Last month, Public Relations Manager Dana McGough took an impromptu 48-hour trip to New York to see Mary-Louise Parker in Hedda Gabler. This is her story.
The Pod Hotel met my three criteria for a preferred New York City hotel: cleanliness, easy access to a good subway line, and a location on the East Side within walking distance of Serendipity. Most New York hotel rooms are minuscule, so I decided to reward this hotelier for boldly parlaying that into an actual theme.
Most rooms at The Pod share bathrooms at the end of the halls. For this trip I decided to splurge on a "comfy double" room with its own shower and toilet. Laying crossways across the bed, I could touch the north and south walls of my room. As promised on the website, the bed doubles as the couch, and luggage only fits in the room if it's shoved under the bed. With white walls, stainless fixtures and colorful comforters, it was the perfect place to pass the 1.5 waking hours of my trip not spent out enjoying the city. The location and price tag more than made up for the awkward moments spent waiting for the elevator in the morning beside antsy guys in boxers with toothbrushes in hand, waiting impatiently for their go at the loo.
There's also a truly fantastic hole-in-the-wall Thai place down the street called Thai 51. That, coupled with the great speed at which my blackberry received and sent data, reminded me why so very many people live and work in that city.
Returning to Birmingham, I spared no expense for my colleagues at DavisDenny. I brought back the specially designed Pod shampoo bottle for my boss Tim. He took one look and quipped, "Is this a urine sample?"
The Jane. As a friend described it on Twitter, "OMG!!!! A Wes Anderson inspired hotel in NYC!!!!!"
At a whopping 50 square feet, The Jane's rooms are "built to look like a ship's cabin." Yeah, it's just like on the open seas -- all the way down to the iPod docking station and 23" LCD television. It does, indeed, look like Margot Tenenbaum could stumble out of the lobby in barrettes and a fur coat. But its $75 a night price tag is the only thing that would justify staying three creative subway transfers away from Serendipity.
The Pod Hotel met my three criteria for a preferred New York City hotel: cleanliness, easy access to a good subway line, and a location on the East Side within walking distance of Serendipity. Most New York hotel rooms are minuscule, so I decided to reward this hotelier for boldly parlaying that into an actual theme. Most rooms at The Pod share bathrooms at the end of the halls. For this trip I decided to splurge on a "comfy double" room with its own shower and toilet. Laying crossways across the bed, I could touch the north and south walls of my room. As promised on the website, the bed doubles as the couch, and luggage only fits in the room if it's shoved under the bed. With white walls, stainless fixtures and colorful comforters, it was the perfect place to pass the 1.5 waking hours of my trip not spent out enjoying the city. The location and price tag more than made up for the awkward moments spent waiting for the elevator in the morning beside antsy guys in boxers with toothbrushes in hand, waiting impatiently for their go at the loo.
There's also a truly fantastic hole-in-the-wall Thai place down the street called Thai 51. That, coupled with the great speed at which my blackberry received and sent data, reminded me why so very many people live and work in that city.
Returning to Birmingham, I spared no expense for my colleagues at DavisDenny. I brought back the specially designed Pod shampoo bottle for my boss Tim. He took one look and quipped, "Is this a urine sample?"
The Jane. As a friend described it on Twitter, "OMG!!!! A Wes Anderson inspired hotel in NYC!!!!!" At a whopping 50 square feet, The Jane's rooms are "built to look like a ship's cabin." Yeah, it's just like on the open seas -- all the way down to the iPod docking station and 23" LCD television. It does, indeed, look like Margot Tenenbaum could stumble out of the lobby in barrettes and a fur coat. But its $75 a night price tag is the only thing that would justify staying three creative subway transfers away from Serendipity.
