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163        <a href="/guide/" class="block py-2">Where to stay in NYC</a>
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225    <h1 class="t-display text-[36px] sm:text-[52px] leading-[.98] max-w-3xl mb-5">About Journey Experience NYC</h1>
226<p class="text-[18px] leading-[1.55] max-w-2xl text-[#39434E]">An independent directory of New York hotels, written to be read before a booking rather than after one.</p>  </div>
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231<h2 class="t-wide text-[25px] mt-11 first:mt-0 mb-4">What this is</h2><p>Journey Experience NYC catalogues 600 hotels across 57 New York neighborhoods. 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 — 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">▸</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">▸</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">▸</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">▸</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">▸</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>
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