$88/night is on the low end especially with an SUV there’s often a $15-20 surcharge. A lot of the lots within a few blocks are over $100 for 24hr. If you go over east of 3rd Ave you find places under $50 before the $15 oversized fee which comes in for anything over 65” tall ie anything but cars. Besides that since it’s on the folio the parking charge earns points, which I see as a discount.

I rarely use concierge also, having google and internet reservation on my phone makes that so much faster and with so much less possibilities of error. I actually feel for concierges since their pull was because of the volume of reservation they made created contacts and standing a lot of that is gone in the modern era. Yes in Europe and Asia they can still be a big help not only because they’re in my view much more of a profession but local knowledge and language is much more important.

my big problem is if a hotel can’t deliver a room that provides a good comfortable nights sleep than nothing else it does matters because it’s just decoration. If it address the most basic reason you pay for a night in a room it’s not a luxury hotel. The NY St Regis can’t be bothered that a portion of its guests have a degraded experience at this very basic function of any hotel. They seemed to be surprise then I even complained, which tells me a lot.

maybe it really is more of a timeshare than a hotel after all