Yankees and Mets games where to stay?
 

Hi...

My husband and I will be traveling to New York the end of June to see a Yankees and a Mets game. (part of our baseball park bucket list). We are wondering where (what city?) to stay and the best way for out of towners to get to the games. Any help is greatly appreciated!!

I recommend staying in NY City to visit both the Yankees and Mets. Both of them play their games in NYC.

Manhattan would be my borough of choice.

Thank you!! Would you recommend the subway as opposed to driving to the ballparks?

Driving a car in NYC is a complete nonsense. They are expensive to rent, there is no place to park so they just sit in a garage all day at $50 per.

The best place to stay is in Manhattan (if your budget will allow) and take the subway to both ball parks (traffic at either one at game time is truly horrendous with people coming in from the suburbs).

If you give us your dates (prices vary a lot) and tell us your nightly budget - specific amount in $ - people can make recos.

Look in the area near Grand Central easy subway in each direction.

A Guide Named Sue

The dates are June 20-22. Hoping for $200-250 night which may be unreasonable in Manhattan area? Is Grand Central area in Manhattan? (Sorry if that's a dumb question. lol)

Near Grand Central Terminal, which is in midtown Manhattan on the east side -- 42nd St and Park Avenue. A hotel near there would be good because from there you can catch the 4 train to Yankee Stadium as well as the 7 train to Citi Field.

Grand Central Terminal is the train station that you would use to get to see

Thank you all for the information! I am not familiar with NY at all so all your help and specifics are greatly appreciated!!

tstaib-Please go to your library and get a NYC travel guide with a map. Then purchase the one you like. Knowledge will increase your enjoyment of your stay and ease you fears about taking the subway to the games.

If you look at Club Quarters Grand Central and Boutique Grand Central there are rooms for less than $300 per night on booking.com. I think that is probably the best you will do in that area at that time of year.

For less expensive options you can look in Long Island City - but be sure you get a hotel with easy access to the 7 train to get to Mets Citi Field and only about 10 minutes by subway to get to Grand Central to grab a train for Yankees stadium. Subways run 24/7/365 and will still be fairly busy at the hours you would be coming back from games (not empty as at 3 am).

If you are flying, then Long Island City is certainly your best hotel option. There are many hotels there under $140 a night, but be sure to get one that is close to a major subway station. You really want to be close to Queens Plaza/Queensboro Plaza not one of the other subway stations. Some of the cheaper hotels aren't near the subway or near convenient subway lines.

If you are driving, then parking in Long Island City can be difficult because the hotels don't have it, and a lot of commuters crowd into the few garages and lots nearby, so that's not necessarily the best place to stay. I normally recommend it because of the cheap accommodations, but it's not the best place if you are driving. However, I do believe that most of the hotels in Long Island City have deals with nearby garages or lots; just be sure to verify that by calling them directly before you make any reservations.

So I would offer a couple of additional recommendations. Parking in NYC is at least $40 per day and usually more in the busiest parts of Midtown. There's a Marriott Courtyard on the Upper East Side that's not particularly close to the subway, but it's easy to reach from the Triborough Bridge, and there are plenty of cheaper garages in the area where you can park. Because of its location, it's usually the cheapest Courtyard in Manhattan. Two other options are the Travel Inn Midtown and Skyline Hotel, both on the far west side of Manhattan and both with reasonably priced parking garages (a rarity for mid-range hotels). The Travel Inn is very close to the subway that goes straight out to Citifield.

But there's no doubt that you want to take the NYC subway to both games, and that's why it's to your advantage to stay in the city rather than the suburbs. Manhattan gives easy access to both the Bronx for the Yankees Game and Citifield for the Mets game.

Yeah, you need to do some research on NYC. Grand Central is in Manhattan. Manhattan is one of the five boroughs that comprise NYC. It is the commercial capital of the Western Hemisphere.

Renting a car and driving to either game is just daft - parking will be $30 or so at each stadium and getting out of the lot will take a LOOOOOONNNNNNNG time. And traffic will suck getting to and from the parks.

The Yanks and Mess both play in the city. These are the baseball teams, not the football teams.

If you stay at or near Grand Central Terminal, you will be near a train line that goes to each stadium. Both the 4 train and the 7 train stop at Grand Central. The 4 train goes to Yankee Stadium - 5 or 6 stops heading uptown depending upon if the train skips 138th Street (if you're heading to a weekday night game, it probably will). The 7 train goes to CitiField and it's the ONLY subway train to go to CitiField. The stadium is the next to last stop on the line so when 95% of the remaining riders leave, so do you. Both of those trains are outside at those stations (for the 4 train it's especially easy to know when to get off - first outside stop). You can see Yankee Stadium from the 4 train, probably the same for CitiField - a fan of the Mess can confirm that.

If your hotel is on the west side of Manhattan, you'll take the B or D train to Yankee Stadium. If you're going to a weeknight game, you take the B train because the D runs express and skips the stadium. For the Mess game, you'd need to take a train to some station at 42nd street (there are four) and change for the 7.

You may want to jump on tickets asap for the Mess game - they're playing the Royals in a World Series rematch and Mess fans will treat that as significant. The Yanks are playing the Rockies, about as low-priority ticket as the Yanks will have all year, so you'll be able to get seats whenever you want.

Don't wear Redsux memorabilia to Yankee Stadium. Mess fans will care less - they're still riding high after winning the NL pennant last year and the old rivalries (Phils, Cards, Braves) are semi-dormant because the Phils and Braves suck and the Cards are in a different division. The Cubs may be a "rival" but no one will get fussy about them - the Mess have won five pennants and a pair of World Series since their creation in the '60s; the Cubs haven't seen the World Series since 1945 nor won since 1908.

I appreciate all the feedback!!! It's helpful and confusing (the subway talk). When we go to the ballparks we always root for the home team! Looking forward to the adventure that lies ahead!

Just a note - but Yankees individual tickets are already on sale as - I presume - are those for the Mets. I would start looking for tickets now to have the best choice at the face cost. If you wait you could end up with really bad seats or having to pay a lot to a scalper for decent ones.

My wife and me have been staying at the Comfort Inn Times Square West lately. Clean (albeit small) comfortable rooms with nice breakfast included. They are showing $197.00 for queen bed room those days. About 7 block walk to Grand Central and tons of restaurant choices right around the corner on 9th Avenue. Quiet street (for NYC) yet only a few blocks to Times Square and theater district.

https://www.choicehotels.com/new-yor...n-hotels/ny464

New hotels are opening up in Long Island City/Astoria area all the time so keep checking booking.com. Easy to get to Citi Field or Yankee Stadium from there via the subway.

I'd stay in Manhattan simply because the two games will not take up all your time (especially the day of the night game - it looks like one of your games will be a night game and one will be a day game) and I'd rather be in Manhattan than anywhere else during the remaining hours.

Someone suggested The William hotel due to the proximity of Grand Central Station. Any thoughts on the hotel? Is it near restaurants?

<<Is it near restaurants?>>

Do you have Google? It will show you restaurants on the map. There are about 200 within a 1/2-mile radius of the hotel.