Property
Fourteen floor, 208-room-boutique hotel with surprisingly stylish decor and great location considering inexpensive rates (for NYC standards, starts at $119.00).

Location
Times Square– right in the thick of it (specifically, 46th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues). A few blocks from the big flashy lights, Rockefeller Center, mega big Toys “R” Us w/in-store ferris wheel, the theater district, the Museum of Modern Art, Grand Central Station, and Fifth Avenue shopping. Nearby Times Square subway will get you anywhere else in the city you could want to go.

Sleeps
Typical hotel options– singles, doubles, cribs available on request.

Highlights
Be sure to snag a postcard or two while playing tourist as kids will dig stepping off the elevator and using the antique brass mail chute with see through glass chamber. Kids can call their buds back home real time to tell them about their adventures via free phone calls anywhere in the country perk. Free Wifi and complimentary continental breakfast (with bagels that taste like bagels thanks to NYC locale) also help cut back on costs.

Good to know
In a pinch for a picky eater who refuses to appreciate the vast culinary smorgasbord that is NYC, McDonald’s is around the corner.  Sigh. For space lovers, nearby Mars 2112 is a restaurant must. Along the lines of a Rainforest Cafe, young diners with stars in their eyes will get a kick out of being addressed as “earthlings” by staff, meeting some star aliens, living through a meteor shower and the five minute “rocket ride” via simulator to reach the impressively designed “Red Planet.” In-house hotel tapas bar has bare basics of bar food munchies and cheap draft specials, and will let you carry a bottle to your room if it’s been a long day and you feel like lounging while kids hit Nintendo on the flatscreen.

Contact
http://www.applecorehotels.com/the-hotel-at-times-square/

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