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Travel Forum / Destinations / USA and Canada / May 2006NYC riverside Tower.
We are looking into booking this hotel for July. Any good bad or ugly about this place or this location? >We are looking into booking this hotel for July. Any good bad or ugly >about this place or this location? Always specify the location if you want an opinion on it. I assume it's on Riverside Drive somewhere on the Upper West Side? No problem. Michael If you would like to send a private email to me, please take out the NOTRASH. Please do not email me something which you also posted. > >We are looking into booking this hotel for July. Any good bad or ugly > >about this place or this location? > > Always specify the location if you want an opinion on it. The subject line says Riverside Tower. It's the name of a hotel. The address is 80 Riverside Drive. > I assume it's on Riverside Drive somewhere on the Upper West Side? No > problem. It's on Riverside Drive. But I don't know whether it's the upper west side or not. > Michael > > If you would like to send a private email to me, please take out the NOTRASH. Please do not email me something which you also posted. >> >We are looking into booking this hotel for July. Any good bad or ugly >> >about this place or this location? >> >> Always specify the location if you want an opinion on it. > >The subject line says Riverside Tower. It's the name of a hotel. That doesn't tell us where it is. I assumed you wanted responses from people who don't actually know where the hotel is already. > The >address is 80 Riverside Drive. [snip] For future reference, you can plug addresses into mapquest.com and get approximate cross streets, and within the Five Boroughs, you can use this outstanding service, which pinpoints the location of the building exactly: http://gis.nyc.gov/doitt/mp/Portal.do We New Yorkers seldom recognize the cross streets from the address. However, since Riverside Drive starts at 72 St., the hotel must be around 74 St. That's a fine neighborhood. The only possible issue is that the walk to 72 and Broadway to get the 7th Av. subway line requires you to walk a short avenue block to West End and then a long avenue block to Broadway, in addition to the short street blocks. I don't think it's that long a walk, but some people would. The M5 bus runs up and down Riverside Drive from early morning until around 11 P.M. Think of the location as a well-kept residential neighborhood where you'll be across from a nice park and can have a nice view out your hotel window if you ask (and, presumably, pay) for it. Michael If you would like to send a private email to me, please take out the NOTRASH. Please do not email me something which you also posted. > >> >We are looking into booking this hotel for July. Any good bad or ugly > >> >about this place or this location? [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > That doesn't tell us where it is. I assumed you wanted responses from > people who don't actually know where the hotel is already. First of all I want to thank you and others for replying. I would like the opinions of people who have stayed there and also know the neighborhood, since we certainly don't. If someone tells me they are staying at the Westin St. Francis hotel in San Francisco (or many others in SF), I don't need the address. I know where it is by name. So unless it's a chain hotel with many locations, I can tell just from the name of the hotel where it is. I assumed that it's the same with NYC. > > The > >address is 80 Riverside Drive. [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > If you would like to send a private email to me, please take out the NOTRASH. Please do not email me something which you also posted. >> >> >We are looking into booking this hotel for July. Any good bad or ugly >> >> >about this place or this location? [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > >First of all I want to thank you and others for replying. You're very welcome; that's why I'm here. > I would like >the opinions of people who have stayed there and also know the [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >the name of the hotel where it is. I assumed that it's the same with >NYC. This isn't a really well-known hotel. We New Yorkers know where the Plaza is/was, but with the profusion of hotels, it's really only the most famous that you'd get a large number of New Yorkers knowing where they are. Probably the Marriott Marquis would be another example, because it's big and is known for that rotating bar/restaurant, etc. Michael If you would like to send a private email to me, please take out the NOTRASH. Please do not email me something which you also posted. I stayed there 15 years ago and thought it was OK for the money -- at least at that time. I remember it as a bare-bones, unremodeled relic that was probably painted last during the Italian Rennaisance. It is, however, convenient to Lincoln Center. If you're accustomed to standard New York budget hotel rooms -- so small you have to step outside to change your mind -- you won't be shocked. But don't plan on entertaining company there. > >> >> >We are looking into booking this hotel for July. Any good bad or ugly > >> >> >about this place or this location? [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > > If you would like to send a private email to me, please take out the NOTRASH. Please do not email me something which you also posted. >We are looking into booking this hotel for July. Any good bad or ugly >about this place or this location? Try TripAdvisor for New York City. Probably are user reviews of this hotel. Isn't it one of the lower priced hotels? Always wise to check those out in NYC. >We are looking into booking this hotel for July. Any good bad or ugly >about this place or this location? I remember reading some really bad reviews on tripadvisor. I was going to book it last December and changed my mind.  SignatureBarbara Vaughan My email address is my first initial followed by my last name at libero dot it. > We are looking into booking this hotel for July. Any good bad or ugly > about this place or this location? As someone else has posted, I would definitely check out www.tripadvisor.com. This is a site that collects traveler reviews of hotels, and will tell you what you need to know. >> We are looking into booking this hotel for July. Any good bad or ugly >> about this place or this location? > >As someone else has posted, I would definitely check out >www.tripadvisor.com. This is a site that collects traveler reviews of >hotels, and will tell you what you need to know. I was curous as I thought I had read reviews of this hotel and that they were very mixed. So I checked it out on Trip Advisor. The reviews make the hotel sound much like a crapshoot. Some were pleased and others found it not just having cramped rooms but also filthy. By all means read the reviews and then decide if you want to chance it. |
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