Flavio Berardi Review of Doubletree Metropolitan Hotel
Absolutely avoid this hotel if you don't have a US...
Absolutely avoid this hotel if you don't have a US credit card. They charge you a deposit of $50 per night and then they seem to have enormous problems in refunding it if your card isn't issued in the US.
Stayed one week and checked out on the 8th of May. Still waiting for my money, even after countless emails back and forth.
Practically losing hope, and they even suggested that the refund, if it will ever come, will be in the form of a cheque, a payment system that has been discontinued in the Netherlands and the bank might charge me a fat commission to cash in.
As for the hotel, the bathroom has definitely seen better days (rotten door that wouldn't lock, chipped bathtub, noisy tap, half broken bath/shower switch), the breakfast wasn't worth the price and they charge you two dollars A PIECE (one for dropping and one for withdrawal, to be paid cash to the not-so-friendly personnel) to leave your luggage in the depot before check-in and after checkout.
New York is a rip-off town 1st class but this hotel is doing absolutely nothing to better this reputation.
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