Thanks for all the great answers to my New York hotels question yesterday. Crowd-sourcing truly is awesome, so many thanks for everyone that took the time to reply, email or tweet.
The consensus seems to be that downtown is better, especially if you can find a cheap one. Unfortunately, anything a bit nice is pretty much out of my price range, unless it’s out by an airport.
The shared bathrooms thing doesn’t bother me at all, and the girlfriend seems happy enough to go for it. I figure that the money we save can be used for much more entertaining things like food and booze. Probably more booze than food, knowing us.
With that in mind, I think I’m going to go for that Portland Square hotel, which is the more central one at the same price as the one in the Upper West Side (“Boring!”, according to mascarah…).
Anyways, as peterwknox points out, we’ll be leaving the hotel in the morning, and getting back late. It doesn’t really matter too much what it’s like, in the grand scheme of things. Sleep, shower, maybe go back in the evening to change, and that’s about it.
Next I’ll be asking for ideas of what to do/see!
