Belvedere Hotel

"Rooms clean but dated Service was good from majority of staff..especially Nancy and Mehendra Location is perfect..so central."

"It's decently priced for what you get, and all of you people are very misinformed or making up information that is not true. $40 a week for am air conditioner? WRONG!!!! I actually am currently staying here and so is my boyfriend, neither of us had ANY experience with any roaches or bed bugs, or any bugs for that matter. There are OF COURSE your couple of jerks who ruin the reputation for everyone by using drugs, however if you're seen high or suspected of being on drugs.... your kicked out immediately and put on a "not allowed to return" list. so you can all get off your high horses and get correct information before you go running your mouths with lies."

"While most know it as the Belvedere Hotel, this is more of a Youth-hostel, room and board type of place and it was my salvation when I didn't know where to go. I was on the waiting list for two housing authorities (Keansburg and Hackensack) but neither housing authority wanted to help me because I had a felony on my record from Florida. If not for the Belvedere I would have been sleeping in a tent in the woods. They are fair most of the time but I thought that for sharing a dirty bathroom and for no a/c in the rooms, the prices (weekly or monthly) were too expensive for that when they ask for $700 per month. A fair rate for what they offer would be $100 per week, no more. A great rate for what they offer would be $75 per week and then people would pay better and not try to rip them off. The location is good, a short walk from the beach and boardwalk on the quiet and private side of town. It would've been nice if there was a Dollar Tree or something like that a bit closer for snow days or those days when you can't afford a cab. Not much parking around the hotel because most those staying there can't afford their own car after paying the "rent" fee. Many depressed people there drown their sorrows the wrong way and that may be why they had some bug issues. I had some roaches in my room, but it wasn't that bad considering they do allow tenants or visitors to use a microwave and cook up their own meals. This is not glamorous like The Hilton or The Hyatt. This is a great place to get started when you don't know where else to go. It's better than camping in a tent, and better than some homeless shelters I've stayed at where they give you a curfew and tell you what to eat and what to read. Ray and his team in the office are mostly kind and fair and if you let them know what's going on with you, they try to help. The bad reviews on this place are probably because the past few years, Ray's team has been slowly trying to renovate it, and many travelers come and go and make it harder for them. I had a melt down and broke the door handle on my room and I had to go to the hospital for my meltdown. Ray knew I had some mental problems, I wasn't on drugs, but I didn't go back there to live because I thought they were mad at me for breaking the door handle."

"Bed bug, roaches and a slum lord, not at all a hotel. Its a rooming house that doubles as a crack house. The people are as dirty as the building. Stay far away from here, even at your worse... You can do better."

"What you pay for is what you get for the most part the place is all right the only downside is you have to share a bathroom most people keep their self but every place has their drama. The only good thing about it is that the Academy Bus picks you up right across the street and you're close to Route 36 there has been some Renovations done so the place is starting to come together Rome wasn't built in a day"