Everything & Anything New York City

lewroll

Many thanks for your helpful comments.

We are in New York for 5 nights.

We would like to 'get away with' spending about £100 per room per night and still get a clean decent hotel in a safe area. (Is that feasible?)

Would like to be in a convenient area for the main areas of New York ie close to subway or within walking distance.

We would not like to be in an industrial estate type setting.

2 double beds sound fine - just meant we didn't want to have to share a double bed!

Us Girlies like to think that we are a bit of both type of drinker and socialiser - mature enough for a cocktail before AND after a show and also up for drinking in rocking bars as well!!!

Thanks for your heads up on the website and please keep giving your suggestions because they are welcome:T

Lady_S

lewroll wrote: »

Hello New York Experts!

My friend and I (two females) will be in New York for the first time end of May, beginning of June:j.
Any particular hotels you would recommend to us? Would like a nice, clean hotel with twin beds at reasonable cost and in a reasonable area please?

Also any suggestions of things not to miss? Also any reasonable places to eat and drink?:D

All help appreciated.

If you have a look on trip advisor for reviews so you have an idea what the hotel is like before you go.

I think most if not all hotels do twin bedded rooms, although this is the US so it will be two doubles, not two singles. Just keep an eye out in the room description for two queen beds, or two kind beds.

Which area you stop and what you want to do is very personal, and I would just suggest having a good read on the net or in a book about what things are important to you.

natsplatnat

Hi All!

I am off to the States! Am uber-excited even though its not til May. Have booked my flights (Boston return) already - was chuffed that I managed to get them for £264.17 ret, traded in some nectar points for an extra £60.00 off the Virgin Sale price via Expedia.

I am travelling to visit my friend in NH, so accomodation for the majority of the trip is free, but we are going to spend 3 nights in NYC!! (again, uber-excited!). We will be there from the 13th. Now I have started my homework on the hotels, but seem to be either going insane, or round and round in circles. I have decided that I think that priceline is the way forward - just wondering if anyone has any feedback through using it themselves, or if anyone has found a better sight for booking decent (sorry, I am a snob!!) 4*+ hotels with maximum discounts?

Many thanks in advance, Nats

lewroll

M4RKM wrote: »

The biggest stumbling block is the budget. £100 a night is VERY low for NYC, even for a room with 1 bed in, let alone 2 beds. Currently, that works out at $160 per night, then deduct the cost of tax (which isn't advertised in room rates circa 15%) then you only have $139 a night

I've guessed some random dates, (28th May - 2nd June 5 nights), and 2 double beds at the Cosmopolitan works out at $179 a night before tax.

The Quality Inn, which is in Long Island City, Queens (1 stop away from Manhattan on the subway, comes in at $150 a night before tax, so being brutal here, you have no choice of area, because you have no budget to play with.

So, you want a suggestion.. The Cosmopolitan is a basic hotel, but in a superb area right outside a subway station, and close to many others too. You can get up into Midtown in 12 minutes, and you're not short of bars and restaurants in a more village style of setting. The grand total for 5 nights currently there, including tax is $1064.72 (around £135 a night), so my suggestion is to increase your budget, there is no simpler way around it.

If you increase it to £135 a night, you won't get a choice of hotel, but at least you'll get a hotel in Manhattan, which is where you want to be.

M

Thanks for that M.

Would £150 a night give us a far better choice or would you personally stick with the Cosmopolitan? Appreciate your help because you seem to know what you are talking about!!:T

Savvy_Sue

greenface wrote: »

savvy-sue where is your "special ring"??

:rotfl: Your mind! It's on my finger, right hand. I should have called it an eternity ring, but it's not, it's one DH gave me for a wedding anniversary.

Anyway, for anyone else with fingers like balloons in NYC, for whom soap and water isn't doing the trick getting the rings off, I remembered a tip from somewhere else on MSE, that you thread cotton through the ring, and work that around your finger, pulling the ring with it. I hope that makes some kind of sense.

lewroll wrote: »

Would £150 a night give us a far better choice or would you personally stick with the Cosmopolitan? Appreciate your help because you seem to know what you are talking about!!:T

Mark would happily go back to the Cosmo although he has stayed elsewhere, and I would happily go back to the Cosmo even though I've only been to NYC once so have nothing there to compare it with.

Comparing it with the two other hotels we stayed at in the USA, it wasn't as impersonal as the Holiday Inn we used in New Brunswick, and it was INFINITELY better than the Motel in Wildwood. And that was one of the higher rated motels on TripAdvisor ...

HGLTsuperstar

Just one point - is that £100 per night budget per person - if so then as rooms in NY are sold on a per room basis, not per person, then you'd be looking at up to £200 per night which opens up your options considerably.

watpoae

Just a heads up.. I got my booking for the cosmopolitan this summer quite a bit cheaper using hotels.com instead of hotelconxions.

Lady_S

lewroll wrote: »

Thanks for that M.

Would £150 a night give us a far better choice or would you personally stick with the Cosmopolitan? Appreciate your help because you seem to know what you are talking about!!:T

Just to throw some other ideas into the mix ( I searched on the same dates as Mark,,,,

Affinia Shelburn, gets good reviews £637.55 through lastminute.com

New Yorker ( not stopped here, but my friend swears by it) £700 through octopus travel.

Hilton on 6th, £712 through lastminute.com

bpe

If it helps, I just booked 4* hotel, the Intercontinental for 3 nights at £415, which was the total price inclusive of taxes during mid April.

I did this through Hotwire so I didn't know the hotel name beforehand, but if you visit betterbidding dot com and check the forum you'll get a reasonable idea. Since seen mixed reviews about the rooms on trip advisor but location was more important to us (right near Grand Central station, wanted the Grand Hyatt really)

thatsfabulous

Lady_S wrote: »

New Yorker ( not stopped here, but my friend swears by it) £700 through octopus travel.

I have a couple of friends that do also, I think the location is very good.

I really liked the New yorker they have got very nice rooms & big too however If I stayed here again I wouldnt pay for upgraded room. On website and every other website it says upgraded room you get a view and when I checked in having booked it 8 months before I got told ( exact words) ' your view is a brick wall' because the hotel is full. I said it wasnt 8 months ago when I booked and payed extra for upgraded room inc a view.
Eventually I got a better room but had to fight for what I had payed for getting answered back and told ' I'm wrong' for 20mins, the check in staff dont seem to have good customer service here that seems to be there only downfall in my experience and others seem to say same on TA. Its a shame about that concidering they are such a big hotel.