New York Hotels > 5 Stars New York Hotels

Advantages: Beautiful decoration, lavish
Disadvantages: A few mixups!!

On first appearances this is a wonderful hotel, lavish, expensive and truly worth the money. The incontinetal Barclay hotel is on 111 East 48th Street, New York, NY 10017 which is pretty much slap bang right in the middle of where everything happens. The Empire State building a 5 minute walk away in one direction and grand central park 5 minutes in the opposite direction. When you first arrive you will see the hotel stretch into the sky, it is ...
...from the rain. When you book in you cannot help to notice the lavish roof and centrepiece. After 5 miutes of booking in your bags are taken upto your room ready for when you meet them!! The rooms are quite nice with small touches to give the room its finishing details. Unfortunatly there was a problem with our room, the room wasn't made for four and we had to be moved! The second room, they had to supply us with another bed so my brother and I could ... Read review

Advantages: Your staying in a historic Art Deco landmark!
Disadvantages: Service could be better....

...I ended up in the Waldorf Astoria!!! I've stayed in NYC for business before, and I knew to expect small rooms and spend a lot of money. Here, I was staying in the most historic hotel in the US, oozing Art Deco chic from every corner. Your first impression of the hotel is it's impressive Park Avenue frontage, seen many times in movies. The entrance and reception area is stunning . The clock in the reception hall, a stunning timepiece, shows you that ...
...massive king size bed, with the requested cot bed from my daughter. There was a walk in closet, that was huge! The bathroom looked very art deco, and I was a little worried the plumbing might not be up to standard, but there wasn't a problem. I've stayed at the Hyatt Regency 5 star in NYC in the past, and it was a box in style and size compared to the Waldorf. We had a fax machine in our room, which I had to use due to a mixup with our car rental ... Read review

Advantages: Lovely Hotel, friendly staff, very comfortable rooms, great position near the best shops and right across from St Patricks Church
Disadvantages: Rooms a little small, and food was EXPENSIVE!!

We went to New York to visit friends we hadn't seen for years and decided we would splash out and stay somewhere 'nice'. We couldn't have been any happier with the Hotel or the staff. The Hotel has an impressive lobby, smallish but beatifully tasteful. As we walked in to the lobby for the first time, the doorman asked our name and immediately seemed to know of our expected arrival. From then on, everyone know our name. This may seem a little overpowering ...
...had everything we could want, although the view was limited and the space was small, but this could have been because we had 2 adults and 2 children in the room. Food was expensive but luckily, there was a brilliant deli right next door where we had breakfst every day and often got a coffee or snack later in the day. The Palace was a great hotel and well worth a visit. ... Read review

Advantages: location, breakfast available, free wine in the evenings
Disadvantages: noise, can be expensive at some times of year

...friendly without being overly familiar. Our room was cleaned every day by the time we returned and the doorstaff were always on hand to help flag a taxi. So was it worth it? Absolutely. We'd go back to the Giraffe in a flash - it's a great little hotel. ... Read review

Advantages: The location is OK
Disadvantages: Unhelpful staff, poor customer service. No guarantee of a room even with booking

...give the impression that the West Side Inn was a good place to stay if (and only if) the only thing you were looking for was a safe place to sleep. Make no mistake about it, this was the only thing I needed and so I booked a room for myself and my partner so we could travel the 3500 miles from the UK and see the sights of New York. A not surprising amount of review space has been given to just how unorganized this hostel is. My own experience was ...
...hotels the receptionist at the West Side phoned had a free room for the nights we were staying as I can't imagine any assistance would have been offered had this not been the case. No apologies were offered and the casual way we were told we would 'just have to stay somewhere else' combined with the number of travellers who have had similar experiences suggests this is regular occurance at the West Side Inn. Avoid. ... Read review