Hotels in NYC

[DelawareGuy]

Looks like I'm going to have to make a road trip to NYC to meet some of the guys that have been recommended in other threads. Can someone recommend reasonably-priced hotels that are in a good area? Gay owned would be great too!

[eastbayguy]

>Looks like I'm going to have to make a road trip to NYC to

>meet some of the guys that have been recommended in other

>threads. Can someone recommend reasonably-priced hotels that

>are in a good area? Gay owned would be great too!

 

Not sure there's any such thing.

 

My two favorites in NYC are the Royalton at 44 West 44th Street, near Times Square. The number is (212) 869-4400.

 

Another favorite is the Hotel Chelsea.

 

Depending on day of week, time of year, etc, I've been able to negotiate rates at both of these hotels that were favorable compared to standard rates. Your mileage may vary, etc etc. Have also gotten terrific rates at the Paramount, also near Times Square through careful use of Priceline.

 

--EBG

[Retired Fly Boy]

Hotels.com has a weekend special at the Helmsley Park Lane Hotel on Central Park South (West 59 St.) near Fifth Avenue. It is next door to The Plaza, about as good a neighborhood as you will find. The price is two hundred dollars below the regular rate at this hotel. Orbitz also has a gay web site and will look up gay friendly hotels for you. You are better off in Manhattan mid town, the West 57 Street area. (Carnegie Hall) You can walk to most places of interest and to the Gaiety.:9

[BigK]

I recommend Priceline.

[Luv2play]

I don't know what kind of accomodation you are exactly looking for but if Gay owned is a major point, I know two reasonably priced gay-owned and managed hotels (one is actually a guest-house). The hotel is in Chelsea on 22nd, I believe, just west of 8th Ave. It's called the Colonial but I don't have their tel. number. You can look it up. The rooms are small but you are right in the heart of Chelsea, tres gai.

The other is a very small guest house operated by a Richard Chandler on Jane Ave in the West Village. He is an old theatre man and knows EVERYBODY in the New York theatre world. If you give him a chance, he will regale you with fabulous stories of the greats in the theatre. Again. I don't have his number at hand but he is in the book. His guesthouse is called "Books and..."(I don't exactly remember). Each time I have stayed there, I have enjoyed Richard's hospitality, which is "sans pareil".

[Paul Revere]

I have found this website helpful when making reservations in New York City: http://www.express-res.com

 

If you call them, they are very well informed adn helpful.

[VaHawk]

Anyone have experience with the Times Hotel on 49th street, as I was looking to stay there on my next visit? Thanks.

[Guest alanm]

Totally agree on Express Reservations. They book hotels in NY, Chicago and LA. The prices are considerably below hotels.com. You pay when you check out of the hotel and there's no guessing or bidding involved. On a recent trip to LA, I stayed at a great hotel in Bel Air on Sunset for $119 per night.

[arthur]

I book hotel rooms in NY for clients over the telephone and have placed many visitors at the Time Hotel. It is a smaller boutique-style hotel very tastefully furnished and with an excellent staff. The feedback we have had from clients who stayed at this hotel has been very positive.

 

For the benefit of Delaware Guy, I want to mention that my niece stayed at the Howard Johnson on Houston Street last November. I met her there one evening and she was quite pleased. The hotel is small but her room looked very comfortable. She paid about $100 per night. It's a very convenient location if you plan to spend time in Lower Manhattan.

[VaHawk]

Thanks for the response, as I really appreciated it, and I have booked the hotel for 2 nights.

[Guest DevonSFescort]

You may find this list helpful. It tells which hotels, in which zones, at which star levels, the folks at BiddingForTravel.com have seen come up on Priceline:

 

http://pub210.ezboard.com/fpricelineandexpediabiddingnewyorkcitynonewjersey.showMessage?topicID=1974.topic

 

It looks like the Hilton and Towers at 54th and 6th, where I've enjoyed a number of comfortable stays, still comes up for as low as $92-95 dollars a night (4-stars, Midtown West zone). The Marriott Marquis which is across the street from the Gaiety Theatre has been coming up for $116 -- also in the Midtown West zone. If staying Midtown, I would avoid the Midtown East zone because some of the hotels aren't as nice and/or are rather isolated (especially the Millenium by the U.N. -- not to be confused with the Millenium Hilton by the old WTC site, which is much nicer). Other hotels I've stayed at or, um, dropped by in that area include the Westin Times Square, the Sofitel, the Shoreham, the Doubletree Guest Suites, and the Belvedere. They were all quite nice (the Shoreham was cute but the rooms were on the small side though very tasteful).

 

One non-Priceline, away-from-Midtown option you might want to consider is the Gramercy Park Hotel. I got a large suite there once for $175 (I think I'd ordered a large regular room on the phone but then asked when I checked in about upgrading to a suite and they just gave me the suite for the same price). It's a little on the old-fashioned side (they still use real keys to unlock the rooms, and only some of the rooms have high-speed Internet access, so you have to ask) but a good value (I hear even their regular rooms are pretty big). Guests get a special key to access Gramercy Park, which their site says is NYC's only private park. I heard Ian Schrager bought this hotel and will be renovating it, so its days as a place where you can get a bargain are probably numbered.

 

http://www.gramercyparkhotel.com/

[Rick Munroe]

>The hotel is in Chelsea on 22nd, I

>believe, just west of 8th Ave. It's called the Colonial but I

>don't have their tel. number. You can look it up. The rooms

>are small but you are right in the heart of Chelsea, tres gai.

 

And minutes from Rick and Derek's swingin' pad. }(

[Guest DevonSFescort]

>And minutes from Rick and Derek's swingin' pad. }(

 

It IS a pretty swingin' pad. The kitchen alone'll make your head spin.

[Rick Munroe]

>It IS a pretty swingin' pad. The kitchen alone'll make your

>head spin.

 

LOL And you saw it after we redecorated (for the 3rd time; we get bored easily) and went more subdued. The walls, which are now shades of white, used to be metallic silver (like Warhol's factory) and hot pink and lime green, and the furnishings were 70's chrome and glass with wall-to-wall shag. That was fun.