Our family was not prepared for the lack of concern for the problems this hotel and Priceline created for us. We arrived with "guaranteed late check-in" at this hotel at 11:35 p.m. on Saturday night 8-16-08 after our flight had been delayed due to weather. We had paid in advance for 3 rooms for 4 nights at this hotel through Priceline. When we arrived we were greeted by a man aggressively begging for money. (My wife and I were taking our 4 children to NY for vacation and had been assured this was a safe hotel.) The front sliding doors were locked when we arrived. After we were allowed in we were informed the hotel was overbooked and one of our rooms was sold to another party. They told us two of us would be located to another area of Brooklyn to a comparable hotel that was 15 minutes away. The other hotel was not a national chain and they couldn't provide any info about the hotel other than they assured us it was a "nice place". It should be noted as we entered the hotel there was a man at the desk demanding the police be called but we didn't get involved in that problem. Also scantilly clad women were entering and leaving the hotel with several different men as we were trying to work with the hotel staff and Priceline on the problem. All of this was transpiring as our children sat wide-eyed on the small couch in the lobby. We were informed the hotel had no other option for us so we requested all of us be relocated so we wouldn't be separated. This was denied so we contacted Priceline. They blamed the hotel and said they would refund the money for one night for one room and would do nothing else. A woman named Daphne (who refused to give her last name) stated we would have to work out the problem with the hotel ourselves and the hotel said we'd have to work out the problem with Priceline. At 2 a.m. two of us got into a cab and were sent to the other hotel which was 5 miles away. The cab driver was given the wrong address for the other hotel and couldn't find it. At one point the driver stopped and asked a policeman for directions but he hadn't heard of the other hotel. Finally I had to call the Comfort Inn and request they look up the address in the phonebook and the address was completely different than the one they had given the cab driver. At 2:30 a.m. we arrived at the room in the other hotel and I won't go into the experience at the other hotel other than to explain they provided a breakfast buffet that included pickled fish and onion/cucumber salad. My 20 y.o. son and I looked at this as a multicultural experience. Unfortunately my 13 y.o. who stayed back at the Comfort Inn was quite traumatized by the ordeal and was certain she was seeing her brother and father for the last time as we climbed into the cab. Upon our return to the Comfort Inn approximately 6 hours later we were told our rooms for the next night hadn't been decided so we put all of the family's bags in the one room they did say was assigned to us for the rest of the stay. This hotel is not a short walk to the subway as other reviews indicate. It is also located by a housing project where an 87 y.o. woman was attacked and robbed. We saw this on the news while staying at this hotel! We have learned several lessons from this trip and hope this review can prevent similar problems from occurring with other travelers.












