Reply To: New York basic hotel recommendations

[travelersolo]

Blair Waldorf Salad wrote:

May I ask the purpose of the trip? If it’s say a once in a lifetime trip with older parents in tow, I’d very much suggest sticking to Manhattan. You really don’t want the hassle of being beholden to the (ever more threatening) subway.

Also New York is IME nothing like London in terms of nice non-central neighbourhoods. Even gentrified areas others suggested to me I found very mixed to low end; I would have had no interest in staying in them.

It’s a solo mini break. It will be my first time spending more than 24hrs in the city so keen to make most of it. Weather permitting I’ll spend most of my time walking around. Ellis Island and Rockerfeller centre at night are only items on bucket list for the trip.

I probably should have mentioned that I’m arriving and departing from EWR.