Hello, my name is Victoria Rose and we're on another hotel exploration adventure. It's been a long journey here and we're already off to an absolutely terrible terrible terrible start. I know I always say this but I hate buses with a feather in passion and I'm freezing and fucking cool. I don't know how but every single time, every single time I take the bus somehow I go the wrong way, I get off the wrong stop, I waste money using it and I had to walk to the train station in the end anyways. I don't know why this happens, it just does and it's something I'm a practicing. It's still a struggle. I finally managed to get there though, I always do. But today we're going to check out the smallest and cheapest hotel I could find in all of New York City. This is a $30 hotel. Now it's not always $30 but I always go through a goda. So I got for $30. It's usually around like 40 I guess and it's in Chelsea. I don't know the area at all so if you're from New York or whatever, just ignore everything but this is definitely one of the smallest and kind of like the theme is pod capsule type and hotel because it's so small. So I'm going to go check this out right now. I finally found the place, it was a very small sign and you had to call to be able to get in. They didn't answer at first so I kept calling. I was finally able to get in and it's up a lot of stairs so I'm very, very grateful that I did not have two cases this time around because I've had to deal with this all a lot traveling internationally with my suitcases. There was a dog whenever I first got up there and I was actually happy because he was adorable. Very easy paper and pen type of check-in. I think I paid, I got it from a goda. And very, very friendly owner. It's a very basic simple room. There is a bed, there's a book. It's about it and it is not san proof in any way shape or form at all. The top is actually not ceilined in and outside the owner was making veggie dogs and the asked if I wanted one and I said yeah because I was kind of hungry and that was very, very kind of him. It's a whole vegetarian place so any food that they serve is all vegetarian which is kind of cool. It's an interesting place because it's kind of like a mixed vegan or hostile in a capsule hotel and also like a home stay, honestly. And to me it was very clean and did not smell bad or anything so that's a huge plus. I didn't sense any type of grimeiness. You can't make any noise because you're literally just in a tiny little pod with a bunch of other people around but some thin walls separating you. Yeah. Sure. Sure. Let me know my veggie dog was done and he didn't have to make it for me. It was just because it was being kind and I was glad I didn't have to go into the city to try and find something to eat because a lot of things are closed at that time. There's a very small kind of barstall area to eat and everything is very narrow and little. Obviously it's very small and closed space. No windows either. There was proper protocol for COVID and I brought a book to read and then I went and washed my face in the bathroom. I don't know why I tried my face with paper towels. They gave you a towel. I guess I forgot. As you can see there's a bunch of little pods or capsules, little rooms. You also get a key for your room so you can lock it whenever you come and go. This isn't really a place you would stay throughout the day. That's why I got there at night time so I could kind of just go to sleep pretty quickly. I tried to go to sleep but as you guys know I have severe insomnia at all times and I didn't really sleep but that's not the place's fault. I had to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. It was relatively quiet. I feel like if it wasn't during COVID it might be noisier and even harder to sleep. I feel like since there's no sound proofing at all you have to be a really heavy sleeper to be able to sleep in these types of places but that's how all hostels and capsule hotels are. Also when I booked on a good there was an option for a men's only space and then the normal space. So I got the normal space. I don't know where the separation was. Instead of sleeping I just went on my phone because I have Wi-Fi as well and I also just listen to music. It's hard to tell when morning is because there are no windows but in the morning I got up from my alarm but also around like 6 or 7 it's too noisy to be able to sleep anyways for me personally. So I got up and it went to get a shower to see what the shower is for like. Like I said because of COVID and no one's really traveling I feel like this place would probably be a lot more packed normally but it was there wasn't a lot of people so it was a good time to go anyways. So I forgot my toothbrush and don't judge me but I realized that this organic natural hand sanitizer that I have is actually just like peppermint oil so it's safe trust me. I looked at the ingredients. They also serve breakfast in the morning but I'm too shy to figure out where that was at. Also I wanted to get a bagel and coffee like a proper New Yorker so I skipped the breakfast but they had it from 8 till 11 and I went outside in the rain because it was a rainy day unfortunately. It was really nice to wake up and to be able to go right out into the city during a better time. I would have explored around but everything is fucked up so I got coffee and a bagel from us a shop. Everybody in the morning in New York City carries around a coffee I've noticed. I'm really good at finding the bus now back to New Jersey at the bus terminal but just not good at getting it into the city into New York. Alright so I'm back in New Jersey. So the plan was to spend time in New York today but since it's a rainy day I'm like what am I supposed to do because the only things I can do would be outside and it was raining and so I'm like I'm just going to go home and eat my bagel so I'll show you the bagel I got. I feel like I'm becoming proper New York. It's taking a lot of learning. This is how it goes in the culture. How many have. And yeah so we're going to do that because I'm angry and there might be a nap in the fall of today because I did not sleep at all. I never sleep at hostels and hotels. It's just a thing I kind of have come to accept. I don't even sleep at my own bed so I just don't sleep but it's very important for me to do these types of things. You guys might think it's weird. It's important to get out of my comfort zone and I haven't for a while now so yeah maybe I'll explain more when I'm eating my bagel. Let's look at the bagel that we got. I'll just use it as a hot and tick the work bagel. Hold on, I just got cream cheese everywhere. So I hope that you enjoyed this video. I was very sheltered growing up so I never got to go out and do anything or see any of the world. I was on a farm in the country and I never had any friends and I was homeschooled. Since I moved out I've just been doing as much as I can for the budget that I have and to put myself in interesting and sometimes uncomfortable but interesting situations. Whenever I don't do that for a while I start going inside myself and I start getting comfortable and I start getting scared of things. Going out and doing these things especially now during all of this having little mini adventures and stuff like that is really important for me and just to see new things and see new people I also socialize too much but I do as much as I can and that's the lesson for today. It doesn't have to make sense. Make sure you subscribe and like. I love you guys very much. Stay true to your trust and I'll see you in the next video. I'm going to put all good to that. I go home alone.