Anyone Recommend a hotel in Chelsea, NYC?

[Gogar]

I have to go to NYC next Tues/Wed for some work and the place I'm working is in the same building as the Chelsea Market.

Does anyone recommend a hotel in the area?
Around 10th Avenue and 15-16th street. Thanks!

I looked at the Standard Hotel, the Maritime, and the Gansevoort. All seem nice but I'm wondering if there's some cool PPOT secret hotel that would be just as cool with a little less $$$.

Thanks!

[onlycafe]

how about the chelsea hotel?





"Owing to its long list of famous guests and residents, the hotel has an ornate history, both as a birth place of creative modern art and home of bad behavior. Bob Dylan composed songs while staying at the Chelsea, and poets Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso chose it as a place for philosophical and intellectual exchange. It is also known as the place where the writer Dylan Thomas died of alcohol poisoning on in 1953, and where Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols may have stabbed his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, to death on October 12, 1978."

Chelsea Hotel New York City: Boutique hotel near Times Square Union Square Central Park and Greenwich Village ny discount vacations

[Gogar]

Yeah that might have to be it. My other three ideas all filled up since this time yesterday!

[The Gaijin]

Porsche friends (so you know they are cool..) have stayed at the Cosmopolitan Hotel on W. Broadway in Tribeca. Cheap and cheap. Just an evening walk or cab ride away. The Odeon is always good for a night-cap.

[Gogar]

Whoa some internet searching just turned up some interesting results. I never knew there were "Gay" hotels.

[The Gaijin]

Chelsea? You are going to have a hard time finding a strait hotel!

[RoninLB]

isn't that hotel with the big unshaded windows where couples go to screw for the passers'by on the streets downtown around 10th ave?


are you coming to the city with your girlfriend or mistress?

[imcarthur]

I gave up trying to find a hotel in lower NYC. I often have to visit the Union Square area. I started using the boutique Affina chain. Several hotels in NYC but they are further north. I have stayed in the Shelburne & the 50. Both were very good & not crazy money.

Affina

Ian

[Gogar]

Originally Posted by RoninLB

isn't that hotel with the big unshaded windows where couples go to screw for the passers'by on the streets downtown around 10th ave?

You mean "The Standard?"

[nostatic]

Are you going to track some Leonard Cohen covers? If so you pretty much have to stay at the Chelsea Hotel. Who's going to be your Janis stand-in?

[hcariss]

The Standard is perfect for you, very close to where you have to work and right in the heart of a completely rejuvenated neighborhood. You would have a hard time finding a hooker of any persuasion, in fact anything illegal in that area now. Lots of good restaurants and bars in the area.

[imcarthur]

But it's $395 best rate for 250 sq ft closet (random date in May checked). Ok . . . it does have a view . . .

Ian

[Gogar]

Sorry, "Peek-a-boo bathtub" just isn't in my comfort zone, at any price.

[nostatic]

feh, you're just upset about the "no hookers" aspect...

[hcariss]

108 West 24th Street, New York, New York, USA 10011
Tel: 1-212-414-1000 Fax: 1-212-647-1511
Looks clean and a nice walk from where you are working

[VINMAN]

Theres a few quaint places on the lower West side.

Hourly rates. Bring your own sheets...

[Christien]

Hey Ian, have you stayed at the Affinia Manhattan, right across from MSG? Stef and I are staying there in July.

[RoninLB]

Originally Posted by Gogar

You mean "The Standard?"

I think so but can't confirm and at least your up on the info

[speeder]

Yeah, The Standard is the exhibitionist place on the new greenway that used to be an elevated train platform in the meatpacking district. Very cool use of space, (the walkway, not the hotel), you can see it in the picture above.

You never want to pay for trendiness in a hotel, or anything else IMO. The Standard is going to have a large *trendy tax* until it's time is up as the new place. My buddy, (and former employer), owns the Maritime and I still would not stay there unless I got a free room.

I've done incredibly well on priceline dot com for NYC hotel rooms. Give it a shot, you can pick the neighborhood and level of fancy, etc...

[imcarthur]

Originally Posted by Christien

Hey Ian, have you stayed at the Affinia Manhattan, right across from MSG? Stef and I are staying there in July.

No, I haven't. I usually stay east for faster cab access to Laguardia. It looks fine though. Get a jr suite if you can. I did notice that 32nd St - both sides of 5th - has a lot of Asian eateries when I walked by last week.

Ian