New York hotels

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I'm very excited - dp has booked flights for us to go to New York over Easter. We are going for 5 days.

I have done a preliminary google, and it looks like hotels are quite expensive. I was hoping to get a decent basic room, in a good location, with a private bathroom (some I have seen stipulate shared) for about £80 a night. Am I being unrealistic?

Does anyone have any recommendations/ suggestions?

Thanks

Don't know if you'll get it that cheap now but we stayed at The Belvedere. Was Trip Advisors No 1 at the time and we thought it was really good for price given what we'd read about others.

Think you will need to pay a lot more than £80 a night even for a decent basic room; New York hotel rooms have always been expensive and remain so (not just to say small).

Have a look at www.tripadvisor.com.

...went in September, and hotels are quite expensive, and the rooms are also small.

To get anything large, it will cost astronomical amounts.

...I stayed here. The rates are over $200 a night, and this is about as cheap as it gets for somewhere with an en suite in Manhattan...

Look into Hotel Penslyvania. Its opposite Madison Square garden and just down from Macys. Basic hotel in the heart of the city.
Have a fantastic time! Love NY!

Thank you everyone. I havent had time to look at your suggestions today, but will do so this evening.

I think I'd better start saving now!

www.newyorkhelmsley.com/index.asp

we stayed here, around $200 ish per night for a double room with roll out for child, en-suite. good location, almost opposite chrysler building.

we stayed in the hotel thirty thirty in december, i am not sure how much just the hotel was but it is known for being cheap in a good location.

our room was small but clean with batrhroom nad on 34th street 4 blocks from macys. i couldnt fault it at all.

it is the home to 60 women though, it was formerly a hostel for single women, but i wouldnt have known it if i hadnt have read it.
(apart from a older lady in the lift in her dressing gown)

Thanks to all, but does anyone have other recommendations? My eyes are beginning to ache from too much googling, but I'm still hoping there is a bargain out there (not realistic I know!)

We went for a week and stayed in a rented apartment on the Upper West side- 2 bedrooms, small, but frankly better value than a hotel. I think it was around 800 dollars. Try www.citysonnet.com/ and homeholidays and general googling. Good luck.

I've stayed here a number of times with no complaints. My in-laws have too and they're quite elderly and fussy!

www.heraldsquarehotel.com/

It's basic but clean with private bathroom and the bonus is it's just off Broadway, mid-town, so a great location. I think we paid around £65 per night, but the exchange rate was better then. Have a great time.

Spotted this thread today - we're off for a long weekend to New York at Easter too to celebrate DH's birthday. We've booked into a loft room at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. HTH

Spotted this thread today - we're off for a long weekend to New York at Easter too to celebrate DH's birthday. We've booked into a loft room at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. HTH