Holiday Inn Manhattan-Financial District

The hotel was very centrally located only 3' walking from ground zero, 1' walk from the 3 closest metro stations and 10' walk from Battery Park where the ferries to Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island depart. The staff and the cleaning ladies were extremely helpful and very eager to answer all of our questions. We stayed at the 47th floor and had a very nice view of the Hudson River and New Jersey. A lot of people are complaining in the comments about the elevators and the long time waiting for them. I have to say that they are indeed 3 but during our 6-night stay we had to wait more than 2 or 3 minutes only once and we were using the elevators at least 4 times per day. That's not bad for a 50 floor hotel. In general it was a very smooth stay, very high percentage of value for money, especially in comparison with other NYC hotels and we would definitely stay again.

The only disadvantage was the fact that in contrast with the a la carte breakfast menu which was really good, the buffet was very pure in terms of variety and more importantly, when something was running out, there was no fast response to replenish it.