Comments on: Report from a NYC budget hotel

By: PLP238

PLP238 — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 15:24:14 +0000

It really is not necessary to lodge in Manhattan at all. You can stay in a very normal hotel room in Jersey, on the west side of the Hudson River, you save hundreds of dollars per night.

The view of Manhattan is lovely. And so is the short ferry ride from Jersey to the heart of Manhattan. For example, Residence Inn – Weehawken. Trust me, I’ve done this. No, this isn’t an ad.

(Yes, this is one of the ferries that rescued the passengers from the commercial jet that “Sully” famously landed on the Hudson, and Clint Eastwood and Tom Hanks turned into a movie.)

(Yes, this is the Weehawken where Hamilton and Burr dueled.)

By: Christopher B

Christopher B — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 11:02:27 +0000

That sounds like the hotel we used when we spent a night in NYC last September though it had much more expansive public spaces (which was good because we had to wait for our room to be ready). We were just coming off a cruise so the tight quarters weren’t too much of an issue, and we didn’t spend much time in the room since we were going to a play that evening. I picked the hotel for its proximity to the Shubert more than the price.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 04:45:34 +0000

I have made one trip to NYC (either 2003 or 2004), and don’t remember the room price, but since I shared with my mother and one of my sisters, it wasn’t too big a hit in the pocketbook.
We had gone to watch my youngest son’s HS orchestra play in one of the “fillers” for the concert hall – high schools auditioned to perform in what were probably “off peak” days and hours. The audience was mostly elderly folks who preferred going out in the afternoon, which suited me fine.
But it was Carnegie Hall, so who cared what time it was?
During one rehearsal, I visited with one of the techs back stage, who was responsible for providing the school with harps, as they didn’t really want to ship those on the airplane. That was my son’s instrument, which he took over from me and did much better on than I ever would.
I learned that the tech had scrounged around to get enough for them all, to the point of asking some local players to loan him their harps, including one that was brand new, because (he told me) they had never had an orchestra play there with five harpists.
Kind of neat to learn we were making history!

NYC was fabulous, of course, and we old folks got to tour while the young ‘uns rehearsed, although they did a few things, I think; we didn’t try and keep up with them.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 23:49:19 +0000

Hotels generally have designated rooms for the disabled that presumably have those bars. But you have to request such a room, which also will have a walk-in shower, etc.

By: Gordon Scott

Gordon Scott — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 23:08:22 +0000

I suspect the reason hotels don’t make grab bars standard is the same reason hooks have vanished from toilet stalls: kids try to hang from them and break them off. Also, pervs.

The VA installed my grab bars for which I am so grateful. Mesa Fire will do it also because they don’t want to pick you up out of the tub.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 22:37:27 +0000

My New York family don’t live farther south than Peekskill, so no plans to visit the city.
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The older I get the more I lack any interest in traveling anywhere.

By: IrishOtter49

IrishOtter49 — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 22:20:42 +0000

Visiting NYC on my own dime is no longer on my dance card. If someone I know who lives there provides accommodation, fine, I’ll go. Otherwise, no, not gonna happen.

I’d rather sleep on a sidewalk than pay $400 for a room.

By: Chases Eagles

Chases Eagles — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 22:02:48 +0000

My parents got married at the base chapel. The ceremony was delayed for a couple of hours because a group men from the base on a hunting trip were killed in the crash of a light plane and all the chaplains were making notification and bereavement calls.

By: Gringo

Gringo — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 15:16:52 +0000

My first and only experience in a NYC motel came in 8th grade. We sold magazine subscriptions in 7th and 8th grade to pay for our 8th grade class trip to NYC. We spent a night at the Piccadilly Hotel. Our 8th grade teacher told the class that if there were any traffic between the boys on one floor and the girls on another floor, there would be hell to pay–or an equivalent phrase. As we all feared her, we complied. On the return train, she told us how well we had behaved. 🙂

In subsequent trips to NYC I first stayed at relatives in the suburbs and then stayed with cousins who lived in SoHo.

Care to do a post on what ridiculous productions weddings have become?

A niece had her wedding in Italy. Say no more.(A New England cousin had transformed an ancestral home into a wedding venue. Not upscale enough..)

Those hotel prices remind me of what I paid in South America in the ’70s: average of about $1.50 a night. Call that $10-$15 a night in current dollars.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 15:01:57 +0000

A friend of ours is an investor/developer of the Moxy hotel chain. Apparently very modern and nice, around $250-$300/night. Tiny rooms, but good common areas (lobby, bar, etc.), I think aimed at a younger crowd.