it's oK, they basaltic repainted the place and put in a nice little bar, not so chi-chi. BE WARNED if you booked on a discount site they will try to give you a smoking room. It's why I don't stay there anymore. LOVE the location.

Booked directly with them. Didn't even see option for smoking vs non-smoking.

If you want a non smoking room, check back with them.

wow you learn something new every day! Rooms are now ALL non smoking! excellent!

I have a firm I consult with that is close to St. Giles the Court (Murray Hill/Grand Central area which I really have come to love as an oasis of a neighborhood), and I have stayed there 4 times in the last 11 months due to that. My work involves having people come to work with me in the hotel, so I have always stayed in an exec. junior suite that has separate bedrm and working/living area. But I have had colleagues who stayed in the different types of king rms. and I have been in their rooms also.

The rooms are very big for NYC. Very very very big. Even the regular king rms are large, lots of rm around the beds and btwn furniture. You could do a dance w/another person that requires spins and turns and not hit anything in the king rms. I am not sure of the sq ft. but it is a lot. My exec suites have been unbelievably enormous, even compared to such suites outside of NYC. This is a renovated apartment bldg., hence the big rooms (like some of the Affinia hotels in NYC).

Furnishings are very simple, clean and modern. Service is good , nothing to compain about and I usually have business needs, concierge needs (booking business dinners), etc. and many boutique hotels like this in NYC (like the Thompson hotels and others) have no full time concierge, they only have concierge on duty a few hrs a day. COnceirge service at St Giles Ct is very good. I like the lobby bar too.

If you are lucky you might get a Chrysler bldg view which is awesome. But requesting that view beforehand doesnt seem to get you one, as I have tried that and it didn't work. And then I show up next time and get the view randomly. If your room faces Lexington Ave, be sure your rm is high up bc that side can get noisy, at least for me.

Eastgate owers is the other hotel I can get booked into for this client, and I like staying at the Eastgate (also renovated apartments and big rooms with full kitchens too) but I choose the St. Giles every time.

Glad you scored a good rate. If my 4 stays are typical then you won't have anything to complain about. Except that there is no coffee in the rooms or lobby, which is a bummer, but I can live with it bc the rest is so reliable and good. Bring your one cup at a time travel coffee maker if that bothers you or if you don't want to spring for room service coffee,

Glad you scored a good rate. If my 4 stays are typical then you hopefully won't have anything to complain about unless you really nitpick, based on my experience.

Well, I guess someone could complain about me accidentally writing part of that last paragraph twice. Sorry about that.

Deb, just fyi, the sister hotel to the Giles Court hotel, which is called the Tuscany and is also in Murray Hill, is reopening after being bought by Giles group and being closed for a couple years to do a 25 million $ renovation. This was the 1st hotel to install telephones in bathrooms and Color TVs in the rooms. Quite a bit of NYC history in the hotle also. I want to stay there on an upcoming work trip.

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