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Hi, <BR>Can anyone help me. I am arranging a surprise birthday trip for my husband to new york on the 29th December for 4 nights. I am having trouble selecting a hotel, there are too many ! <BR>I am trying to decide between plaza athenee, st regis, new york palace, penisula, pierre. Can anybody offer any guidance to these hotels ? <BR>Finally, what to do on new years eve ??? <BR>Thanks <BR>Helen

If the selection of a hotel is to be from the list you included, you can't go wrong! Pick any one of them! <BR>And, using those choices as a guideline, you apparently are willing to spend bill bucks for this surprise. If that is the case, you'll find plenty of big parties in hotel ballrooms (cost of several hundred $$$ per person and up).

P.S.: If you like opera, the Metropolitan Opera always has a big gala on New Year's Eve.

Hi, I agree with Howard. All of those hotels are wonderful. Other suggestions for New Years Eve: if you are a runner, the New York Road Runners Club has a costumed midnight run in Central Park at midnight, the restaurants at the South Street Seaport will provide a view of the fireworks, as will any of the dinner cruises, and sometimes there are special concerts at Madison Square Garden or the Beacon Theater for New Years.

I have only stayed in the Peninsula and the Palace of those you mention. I would omit the Palace first. Although nice, it's more of a large generic luxury hotel than the others. I would personally choose the St. Regis if price were not an option, but the Peninsula was wonderful also. The Plaza Athenee is a little out of the way for my taste. The Pierre, I've been told can have a wide range in quality and size of rooms, no duds, but a little less guaranteed than some of the others I'd believe.

Four Seasons or the St. Regis. <BR>The best NYC has to offer, good locations, great rooms, service, etc, everything you could want.