Submitted by "Hotel Riverside Studios" on 10/02/2008

We are a couple and we stayed at this place during our holidays in September 2008.

When we arrive the first day, we were a bit schocked by the hotel itself (electric cable hanging in corridors, some bathroom were very bad looking, etc...) but the room was clean and laundry service was good.

We seen one of this bug the first day without paying much attention as we did not know about their existence.
I was the first bitten, but I did not care, because of the proximity of the Hudson River I thought it was just mosquitoes.

Thing went worse the next days as my entire body was bitten so was my girlfriends', but again, we concluded with mosquitoes.

The day before we left, we talked about these bites with a person of the hotel who told us if we wanted to change our room, of course we immediately accepted.

Back home, we started to look for information about bites and we found a lot of site (including this one) speaking of bedbugs. As we seen some (and killed one full of blood) we were positively sure we were bitten by them.
Fortunately, we found info as soon as we get back and cleaned everything we had in our luggage.

To conclude, this place is still infected, we send an email to the management and we still waiting for a reply.

PS : excuse my English as it is not my first language.

Submitted by "Hotel Riverside Studios" on 07/07/2008

We checked into the hotel on the 4th of July, and checked out the same night. We noticed that there were two bugs crawling around the sheets as soon as the comforter was peeled off. The room was smelly, and the whole hotel looked as if needed a very good cleaning. It's no surprise that bugs inhabit this place. At least they were nice enough about refunding the money.

Submitted by "Hotel Riverside Studios" on 04/30/2008

4/18/08

I thought my bf was being paranoid when he suggested the bites on my arms and legs I got on our trip to NY may be due to bed bugs in the hotel room. We were on a budget and I thought the room seemed clean so I didn't feel a need to complain. I saw a roach in the restroom and my bf saw a bug on the bed but still I was skeptical. I often get bitten by bugs outdoors. However, we have now come home, I haven't been outdoors and have gotten a few more bites and my bf has now been bitten. I looked up the bites and they look exactly like bed bug bites. Now we're having to deal with exterminators, etc. in our really nice apt. Definitely not worth the little bit of money we saved.

Submitted by "Hotel Riverside Studios" on 03/06/2008

This is the worst hotel [sic] that I have EVER stayed in. I am not particularly fussy. I have stayed in hostels and low budget hotels in New York but Hotel Riverside Studios is simply the worst slum hotel I have ever stayed in. (I had no idea that it was a hotel for residents, God help them). Neither human beings nor animals should live in such filth and dirt. I changed rooms 4 times during my 5-day stay. I saw bed bugs on the walls, changed rooms once again, only to find a couple of bugs in one of my books one day later. I switched rooms again and checked out 1 day early. The hallways are filled with decades of dirt and filth, vomit and cigarette butts. The hallways smelled of cigarettes and urine. If that wasn't bad enough, the bathrooms were uninhabitable. This slum landlord should be shut down by the NYC health department.

My stay was from October 28-November 1, 2008