April 09, 2008

Hotel packages start trickling in for NYC Waterfalls

Progress is afoot on New York City's must-see public art event for the summer of 2008 --Olafur Eliasson's NYC Waterfalls.

The waterfalls themselves are under construction, as is another website about the project.

Alas, still no official start date other than mid-July, but the first of the hotel packages have arrived.

The Ritz-Carlton at Battery Park is offering a hotel waterfalls package from $630 as it is the "only luxury property featuring a waterfall view from Harbor View guest rooms."

That will get you breakfast, a one-hour Circle Line waterfall cruise and a harbor-view room with an in-room telescope to see the Governors Island Waterfall -- the most southern of the four man-made waterfalls.

The package will be on offer from July 4 through October 14.

The Plaza Athenee waterfall hotel package might not have a room with the view, but it will get you a NY Water Taxi waterfalls cruise with an optional add on of the "Waterfalls Inspired Lunch or Dinner Menu in Arabelle Restaurant." Package rates are 560 in July and August and $750 in September and October.

Related: Bike and Roll, a new bike rental and tour company for NYC will also be offering NYC waterfalls tours this summer.

Image source: NYCWaterfalls.org rendering of "Governors Island"

Earlier: 'NYC Waterfalls' cruises priced at $10 and $20
Circle Line Downtown gets 'exclusive' Waterfalls tours

April 9, 2008 11:16 AM in Cheap Stuff, Downtown, Hotelology, Kids, Out of Manhattan, Romance, Sightsology, Tours

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