We stayed here during the first week of July. Whilst the public areas are generally good repair and what you would expect we found the rooms to being showing signs of age and not as clean as we would expect. Originally we had rooms overlooking the Waldorf where workmen were hammering way past 2 o’clock every night. We complained and whilst we were told they shouldn’t be the hotel didn’t do anything. We asked to be moved and we were finally given a bigger (and generally cleaner) room.
There are plenty of places locally to get (a cheap) breakfast and several restaurants within a couple of blocks.
The hop on hop off buses both stop close to the hotel. Our observation was that the red buses were busier than the blue ones.
For visitors from the UK the dollar rate makes taxis a really cheap way to travel round the city, especially if there are more than 2 of you.
A good place to go is the Southside seaport. You can enjoy plenty of good restaurants but our top tip would be to catch the IKEA water taxi from Pier 11. It’s free and you get excellent views of the Manhattan skyline and the Statue of Liberty courtesy of the Swedish retailer
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