With New York’s congestion pricing plan indefinitely delayed, visitors into Manhattan this summer time is ready to be gridlocked as ordinary.
However vacationers staying in a few of the metropolis’s prime luxurious accommodations 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 mentioned.
The flights, operated by the city air mobility firm Blade, can be found for friends staying at the very least two nights in one of many six Manhattan accommodations:
- 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 Resort Manhattan Midtown
Helicopter transfers land at one in all 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 friends to their accommodations.
The catch
To avail this perk, entry-level rooms will not suffice. Moderately, friends should guide a sure sort of suite at these accommodations.
With lodge room charges in New York at document highs due to migrant housing and a ban on Airbnb short-term leases, suites at Marriott’s five-star luxurious accommodations will not come low-cost.
A Marriott consultant advised CNBC the “Liberty Suite” at The Ritz-Carlton NoMad sometimes prices about $3,500 per evening.
A round-trip switch on a Blade helicopter between JFK or Newark Liberty and Manhattan begins at $390 for the essential fare and will increase to $500 for a “Most Flexibility Fare.” Floor transportation to and from Blade “lounges,” or helipad areas, are a further $180, he mentioned.
Marriott’s summer-time perk consists of each companies, in response to the consultant.
Vacationers who’re staying in rooms — moderately than suites — in one of many six named accommodations aren’t utterly out of luck, nevertheless. These friends are eligible for reductions on Blade’s companies this summer time, the consultant mentioned.
Blade started working on-demand helicopter companies 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.
