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• Christopher Brady
  ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
  Update: (6/20/17)
  The wedding I attended while on Fire Island was incredible – amazing food/band/service – couldn’t say enough to do it justice.
  
  I didn’t mention it in my initial review because it was irrelevant to my experience at this hotel. The fact that, in their response to my review, the owner felt compelled to invoke the fact that I was attending a wedding in order to imply that I indicated I had a negative experience at said wedding (probably in the hopes I would take my review down) is very questionable.
  
  The claim that Blue Waters Hotel was called the “gem of Fire Island” by the NY Times is also fallacious – it was The Seasons Bed and Breakfast that got the nice little write-up over twenty years ago. Furthermore, when you use quotes like that, it’s meant to convey that those words were actually written, in that order.
  
  What was in fact written in the 1996 NY Times article was: “We were taken with one little gem: The Seasons Bed and Breakfast on Dehnhoff Walk... Otherwise, it seemed, the pickings in Ocean Beach were slim: isolated rooms or the occasional rooming house with barrackslike accommodations and little privacy or little sanitation or neither." The latter portion of that quote would be describing the Blue Waters Hotel.
  /update
  
  Do not stay here -- get an Airbnb, even if it's more expensive (which it won't be if you have three or more people contributing). You are paying over $200/night to stay in a room that makes the Lincoln Tunnel Motel seem spacious and luxurious.
  
  And beware of the MANDATORY $10 CASH GRATUITY when you check in. I wonder if the IRS is aware of this practice...
  
  The lady at the desk didn't seem very happy when I made her write out a receipt for this preposterous "cover charge". I ruminated over it for a while and realized that all the Managers are doing with this practice is divesting their actually-working staff of departing tips they otherwise would have received, had unwitting occupants not been robbed of ten-dollars cash from the get-go (I don't mean to imply that there was any cleaning service -- there wasn't).
  
  I guess I didn't hide my disgust at their blatant and shameless cash-grab, since I was put in Room 21...
  
  At 6AM the following morning, I awoke to some very loud thumping on the wall adjacent to the headboard of my bed. I was extremely tired and hungover, so I tried to sleep in. After ninety sleepless and progressively angry minutes, I stormed out of my room to round the corner and realize I shared a paper-thin wall with the working station of the hotel's "kitchen". When I asked the lady in charge of making the food to not bang every dish, pot, pan, and portable appliance at her disposal against the wall, she just shook her head - someone then informed me that she didn't understand English. So I said to her, "disculpame, pero me cuarto esta al lado de su cocina y yo tengo mucho sueno". She then became very apologetic, but the damage was done -- I was cranky all day.
  
  After all that, I became used to the very small, two-night-mandatory, half-the-cost-paid-at-the-time-of-reservation, single-window, moldy-smelling room that only contained one queen-sized bed and two small nightstands (NOT EVEN A CHAIR).
  
  I was just grateful that we were given soap, towels, and an air conditioner at this point. And it turned out we were lucky -- our friend in Room 16 had absolutely no hot water.
  
  On the second morning, I was not awoken by culinary thumping until about 8AM or so, which was fine since I had a ferry to catch to get far away from this place. Breakfast was exactly the same as the day before (not bad truthfully - cheesy eggs, cheesy scalloped potatoes, and cornbread).
  
  But I would sooner rent a buoy to cling to overnight in the Great South Bay before I would ever stay at this third-rate, price-gouging, flophouse again.
  
  I've attached my receipt for the TEN-DOLLAR MANDATORY CASH GRATUITY AT CHECK-IN to this review, just in case you don't believe me.

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