Hotels in NYC?

^does someone know where this article went?

was it this one?

http://nymag.com/urban/guides/nyonthecheap/travel/hotels.htm

thanks

My in-laws are coming to NY for a week in late September and RS and I will be joining them for part of that time. Since there will be 5 of us total and for a whole week I was wondering if a week long apt rental might be the most economical option. Does anyone know anything about this type of thing and have any recs?

BUMP

Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

second home on second avenue, maybe. it's a very small b&b kind of place in the east village. they have a couple of suite-type rooms that sleep 2-5 people, and prices are supposed to be very reasonable.

i don't have any specific recs for apartment-letting services, although there are a quite a few of them according to google.

People put apartments to sublet on craigslist all the time!

also, a lot of the agencies put their sublets on craigslist as well as their own sites.

with parents involved, i think i'd feel a bit better going through an agency and having an office to contact in case anything goes wrong. plus you don't have to worry about an illegal sublet.

yeah, or some weirdo dropping in on you

http://www.newyorkology.com/archives/2008/09/ill_take_new_yo.php
http://www.newyorkology.com/archives/2008/09/38anight_hostel.php

ymca in great neck: $57

HOTEL 17!!!!

That was the name of the place I was trying to remember.

my parents are coming and would like to stay in a bed and breakfast, in brooklyn. they don't want to spend mad $$$ but are also not totally poor. anyone know of any good ones? i found a few (one they are most interested in is down the street from dmr!), but i guess you can never tell with these things based on websites.

rip gabbneb

O_o

teh gab gave me some nice seattle tips

does anyone know about union square inn? my parents made a res there and they are not super fancy needy or anything but they also want me to go check it out to make sure it's ok. but i keep forgetting/running out of town. now i don't want to go to manhattan for the rest of the weekend.

i know nothing about new york, but if you want leonard cohen to write a song about the time you sucked him off, it'll have to be the chelsea
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lol

does anyone know anything sub-$100 near columbia and the 116th st subway? other than the L Hostel?

i stayed at a place around 107th there once that was cheap? i forget the name... it was a few years ago :(

Hotel 17 it is!

Hotel 17 is awesome. I love that place.

But watch out for the clanging radiators.

Ha.

We strolled back past the Iroquois hotel (where we first stayed, clanging rads and all), but it's now poshed up to Algonquin standards.

I take it the Gershwin hotel is still, um, the Gershwin?

ha, i'm in hotel 17 for new year yay!

Damn, everyone's gonna be at the Hotel 17 and I'm gonna be in Istanbul.

(my hotel is PAISLEY - I have come to believe that everything in Istanbul is paisley)

this will be my first time in hotel 17, the past two visits i've been at hotel 31.

and i shall remember to carry my passport around with me, as last time i got 'i deed' in every pub i went into.
cue look of surprises on big doormans faces with "you're 34?"

know of any good sublet apartments anybody? for a week around oct..

guys i am coming short-term for a wedding and suddenly it hit me that i don't want to sleep on people's couches i want to be Grown Up and stay in a..... Bnb? AirBnB? hotel?

what should i do?

Check out The Jane, a cool hotel (with tiny but mega-efficient rooms). It's near the new Whitney Museum on the west side. The staff wear bellhop uniforms! I stayed there last year around this time for $70 a night. Rates rise with the temps, of course, but if you're going to NYC during the winter this may be the best hotel deal in town.

Unless I’m bringing the kid I use the app hotel tonight and stay in a hotel in New York. Kid implies kitchen and second bedroom which makes the hassle and negative externalities of Airbnb worth it.

Jane looks good! having my own bathroom @ $100 more per night though hmmm

Will try Hotel Tonight - i'm assuming i can book in advance if I want to though?

They wythe hotel is expensive but dope

I go to the rooftop bar sometimes. It’s in my neighborhood.

lol i've been to that rooftop bar. no way in hell am i even looking up the prices of that place.

the ludlow beside katz's deli is really nice, expensive tho. i mean nyc is weird, the rates seem to fluctuate wildly and the times of year it's cheap/expensive are surprising. i've seen the holiday inn clocking in at more than fairly upmarket places on occasion.

afaik as a fairly regular visitor airbnb is p much dead in nyc. i stopped using it a few years ago after some property inspector came and hammered eviction notices on the door every day, the place wasn't particularly nice either, and i got older and my circumstances improved. it seems to me it had all become dodgy/shark types on airbnb after that.

it's a shame as the first time i visited nyc as an adult, about 6/7 years ago, i stayed in an ensuite room in williamsburg on grand st for about 60 pounds a night. it was shared with the host but he left the downstairs entirely to visitors and was away for most of my stay anyway. think those days are gone, though i've had good experiences with airbnb recently in remote european towns, somebody renting out their mom's apartment, picking you up at the station, recommending restaurants etc. but mostly whatever human spirit made airbnb quite fun and fresh is gone i think.

not from the world, just from airbnb.

I think the prices are jacked up now but there were a few decent rates at usually pricey hotels a while back with the "one night" app, probably a different one than caek is mentioning. I ended up at the east village location of The Standard for a decent price. The caveat being the ability to book a room goes live at 3pm or so for that night

looks like they've changed it so you can book at noon, but given the list of hotels on there, probably fewer deals unless you're heading to nyc in the winter season

it's next month so.. deals might be had

The Refinery is fun.

not in my price range i'm afraid :(

i've now been told by a source:

Brooklyn: the Nu hotel
New York: Assemblage Downtown, the Roger Smith, The Ace

oh, this is for the march thing in gpoint? ( I will be missing it). The last time I had to book hotels for family I ended up just doing Fairfield Inn in Astoria/near LGA. which is totally fine and normal priced. It's kind of in a dead spot but they have a free shuttle to LGA, the Astoria Blvd stop and free parking. Everything in ny got soooo pricey. From there you can still walk to steinway etc or use the saved money to carservice it.

oh and this worked for me since I had moved to astoria, maybe some of the other fairfield inns in the city will be normal priced too.

the ace rooms were ok-ish but the lobby is apparently an coworking space. if you're just passing through there, it's fine, but the ability to enjoy the lobby is a nice thing for me when the rooms are intentionally smaller and every damn seat was taken all day

fwiw a couple years ago when I was there I stayed at the midtown hilton, the east village standard, and the ace midtown if you end up wondering about anything in those areas

this is fucking crazy, all these places are like $200-300+ per night

the last-minute hotel app thing caek mentioned has rooms for like 90

yeah the ones you're listing are not cheap?

think I checked out this thread a couple years ago before I booked travel (and used email promos, etc) and a couple of the old favorites have been remodeled into boutiques now

yeah i did not realize!

i remember the good old days of comedy nights at the gershwin. it was like a cheap boutique hostel