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Snapshot :: The Barclay Intercontinental is Totally a Paula Abdul Hotel

Where: 111 E 48th St [map], New York, NY, United States, 10017

Here's a Paula Abdul Hotel for the books: the Barclay Intercontinental in Manhattan. You know what kind of hotels we're talking about -- we officially define them as "old luxury hotels still coasting by on favorable press from the 1980s and early 1990s; old-looking from the inside and out. A few of them may have had some minor up-keeping done but not necessarily for the better."

Check out this shot of a room at the Barclay from our recent stay in Manhattan: those curtains! The yellow bedskirt! And, one thing you can't get from the pic: the overwhelming musty smell in the room, which smelled sort of like our college bathroom's shower stall that we never cleaned.