An added bonus to this destination was the opportunity to visit with our niece, MDL who is in the city on an internship for 6 months-- ending in October.
We left Love Field Sept 5 (Tues) with no excitement-- a little awkwardness finding a parking place, but remembering the construction mess at DFW, really no problem. I like Love Field, but I don't particularly like driving there-- Dallas isn't my favorite destination-- hate the traffic and confusing roads.
Getting luggage checked, easy, going thru security simple and not crowded at all, Plane trip calm, uneventful, almost pleasant. Everything was great! Landed, gathered our purple suitcase and called the hotel for advice about getting from Laguardia to W 57th St. They gave me a phone # and website for a bus service that they contracted to bring guests to the hotel. Then the FUN (?) began. Using my phone, website wouldn't accept my credit card info and when I called the #, the message stated that the phone was not being answered right now. After 2 more phone calls to the hotel, the desk person suggested getting a cab (for what she said would be about $40). We walked outside to do just that when a man asked if we'd like to take a bus to our hotel for $15 each. He did say we'd have to change buses before getting to our hotel on 57th St. But he said the second bus would be waiting for us where we changed. We paid him and got on. And drove and drove and drove til we got to a sort of bus stop area (I wished I'd checked out the address, but it didn't occur to me to do that) we got off and talked to the little man who was sorting people onto various buses to continue their trip. some went to the train station, others-to various other parts of NYC, but the bus to take us to our hotel wasn't there. He said it'd be there in 5 minutes to 45 minutes. Do you want to guess how long we stood there waiting for OUR bus? 55 minutes. If we'd known where we were, we would have been able to walk there in that amount of time.
FINALLY we got to our hotel which had a really fancy lobby. We checked in and got a room on the 15th floor-- didn't know at the time that this hotel has an outdoor terrace on the 15th floor. A really pretty rooftop area with lots of sitting and greenery and tucked into the far corner, a bar area.
A lovely place to sit, get some fresh air and relax. I thought I took a picture out there, but I guess I didn't. Take my word, it was pretty and green and relaxing, when it wasn't raining.
Our room was tiny with a queen bed, a little desk, a wine cooler which didn't work, and the strangest bathroom I think I've ever seen.
There was a glass window between the bedroom and the bathroom right over the bathtub that had a gauzy curtain over it. Why? Who knows, Kinz, our niece thought it might have been re-configured and the window left in rather than walled over. Again let me say, who knows? Just a really strange feature. And it was a left handed facility. Standing at the bathroom sink, brushing teeth, combing hair, etc, my right arm kept hitting the open door. I tried doing these things with the door closed and my arm still hit the wall. Cramped quarters, to say the least.
After work, Kinz joined us and we talked for awhile and then headed out to have supper. Right down the street in the same block was a place called Fluffy's Cafe. They offered sandwiches, pizza, stir fry, just all sorts of food. Kinz and I had burgers that were really good and Nick had a cheese steak sandwich that wasn't. He filled up with an eclair. After walking around a bit, we said good night to Kinz and went up to bed. She had about 35-40 minutes on the subway to get home to Brooklyn.
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