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Each one gets the same treatment: what the building is, what stands out, what the rooms are like, what you can eat on site, and what is immediately outside the door.</p><p>We describe hotels the way a well-briefed friend would â including the parts that are inconvenient. A small room is described as a small room.</p><h2 class="t-wide text-[25px] mt-11 first:mt-0 mb-4">Where the live information comes from</h2><ul class="mb-5 space-y-2"><li class="flex gap-3 text-[16px]"><span class="t-data text-[11px] text-signal mt-1.5 shrink-0">â¸</span><span>Current New York time is computed in your browser against the America/New_York timezone, so it stays correct through daylight saving changes.</span></li><li class="flex gap-3 text-[16px]"><span class="t-data text-[11px] text-signal mt-1.5 shrink-0">â¸</span><span>Weather and the four-day forecast come from Open-Meteo's free public API, queried at each hotel's coordinates.</span></li><li class="flex gap-3 text-[16px]"><span class="t-data text-[11px] text-signal mt-1.5 shrink-0">â¸</span><span>Currency conversion uses a free public exchange-rate feed, matched to your device's region setting.</span></li><li class="flex gap-3 text-[16px]"><span class="t-data text-[11px] text-signal mt-1.5 shrink-0">â¸</span><span>Satellite maps are Google Maps embeds centred on the hotel's street address.</span></li><li class="flex gap-3 text-[16px]"><span class="t-data text-[11px] text-signal mt-1.5 shrink-0">â¸</span><span>Rates and availability are not stored here. The booking button hands you to Booking.com's live search results for that hotel.</span></li></ul><h2 class="t-wide text-[25px] mt-11 first:mt-0 mb-4">How it is paid for</h2><p>This site earns a commission when a booking is completed through its outbound links, at no additional cost to you. That relationship does not decide which hotels appear or how they are described. See the <a href="/affiliate-disclosure/">affiliate disclosure</a> for the full statement.</p><h2 class="t-wide text-[25px] mt-11 first:mt-0 mb-4">Corrections</h2><p>Hotels renovate, restaurants close, and room counts change. If something here is out of date, <a href="/contact/">tell us</a> and it will be corrected.</p> 232 233 <aside class="mt-10 border-l-4 border-signal bg-surface p-6"> 234 <p class="t-eyebrow mb-2">Planning further</p> 235 <p class="text-[15.5px] text-[#39434E] !mb-0">The Met publishes its current exhibition calendar and suggested-admission policy in full. 236 <a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" class="text-signal underline underline-offset-4 font-medium">The Metropolitan Museum of Art â</a> 237 </p> 238 </aside> 239 </div> 240 241 <aside class="h-fit lg:sticky lg:top-[86px]"> 242 <div class="tile p-6 pl-8"> 243 <p class="t-eyebrow mb-4">Start browsing</p> 244 <ul class="space-y-2.5 text-[15px]"> 245<li><a href="/contact/" class="hover:text-signal">Contact</a></li><li><a href="/affiliate-disclosure/" class="hover:text-signal">Affiliate disclosure</a></li><li><a href="/privacy-policy/" class="hover:text-signal">Privacy policy</a></li><li><a href="/hotels/" class="hover:text-signal">All hotels</a></li> </ul> 246 </div> 247 </aside> 248</div> 249</main> 250 251<footer class="bg-ink text-[#C4CEDA] mt-20">
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