HotelChatter

This would be a wonderful place to stay with one important change: triple-paned windows to block the street traffic. Every night there was sleep-depriving noise, including after-midnight garbage collection, traffic thunking over metal plates in the road, and so on. Add to that a heating system that clunks on and off all night and rooms that are all next to the elevator, and I had the 3 worst nights of sleep in recent memory.

The same reviewer did, however, like the comfortable bed and the friendly doormen—two features that come up repeatedly in the reviews. The rest of the TripAdvisees also liked the clean (albeit small) rooms, the rooftop bar, and the continental breakfast included in the rates.

One reviewer also had a suggestion for the noise issue:

We got a room at the back of the hotel, trading off views for quietness, and we basically heard NO street noise at all, it's amazing.

The reviews over at Quikbook are also almost all of the thumbs-up variety, and this is still the way to go to save at The Strand. Rooms for tomorrow night start at $279 when booking directly through the hotel, but Quikbook has standard Kings available for just $179. Which might just be the best deal on a new hotel in New York City we’ve seen all year.