You will be thrilled with the Salisbury!

Now I need airport help!! Which one?? The cheapest flights by $75 fly into Long Island. How hard is it to get in the city from Long Island?

If it's $75/person for 2 of you, maybe. It's a pain to get to the city from there. Options are a car service/taxi for ~ $100
http://macarthurairport.com/pages/5transportation.shtml
or taxi or shuttle ($5) to train station (Ronkonkoma) and then Long Island Railroad to Penn Station. Shuttle fare is $5. LIRR fares from Ronkonkoma to Penn Station range from $9.50 to $13.00 one way, depending on time of day.
From Penn Station you'd need a taxi. The trip will take 1 1/2 hrs. altogether. JFK or EWR are an hour or less from Manhattan and LGA is even closer.

It is $75 per person, but it sounds like a pain to get to our hotel from there.

Getting to and fro Islip is VERY time-consuming (like 2.5 hours or more depending on when your flight arrives) and is not cheap.

Unless the savings is VERY significant I wouldn;t do it.

If traffic is heavy on the L.I.E. and the crossings are bad, it can take 3-4 hours to get into Manhattan from Islip.

I wouldn't even consider it.

You will easily eat up the $75 savings getting to and from the airport.

Not worth it. I'd have to save $500 per ticket to fly into Islip.

thanks for the info

smom

We have read good reviews for Red Carpet Inn, Brooklyn, 15 minutes to Manhattan by L subway train station next to the hotel. It is definitely a budget hotel and we booked there 3 nights next month ! Hope it will be fine !

When staying in NYC it is crazy to fly into Islip unless your saving approx. 200 dollars.The cab fare is at least 100 dollars and the time to get in and out of the city does not make sense.Also I would not stay in Brooklyn as there are many nice budget options in NYC.