Update – award bookings filling up especially for 2017 weekends. If you can stay mid-week or in 2018, you have a better chance of finding availability.
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There’s a new Hyatt Place opening soon in Long Island City, Queens – literally one subway stop to Manhattan – and it’s presently a category 2!
The Hyatt website is accepting reservations from October 27, 2017 and beyond. According to this YIMBY Article, construction is moving along well – the 9th floor and roof were completed in January.
You can presently make reservations for the hotel – including award nights for 8,000 points – this is wide open including the weekends of the New York City Marathon, Thanksgiving and Christmas!!
MISTAKE????
When I last checked – an award 8,000 point stay is for a King One bedroom suite not a standard room! (The one bedroom suite is always priced $100 more than a standard room!).
I Predict Hyatt Will Change the Hotel Category!!
I think that Hyatt will change the hotel category for the Hyatt Place Long Island City at any time like it did with the Hyatt House Chelsea (see. Hyatt Now Says New York/Chelsea Hyatt House is Category 5 Hotel) (jumped from category 2 to 5), and the Hyatt House Jersey City, which is still under construction (jumped from category 1 to 5 before reservations were opened for booking).
Here, although the hotel is legitimately listed as category 2 on the Hyatt website – if history is correct – then I predict it will be changed to a category 4 or 5 at any time!
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Aren’t all rooms usually a suite in Hyatt Place? Not a bad deal but no jump for me. If it was andaz NYC or something I’d jump on it.
Not a single award room open any weekend between opening and the new year. Every weekend I check I get the dreaded error –
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I still see availability, though it’s diminishing.What I find interesting is that yesterday, the award rooms were regular one bedroom suites. Today they are ADA one bedroom suites.
So which day are people having a party there?
what day will you be there? LOL.
Book now think later. Booked for Dec 25th. Now have to see if I want to cancel my Wyndham New Yorker stay or not…
Category 2 is probabky correct, the Hyatt place in flushing is only a category 3 and I believe that is much closer than Long Island city. The “mistake” may be in the suite being available as an award rather than standard rooms. You can’t compare this example to the legitimate mistake in manhattan because that is manhattan.
To counter your point. Hyatt House Jersey City is a cat 5 for 20k. And that hotel is comparable distance from Manhattan albeit the west side instead of the east like Long Island.
I can see Long Island Hyatt Place easily being priced higher in the future.
Flushing IS NOT closer – I rode past this hotel as part of the BIKE NY Bikeathon on Sunday, looked nice – It is right next to the 59th Street bridge, you are practically in the city – Flushing into midtown is close to 30 minutes on a subway – This hotel is a 5 minute subway ride into midtown – Much more convenient – Flushing is in the middle of nowhere if you are heading into Manhattan
Alex –
clearly the one bedroom suite (rather than a standard room) award is a mistake.
The hotel is right across the river from Manhattan – much closer than Flushing (fyi – I love the flushing HP). Long Island City is a cool neighborhood and apartments there are as or more expensive than Manhattan. Although the HP Long Island City is currently listed as a category 2 – I would wager a bet that it will be upgraded to a 3 or 4 between now and opening day.
Can’t find a thing and I checked some dates in April and May and even removed weekends?
Jessica – it looks like Hyatt has now removed the hotel from Category 2 – see my next post.
LIC is not generally a great part of town. Somewhat industrial with little retail open after hours. Compare that to Flushing which is pretty much Queens’ Chinatown. The distance to the city is the appeal here. I do think they’ll raise this category as well. 8,000 is a decent rate but it’s not a steal. its about 3-4 short blocks to the 7,N,W train into the city from Queensboro Plaza. There’s also an Aloft about a block away.
I love going to the Flushing Hyatt Place – it’s a cultural adventure. But if I was a tourist coming to visit NYC, I would certainly recommend LIC for its proximity. Many areas of LIC have gotten very cool – I haven’t visited the exact street where the HP will be, so I will defer to you.