belvedere hotel 319 west 48th street

Hope some of you out there can help me,

myself, wife and 22yold daughter will be paying our first visit to New York the first week in May, so HELP!! please

The Belvedere Hotel gets good reviews but is it okay realy, and what about the area is it a good location?

are tickets to Broadway shows cheaper and easy to get via the ticket booths or shall I book them before we leave the U.K ?

No doubt I will be back with more questions as time goes on

Cheers folks

Graeme

belvedere hotel 319 west 48th street

The Belvedere is a really good hotel - location is excellent, two blocks off Time Square but the street is really quiet and safe. Stayed there last Oct/Nov and could not find a single fault with hotel or its staff. I would have no hesitation in recommending it.

belvedere hotel 319 west 48th street

The Belvedere is in the heart of the theater district. It%26#39;s a wonderful area, convenient to all the theaters and great public transit access. This is the perfect location if you%26#39;re planning on seeing a couple of shows, as you don%26#39;t have to worry about traveling home, just stroll back to your hotel. It is also ';tourist central,'; the location most tourists choose, so it really isn%26#39;t what we call a ';real'; neighborhood. My favorite area is the upper west side, which is only a short subway ride from the theater district. It%26#39;s also got terrific subway/bus access. But it%26#39;s an upscale residential neighborhood that%26#39;s great to explore at all hours, full of great shops and restaurants. Convenient to Central Park, Riverside Park, the Museum of Natural History / Planetarium, Lincoln Center, and much more. It%26#39;s the neighborhood celebrated in the movie ';You%26#39;ve Got Mail.'; (You can take a virtual tour on their web site, www.youvegotmail.com.) Compare reviews on these UWS hotels: Beacon, Lucerne, Belleclaire, Newton, Milburn, Excelsior, On the Ave.

Our discount ticket booths, TKTS, sell cash-only, same-day tickets, but you won%26#39;t find the top shows there, the lines can be quite long, and you have no choice of seating. It%26#39;s much better to buy your tickets in advance and have them held at the theater box office. Use www.broadwaybox.com for discount tickets. Click on the show title and you%26#39;ll get instructions on ordering from secure sites. (Each show is handled by an exclusive ticket agent, usually Telecharge or Ticketron, and no matter how you purchase -- whether full price or discount -- you%26#39;ll be doing so through one of those agents.) If you want something that%26#39;s not available on discount, go to www.playbill.com and you%26#39;ll get directions for ordering full-price tickets. That way you%26#39;ll have in hand your first choice(s), and once you%26#39;re here, if you find you want to ';sneak'; in another show, you can give TKTS a try. To get an idea of what shows were sold the prior week at the TKTS booths, go to their web site, www.tdf.org.

One other thing to check on the playbill.com site -- some shows offer alternative ticketing, such as lotteries. You can find that info on playbill%26#39;s site... follow the link on the lower right side of their home page.

I stayed at the Belvedere in January and found it to be a lovely hotel- perfect in every way, especially location. Only small bit of advice if you do decide to stay here, don%26#39;t let them organize a cab for you to the airport.. they charge no less than DOUBLE the price you can get it for if you book it yourself!

Stayed at the Belvedere last September - it is great! Location is perfect, it is clean, nice-sized room, kitchenette, what more can you ask for in a budget hotel? To be honest, it didn%26#39;t really seem like a budget hotel to me. I don%26#39;t really care about room service or anything like that in NYC. I%26#39;m there to enjoy everything outside of the hotel, not in it! I really think you can%26#39;t go wrong by staying there.

Thanks to all of you who replied, good to know I have chosen a nice hotel in a good location and Bettina thanks for the info on the shows and Emily, ta for the taxi advice

This is such a good site and you are all so good helping us visitors

No doubt I will be posting more questions as time goes on

Again THANKS

Graeme