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Most hotels like to talk up their deluxe or premier rooms and suites - they don’t often feature or try to sell their standard rooms by providing lots of pictures and information. Our recurring feature - “Standard Rooms - What You Get“, goes to the luxury hotels of New York and provides you with more […]

If you have not yet played around with Google Maps and their Satellite/Traffic views of New York City, your missing out on some fun. For example, you can see the progress of the World Trade Center site, check out what’s happening at Gracie Mansion, or see the baseball games near Turtle Pond in Central Park.
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The Otesaga Resort Hotel, an AAA 4 diamond recepient, occupies 700 feet of lakefront on the southern shore of Lake Otsego in Cooperstown, NY. Known for the Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown also offers championship golfing at the Leatherstocking […]

When traveling to New York and not actually wanting to worry and take the time to cross the bridges or go through the tunnels - there is always another luxury ‘hotel’ (using that word liberaly) option just 26 miles North of Manhattan in Tarrytown.
Castle on the Hudson (yup, a real castle - just look at […]