Hey, maybe Times Square isn't so Disneyfied after all; millions of travelers on Trip Advisor have voted Hotel Carter on West 43rd Street the #1 filthiest place to stay in America. Comments on Trip Advisor range from revolting ("I don't know where to begin... Roaches, rats, mice, horrible smells, dirty sheets, horrifying bathrooms, outlets that hang out of walls... But the worst part about it was that at 4 a.m. I woke up to a bunch of guys breaking into our hotel room while we were sleeping!!") to panicked ("It's like a HORROR movie in real life, it's so bad that its just not for real. Barack Obama, please shut it down!").
Hotel Carter's manager tells NY1 that because they are a one star hotel, they have one star standards of cleanliness. But we're pretty sure even a one star hotel shouldn't be charging $130 for rooms that come with a dead body under the bed. To be fair, a housekeeper found the corpse, so maybe they're earning that star after all? The dump hasn't changed much since the '80s when it was a homeless shelter, as the Daily News's Richard Shapiro learned after a security guard explained that a steady stream of water pouring from the lobby's mirrored ceiling was "a minor problem — that’s all." Compared to a dead body, sure.
Surprisingly, Shapiro found his room "thankfully corpse-free. And while it was small and sparsely appointed, it wasn’t dirty." Oh, except for a lone picture frame, "covered in a substance one can only hope was mildew." Trip Advisor's top ten list also includes, at number three, The New York Inn on Eighth Ave. near 47th Street, and the Ramada Plaza Hotel near Kennedy Airport.