Tempo by Hilton New York Times Square
If you want to be in Times Square, this newly built hotel (opened August 2023) is the freshest face in the neighborhood. Slotted above the historic Palace Theatre through a groundbreaking construction process, the Tempo by Hilton Times Square, which starts on the 11th floor and goes up from there, aims at being a workable, practical, well-designed corporate hotel that isn't loaded with amenities or attitude, and it succeeds at being all you really need in a central location.
Rooms (king beds or two queens are standard) conform to modern, easy-to-clean hotel design (laminate floors instead of carpeting, clothes racks instead of closets or drawers, ample bathroom space with showers but not tubs), with plenty of outlets and charging ports, floor-to-ceiling windows, and automatic motorized blackout curtains for a slight luxury touch for a mainstream room experience. We especially like the digital clocks embedded inside the bathroom mirrors. A few of the most expensive rooms are situated directly above Times Square on the Seventh Avenue side (so high up that noise isn't much of an issue, although you may hear a few drumbeats and sirens from below) but most of the hotel's inventory, and the better prices, come from the "City View" rooms that line 47th Street facing north.
With 661 rooms but not a lot of lounge spaces, this is a hotel that recognizes the fact you'll probably be out exploring the city most of the time. There are plenty of places to eat in the streets nearby and in Hell's Kitchen, two long blocks west, but the hotel's Highball dining area, off the lobby and with a narrow outdoor terrace, provides healthy counter-service eats such as grain bowls for the morning and draught beers and cocktails at night. The lobby's grab-and-go kiosk costs triple what a New York City bodega would charge for the same items, but that's a hotel for you. The Tempo is a good choice if you want a new, busy, corporate product in the very heart of the crowded tourist district.
If you want to be in Times Square, this newly built hotel (opened August 2023) is the freshest face in the neighborhood. Slotted above the historic Palace Theatre through a groundbreaking construction process, the Tempo by Hilton Times Square, which starts on the 11th floor and goes up from there, aims at being a workable, practical, well-designed corporate hotel that isn't loaded with amenities or attitude, and it succeeds at being all you really need in a central location.
Rooms (king beds or two queens are standard) conform to modern, easy-to-clean hotel design (laminate floors instead of carpeting, clothes racks instead of closets or drawers, ample bathroom space with showers but not tubs), with plenty of outlets and charging ports, floor-to-ceiling windows, and automatic motorized blackout curtains for a slight luxury touch for a mainstream room experience. We especially like the digital clocks embedded inside the bathroom mirrors. A few of the most expensive rooms are situated directly above Times Square on the Seventh Avenue side (so high up that noise isn't much of an issue, although you may hear a few drumbeats and sirens from below) but most of the hotel's inventory, and the better prices, come from the "City View" rooms that line 47th Street facing north.
With 661 rooms but not a lot of lounge spaces, this is a hotel that recognizes the fact you'll probably be out exploring the city most of the time. There are plenty of places to eat in the streets nearby and in Hell's Kitchen, two long blocks west, but the hotel's Highball dining area, off the lobby and with a narrow outdoor terrace, provides healthy counter-service eats such as grain bowls for the morning and draught beers and cocktails at night. The lobby's grab-and-go kiosk costs triple what a New York City bodega would charge for the same items, but that's a hotel for you. The Tempo is a good choice if you want a new, busy, corporate product in the very heart of the crowded tourist district.
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