New York Family hotel?

[latelydaydreams]

We’re headed to New York next year.

I’d like a nice hotel for families, we have one teen, and one aged 7, so would prefer not to share a bed if possible.

also headed off on a cruise so easy/cheap suggestions for how to get to cape liberty would be super helpful.

We last went to New York 20+ years ago and things have moved on a bit, so we’re not sure what’s best!

Any suggestions would be hugely helpful. We don’t have a massive budget, but we’re also happy with no big frills either!

DD and I were in NYC earlier this year and stayed here: https://www.sonesta.com/sonesta-hotels-resorts/ny/new-york/fifty-sonesta-hotel-new-york The rooms were massive, two huge beds, sofa area, little kitchen. Good location too just a few blocks from Grand Central station, subway on the corner, lots of coffee shops around.

We enjoyed this www.guestreservations.com/manhattan-club/booking?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=986980470&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADiMQMYVyxP72V1ru2mPdpPQsAT0K&gclid=CjwKCAiAxea5BhBeEiwAh4t5Kx0SmOifmzp1GpJ13OXzupq7VMaxpLh1yKbRK_65jKV9x7F4sumlNRoCMjwQAvD_BwE

The Hilton Midtown has big rooms with two massive beds. Great location and if you can get a deal with breakfast included, the breakfast is very good! Enjoy NYC 😊

I would ditto the Sonesta hotels. We stayed at the Shelburn in a one bedroom suite with pull out sofa and rollaway bed in the living room. We had a great view of the Empire State Building and the kitchenette came in handy. It’s in a fairly quiet neighbourhood

Do not, repeat do not, book the Pennsylvania hotel no matter how cheap and central it seems. Bedbugs, rats and mice, stinking rooms with broken fittings, terrifyingly dark corridors, rude overworked staff, huge queues to book in and even bigger queues to complain, and security staff trying to keep the homeless out. It really was the stuff of nightmares

Thank you so much- some fab suggestions and one hard avoid- which is fab intel. Have looked at the reviews on that one and WOW! And not wow in a good way!

just need to work out how to get to Cape Liberty now- it looks like it should be easier than it seems to be- as the ferries don’t run at the weekend?

Info here about transport to Cape Liberty - appears to be quite complex though. Looks like about 30 minutes in an Uber from Midtown, that seems the best way.

www.cruiseliberty.com/passenger_info.html#transportation

Does the cruise line have a transportation option? Some do. Could they collect you from an airport for example? I think Royal Caribbean might offer this. How were you expecting to get to the cruise port if you had arrived at the airport and not stayed in Manhattan? Look at what options the cruise line has first.