Easy choice, Lowell junior suite would be nicer than FS, service comparable and cheaper. It is a much smaller hotel (and almost all rooms are suites, btw); in many ways better than the FS which is more business oriented (but has the advantages of a larger hotel). I haven't stayed there since it was renovated, and now with the new bathrooms it is that much better as a hotel. The boutique hotels in Manhattan definitely understand that they need to keep the service level high in order to compete (unlike some of the larger hotels which have used their very high occupancy rates to drop the service a notch).