Manhattan Hotel Recommendations

Why will you be avoiding The Gates?
I’ll be travelling with family non-Dopers and we’ll only be there for two days, so a DopeMeet, while enticing, is not practical.

Anyone have more information/opinions about On The Avenue? There is much about it that sounds good, but it’s gotten very mixed reviews. Some reviews were bad enough to make me cross the place off my list. It also got a lot of good reviews. It sounds like the rooms are very small.
Sue Duhnym, Can you give more details about your in-laws’ experience there?