel up and down the hotel. The elevator happens to get called to someone's floor, and we congratulate one of the guests for having graduated past the Elevator Experience.
The person who called the elevator is a Very Cool, normal sized person wearing a Shaquille O'Neal sized jacket. He is going to Rose covered bar. We are now back in the lobby, so we ask for help. The attendant uses his card exactly right and doesn't say anything. I think he is disappointed in us for failing the Elevator Escape Room. We are also a bit disappointed.
I get to my room, which is all frosted glass and Edison style light-bulbs. I unpack and go down to eat. I want to prepare for the interview that brought me to NYC in the first place, so I bring my toaster-sized "Cracking the Coding Interview" book downstairs in the Rose bar lobby. I fear that I will look like the world's saddest dork loser. Luckily, the bar is so dark that I can't see the pages in front of me without my phone flashlight. The Rose bar is not for reading obviously. This time I beat the Elevator Escape Room and go back upstairs.
I order the world's most expensive enchiladas and try looking for a glass for water. The mini-bar includes bottle of Patron, a "Love Box" and no glassware. I am a bit confused, but then again, the Very-Cool-Giant-Coat guy is probably trying to invite a guest to his room to share tequila directly from a bottle and I realize it all makes sense. I drink from the sink like an animal.
I finally decide to go to sleep like a Quitter, but the Dream Hotel is for Experiences, not sleep. I don't think anyone has ever slept in the Dream Hotel, because the light button panels (not Boring-Loser switches) are as bright as lights themselves. I prove them wrong by constructing a wall from the 8 additional pillows included with the bed. I dream in the Dream Hotel about being somewhere else.
3/5 because of the avocado sandwich in the morning. Otherwise, come here for the bar, sleep elsewhere.
VERY OK
first I'd start things off with, these rooms are very adequate. Nothing amazing about them, just adequate.
The pros:
Clean rooms, somewhat attentive staff, and nice ambiance in the hotel.
Cons:
Almost every step of the way you are paying extra to enjoy any of the amenities.
Want to enjoy a rooftop drink? 75 dollar minimum
Want to enjoy the pool that is a part of the hotel you are staying at? It's not gauranteed because they rent to outside people and don't prioritize hotel guests.
It's also 100 dollars per head regardless of if you are staying at the hotel or not.
Ray- the front desk guy, told us that he would comp our pool passes, and was told the following day that it would not be possible.
The whole thing is a sham to try and make an extra buck once people are there.
Don't go here unless the above is okay
We visited while it was a Christmas popup and had 10,000+ red roses. The place was absolutely beautiful and a superb place for a photo op. The chairs, tables, and floors were even floral. The ambiance it gave off was incredible. The temporary drink menu could have been better.
Address: 355 W 16th St, New York, NY 10011 Opening Hours: Monday: Open 24 hoursTuesday: Open 24 hoursWednesday: Open 24 hoursThursday: Open 24 hoursFriday: Open 24 hoursSaturday: Open 24 hoursSunday: Open 24 hours Visit the website
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