The Hurricane Sandy Experience
This was our first trip to NYC. To do all the tourist stuff, eat the local food, drink the local drink, shopping and see all the sites in New York even had a Helicopter tour lined up for my wife’s birthday, it was going to be ‘great’.
When we arrived at the Bryant Park Hotel we were acknowledged by every member of staff on duty in the foyer, which was nice as you felt welcomed and feeling that they were glad to see us.
Our room was already booked as part of a package, we were offered a up grade (at a little extra cost) which we took up and glad we did, the view from our suite on the twelfth floor was WOW we could even see the lights in Times Square. On our first night in the hotel a maid knocked on our door for the turn down service, we declined, but she gave us a handful of chocolates anyway, nice,
On our second night in NYC Hurricane Sandy hit, and at about 8.30 all the electric went off in the hotel and all the surrounding area, a member of staff came to our room and explained what was happening, gave us emergency lighting, and told us that they were available if we needed anything.
We just feel asleep and didn’t hear a thing of the ongoing Hurricane, good sound proofing or just a bit jet lagged?
On the following day all the water service in the hotel went down, so we decided to move to a hotel not affected by the Hurricane. The Front Office Manager phoned round several hotels in New York, and found us a hotel with vacancies on Lexington Avenue, we were very grateful to him for doing this.
We didn’t have the best trip to New York, as everything was closed and no transport was running. We intend to go back to NYC and finish what we started, in the new year, I think we will go back to Bryant Park Hotel, not only for it’s great location, but we were impressed by the professionalism of the staff at the Bryant Park.