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Could anyone recommend accommodation (around $300 per night) in the Times Square area for 2adults, October this year. Thankyou

You'll first need to do some research on your own to find out what hotels might be in your price range. October is high season, and there may not be that many options. I'd suggest looking on a big booking engine web site (Expedia) and seeing what, if anything, pops up. From there, I think we can make some recommendations.

I'd look first for a big chain hotel (Hilton Garden Inn, Super 8, Comfort Inn, etc.). There are many of those in the area, and they may be in your price range or may not be.

Or check out the company Apple Core Hotels, which owns several hotels around Penn Station that are often in that range. Your big problem is that rates go up tremendously after September.

Agree - for Oct that is quite a modest rate - esp for the Times Square area (there are more often deals in some other areas). But Oct is the beginning of high season and there are not often bargains.

If you are willing to bid blind you might try Priceline for a couple that can share one double bed. But I would do so only if you already have a cancellable reservation - so you don't get shut out. Sometimes if you pay now for non-refundable options you can save a little.

Another fodorite favorite is Radio City Apartments. A little uptown from Times Square. I find the location very convenient.

My choices would be the Hilton Garden Inn, Hampton Inn TS North or the Staybridge Suites.

But October is an expensive month in NYC. Their rates may exceed $300 for your dates.

If you find something you like, I'd definitely book it if it's a rate you can cancel if you find a better deal. But if you wait, prices can just go up.

http://hiltongardeninn3.hilton.com/e...WGI/index.html

http://hamptoninn3.hilton.com/en/hot...THX/index.html

http://www.staytimessquare.com/

Hotels are often vague about how close they are to a given landmark. When planning our trip, I found it helpful to type in a hotel's address into Google Maps and then put a destination in and check out the route for myself. In your case, you can just type Times Square New York, or Gershwin Theatre, etc.

For hotels that are further away, you can also click the little bus icon and it will give you the entire route, from hotel to Times Square, including how many blocks to the subway station etc. Change "Leave now" to "Depart at" and put the date and time you would be traveling.

Good luck in your search.

It would also appear if you can avoid a Saturday night stay in Times Square you can save a lot. (On one of my favorite booking sites for NYC www.quikbook.com it is a much as a 50% premium for Saturday night compared to Sunday night.)

Jhonstrauss -

Have you ever BEEN to New York? You are posting with all sorts of incorrect information and bad advice for people.

Times Square is anything BUT posh - in fact it's quite tacky.

And on another post you tell people not to reserve hotels until the last minute - guranteeing that they pay the highest rates since any remaining deals will be gone.

Please stick with providig advice to places that you actually know something about. (From a 4th generation New Yorker.)

Well, actually, I've had good luck booking hotels last minute in the past, even in September and October, and have paid well under $300.00 even for the Omni Berkshire and the Palace.

No need to make blanket statements.

Note, that I said I have had good 'luck' and this shouldn't be held to be the norm.

Book something cancellable that you can live with in a couple of months and then keep checking kayak.com, travelzoo.com, quikbook.com, etc. for discounted hotel deals. Don't be afraid to book a 'secret sale' hotel on quikbook; I've done it numerous times and it's always been delightful.

Do 4th generation New Yorkers routinely book hotel rooms? And why would they? ; )

I think a 4 th generation New Yoerker might know whether the Times Square area is posh or not (not) ��

meh.
Perhaps. And if someone else thinks it is, so what...

And no New Yorker I know would use the word, 'posh'.

Because suggesting to someone asking about New York hotels that Times Square is posh would be almost fraudulent.

meh.

And I actually like the Crowne Plaza in Times Square. The view from the rooms is rather spectacular.

(but Times Square is, in fact, a dump, imo)

Here's our Oct. 11 trip report (with photos) that includes our hotel in Chelsea. Times Square...no thanks and no way would stay there.. Chelsea Pines Inn. Great hotel. Great location. Great people running it. In your price range.

http://travelswithmaitaitom.com/Tom_...City_2011.html

((H))

Tom's report was helpful to me too, and our family would have been miserable staying in Times Square with all the crowds. But I presumed the OP wanted Times Square specifically for a reason, ie going to see several Broadway shows in a short time. They didn't give us much to go on though, now that I re-read it.

Times Square is fine to stay in - as long as you know that it is noisy, mobbed, tacky and sometimes quite unpleasant.

