April fools? IDK what I was doing with this video. If you like it, you like it. If you don’t like it… Vidal Sassoon. Anyhow, we went to the TWA hotel at JFK in New York before the “events of 2020” and stayed in the Howard Hughes “suite”. I put suite in quotes there because it’s a large room for sure, and kinda-sorta has a separate bar area (really just the foyer), but really I wouldn’t classify it as a full suite.
Despite the sarcastic tone of the video, I really like this hotel. We’re sorta avgeeks, so it’s great from both an historical standpoint and for actual plane spotting. You’ll spot an old scanner radio briefly in the video, and it’s great sitting in the room with the floor-to-ceiling windows while listening to the ground control chatter.
We didn’t go in the rooftop pool on this visit, but we did subsequently on the 4th of July. It was pretty cool being able to watch fireworks all across the horizon from the pool. (We actually go pretty nuts with fireworks on the 4th in NY, despite them being illegal).
The Connie Cocktail Lounge was super cool. Friendly staff, good drinks, all inside a real Lockheed Constellation with vintage seats. I’m a big fan of modern lie-flat, but nothing compares to the padding on those chairs.
It ain’t cheap to stay there, but you can just walk into the building and look around if you have a couple of hours to kill at JFK. I recommend it!