The Westin New York at Times Square

Description:

• The 10-color -- mostly copper and blue -- glass edifice looks more like a transplant from Miami Beach than something familiar to New York City terrain. And if that isn't enough to distinguish itself, the hotel also boasts a beam of light that rises through an atrium, then up to the top of the 45-story tower and into the already well-illuminated sky of Times Square.

  Rooms are spacious, with the Club Rooms and Suites being the biggest, and feature the same amenities, including Westin's Heavenly Bed -- a custom Simmons Beautyrest pillow-top mattress set dressed in fluffy down and crisp white linen -- and the signature Heavenly Bath, featuring a two-head shower. The hotel is on busy Eighth Avenue, taking up the block between 42nd and 43rd streets; rooms facing 42nd Street and Eighth can be loud.

  Facilities: Restaurant; bar; concierge and theater desk; currency exchange; 2,500-sq.-ft. fitness center & spa ($10 per day, $30 per week); internal access to E Walk, a 200,000-sq.-ft. entertainment-and-retail complex featuring a 13-movie theater; room service

• © Frommer's 2012

Awards:

CitySearch

•  Business Hotel 2007
•  Times Square Hotel 2007

Frommer's

•  Recommended 2010

Other features:

On site: full concierge, theatre ticket desk, valet parking, same-day dry cleaning, multilingual staff, gift shop, "E Walk" entertainment and retail complex. In room: "Heavenly Bed", "Heavenly Bath", cordless phone, hair dryer, deluxe grooming amenities, coffee maker.