Stay and Shop in New York City
The Big Apple or New York City is the most heavily populated city in the United States. The center of the New York metropolitan area, it is also a leading global city that has an extremely powerful influence on the fashion, culture, entertainment industry as well as commerce and finance worldwide.
The Big Apple is really a great place to live, and it is a perfect place to visit, whether for pleasure or for business. If you find yourself visiting the city, there are a lot of beautiful hotels that you can choose to stay in.
In choosing a hotel in New York City, you need to figure out whether you want location, attraction or theme. If you choose location, then you will want to stay in the busiest intersection and the center of pop culture, which is along Broadway Times Square. This intersection is instantly recognizable location for being the setting of many kinds of movies, tv shows and even music videos.
For architecture aficionados, there are plenty of hotels in New York City that offer a variation in architecture and design. Notable mentions in Times Square include the Hotel 41 at Times Square, the Park Central New York Hotel and the famous five star hotel The Peninsula.
If choosing to stay in a hotel that is near a famous tourist attraction, places near the likes of Barney’s and Central Park is perfect. The Helmsley Park Lane Hotel and the Hotel Alexander are choice hotels near these areas.
Themed hotels are plentiful in New York City. The choice of pet friendly hotels, self-catering hotels and airport hotels will meet any need that you might have. You can also choose to stay at world famous brand name hotels such as Hilton, Marriott, Wyndham Worldwide and IHG hotels.
New York City is well known for having exquisite shopping destinations as well. For the high brow shopper who wants to shop designer, the shops along Fifth and Madison Avenue are the ones to go to. The section of Fifth Avenue between 34th and 59th Street is one of the foremost shopping streets in the world. It has stores such as Saks Fifth Avenue and Bergdorf Goodman. Tiffany and Co., the famous jewelry store also has its flagship store in that area as well.
If you do not care much for the labels as you do for the clothes, then you need to go to the less distinct but equally popular shopping destinations in the city. Soho and Greenwich Village are famous for selling vintage clothes, with the Meatpacking District is getting a name as a go-to fashion area as well. These places have smaller shops that have everything from funky eyewear to accessories to clothes of great quality that are sold at more affordable prices.
Suzie Nurmon is a professional traveler. She has been to every large city in the United States sharing her expert information. Most recently she has blogged about hotel New York City and New York City shopping.
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