New York Excelsior Hotel

The elegant Excelsior Hotel is ideally located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The New York City subway is within walking distance and will take guests to just about any attraction or site in the city. The hotel is across the street from the American Museum of Natural History. The Whitney Museum, Columbia University, Lincoln Center, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the Beacon Theatre, Central Park, the Guggenheim and Times Square are also nearby.

This smoke-free hotel features accommodations that will make guests want to come back again and again. The 198 guestrooms are decorated with attractive, traditional style pillow top beds dressed with damask down comforters. Budget-minded guests will enjoy the deluxe two-bedded rooms (a few even have two queens) and suites that feature trouser presses and pullout sofas. Work desks, dual-line telephones, in-room safes, thick terry bathrobes and free bottled water are provided. On the second floor has a library-style lounge with leather seating, working fireplace, writing desks, books, games and a large flat-screen TV.

The Excelsior Hotel offers many fine features and amenities, including plasma televisions with pay movies, buffet breakfast (surcharge) served in a library-style breakfast room, concierge, high-speed Internet access and video check-out. Guests can also use the hotel’s small fitness center, print from laptop computers anywhere (surcharge) in the hotel to the hotel's printer. The staff is friendly and ready to meet their guest’s needs. There’s a 24-hour front desk, a gift shop and in 2008 Chef Ed Brown opened his acclaimed restaurant, Eighty One.