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Hotel Review: Stay in New York City
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Stay, conveniently located near Times Square, has a hip feel and is wired for the 21st century. Robert Caplin for The New York Times
The fourth link in Vikram Chatwal’s growing chain of New York hotels (two more properties are in the works) is a 208-room hotel called Stay. The name is meant as a one-word declarative sentence, and the brand’s marketing department has come up with an endless list of reasons why one should do just that. But doing so in a standard room means trading spacious accommodations for state-of-the-art technology.
THE LOCATION
As
a former downtown Manhattanite who used to wonder why anyone would stay
near Times Square, I now stand corrected. A jam-packed schedule of
business meetings, museum visits and holiday lunches, drinks and
dinners all around the city was a breeze with the hotel’s easy access
to multiple subway lines. About half of Manhattan is a 20-minute walk
away.
THE ROOM
Though improbably small, the room was actually quite comfortable and definitely wired for the 21st century. A neutral “greige” linen-textured wallpaper does its best to fade away behind the wall-mounted 37-inch flat-screen TV and large-framed prints of fashion photos. The crisp 300-thread-count sheets, custom woven in India, are particularly luxurious. The Alcatel phones are Skype- and Bluetooth compatible and also offer video, which is linked to the doorbell so you can see who’s knocking as well to which concierge you’re speaking. The alarm clock is a Bose radio with iPod dock, and the hotel will also lend you a loaded iPod upon request.Stay, 157 West 47th Street; (212) 768 3700; www.stayhotelny.com.
Read more at http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/travel/01check.html?ref=travel
