Finding a Hotel Room for the Right Price
With lodging prices in New York at record levels and nudging upward (averaging $243 in 2005), the biggest hurdle is getting a rate that leaves enough cash for a show, a nice dinner or a day of sightseeing. Even at exorbitant prices, New York hotels book up quickly; the occupancy level, also edging up, was 85 percent last year.
Still, there's hope for the bargain hunter. Last week, you could have snagged a double at the Sheraton Manhattan on Seventh Avenue, an easy walk to Broadway theaters, for $120. A bed at the Park South, a chic property near Union Square, was going for $179. A room at the handsome Mansfield, right off Fifth Avenue, was $219 -- including a buffet breakfast and complimentary espressos.
You just have to know where, when and how to hunt.
Check the online discounters. Quikbook ( http:/
Other online agencies worth checking are Hotels.com ( http:/
Besides their usual slice off standard hotel rates, these discounters occasionally come out with grab-it-quick bargains. Hotels.com, for instance, is advertising a Memorial Day special featuring discounts from May 23 to June 5 at properties in New York and elsewhere. Doubles at the 2 1/2-star Newton Hotel, located on Broadway on the Upper West Side, are going for $147 a night during that period, down from the usual $185.
We found the Mansfield -- whose rates usually start at $269 -- at Travelzoo ( http:/
[Source from washingtonpost.com]
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