HotelChatter - Tag: Hotel Rates

Average Hotel Room in New York Costs $350

KatieK — 2008-08-26T12:10:02-05:00

<![CDATA[<img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/hc_reader_deals.jpg">Yikes. No wonder New York is the self-professed city that never sleeps: At an <a href="http://www.nysun.com/new-york/hotel-occupancy-rate-rising-data-show/83685/">average of $350 a night</a> in a hotel room, who can afford any shut-eye? That figure spiked $50 in May from a year ago, according to figures released this week by the official marketing and tourism organization for the Big Apple. And even though 90 percent of all those spendy rooms were filled (that's some 2.05 million rooms), we're still betting the $99 rooms at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/The%20Jane%20Hotel">Jane Hotel</a> couldn't come any quicker for travelers en route to New York. Speaking of which: for a visual dose of depressing hotel rates, search for Manhattan on <a href="http://hotelmapsearch.com/">Hotel Map Search,</a> a handy guide to

Where Else Can You Stay for $725 a night?

pbb — 2008-01-08T14:55:18-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/bowery_terracesuite.jpg" class="imgborder">The Bowery Hotel's Terrace SuiteNow that we know how pricey Bobby DeNiro's hotel will be (<a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/1/7/23948/37289/hotels/Bobby_DeNiro_s_Greenwich_Hotel_Gets_a_Website_And_Is_Now_Taking_Names">$725 a night!</a>), it's time to wonder, "Where can we put that much money to good use?" First, a couple NYC options. Good old <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Six+Columbus+Hotel/local/25">Six Columbus</a> has a King Suite available for $625, which is the property's priciest room. It comes with all <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/10/8/235750/641/hotels/We_Spent_the_Night_at_Six_Columbus">the standard amenities</a> plus two flat screen TVs and, of course, tons of square footage. Suites at <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Bowery+Hotel/local/220">The Bowery Hotel</a> go for $750, where you get hardwood floors, 400 thread count sheets, marble bathrooms and other niceties like outdoor terraces with jacuzzis. The priciest suite at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Duane+Street+Hotel/local/118">Duane Street Hotel</a>, in TriBeCa like DeNiro's place,

Business Travelers Start to 'Just Say No'

Tim L. — 2007-07-12T13:21:01-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/justsayno_2.jpg" class="imgborder"/>Reps for <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Six+Columbus+Hotel/local/25">Six Columbus</a>, the eternally unopened Manhattan hotel, have told us that the hotel would like to go after a high-end business traveler. But if this is the kind of group the hotel is targeting, they may want to consider lowering the rates.According to a July 3 article in the Wall Street Journal, "This year more than 76 percent of employers say they are booking fewer luxury hotels in favor of midclass properties." Titled Business Travel, Downgraded, the article provides anecdotes of business travelers sleeping on friend's sofas, doubling up in rooms, and downgrading to much cheaper hotels. Meaning intstead of a Four Seasons or a Thompson Hotel, biz travelers will be hitting up Doubletree or

New York: Semi-Real-Time Hotel Rate Check: Soho Grand

markj — 2006-10-17T16:02:21-05:00

People tend to ask us a lot of hotel rate related questions--go figure.

Seeing that we love to help, or at least feign helpfulness, we figured we would take you through our case study of booking a hotel in downtown New York.

No single source will always net you the lowest hotel rate, as always, caveat emptor.

In our case we knew where we were staying: Soho Grand. Futhermore, our date was not flexible, October 24th was a must.

With this in mind we used three online methods and one analog method to book our room. Results post click.