<p>Looking for hotel recommendations in New York–Union Square area for one night. A friend and I just got tickets to attend an event in the area. Don’t want to pay huge $$–realize it’s the last minute. We can drive to Stamford, CT afterward–friend has family there, but we would prefer to stay in the city. We are driving to the city from MA.</p>
<p>Try Priceline or Hotwire, being careful to pick the area you want. Last year on a day’s notice I got a very nice hotel room for $129/night a couple blocks from Grand Central Station. (Not quite the area you’re looking for, but gives you an idea.)</p>
<p>D and I stayed at the Best Western in Long Island City at about 21st and 40th. There’s not much parking, and it’s not on Manhattan, but the subway is 1 block and you cross on the Queensboro (south end of Central Park) so it’s super convenient. It was nice and very reasonable.</p>
<p>RE: Priceline and Hotwire, just be aware that both only guarantee a room that will sleep 2 (if that is what you put in Hotwire search). As NYC rooms are notoriously small, that often means sharing one bed and more often than other cities it is a double rather a queen. There are sites to assist with bidding (betterbidding and biddingfortravel) so you can make more educated choices, but it works best for those who are flexible and have the time to learn how to bid and rebid.</p>
<p>Not many hotels in the Union Square area actually. I work near Herald Square and there are a surprising number of small chain hotels on random streets like Hampton Inn, Hilton Garden Inn, Courtyard Marriott and the same with Times Square. There are newer chain hotels closer to 9th/10th Avenue in the 40’s and 50’s.</p>
<p>Hmmm…when using priceline or Hotwire, how about putting THREE as the number in your room. I’m guessing that would get you two beds!</p>
<p>According to Priceline rules, you are only guaranteed a room for two persons. Sometimes after a Priceline reservation is made, you could call the hotel and request 2 beds or an extra cot be brought in.Usually the hotel will say they would try, but no guarantees. If I have 3 people or need 2 beds, I don’t bid on Priceline.</p>
<p>That’s odd…it has been a while, but our family of four bid on a Priceline room for Williamsburg…no problem…and got two beds. The drop down includes more than 2. Maybe we were just lucky?</p>
<p>oops…wrong thread</p>
<p>I have used Priceline and Hotwire quite a bit and once with Hotwire when I put 3 adults in the criteria I was given a room with one king and they offered a roll away. We actually did have 3 adults so I wasn’t too happy. Hotwire offered me a small credit on a future stay but said as long as room technically fit 3 their hands were tied. This was in DC, but I know NY has many more rooms with doubles than other cities I’ve visited so I am a bit reluctant any time I need at least a queen as my H is not a small guy.</p>
<p>thumper, perhaps you didn’t make a Priceline NYOP reservation. I know the NYOP option only guarantees double occupancy.</p>
<p>I will be booking a hotel room for few nights while we pack up to move to our new coop. I am not see much of a deal. I can’t afford to stay over at 9th or 10th Ave because it would be too far to get to work and back to our apartment.</p>
<p>I’d also check bedbugregistry.com… just saying. I stayed near Lincoln Center when I had to go to NYC when Barnardgirl was having a medical emergency. I got a lovely room at The Empire. I don’t know how far that is from where you need to be, but it’s right by Columbus Circle so transportation is easy from there. I loved the room and the area. </p>
<p>Just looked at Google maps and it’s not very close… but it was a great hotel and I plan to stay there again.</p>
<p>I started looking at a map and found that our event (Mary Oliver poetry reading) was in the Meatpacking District. I found two hotels on booking.com–in the $450-500 price range that are close to the event (we can walk) and got good reviews. One is The Jade Hotel and the other is Hotel Gansevoort. Going to see which has cheaper parking and make the reservation. Will report on the results.</p>
<p>Bromfield, is there any reason why you need to be able to walk to this event? There are tons of taxis in NYC, and the subway and bus systems. Seems like $450-$500 is a high price…even for manhattan.</p>
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