NYC Hotel--Times Sq or Park View

bclintonk
Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:40:28 +0000

Prices of NYC hotels bounce up and down in unpredictable patterns. My family & I had a great time staying at the Marriott Marquis at a conference rate in the off-season, but ordinarily it’s unaffordable for us. Two nice Upper West Side hotels with easy access to Times Square (and from there the rest of the city) are the Lucerne at 79th & Amsterdam (1 block from the subway at 79th & Broadway and a couple of blocks west from the Museum of Natural History and Central Park) and the Hotel Newton, a small European-style hotel on Broadway between 94th & 95th (1 block from the subway at 96th & Broadway). These are not Times Square locations but they provide easy access to Times Square, the Upper West Side, and via subway pretty much anywhere you’d want to go in the city. I can’t vouch for prices, though. We tend to go to NY in the off-season when things are reasonable. Summer would be the high season. But for quality and value, these are two of the better hotels we’ve found in NYC. I’d check the hotel websites and several reputable travel sites to see if you can find a good deal.