Hotel: The Whitby Hotel, NYC (April 2024)
Room Booked: Deluxe Room, Top Floors
Rate: $1,195/night
Early Check-in: Yes. We arrived well before noon. Our room was not immediately available, but the hotel called shortly after we dropped our bags off (maybe around 10:30/11:00) to let us know that a room had been made ready.
Late Check-out: Yes. Utilized 4PM checkout.
Upgrade: Yes. Upgraded to a Junior Suite. The room was really spacious and pin-drop quiet, despite being close to street level. Large bathroom with separate shower and tub, as well as a bidet. Room featured large floor to ceiling windows, which could be tilted open.
$100 Food & Beverage Credit: $100 credit which I applied toward food/drinks at the hotel's bar. Drinks were good but food was insanely expensive. I think I paid $30+ for some wimpy sliders? Wish I just sunk the credit towards drinks.
Breakfast: Buffet/A la carte options. Not blown away but better than dinner.
Loyalty Points/Benefits Received?: N/A
Comment: This was a beautiful hotel and located a stone's throw from Central Park and still walkable from Grand Central. Staff were friendly/welcoming, although we had no issues pop up that required their attention. The room was very quiet, which is often one of the greatest luxuries when staying in NYC.

Trailing Edit...
I also just want to add emphasize that this is a beautifully designed hotel. Other luxury hotels in NYC feel like they're frozen in time, where they just decided to gold-plate everything in the 80's and call it a day. The Whitby is funky and reminds me a lot of one of my favorite US-based hotels (Maison De La Luz in New Orleans). It features a lot of different art/design elements that shouldn't make sense together, but they somehow do.

Oh, another positive experience. When we dropped our bags off (again, hours ahead of early check-in) they welcomed us to use their lounge, which was a neat little feature. It is a small sitting room (maybe space for 10 or so people to sit without bothering one another) but it was very quiet and very comfortable. It had an honor bar set-up (self-serve and record your own purchases in a ledger) much the same way that Maison De La Luz does...