Great hotel, fantastic service, perfectly placed but breakfast for $150?!
This was another visit to our favorite city and the Hotel choice is crucial.
The Lowes Regency is quite delightful. The rooms were BIG (We opted for a Street View room on the 4th floor, 5 nights for circa £1100) and the service was second to none.
Hotel placement was perfect -- 2 blocks from Bloomingdales walking east and 3 blocks from Central park walking west. we even walked down to Greenwich Village as the weather was so wonderful.
The only slight wrinkle with our experience was the price of little essentials like Breakfast!
Paying just shy of $150 for 2x Egg Benedict, Orange Juice and Coffee does not represent a value experience in my book. However we soon discovered (after day 1) that there are a couple of nice little shops within a block walking East who will do you a take out breakfast -- in fact a feast for $30. After all, I'm a Brit from Scotland -- and we hate not getting value :-)
The room was very well prepared every day and spotlessly clean (as was the rest of the hotel)
If the food prices had been just a tad more reasonable then this hotel would have scored a 5 in every category, which would be the first hotel we've stayed anywhere that got close to a maximum score.
We would definitely go back