Can't afford the Plaza? Check into the City Club Hotel. The hotel is currently offering rates of $185 on Quikbook.com. (What is up with Quikbook and insanely cheap NYC prices?)
We did some searching and found a room there available this weekend, March 7 and 8th for that rate along with a free pass to the nearby New York Sports Club gym.
However, it is for the tiniest room category in the hotel--"One person max" says the description--and it comes with a full bed. A queen luxe room bumps up to $245 and a king luxe bumps to $295.
If you can split with a friend, the luxe double double is going for $345 which is $172.50 per person, which brings us back under $200 again. Circle completed!
We stayed at the City Club in March 2006 and we got a great spell of warm weather much like NYC is having right now.
The rooms are tiny and the views are awful but it's a Jeff Klein property. The decor is hip, the location central and the WiFi free. Plus Daniel Bouloud's DB Bistro is on the first floor. Mmmm....
Remember, hotel qt? the glorified scene hostel where you can actually get a hotel room in Manhattan for under $200? Well, we spent the night there recently. We were not lucky enough to pay under $200, however, we did pay $239 in all for our "F" type platform and it lived up to its just-a-step-above a pod room billing.
New York City hotel rates have been hit by the January thaw, thus it is a great time to snag some Manhattan hotel nights.
Late last week we decided to keep costs low and shack up at André Balazs's quickly-becoming-legendary boutique dorm hotel in Midtown -- Hotel QT. Our "Type F" room ran us $239 for the night and lived up to its just-a-step-above a pod room billing.
Platform bed, small flat screen television, and very little room to do much more than sleep. The pool area was fairly quiet, though we did see a naked dude coming out of the sauna while sitting up in the lounge area. Isn't that the way André envisioned it? Modern day turkish bath and all?
These days everyone is looking for four bar, non-complicated, hotel WiFi when they check in. Sure there are a bunch of hotel WiFi lists out there, but they are quickly out of date and unreliable. This week, as a lead up to our popular annual hotel WiFi report, we will let you know our favorite WiFi hotels in five hot travel destinations. The rules are simple. The signal has to fast, and reliable, the cost should be free (at the very least free for guests) and the WiFi experience at these hotels offer a comfortable surfing environment. Have a city or destination you want us to investigate? Let us know. And if you have a favorite WiFi hotel you are willing to share, no matter where it is send it our way.
Bravo W Hotels it took you a couple years, but it looks like you got hotel wireless right, eventually. We remember a time when you wanted us to call your lobbies living rooms and we scoffed. Well guess what? We get it now.
W Union Square might just be the perfect wireless lobby. The four bar signal is strong, there are no sign up screens, and there are just enough chairs and tables for a limited amount of people to quickly work in a virtual way. The best part? Because of the set up there is a constantly shifting cast of hard working characters in the lobby living room and no one is abusing the system.
Best Part:
This hotel has the perfect layout for free WiFi. There are two lobbies (sort of), separated by stairs, and the downstairs lobby lends itself perfectly to business wireless activity. Sales pitches, job interviews, and venture capital meetings all happened while we were getting some work done in this made-for-free WiFi lobby. Oh, and coffee is served from a nearby bar.
Last week, we gave you a peek of the rug in our room at the legendary Waldorf-Astoria which surprised us because it was so...well...ugly and we thought the Waldorf was all swanky and stuff. Lesson learned. Words like legendary and famed often mean "old" and "outdated."
If only video cameras could capture smells because if that were true you would all be getting high watching this video. That's right. Immediately upon stepping out of the elevator on the 16th floor, we smelled some herb.
Our dear old mother thought it was a skunk but we had to explain that when you encounter this type of smell on a highway, then it's most likely a skunk. Indoors, however, that's some weed we are talking about.
See for yourself right here. The other day we got a live tip from Jessica who was staying at the Wellington Hotel aka The Borat Hotel in Manhattan.
She was extremely disappointed with the false advertising of kitchenettes, the falling-apart furniture and the poor service. And today, she was kind enough to send us the pics from her room.
Ugh, we would rather watch the naked wrestling scene in Borat in slow motion than have to stay in this room.
Usually, Thursdays is our day for Killer Views but we just received two photos taken from The Bryant Park Hotel and we thought we would share with you ASAP. After all, a Killer View in Manhattan is hard to come by.
Kris Koeller writes:
The Bryant Park is my definite favorite when staying in NYC, they have, in my opinion, the best bathrooms in the City.
I stayed in 1401 this past May, in a Park View Room, and a quite a view it was. Both of these were shot from my window around dusk, one of the park, Rock center and the public library, the other of the sunset on the West side of Bryant Park.
Even though Mid-August is indisputably the crappiest part of summer in Manhattan, the Millenium Hilton in the financial district is looking... not so crappy at all.
We tried booking a room for August 17th and found out that we could score one for under $200-- $194.65, to be precise. With that kickass rate, we don't care about the heat so much. Plus, who doesn't love an awesome indoor pool?
The only catch is that you have to make your reservation online and pay fully in advance, but if you're cool with that, then you've got a pretty sweet deal.
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