NYC hotel advice

Can we work out a discounted stay if we agree to babysit?

 

For a wedding weekend, how much time would you really spend in the room? There's a Red Roof Inn on 32nd, across from the Empire State Building. Small rooms, but nice, and chain-cheap. It's right in Koreatown and adjacent to Herald Square.

And, Jones, I hate to say it, but the Krispy Kreme on 23rd St. closed.

 

Ballscribe, the Hyatt is a lot better now. Rooms are much brighter, you don't feel like you are in a tomb.

 

I like the Crowne Plaza. It's on 42nd across town from where you want to be, but a reasonably safe neighborhood with more realistically priced dining options nearby (up Second Ave.) than you'd find near Times Square. There is a subway shuttle from Grand Central (two blocks) to Times Square. Rooms are small but nice and reasonably priced by Manhattan standards.

http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/cp/1/en/hotel/NYCUN/welcome

 

A vote for the brand new Holiday Inn Express a couple of blocks south of MSG. It's as clean as can be because it opened three months ago, and you get the respectable free breakfast to boot. Scored it for about $169/night on Travelocity for Thanksgiving weekend.

 

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

 

The only time I've been to New York was for a college newspaper convention in the early 90s and it was the Marriott in Times Square.
It had a great view, room was OK. I've stayed at nicer places since.
Oh and if anyone remembers the sports guy from Newsday/Post making fun of all of us aspiring sports scribes, I was there.
Basically the guy asked everyone in the room on what they wanted to cover and everyone raised their hands to the big pro and college beats. Then he asked who wanted to cover ice skating and gymnastics and such and no one raised their hand.
He was like, that's what I cover and I've been to every corner of the globe and my paper picked up the check for everything. You are all very stupid for not considering everything the paper covers.
That was going on 15 years ago and I still remember it. And I think the guy is still there, so Filip Bundy or something like that, maybe, you can suck it. But you were right

 

I stayed at the Warwick when I was there. They changed all their signage from "The Beatles once stayed here" to "Bubbler got his freak on here."

Or so I'm told.

 

Sold!

 

a second on Park Central- easy walk to Times Square and Central Park, great location, we stayed for $189.00/night over Labor Day weekend, nice affordable diner across the street, Carnegie Deli is biggest rip off in the world, go to Katz's or Sarge's

 

Inky:

Have you considered looking into a Priceline bid? Big cities like NYC have bargains galore on P/L. Never been to NYC so for individual hotels I'm not of much use

If you are looking at the Roosevelt Hotel (P/L 3*- mediocre reviews), it seems as if Midtown East, where the Roosevelt is located, sees the 4* Grand Hyatt come up frequently between $110 and $125 a nite (which means including tax out the door at around $150 a nite in Manhattan). It's gotten pretty decent overall reviews.

I use P/L frequently, so I can point you in the right direction if needed. Just send me a PM and I'll try to assist.