Jazz on Columbus Circle Hostel

Rude staff. Filthy rooms. Thay overbook rooms, hoping that people don’t rrive. You book 4bed room and end up in 5bed room at the same price, with some random men and if you complain, thay simply say that you can go somewhere else if you don’t like it, which in New York isn’t that easy when you have a limited budget and when you find it about at 11pm.

The location is great. The people who stayed at the hostel seemed nice. The hostel were helpful if asked.

The staff was at times not in the reception for longer than 15 minutes, the showers did had really bad "flow", the breakfast was really bad.

Location

No lamps on the bed dude..no sockets for charging gadgets for the upper bunk beds and breakfast compromised of one bun and a glass of regular coffee/tea!

55th and 8th Ave is a great location - very easy access to the subway and Central Manhattan.

I was unlucky enough to get the double room next to the laundry and the luggage storeroom. The door to the balcony was taped shut with gaffer tape - not that the balcony was much: at the back of the building, it ended several feet from the wall of the next building. The was no phone signal and the wifi wasn't strong enough to compensate.