During our first visit in NYC, after a one night stay in a other hotel which was horrible, we decided to change hotels a go for hotel gansevoort. We booked through the website and it looks very good. The hotel is even better in real life.
The staff is very friendly and the service is excellent. They always seem to be one step ahead of you, if you want to ask something they already have the answer before you asked.
The rooms are very nice and very clean. We had a room with a great view on the Hudson river area.
The hotel has excellent restaurants and even a club on the upper floor.
The hotel lies in the meatpacking dirstrict which is booming with nice restaurants and shops!
I really enjoyed staying here, makes you feel at home.
If your lokking for a nice, hip and good service, go to the gansevoort.

I was very excited to stay at the Gansevoort during our 3-nights in NYC for my husband's birthday celebration weekend. I had high expectations because of the trendy decor of the hotel as well as the good experiences I've had at the rooftop bar in the past. For $500 per night, you also tend to raise your expectations a little bit. However, upon arriving to the hotel, the woman behind the desk was less than accomodating to help us get a room with a view of the Hudson River, which I had requested when I booked the room 3 months in advance. And then when we got to our room, the bathroom lights were burned out and it took them almost 24 hours to get someone in there to replace the lightbulbs for us. We also noticed that there was not a clock in our room. When we called the front desk to ask about it, they told us that not all guest rooms are equipped with a clock. Sorry, but for the average price of this hotel, we found that very odd. I think they could afford to put analog clocks in the rooms, even if they aren't fancy! We were also a bit irritated to find that we would get locked out of our room everyday, as our key cards would not work whenever we left the room and we had to go back to the lobby to them reactivated each time. It was annoying things like this that added up and made the stay not worth the price we were paying for the room. Aside from these frustrations, it is an ideal location if you want to be on the west side of Manhattan near some of the best restaurants and night life. One suggestion: Fly into the Newark airport instead of La Guardia, otherwise you will spend a lot of time and money on the cab rides to and from the airport!

We stayed in the Gansevoort for a four night stay right at the start of March for a vacation in New York, our favorite city.

The standard of accomodation was second to none, and the hotel offered everything we could have hoped for, almost!.

All parts of the hotel were immaculately clean and polished, from the lobby and other public areas, through the corridors to the rooms.

I was particularly impressed with the way the room cleaners went about their business. Plenty of towels were provided and the room was left perfect twice daily by staff. All aspects of the room were very comfortable and roomy but I didn't see the basic grade room as we stayed in the grand deluxe.
Bathroom facilites were all faultless.

Previous reviewers suggested that the hotel had a somewhat cold atmosphere, and I certainly can understand their impression, and do not disagree with their analysis in this regard, but I do not see this as necessarily a bad attribute. The staff were always helpful, efficient and discreet, and some indeed were very friendly. The hospitality could not be described as "old style hospitality" though.

One gripe: I would not recommend a holidaymaker to avail of breakfast in the hotel. It was adequate in terms of quality but expensive and I thought the charge was at odds with that indicated on the menu.

My family and I had a wonderful experience at the Hotel Gansevoort. The room was amazing, clean, modern and comfortable a real cool place in the heart of the meatpacking district. The staff was great they made all the right recommendations for both dinners and brunch! The beds where perfect! The kids loved the rooftop pool (covered and heated in winter). i can only imagine how great it would be in July.... Overall a truly great city getaway that I highly recommend.