AVOID THE 30TH FLOOR AT ALL COSTS
We have stayed at this hotel many times over the years. Most of the rooms (not all, as we found out on this trip) are laid out as small apartments with the bedroom and living areas being separate rooms, which we greatly enjoy. On this trip, we were given a room on the 30th floor, the top residential floor. The view was spectacular and the room greatly upgraded. HOWEVER, as we found out to our chagrin, the 31st floor is now a restaurant/cocktail bar/lounge with people scraping chairs over the wooden floor until 2:00 a.m. and a breakfast crew starting at 6:00 a.m. The first night (a Friday) wasn't too bad, but on Saturday night, we had to move rooms well after midnight since it was impossible to sleep. Despite the touting of one of the management team that all the rooms are alike, the room they moved us to was not a suite (no separate living area),but we were too tired to do anything until the next day, when we moved again. The third room we were in did not have the sound-proofing in the windows of the other rooms. When we checked out we asked for and received a credit for the night we had to move (nobody offered it to it), but we will be looking for a different hotel for our next trip to New York.