New York Hilton and Towers Opinions
Feb 20th, 2002 | 11:44 AM
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New York Hilton and Towers Opinions
Any experiences or opinions regarding the New York Hilton and Towers. My wife and I will be visiting New York from Hawaii for the first time in May. Looking forward to our visit.
How easy is the transportation from the Hilton? We have tickets to a Mets and a Yankees game, so is it very difficult to get to Yankee and Shea stadiums from here, especially at night?
Any other suggestions for nearby restaurants and attractions?
Thanks in advance.
How easy is the transportation from the Hilton? We have tickets to a Mets and a Yankees game, so is it very difficult to get to Yankee and Shea stadiums from here, especially at night?
Any other suggestions for nearby restaurants and attractions?
Thanks in advance.
Feb 20th, 2002 | 02:10 PM
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I think you have made a good choice for your first visit. The NY Hilton is on 6th and 53rd, a short walk to Central Park south, Radio City and Rockefeller Center are around the corner, a block to 5th Ave, and a walkable distance to the Theatre District. You are also convenient to the upper East and West sides. Others will have to answer your transportation questions to the ballparks.
I have stayed at the NY Hilton several times and the rooms are fair sized for New York and comfortable. Being a convention hotel it is not an intimate setting as you are probably aware. It's not the Four Seasons or the Peninsula, but I don't think you will be disappointed. Aloha.
I have stayed at the NY Hilton several times and the rooms are fair sized for New York and comfortable. Being a convention hotel it is not an intimate setting as you are probably aware. It's not the Four Seasons or the Peninsula, but I don't think you will be disappointed. Aloha.
Feb 20th, 2002 | 04:12 PM
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It's one of the most boring hotels I've ever stayed at.
It's hard to define "boring," of course, but this place was it. the room was completely indifferent; couldhave been any dull, nondescript hotel anywhere in the world.
Clean, tv worked, shower worked, etc., but, overall, just plain dull.
As for location, we thought it was nowhere interesting, but to its credit, was in between lots of intereting places. Nothing to see within a couple of blocks, but then you got to Fifth AVenue, or the theater area, or fancy stores along the streets a few blocks north, so from that point of view it was OK.
We were going to go to a World Series game at Yankee Stadium but we sold our tickets and bought steaks instead, so can't offer advice on the transportation, except to say that Major League Baseball booked our room for us, and it would have (other than getting a good price) picked a hotel that was reasonably convenient for its guests.
But since you already have you tickets, there's no point in going anywhere else, since, other than dullness, the hotel has no other real negative qualities.
Lindy's, next door, sells a pretty good breakfast for a lot less than you would pay in the hotel.
Enjoy your visit, and bring comfortable shoes.
BAK
It's hard to define "boring," of course, but this place was it. the room was completely indifferent; couldhave been any dull, nondescript hotel anywhere in the world.
Clean, tv worked, shower worked, etc., but, overall, just plain dull.
As for location, we thought it was nowhere interesting, but to its credit, was in between lots of intereting places. Nothing to see within a couple of blocks, but then you got to Fifth AVenue, or the theater area, or fancy stores along the streets a few blocks north, so from that point of view it was OK.
We were going to go to a World Series game at Yankee Stadium but we sold our tickets and bought steaks instead, so can't offer advice on the transportation, except to say that Major League Baseball booked our room for us, and it would have (other than getting a good price) picked a hotel that was reasonably convenient for its guests.
But since you already have you tickets, there's no point in going anywhere else, since, other than dullness, the hotel has no other real negative qualities.
Lindy's, next door, sells a pretty good breakfast for a lot less than you would pay in the hotel.
Enjoy your visit, and bring comfortable shoes.
BAK
Feb 21st, 2002 | 05:16 AM
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Stasaka, Brian kind of states the obvious that the Hilton is a convention hotel with 2000+ rooms, so individuality is not one of its hallmarks. But, as other posters point out, it's well situated.
As to getting to Shea and Yankee stadiums, you can print out a New York City subway map in PDF form from this URL: http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/nyct/maps/submap.htm.
From the Hilton, the 7 train goes directly to Shea and can be caught at 5th Avenue and 42nd St, less than a mile from your hotel. Yankee Stadium is even easier: the B and D trains have a Yankee Stadium stop and can be caught at the Rockefeller Center subway station on 6th Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) and 50th St., two blocks south of your hotel.
As to going to either stadium at night, you are in the company of several thousand straphangers with the same destination in mind. You will be perfectly safe.
As to getting to Shea and Yankee stadiums, you can print out a New York City subway map in PDF form from this URL: http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/nyct/maps/submap.htm.
From the Hilton, the 7 train goes directly to Shea and can be caught at 5th Avenue and 42nd St, less than a mile from your hotel. Yankee Stadium is even easier: the B and D trains have a Yankee Stadium stop and can be caught at the Rockefeller Center subway station on 6th Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) and 50th St., two blocks south of your hotel.
As to going to either stadium at night, you are in the company of several thousand straphangers with the same destination in mind. You will be perfectly safe.
