The Five Best Hotels for NYC's St. Patrick's Day Parade

February 24, 2010 at 2:09 PM | by MsRebecca | Comment (1)

Note: Not all hotels will look as charming as this photo but it depends on how many green beers you have. It's ok. Beer goggles happen to the best of us.

Now that Valentine�s Day is dispensed with, hotels are tearing down the pink and putting up the green. Aye, St. Patrick�s Day is the next big chance for hotels to offer holiday packages, and house lots of drunk people wearing �Kiss Me, I�m Irish� T-shirts and leprechaun hats. New York City is, of course, home to one of the biggest public celebrations of St. Pat�s Day and, after a day spent inside a glass of Guinness, most revelers will need a hotel room.

The annual St. Patrick�s Day Parade is the highlight of the day (unless you�re a Midtown office worker), starting at 44th Street and Fifth Avenue at 11 a.m., and finishing up at 86th Street around 4:30 p.m. There are plenty of ritzy hotels along the route (The Peninsula, The Pierre, and The Plaza, just to name a few), but somehow we feel you�ll be more at home at one of these five spots after your day at the parade or at the pub.

Fitzpatrick Grand Central Hotel: It�s Irish, after all. And the rooms are pretty. Arrive early if you can�the hotel�s pub The Wheeltapper will be chock-a-block. Big spenders may like to band together and book The Liam Neeson Penthouse Suite on the 10th floor. It has a large patio and room for 35 for cocktails. Regular rooms start at $239 a night on March 17.

The New York Helmsley Hotel: Walking in the parade? You get a special rate here, thanks to a deal struck by the NYC St. Patrick�s Day Parade Committee. Call Adeline Colon on 212.405.4208 and use promo code SSP2010 to get rooms for $175. Rooms for non-paraders start at $225 a night.

The Muse New York: It�s on the other side of town from the parade, but this Kimpton property on West 46th is offering a You�re in Luck package from March 1st�31st. Starting at $299 a night based on double occupancy, it includes two bottles of Guinness upon check-in, a continental breakfast for two at NIOS restaurant, and a map of the best Irish pubs in the neighborhood. (Um, they�re usually the ones with green exteriors.) If you book this package for three nights, you get the fourth night free. Additionally, the 17th person to check in on March 17th gets that night�s stay free of charge. Call 617.772.5842 to reserve.

The Strand: It�s located a little below the Grand Central area where the parade kicks off, but it has one big attraction going for it. A very big, green one. Ask for a room with an Empire State Building view and you�ll get to enjoy the landmark lit up in green for St. Paddy�s Day. Regular rooms start at $205 a night on March 17th, but the deluxe rooms (more likely to have views) are around $255 and up.

Holiday Inn Express Fifth Ave: If you�re getting drunk all day, you don�t need a fancy hotel room, just a place to lay your head once you finally fall over. This Holiday Inn is ideally located for St. Patrick�s Day revelry, was renovated in 2009, and has a complimentary hot breakfast bar to treat your hangover on March 18th. Bonus: There�s free WiFi for uploading all those drunken photos to Facebook. Rooms start at $232 a night.

[Photos: Fitzpatrick Hotels/Helmsley Hotels/The Muse Hotel/HotelChatter/Holiday Inn]

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