Wellington Hotel

Spent 5 nights at the Wellington and loved every minute of it. Lovely rooms - albeit small - with everything you need. The only thing missing was no tea/coffee making facilities in the room but we knew this before we went and packed our own plus a travel kettle which worked out perfectly. (if you do this and forget your travel adaptor plug don't worry you can get one from reception for a $20 refundable deposit). From the moment we arrived we felt so welcome. Lovely reception staff and very quickly checked in and shown to our room. The room was really nice - as said small but more than adequate. Nicely furnished, really comfortable bed, full bathroom with bath & shower and a hairdryer and we had no noise at all from ' clanking pipes ' as others have remarked on on here. The room was spotless clean and bedding/towels changed everyday if so required. Perfect location for Times Square & Central Park and all in all not too far for most of the main attractions. We booked a Sightseeing Pass and would highly recommend doing this as a lot of money can be saved this way. As many trips as you like on the Hop on Hop Off bus and free entry to numerous attractions. Though would advise giving the evening trip a miss - this is Hop on Stay on and takes you on a roundabout route over the Manhattan Bridge and back and not much more - a bit of a waste of 2 hours in our opinion. Eating & Drinking: We were so busy during our stay going here, there & everywhere that hardly had time to eat!! but can recommend the street vendors and eating on the go. What look like ordinary burger stands actually sell all kinds of food and are very very reasonably priced. On the Saturday in Times Square there was a food market where everything looked really tempting we were spoiled for choice. As you would expect in N.Y. there are endless Irish Bars (tho' I use the term Irish very loosely!!!) most of which also do food. Our favourite ' watering hole ' was The Valhalla in Hells Kitchen. About 4 blocks from the hotel (9th Ave I think?). Great staff/service and prices much lower than Times Square etc etc. The Valhalla also do food, very nice and again reasonably priced. We had a wonderful time in N.Y. and hopefully will get back there again in the future. If we do we will not hesitate to stay at The Wellington once again.

My room on the 20th floor was nice, quiet enough considering it's in a busy town. I loved the location - close to Times Square, but closer to Central Park. I would stay here again. It would have been nice if they provided a tea kettle and a small refrigerator or access to an ice machine. But those were minor inconveniences. We were able to walk every where.

We stayed for 5 nights at this nice hotel. The room was small but comfortable and as we were only sleeping in it, it was all we wanted. It is very central to Times Square and Central Park. Shame there was no tea/coffee making facilities in the room but there was a good town cafe 'The Park' on site which when needed served our needs. The reception staff could possibly have been a little more friendly but they attended to our needs adequately. Overall a good, no frills hotel for a city break.