<p>Sorry to ask again, but NYC is entirely too big and gives me headaches every time I try to plan travel. </p>
<p>Last time I went, I stayed at the Bentley - very nice hotel, wonderful people and outstanding service, and @ $200/night the price was right, but, it was horribly inconvenient - it ended up being very far away from anywhere I wanted to go, and therefore taxi travel was expensive and took forever to get anywhere. </p>
<p>Can anyone recommend a reasonably priced hotel that is a little closer in to the financial district (or what I assume is the financial district - if destination addresses are World Financial Center, etc.). </p>
<p>Also, what exactly is the difference between JFK and LGA? Is one airport more desirable than the other for some reason? I don’t think it makes much sense to use Newark anymore, because it’s so expensive, and takes so long to get into NYC from Newark - doesn’t make up for the lower priced airfare. </p>
<p>JFK is further from Manhattan and bigger and busier than LGA. Newark is not so far if you are heading to Lower Manhattan. Taxi can take the Holland Tunnel into Manhattan and that puts you down on Canal Street. LGA is most convenient to Midtown. </p>
<p>I haven 't stayed in any of these hotels, but geographically they are where you want to be:</p>
<p>Thanks Pyewacket that website helps a lot, at least I see there are lots of hotel choices with vacancies at reasonable prices in/near the financial district, and it looks like LGA is the best airport. Now hopefully the flights work…</p>
<p>I’ve stayed at a few hotels downtown and the one that I liked best (by far) was the Millenium Hilton on Church St. Great location, beautiful hotel and amenities, good restaurant. You can walk to anywhere in the financial district from there very easily. </p>
<p>If you are anywhere downtown in NYC, Newark is the airport of choice for convenience, not LaGuardia. If you’re in midtown, then LaGuardia is a better choice.</p>
<p>Though I don’t know much about NYC, I do know my husband always flies into Newark for Lower Manhattan meetings or to pick up his overseas flight out of Teterboro.</p>
<p>latetoschool: We stayed at the Hyatt on the Hudson in Jersey City (4* hotel), for about $100 a night!!! plus parking (through Hotwire). It is approx. 5 minutes direct from the World Trade Center via PATH, which cost $1.50 each way, at the time. The PATH station is literally on the same site as the Hyatt. The view was incredible. </p>
<p>Jersey City is not a walking neighborhood, if that is what you want. The area immediately around the Hyatt is under urban renewal, and very nice (but quite small). The PATH could not be more convenient, and it goes direct to the WTC station.</p>
<p>PM me if you’re interested, and I’ll try to remember more specifics.</p>
<p>I usually stay at the Milford Plaza, near Times Square when I’m in town. (It’s where all the airline pilots and personnel stay.) It’s not fancy, but reasonably priced and safe.</p>
<p>The New Jersey PATH train goes to a station at the World Trade Center hole-in-the-ground, at Church and Vesey (across the street from Millenium Hilton, as it turns out). The only thing wrong with the Mil Hilton is that it is very pricy. It was rebuilt after 9/11, though, and is really nice.</p>
<p>I’m at the Sheraton Manhattan in midtown right now, and it’s $285 a night. I’ve never been able to find a decent hotel in Manhattan for a cheap rate. There are some pretty dumpy hotels in town, but I haven’t tried them. This room is way overpriced – it’s the size of my kids’ bedrooms, and has a typical Sheraton mixture of room fixtures (dumpy desk, and lamps, semi-trashed dresser, new bed, wallpaper and carpeting – why can’t these people learn to copy Marriott?). Good luck.</p>
<p>Thanks for all of the help, I am going to try to book all of this today. What’s frustrating is that I cannot fix all of these places visually - for example, I cannot seem to find an interactive map that shows me distances and where things are…I have a travel agent I use for really complicated trips, but, sheesh, I should be able to figure out NYC by myself…</p>
<p>AAA has a street map of New York City. Instead of asking for the New York map you can ask for the NYC map. If you don’t belong, I think their map prices are @ $4.50.</p>
<p>lts, here’s a link to the MTA lower Manhattan map. It isn’t necessarily interactive but if you use the zoom feature you can clearly see the entire Financial District in close detail with hotels and other buildings distinctly marked.</p>
<p>Have you tried maps.google.com and then search for businesses? You can enter a specific biz name and it pops up on the map. And you can zoom to whatever level you want.</p>
<p>Thanks again for all of the help, especially the maps! </p>
<p>I tried all of the hotels recommended here and they were full - so - I sent email asking for a recommendation to one of my good friends at one of the companies in NYC, and, they sent me email back basically saying “LTS, knowing how strict you are about spending money we recommend you stay at the YMCA, sorry but we couldn’t resist saying that” - lol - and then they recommended some REAL hotels, which were also all full, and, one had a vacancy that was $500/night, which I am not going to pay, but which they think is perfectly reasonable and normal. </p>
<p>I finally ended up at the Sheraton Manhattan, $230/night. Much better and hopefully it’s within reasonable range of everywhere I want to go… </p>
<p>I really do need to spend some time studying the maps that are posted and learning more about NYC, so I don’t have to start a new thread every time I have to go there…but, anyway, the responses are all very much appreciated.</p>
<p>You should really consider using the subway during business hours–take 1 or 9 train downtown from 50th St. and 7 th Avenue
Fastest, cheapest and most efficient way to get there.</p>
<p>Here are directions to WFC:
1 or 9 to Chambers Street.
Exit train station onto West Broadway; walk west on Chambers Street and cross West Street; turn left on North End Avenue; left on Vesey Street.</p>
<p>Once you master the subway system, NYC is a piece of cake–at least Manhattan, outer boroughs are only for the experts. If you are staying at least 5 days-- a one week MetroCard gives you unlimited rides OR you can buy 11 rides for the price of 10.</p>
<p>Agree with pyewacket–no reason not to take the subway from midtown to downtown—fast, inexpensive, and all in all a perfectly standard thing to do. Lower Manhattan is very walkable, in any case, so weather permitting you should have a nice walk from your subway stop to wherever you are going (map in hand).</p>
<p>I would consider the Holiday Inn Downtown. Located near Chinatown, Little Italy, SOHO, Wall Street, City Hall. Nearby access to N,Q,R,J,M,6 subway lines. Safe and quite fashionable neighborhood now.</p>
<p>Thanks for the suggestion to use the subway system - I’ve only ever attempted it twice, and the first time found it hopelessly confusing; the second time, ending up standing for over an hour enroute to a destination. But it makes sense to learn and I will have to go to NYC several times this year. I’m more used to the Washington D.C. metro, but, it has only five lines, compared to NYC, which seems to have like a zillion. </p>
<p>Thanks Frankie for the Holiday Inn suggestion - I’ll try that one next trip, in March.</p>
<p>I’m writing this from a room at the Sheraton Manhattan – perfectly OK hotel, if not really first-rate. You managed to get a better rate than our corporate travel coordinator. Ask for a room on the 16th floor – it was just reopened yesterday after being closed for a spruce up – new bed, carpeting, paint, and wallpaper.</p>