Hello all
I have posted previously about looking for an apartment to rent in New York over Xmas and New Year.
Many very helpful people on this website have alerted me to all the scams that happen in New York re: apartment rentals.
I have however come across lodgis.com and after trawling through this webiste I have not encountered anyone who has actually used them successfully or unsucessfully.
Has anyone used them or know anyone who has used them?
Was their experience good/bad?
Thanks everyone for your time.
Lodgis? Any success tories? Bad news stories?
I would like you to point out to me which apt. listed on the website will sleep 6 people for $450/night.
Lodgis? Any success tories? Bad news stories?
';lather, rinse, repeat';
Do I hear ';I Got You Babe'; in the background. This is really becoming the Groundhog Day of the TA NYC board.
toffa, less than six hours ago, on your other thread you said, ';it seems it is unsafe to rent an apartment in New York';. It appeared you had finally seen the light! But now you are asking people if they have any experience with another website that advertises vacation apartment rentals. My, what a short memory you have.
If I remember correctly, you said your group could spend $450 a night. If I have done my math correctly, this is the princely sum of $75 per person, per night. For lodging in New York City over Christmas and New Year%26#39;s! It is to laugh...
But I digress. Again, if I have done my math correctly, $450 a night for eleven nights comes to a total of $4,950.
For fun, I checked on the site of The Pod Hotel, a budget place on E 51st Street. A bunkbed Pod room, with twin bunk beds and using a shared bath (room for two people) comes to $1,739.00. With taxes, figure $2,000.00. Obviously, for six people you would need three of these rooms, so your total would be approximately $6,000.00. In other words, $1,000.00 per person, for eleven nights, or about $91.00 per night per person.
So for an extra $16.00 per night (about the cost of a two or three beers), you can stay in a real hotel, with spotless rooms, and the shared bathrooms are supposed to be incredible. I%26#39;ve never stayed at The Pod, but a very picky friend of mine has, and she was thrilled with the place. She said the bathrooms were spotless, and she never had to wait for one.
I%26#39;m guessing if you reserved three of these rooms and explained that you are all together, the hotel would do their best to put your rooms on the same floor, maybe even next door to door to door. I realize you wouldn%26#39;t be in a big space all to yourselves. Also, I realize it is not a place with a lounge where you can all sit around and watch TV, nor does it have a kitchen where you can prepare Xmas lunch, but it is a real place at a reasonable price.
http://www.thepodhotel.com/index.html
An extra $16 per night comes to $176 extra for your entire stay. That seems pretty reasonable to me, but if you want to continue to look for an apartment, you go right ahead. Don%26#39;t say I didn%26#39;t try to help.
Good luck.
To clarify, I meant to say and extra $176 per person for the entire stay. I still think that%26#39;s not very much money.
This person is bound and determined not to listen to anyone, even though Rocco went out of his way (as many have done here) to try to help her with her decision and offer her an alternative.
New York owes her an apartment for 6 people for a sum well below the market price and all we are on this board are party poopers.
She%26#39;s on to the cabal we have formed to keep her away from that $250 a night apartment for 6. We will need to find another meeting spot, The Olive Garden in Times Square (why do we try to sway visitors away from eating there) has been exposed.
BobbyC, I%26#39;m well aware that toffa and the gang are hellbent on renting an apartment. I just wanted to point out the very small amount of money needed to stay in a legitimate hotel, albeit one with shared bathrooms. I guess I%26#39;m just tired of people saying New York is so expensive. Well, yes, it is, but an extra 16 bucks a day is a drop in the bucket when one considers the total cost of a trip from Australia to the United States.
Not to mention it took me about ten minutes to come up with the figures I presented from The Pod Hotel. toffa is spending hours trying to find an inexpensive apartment, but won%26#39;t seem to spend half an hour to investigate any hotels. Outside of the Carter, of course.
So I made a suggestion that can be investigated further, or it can be ignored. No skin off my nose, but at least I made an effort to help.
Thanks for the useful info Rocco. I will look into it.
Bobby, once again if you don%26#39;t have anything nice or constructive to say KEEP IT TO YOURSELF. No one wants to hear it. Don%26#39;t you have anything better to do with yourself than go online and put people down? GET A LIFE!
Hi Rocco. The pod hotel is very expensive for what you get - I think I am better off looking into %26#39;proper%26#39; hotels.
As for Lodgis, NYWHIZ there are several properties within my price range.
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As you suggested NYWHIZ, and so many others on this website, it is recommended you only pay a small deposit and the rest upon arrival. Lodgis uses this policy. 20% deposit and the rest upon arrival. This was one of your conditions for a %26#39;legitimate%26#39; operation.
toffa, can you get the exact street addresses of those apartments? That way we can check for you whether the buildings actually exist, whether they%26#39;re actually residential buildings, and whether the rentals are legal. There are tools online to do all of those things, but we need an exact street address (i.e. in the form 10 West 58th Street Apt 2A or something.)
I%26#39;m really worried about any listing that doesn%26#39;t have a real street address on it because of the potential for the apartment to not exist, given Crans%26#39; experience and Julia%26#39;s and all the Nigerian scammers and such ...
Thanks.
