Perfect hotel to explore NYC from..
My husband and I stayed here on our way home from honeymoon.
The location is on 35th street just off 5th and from the roof deck you can see The Empire State building which is nice.
We were on the last leg of our honeymoon and when we checked in they said they had no idea that we were and had they known they would have tried to give us a better room. The next day in our room we had a bottle of bubbly and a card to say congrats, so although our room was pretty small they did do a little something for us.
The breakfast is a self serve continental and we have been to these before and if your not down by 7am there is nothing left, imagine our surprise when we went down at 9.30am to have fresh coffee put out and lots and lots of food there still. It was the best self service we have seen.
There is a guy called Jeff who will help you with your tours etc and he is very very nice and very helpful although the only thing I would say is he did say we should get the shuttle back to JFK and we did which was a nightmare..........
We took a cab from JFK to get there that cost us $55 the shuttle cost $24 each! so much the same however the cab takes you right to JFK the shuttle however picked us up from the hotel and drove round the city for 1 and a half hours picking others up before we even left for the airport! Bad advice from Jeff on this one but apart from that he was great.
The rooms are small but if you are sitting in your room and not out and about then you have gone to the wrong city. The hotel is 2 mins walk from Empire State building and about 10 mins stroll from Times Square. Shopping on 34th street is right around the corner and there is lots of places to eat and drink close by.
One evening we took a couple of bottles of Corona (which we had bought from the local store) up to the roof deck and sat under the stars and the lights of Empire State building, it was great to sit back after a long day up there.
Would stay again in a heartbeat. A great little find!