Crowne Plaza Times Square

The Look and Experience:

If you wish to set up camp in the Times Square area during your visit to New York, then look no further as the Crowne Plaza Times Square is definitely worth checking out. The hotel’s 795 rooms guarantee that guests will have stunning views of either Times Square itself, the Hudson River or that iconic Manhattan skyline. This ultra-sleek hotel will definitely set your New York adventure on the right path.

Bed and Bath:

Rooms at the Crowne Plaza Times Square are subdued, peaceful and elegant with unbelievable views of this bustling city.

About Your Stay:

The Crowne Plaza Times Square is the perfect setting for a stay in the Big Apple.

As the hotel is situated in an enviable part of the city, you will be a short stroll to New York’s most popular sights. Enjoy an evening of extravagance by sipping expertly crafted cocktails in the swanky Broadway 49 Bar & Lounge before dining at the hotel’s flagship gourmet restaurant Brasserie 1605.

Hit the luxurious boutiques on Fifth Avenue where you will be able to splurge on the decadent or for those of you who love keeping in shape during your holidays no matter where you are will be over the moon to know that the hotel possesses the largest gym in Times Square.

After a sublime day in the City that never Sleeps enjoy spectacular views of Times Square as well as the Hudson River and that iconic Manhattan skyline from the comfort of your room. Top marks!!!

At The Hotel:

Times Square largest gym

Broadway 49 Bar & Lounge

Brasserie 1605

Stunning views of Times Square

Self Service Business Centre's

One Smoking floor - with 26 Rooms

Onsite parking available - $50 per day

Wi-Fi is available but for a fee - $14.95 for 24 hours

Be in the Know:

Local Bars

In advance of its upcoming project, Dirty French (a French bistro in the Ludlow Hotel), the guys behind Torrisi, Carbone and ZZ's Clam Bar have opened a companion bar – Lobby Bar (212 432 1818) in the hotel. It's got a chilled-out, comfortable, a-little-too-glamourous-to-be-rustic vibe, and top-notch inventive cocktails like the Grand Prix with Japanese whisky, coconut vermouth, ras el hanout (a North African spice mix) & bitters, and the Muddy Water with cumin rye, Irish whiskey, cinnamon, bitters & absinthe.

Visit Hudson Malone (212-355-6607) Doug Quinn’s bi-level riff on a classic New York saloon is named for his two sons and kitted out with an array of artefacts: a deer head, the storied owner’s bow-tie collection. Try a glass of its freshly released branded wine: Hudson Malone Elegant White or Rustic Red, from the Napa Valley.

The Tarlow Empire’s new venture – Achilles Hell (347-987-3666) is a casual bar in a former ’60s-era tavern. While the cocktails are impressive, Tarlow wine power-woman Lee Campbell has curated an especially strong list including Luneau-Papin Muscadet and Piollot Champagne that go well with oysters or clams from the raw bar.

Local Restaurants

April Bloomfield and Ken Friedman’s original Meatpacking District the John Dory Oyster Bar (212-792-9000) was an ambitious, pricey endeavour, but its reincarnation in the Ace Hotel is an understated knockout. Tall stools face a raw bar stocked with a rotating mix of East and West Coast oysters, all expertly handled and impeccably sourced. True to form, the rest of Bloomfield’s tapas-style seafood dishes are intensely flavoured. Chilled lobster tastes larger than life, its sweet flesh slicked in herbaceous tomalley vinaigrette. Meanwhile, warm dishes take their cues mostly from the garlic-and-olive-oil belt—meaty octopus doused in aioli, plus miniature mussels stuffed with boisterous mortadella meatballs. Though the utilitarian sweets aren’t worth sticking around for, the savoury food here merits the inevitable wait for a table.

Michael White's extravagant, spectacular shrine to the Italian coastline is a worthy indulgence. Spend you shall, and with great rewards at Marea (212-691-8211). Start with crostini topped with velvety sea urchin and petals of translucent lardo, then move onto seafood-focused pastas, like fusilli spiralled around chunks of octopus in a bone-marrow–enriched sauce or sedating (like ridge less rigatoni) in a smoky cod-chowder sauce with potatoes and speck.

Danny Meyer’s first full-on foray into Italian cuisine focuses on the foods of Rome. The menu at Maialino (212-777-2410), from Chef Nick Wanderer, sets a new standard with faithful facsimiles of dishes specific to the area. Antipasti include delicate baby artichokes—deep-fried in olive oil—served with a pungent anchovy-bread sauce. Among the pastas that follow is excellent spaghetti all carbonara with egg yolks, guanciale and heaps of black pepper. Entrees, like the namesake maialino, a golden, fennel-rubbed piglet haunch presented with potatoes basted in pig fat, are a reminder of just how seductive authenticity can be. The restaurant, which is new to the Gramercy Park Hotel, hasn’t absorbed any attitude from its snooty surroundings (the velvet-rope Rose Bar is just across the lobby). Instead, expect Meyer’s trademark warmth and impeccable service—reservations seated on time, spills covered up between courses, napkins refolded when you get up from the table.

The beautiful desserts are, like the rest of the menu, faithful to Rome. Torta della nonna is, like versions found all across the city, a mix of toasted pine nuts and lemony custard. Even better is a frozen tartufo—fudgy gelato with a brandied cherry in the centre—just like the ones served in the Piazza Navona.

With New York increasingly overrun by complex spins on Italian cuisine, Meyer’s tribute to Rome offers a reminder of just how seductive authenticity can be.

Hotel & Room Amenities:

• Located 15 miles from JFK Airport (approx. 30 min.)
• 795 Guestrooms
• Valet parking: $50 / 24hrs with no in and out privileges (fees subject to change)
• High-speed Internet: $19.95 (fees subject to change)
• AM/FM radio alarm clock
• Single-use coffee/tea machine
• In-room safe for your laptop and other valuables
• 46-inch remote control high-definition flat-screen TV with Internet access
• Hair dryer
• Iron / Ironing board
• No resort fee
• Effective January 1, 2015, all new reservations for travel dates April 1, 2015 - March 31, 2016 will be inclusive of resort fee and will include the following:
  • 2 drinks per day (Beer or Wine)
  • Complimentary Local & International Calls
  • Complimentary use of the New York Sports Club on-site

• Recreation:

• Brasserie 1605
• Grab & Go quick service eatery
• Broadway 49 Bar and Lounge
• Manhattan’s largest indoor lap swimming pool
• NYSC fitness club: $10 (fees subject to change)
• Located in the heart of the Theatre District, two blocks from Radio City Music Hall & Rockefeller Center, and less than 1 mile from 5th Avenue shopping