2. We have just returned from a week at the Beekmam hotel and will start with the pros ideal location, great little diner over the road for a good breakfast, friendly staff everything we needed in the room including equipped kitchen, clean sheets and towels fab view off the area and we liked the quaintness of the 50s style of the lobby and elevator music, but and its a big but if you want beautifully decorated rooms finished to a good spec and you are piccy when it comes to finishing details under no circumstance book this hotel diy and general up keep are not a priority but we have had a great week in manhatten.