With New York’s congestion pricing plan indefinitely delayed, visitors into Manhattan this summer season is about to be gridlocked as standard.
However vacationers staying in among the metropolis’s prime luxurious lodges can keep away from the highways altogether.
Introduced Tuesday, Marriott Worldwide Luxurious Group is offering free helicopter transfers from John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport and Newark Liberty Worldwide Airport from July 1 to Sept. 2.
The transfers can scale back transportation time from the airports into Manhattan to as little as 5 minutes, the corporate stated.
The flights, operated by the city air mobility firm Blade, can be found for visitors staying no less than two nights in one of many six Manhattan lodges:
- The St. Regis New York
- JW Marriott Essex Home New York
- W New York – Union Sq.
- The New York EDITION
- The Ritz-Carlton New York, NoMad
- The Luxurious Assortment Lodge Manhattan Midtown
Helicopter transfers land at one in every of two helipads in Manhattan: Blade Lounge East on East thirty fourth Avenue or the newer Blade Lounge West on West thirtieth Avenue, the place a automobile service waits to drive visitors to their lodges.
The catch
To avail this perk, entry-level rooms will not suffice. Moderately, visitors should ebook a sure sort of suite at these lodges.
With resort room charges in New York at file highs due to migrant housing and a ban on Airbnb short-term leases, suites at Marriott’s five-star luxurious lodges will not come low-cost.
A Marriott consultant informed CNBC the “Liberty Suite” at The Ritz-Carlton NoMad sometimes prices about $3,500 per night time.
A round-trip switch on a Blade helicopter between JFK or Newark Liberty and Manhattan begins at $390 for the fundamental fare and will increase to $500 for a “Most Flexibility Fare.” Floor transportation to and from Blade “lounges,” or helipad places, are an extra $180, he stated.
Marriott’s summer-time perk consists of each providers, in line with the consultant.
Vacationers who’re staying in rooms — quite than suites — in one of many six named lodges aren’t utterly out of luck, nevertheless. These visitors are eligible for reductions on Blade’s providers this summer season, the consultant stated.
Blade started working on-demand helicopter providers to New York-area airports in 2019, a number of months forward of Uber Copter. On the time, one seat on a Blade airport transport service was $195.
Uber Copter ceased working in 2020.
