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Frommer's Highly Recommended

Like the Casablanca Hotel a few blocks up, Hotel 41 offers a stylish, comfortable, and moderate alternative to the many gleaming, glittering and more pricey hotels that tower over Times Square. Just seven floors high, the Hotel 41 features minimalist modern decor in the guest rooms. Rooms, for these prices, are of decent size, but what sets the hotel apart are the freebies: high-speed Internet, complimentary continental breakfast, free espresso or cappuccino all day, in-room DVD players with the hotel's DVD library available for viewing, plush bathrobes in the rooms, double-paned windows (a necessity in Times Sq.), refrigerators in all rooms, and luxurious amenities like Aveda bath products. If you plan to stay for more than a few days, try for one of the junior suites or, for a splurge, Penthouse no. 2, which features a large outdoor deck. Service is boutique-friendly, and off the lobby is Bar 2156 a lively bar/restaurant (where breakfast is served) that draws a local after-work crowd. Next to the Nederlander Theater, where the hit musical Rent has been playing for years, you really couldn't ask for a better Times Square location.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's New York City 2008, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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