Surfside Motel

Older Hotel, kind people working there, comfy bed, slept well. no coffee machine, or fridge, or microwave. Just sleep, use internet, get to airport. No particular nice view. Mellow neighborhood. Clean and easy for JFK.

Really just a place to bring a one night stand for a couple of hours,

My experience with this motel is terrible. Exclusive room is so bad that I can't describe you, on the door cold welcome, like what you want now, room dirty, hot tub never saw muriatic acid (usually people and companies using to clean hot-tub) have green stuff inside (algie, show up if you don't maintain properly pool or hot-tub and need to be washed with muriatic acid) bathroom is dirty, around toilet is yellow, sheet on bad is gray color with some stain, when you're going to tell something on front desk he just jump on me, where is motel located is dangerous on every 50 feet is police with blue lights, on street noise all night, people yelling and is not comfortable at all, all stores have around have roll door or some other protection on Windows and doors.

Nice motel near JFK. Safe neighborhood.

Stay was ok. Hotel really needs to be updated. Computer System. Rooms. Room Security & Locks. Carpet. etc. Also, shuttle only goes to JFK Airport. Price should be much lower based on the overall condition. $45 - $65 range.

Close to the airport, however it was quite noisy and not sound proof at all. The beds were made with two flat sheets and no fitted sheets and had an annoying plastic covering the mattresses. Inexpensive, but if we ever go back to New York, I will definitely pay extra for a nicer hotel.

The hotel is ok. Would recommend they put a towel rack by the bathroom sink. There was no place to hang a towel by the sink and all they had were bath towels, no hand towels. They didn't have any towel racks by the bathtub either.

I did not end up staying the night. There were dead bugs in the bath drop ceiling. Mold in the A/C unit. The place is run down and smells terrible. Do not believe the pictures shown on the hotels.com web site they must have been taken years ago. Unfortunately could not get a refund, should have booked a 5 star hotel for what it cost me.

The airport to hotel service was excellent. Vincent was most accomodating and courteous. The van was great. The people at the reception desk and all other personnel were great. We felt welcome and respected.However, the hotel was out of date. It was like staying in a 1950's property. There were so many things that were out of date and lacked many of the comforts of newer facilities. Special attention should be to improve the closet situation, no hangers, an extra chair, better linens and lighting. The management was exceptional and we felt very comfortable with all of the staff. We felt secure an safe and welcome. The price was high. All in all, we stayed and were glad we did.

I chose the SurfSide Motel because of its price (around $100) and location--literarily 10 minutes shuttle ride from JFK. What I did not know was that it was located in the Howard Beach neighborhood on the border between Queens and Brooklyn, which was the old stomping grounds of mafia characters as portrayed in films such as 'Good Fellas.' While that might seem like ancient history today, the area still has that unique flavor--getting a cup of coffee across the street from SurfSide seemed like walking into a movie set of 'Good Fellas Revisited 40 Years Later.' The area is also packed with all manor of nifty restaurants. The only downside I can think of is that there was not only no in-room coffee or mini-fridge, and no in-house coffee/breakfast area. But, as suggested above, this deficit was more than made up for with the stroll across the street to a world-class deli that apparently serves as the hang-out-in-retirement of knots of local 'notables.'