The ground-floor entrance of the Hotel Indigo was nondescript - it looked like it could have been in any other building in Manhattan. Depending on the time of day, the subway would get you to either site in about 15-20 minutes. To the World Trade Center, it'd be about a 15-minute ride (40 minutes by foot). To Times Square, depending on traffic, it'd be about a 30-minute taxi ride. To LaGuardia, it would have been about half an hour. In the afternoon on a weekday and with decent luck with traffic, a cab from the hotel to JFK airport would have taken about 45 minutes. (The closest lines being the F, M, J and Z at Essex Street and the F at 2nd Avenue.) I was a little worried it would be loud because this particular neighborhood is known for boisterous nightlife, but I was on the 11th floor and couldn't hear much noise beyond the sirens and taxis honking, which are oh-so-common in NYC. It was surrounded by endless options for restaurants and bars and conveniently located near subway lines to easily access other parts of the city. The hotel was on Ludlow Street just off the major thoroughfare of Houston Street and on the northern border of the Lower East Side, just south of the East Village. I preferred to pay cash in this case because using points wasn't the best value - my dates were going for 50,000 IHG points per night. I ended up spending $1,064 (and earning 3,192 ThankYou points thanks to the card's bonus category that awards 3x points for hotel stays) after the credit, meaning my cost for a king deluxe room came out to about $213 per night, a great rate for Manhattan, where hotels usually cost upwards of $300 per night. Since my stay would be for five nights, I decided to use my Citi Prestige for the 4th Night Free benefit. Normally, I strive to be as far as possible from Times Square, stay somewhere hip and get a cheap rate, but it doesn't always work out that way.īut during a recent trip, all the stars were aligned, and I was able to stay in the Hotel Indigo Lower East Side New York, which was not only in my favorite New York neighborhood, the Lower East Side, but also in my budget and worlds away from touristy Times Square. Choosing a New York City hotel is always the bane of my existence.
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