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Aman New York – Premier Suite 5th Avenue

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Aman New York, a Fifth Avenue hotel in Manhattan, is a beautiful location, with a calming and sedate Japanese/Western minimalist style. Their “suites” (erm, rooms) are extremely well styled, comfortable, and built to a high standard including some of the best lighting and room automation I’ve seen. Based on our first two visits, however, service is some of the worst amongst high-end luxury hotel properties. Everyone was extremely polite and solicitous on the service, but even basic requests like having ice or milk brought to the room seemed to be impossible. Oh, and it’s often marketed (at least from a PR perspective) as the most expensive hotel in New York, which is probably true on an average-room-rate basis as they have no “cheap” rooms even by 5-star hotel standards. Also, in this hotel review, see how the toilet is unusable for about half the human population. Anyway, hope you enjoy… Continue reading

Equinox Hotel NYC – Premiere One Bed Corner Suite

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We stayed at the Equinox Hotel in Hudson Yards, NYC for a total cost of $3,697 for two nights. The hotel was beautiful and well-managed, as evidenced by the quality service and attention to detail. We’re not fitness people, so even though this is affiliated (or owned by) the Equinox Gym/Club company, we didn’t try the workout facilities. But hopefully this video can give you enough information to figure out if it’s some place that you’d like to lay your head in Manhattan next time you’re in New York. The food from room service was excellent, though we didn’t get a chance to try the Electric Lemon restaurant on this visit, that bodes well. As far as New York neighborhoods go, Hudson Yards is brand spankin’ new. So it doesn’t have much in the way of character, but it has multiple subway lines within walking distance at Penn Station (plus… Continue reading

Gardens Sonesta ES Suites NYC – 1 Bedroom Apartment

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A tour and review of the “One Bedroom Apartment One King” (yes, that’s exactly what they call it) at The Gardens Sonesta Extended Stay Suites New York (and yeah, that whole thing is the full name of the hotel) in the Lenox Hill neighborhood on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. This suite is a true apartment, with a large living room and bedroom, a tiny (yet functional) kitchen, and a small bathroom with a tub. The amount of space and amenities in the room are fantastic, but it was let down a bit by questionable stains on the couch and chair, a bathroom door that didn’t quite work, a shower and sink that were a bit janky, and some unsecured washing fluids. Overall, I like this hotel, but housekeeping and maintenance could use some work. Continue reading

My Review of the TWA Hotel at JFK Airport – Howard Hughes Suite

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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… Continue reading