Where do you stay in NYC Red?
Just found out a few days ago I have Masters tickets again for next year, looking to add New York on afterwards.
Eyeing off a property overlooking Central Park but geez its expensive compared to most others.
Ah. Great great question Donald. I love talking about this sort of stuff.
We stay at the Hotel Giraffe on Park Avenue South. If you look it up on TripAdvisor you will see that it has been in the top 20 rated hotels for years and years. No mean feat given there’s thousands of hotels in NYC. (Note: be careful with TripAdvisor. Traveler rankings get distorted by new hotels and new and smaller volumes of ratings. Right now Hotel Giraffe is ranked 17, but in all reality looking at it, it’s about 10 because of the aforementioned.)
Yes, hotels in NYC are expensive. But Hotel Giraffe is quite reasonable I reckon. For the coming Christmas trip we’ve booked the same King Suite that we had on our last trip in 2019 before the world went into disarray. It has a separate closed off bedroom from the living area and is a little larger than the other standard rooms. NYC rooms aren’t big by general standards but our room in 2019 was ample for me and the missus and all our luggage and stuff. We've had friends follow our recommendation and stay in a non-suite and they loved it as well.
Heaps of great things about Hotel Giraffe. It’s a smaller relatively modern boutique hotel without all the impersonal attitude etc. of a large hotel. Very very clean. Good staff. Quiet as quiet goes in NYC.
Free continental breakfast each morning, free wine and cheese hour in the afternoon, free snacks etc. Great location – you’re right on the Green 6 line. Short walk to Madison Square Park (not to be confused with MSG), Flatiron Building, thousands of bars and restaurants including the famous Pete’s Tavern and Old Town Saloon Bar and so much more. You can walk to Grammercy Park, the Statue of Liberty, Rockefeller, Greenwich Village, West Village….heaps of places. Extraordinary convenient. Some people make the mistake of staying near Times Square which is ok, but very touristy, crowded, noisy etc. You can still walk 20 mins to Times Square from Hotel Giraffe anyway.
They usually have deals for multiple nights. Check them out. The photos on their website are 100% realistic.