Best Manhattan Hyatt ( on a budget) for Globalist benefits?
Mar 3, 2020, 1:38 pm
#17
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Mar 3, 2020, 2:32 pm
#18
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The gym is impressive. The top floor bar is impressive too (but VERY expensive). Beyond that, the public areas are pretty meh.... it's a tall very slender tower so I guess they didn't have that much to work with.... staff are decent by NYC standards. Also, note that despite the name it does NOT face into Times Square. It's a half block off of it, which could be good or bad depending on your desires. Some rooms have a sliver view of the square.
Mar 3, 2020, 3:08 pm
#19
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Have the GHNY set a date on when they'll close for good?
Mar 4, 2020, 12:14 pm
#20
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There's no specific date and I don't think the closure is certain. They are accepting reservations/conferences/events into the foreseeable future (into 2022). I wouldn't be at all surprised to see the entire project cancelled/changed and the GH could be there in its present form for many years to come (the project anticipated a new GH in a new mixed use building, but the market for those types of building in NYC was declining even before recent events).
Mar 4, 2020, 12:19 pm
#21
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There's no specific date and I don't think the closure is certain. They are accepting reservations/conferences/events into the foreseeable future (into 2022). I wouldn't be at all surprised to see the entire project cancelled/changed and the GH could be there in its present form for many years to come (the project anticipated a new GH in a new mixed use building, but the market for those types of building in NYC was declining even before recent events).
Mar 4, 2020, 1:00 pm
#22
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I think the press release said the GH will be replaced with a new hotel. I'm assuming it'll be another GH or at least a Hyatt property? With the Coronoavirus spreading rapidly in the US, I guess the risk of a recession is getting higher and higher. I think the Fed's decision yesterday morning more or less confirmed it for me. If the recession does materializes, I guess you could be right that the entire project could be derailed. It's not like this stuff didn't happened during the Great Recession of 2008.