NY City Travel - Pod 39 hotel

[rkamarowski]

Traveling to NY City this summer to see friends and take Albumen workshop at Center for Alternative Processes. Anyone stay at Pod 39 Hotel? Any other hotel recommendations?

bob k.

[ScottPhotoCo]

I have stayed at the POD in NYC several times and it was fine. Shared bathrooms and lots of young people bring a good energy to the place. I'd stay there again.

Tim

[paulr]

I'd check out air b&b for sure.

[rkamarowski]

Thank you.

[Shootar401]

The few times I stayed at a hotel in the City I stayed at the Empire hotel at Lincoln Center. Very nice with a rooftop bar.

[David Schaller]

The Roger Smith, near Grand Central, is sometimes a good deal, and has always been pleasant. (Also has a rooftop bar.)

[Scott Davis]

The MAve is nice, just off Madison Square Park on Madison & 27th for budget-ish accommodations. A little more expensive but well worth it is the Park Central on 7th between 55th & 56th. They just finished a multi-year multi-million dollar renovation including a new dining room and lobby, and complete overhaul of all the rooms, which are large by Manhattan standards.

[David A. Goldfarb]

I've put guests up in the POD39 a number of times, and they do have rooms with en suite bathrooms. Rooms are small but very well designed, very clean and modern. If you don't need a big room and just plan to sleep at the hotel and get out into the city, I recommend it.

[Jim Andrada]

Something to look into - if you belong to a college (or other) club, there are usually reciprocal clubs in other cities for a lot less than you'd pay for equivalent accommodations in a regular hotel. It's the main reason I joined my college alumni club as a remote (ie live far away and pay less for membership) member. Manhattan still isn't cheap by any stretch of the imagination, but I get better rooms at a third of what the hotel down the street charges.

[NancyP]

I haven't thought of the Empire Hotel in 35 years. I used to spend the occasional weekend there in the mid-1970s, attending standing-room at the Met Opera across the street. I suppose they have upgraded it since then...I remember bathtub with feet.