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Duncan Hotel
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4 reviews for Duncan Hotel
This hotel is smack dab in the "good part" of New Haven, a couple of blocks from the campus, and costs $45 a night. In other words, it would have to really suck to get a bad review. It's not the greatest hotel in the world, obviously, but it has an element of old charm (the oldest hand-operated elevator in Connecticut). The room was probably about what you'd expect at a Holiday Inn.
I'd stay there again in a heartbeat. A quick websearch shows the Courtyard by Marriott New Haven costs $135 a night. Courtyard surely has nicer rooms, but I'll take the hundred bucks.
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This is one of creepiest places I've ever stayed. Floral patterned bed linens that looked to be about thirty years old and I could not make out the original color of the carpet. The room was furnished with mismatched thrift store style pieces, including a television that required you to turn a giant knob on the console to change channels.
Our room was keyed into in the middle of the night. I ran to the door and slammed it shut and the guy mumbled some kind of apology and disappeared down the hall. I can't blame him though. The only thing identifying our room was a number written on a POST-IT note on the door.
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I stay at the Duncan regularly and have always had a good experience. As the other reviewers have stated, this is clearly not a luxury hotel. However, the rooms are clean, the location is great, the overall experience is pleasant, and the price is definitely right .
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I love the Duncan and would like to give it a five. Obviously, this is not a luxury five star hotel. Given what it is, a really cheap hotel in a really great location, the Duncan is excellent. I stayed there once a couple nights in between apartments, and have housed visiting friends there. I stayed there one night while I *did* have a nearby apartment because I oddly craved television. I recommended it to a Yale Sakai meeting attendee looking to travel on the cheap and he told me never to recommend it to anyone again (his cheapest rate room lacked air conditioning. Air conditioning is highly recommended for the humid New Haven summer).
