New York hotel recommendations

[indoorplantqueen]

Have booked (through a travel agent) a trip to NYC for February next year for myself, dh and teen. When I saw the deal it was a lovely hotel and I’d looked at the reviews, but when I phoned to book as there was 3 of us the first hotel wasn’t suitable. The one I agreed to is Hotel Hayden. It doesn’t look great tbh. I want to go back to travel agent and change to another hotel . There’s so much choice on booking.com/ Expedia. Can anyone recommend hotels in Manhattan. There’s lots around our price point of 700-850 for 4 nights but can’t chose!

We always stay at the Edison on Times Square.

I have just stayed at Hotel Beacon - just me and two teens. It does little suites with a proper sofa bed in the living room and the room we had had two double beds in the bedroom, but I think they do them with just one, which might suit you? We loved it - plenty of space. Not sure about budget - I stayed 4 nights and it was a bit more than you have said, but I imagine February might be cheaper.

I think decide on location first with NY, we stay in Chelsea. Good location with teens. Moto hotel was good.

@jeaux90thank you. That’s one that I’d pinned and in budget

@Rocknrollstarthank you. That’s also in budget. Just need to decide on location

@pinotnowthank you. That one looks lovely but it’s coming to a few hundred more than the others.

We’ve stayed at The Muse New York, it’s very well located, but not sure about budget.

We stayed at The Wallace on upper West side at Christmas. A beautiful hotel, safe area and backs onto Central Park. Times Square reeked of weed so it was lovely to get away and back to the clean air and space of the park.

Hotel Aura in Times Square looks decent and has good reviews. I always check Trip Advisor reviews before booking.

If you do book something now, I’d book it with free cancellation and then you can always change it if you find something better/cheaper closer to the time.

I wouldn’t stay anywhere near Times Square. It’s not what it was and now is just crime ridden, weed smelling hellhole. There’s a homeless tent city with poor people suffering significant mental health crises and/or off their faces. I’ve rarely felt so unsafe.

The Roxy in Tribeca is good. It's close to Soho and Nolita (Grey Dog do an excellent breakfast) and also the Ghostbusters fire station.

We stayed at the Melia Innside in Nomad district which was a nice hotel in a quiet (for Manhattan) area, great for the subway and walkable to plenty of the places we wanted. As you'd expect room sizes not huge but fine for NYC, and a few nice touches like soft drinks in the room and a nice lobby/ bar area. We are also a family of three.