The Chelsea Pines Inn is a cheerful and popular spot offering friendly service, a convenient location and touches of old-Hollywood glamour.

The lobby décor at the 300-room Hampton Inn Times Square is surprisingly contemporary for a midrange chain hotel.

The sleek, uber-modern Yotel offers a highly unique "affordable luxury" option in Hell's Kitchen.

Stylish, cozy boutique hotels do exist in bustling, chain-hotel-dominated Midtown. The three-star Hotel 414 is one of them—and it's affordable, to boot.

The Hotel East Houston, located as one might expect on very busy Houston Street, is a smart boutique hotel.

The 79-room Broadway @ Times Square Hotel eschews the bright lights and and blaring marquees of nearby Times Square in favor of more traditional décor.

The only US branch of the French Novotel chain is perched above Times Square in the middle of Midtown Manhattan, offering friendly service, spacious rooms and stellar views.

The 38 rooms at the Off SoHo Suites Hotel offer convenient, spacious and well located accommodations with modern furnishings and full kitchens.

The Hotel @ Times Square pairs two things Cheapos cherish: a prime location and reasonable rates.

The small and simple Hotel St. James offers basic accommdations and some of the best rates in the area around Times Square.

The Ameritania, a three-star hotel ideally located at 54th and Broadway, offers reasonably priced rooms with a boutique style.

From the outside, the Skyline Hotel bears resemblance to a highway-side motor lodge. Inside, the atmosphere is unmistakably that of a big city hotel.

The Chelsea Star is an interesting beast, with hostel dormitories, cheap artist-shaped rooms with shared-facilities, and deluxe rooms with massive amounts of space.

The Grand Union, a midrange hotel in Midtown East, is a moderately-sized beast, with just under 90 rooms.

Located at the north end of Times Square, the three-star Night Hotel offers 210 small but stylish rooms in the thick of the action.