Big Apple redux
Brooklyn Bridge Because we'd both been to New York before (many times for my wife, just the once for me - see here and here ), we were lulled into a mistaken feeling of being fully prepared for it. A typically hair-raising cab ride full of last-second lane changes and blaring horns was enough to dispel that notion. Then we arrived at the dreaded Blue Moon Hotel. Now, there are no shortage of glowing testimonials and 'Top 150 New York Hotel' certificates on the walls, and Tripadvisor has some gushing reviews. We however found this establishment shabby at best and dirty at worst, and the management's responses to the negative TA reviews are distinctly tetchy. Perhaps we'd been spoilt by all those huge rooms and honeymoon upgrades. And perhaps with it being an old building on the hip Lower East Side, with rooms named after golden age stars of stage and screen, the target audience doesn't mind the questionable hygiene, or finds it edgy and cool. Read the r...