Manhattan/NYC hotel recommendations for MIMS
evmo
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Choice of fold out, air mattress or hammock!
...anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
www.darren-miller.com
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania U.S.A.
Now that sounds like a plan!
...anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
loneswimmer.com
-LBJ
“Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.” - Oscar Wilde
http://clubquarters.com/new-york/wall-street
How long are you planning on staying in NYC?
Of couple of things I learned, thoroughly check schedules on a regular PC, for example my Android based smartphone didn't show the entire water ferry schedule from Paulus Hook to the Financial District so I thought ferry service ended at 7:30 PM even though in reality it went until almost 10:00 PM, but a PC did.
Finally my crew @ssthomas, my brother (a triathlete) and myself wanted to get in a swim as I wanted to loosen up before the big day and Sarah didn't want to miss a workout as she was stepping up her mileage. After an extensive internet search we found a reasonably (this is NYC metropolitan area) priced 25-yard pool to swim at Stevens Institute of Technology (SIT) in Hoboken, it was $25 for all three of us. http://www.stevens.edu/sit/
It was a fairly easy light rail ride from are apartment. Additionally we ate at an excellent pizzeria just few blocks from SIT http://mariosclassicpizza.com/
In 2011 (the year I swam), I stayed at the Aloft in downtown Brooklyn. It had a really nice shower.
2011 for the Ederle Swim was the new W near the WTC site (airline miles, otherwise probably not worth the expense).
In 2013 I stayed at an airbnb in Chelsea with the swim smooth guys.
This year was the Comfort Inn Manhattan Bridge... nice, sizeable room by Manhattan standards, and also quite affordable. We were on the special-rate "tenement view" wing.
All else being equal, there is definite value in staying near the race start/finish.