June 24, 2008

NYC hotel deals, openings, construction and wi-fi

HotelChatter flags a great booking bargain: Quikbook has quality NYC hotels for under $200.

Tablet Hotels current NYC offers include 6 Columbus from $255, Bryant Park Hotel from $289 and SoHo House from $525.

The Standard, "coming soonish" offers lovely eye candy courtesy its webcam (right.)

Thompson LES hopes to open July 22, according to HotelChatter.com.

Morgans plans to reopen September 16 after renovations with rooms from $599, according to the hotel's website.

There are five potential new hotels on tap for the Gowanus Canal neighborhood already home to Hotel Le Bleu, the Holiday Inn Express and the Comfort Inn, according to the Brooklyn Paper.

Bloomberg quotes a Lodging Econometrics report that says 55 hotels are in the works for Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, Staten Island and New Jersey's Hudson County.

A Smith Travel Research study found that 91 percent of hotels surveyed now offer wi-fi and that only 15 percent of them are charging for Internet access, the Associated Press reports. bad news for the rich: "charges for Internet access were most common at more expensive properties."

You can get a $30 TV dinner at the Loews Regency Hotel, according to the New York Times.

The NYC City Council wants to bump up the hotel tax to 8 percent, but Mayor Michael Bloomberg says no. "International tourism is down throughout our country something like 17 percent. It is up 9 percent in New York. Killing the golden goose is not a smart thing to do," he's quoted in the NY Sun.

June 24, 2008 2:22 PM in Downtown, Hotelology, Out of Manhattan, Techology

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