Consider this: Your nice, Midwestern parents are coming to New York City for the weekend, and because you live in the proverbial shoebox, they can't stay with you. And with Manhattan hotel prices as sky high as the Empire State Building, asking your nice, Midwestern parents to shell out $400-plus for the pleasure of being in your company for three nights seems like, well--a lot to ask. So what do you do? Book them in an outer-borough hotel, specifically, in the industrial section of Long Island City, Queens.

How does it turn out, you ask? ]]> jennm 2008-10-07T12:33:47-05:00 40.7522027 -73.935654 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/6/16/132939/434 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/11725/04.jpg" class="imgborder"><p> New York's five boroughs can easily be equated with select members of the Brady Bunch: Manhattan is so obviously <i>Marsha, Marsha, Marsha!</i> and Brooklyn, with its hipster scene and neighborhoody vibe is paramount to Cindy and her lisp--annoying, but also cute on occasion. <p>The Bronx, with its northern location, is sort of like when Greg finally landed his own room in the attic and Staten Island is the borough we liken to Jan, since it never gets any respect.<p> Then there's Queens. Very much the forgotten borough unless its baseball season; sort of like how no one remembers any significant story line for Bobby except the episode where he got to play football with Joe Namath. <p> jennm 2008-06-16T14:06:43-05:00 40.754130 -73.949338 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/