Either the poster has never seen Times Square or they don't know the meaning of the word "posh". Agree, not a word americans usually use. But in NYC "posh" would be Fifth Ave in the 60s through 80s, ditto Park Avenue. Perhaps Sutton Place or parts of CPW or Riverside.

NEVER Times Square- and that is not my opinion - just a fact. Granted - not as tacky as it used to be with teen hookers, shooting galleries and pep shows - although there are still quite a few strip shows.

Times Square has been completely Disneyfied and Fox Newsified. Strip shows on Times Square? Last one closed in 1982 or something. It's just a big commercial trap that has a lot of pretty lights, terrible restaurants, some great hotels, fabulous public transit access, and huge crowds. Think Piccadilly on steroids. It is not the 'center of it all', there is NO center to NYC. If you stay in Times Square, don't 'stay' in Times Square. Make sure you leave this area daily and actually see this beautiful city.

Bedford St. in the W.Village is pretty 'posh' these days. ;)

Folks(!) No need to argue - the post that described Times Square as 'posh' . . . has been nuked. The post isn't there any longer . . . Can we agree TS is lively but but not what most would call 'posh'.

Right now the Marriott Marquis and the Renaissance across the street (in TS itself) are both running well above $300 per night for your time frame. The Crowne Plaza is also in that same price range for October; you could check something nearby such as the Milford Plaza.

I cannot comment on the charge about the area being "tacky" since the meaning of that term has been proven to be quite subjective given some of the history on this site.

Is the Milford Plaza still referred to as The Mildew Plaza?

Yes.

It's funny that people always jump to conclusions about these kinds of hotels. The Milford Plaza is actually undergoing a rather massive, years-long renovation right now. Almost all rooms, while still really small, are already finished and are fairly stylish and modern-looking, though I haven't seen them in person. I suspect it's always going to be difficult to run a 1000-plus room hotel efficiently and well, but I think this one has actually taken many positive steps forward.

Fab. It's about time they finally moved to doing something about the substandard rooms. All we've heard about for years is this great renovation was taking place when in reality all that was done For Years was a little paint and rubber tree plants added to the forlorn lobby.

Someone should let the folks at oyster.com know; they'll get the word out and post pictures (worth a thousand words) so visitors can judge for themselves if it's the New Milford or just the same Old Mildew Plaza.

We actually walked through the lobby at the Milford Plaza last time we were there. It isn't someplace I'd choose to stay, but it really didn't look bad at all. I'd just call it what tour brochures might call a "tourist class hotel", along the lines of the Wellington (where I did stay once, and while it wasn't terrible, it wasn't really to my liking either).

How long ago was that, sf7307? If it was recently, then that's as good as it gets!

It was within the last year. I suppose you're right. Again, a place to sleep, but not on my list!

Time Square is a FUN place (just got back) which every NY tourist owes a visit to himself, but I see no reason to pay premium for accommodation in one of the noisiest, busiest street in NYC.... The subway in NYC is so efficient, easy to use, I'd say save your money, find a good place somewhere else, as long as it's not too far from it.

That would depend on your idea of FUN. Seeing someone dressed like Mickey on a street corner handing our fliers - or herds of tourists clomping into an M&Ms store (selling M&Ms - that you can get in every store in the world!!!!) is beyond my comprehension.

I suppose if you have never seen a city with any sort of promotion going on it might be worth 15 minutes - otherwise it's good only for the theater.

And I would best describe it as frantic (not busy - but close to hysteria - except at very off hours - 3 am?)

But - if that's what someone wants - they re more than welcome to it.

I totally agree with nytraveler...lokkat Tomes Square and leave.

I also agree, and I both grew up in New York and have stayed over the years in Times Square many many times (no longer, we now stay mostly with friends on the UWS). For the first-time visitor, Times Square is a huge "WOW", but after that, except for theatre and theatre-related venues, there's not much at ground level that's intrinsic to NY.

Well, Fox News is there..... ; )

No ... They are on Sixth Avenue near Rockefeller Center. ABC is at Times Square.

yes, you're right, Doug.

I agree with all of you about Times Square, but I am staying at a hotel there later this month because I'll be at a conference taking place at the Hilton TS. Sometimes people have good reasons for picking that area, despite the tackiness factor.