What a great place. The location near Battery Park and lower Manhattan is safe and convenient to subway stations to access other parts of Manhattan and the areas around Battery Park. It’s not too far a walk to the financial district.
This was an anniversary celebration trip and a first time to NY. The condo is super clean, modern, spacious (for NY) and comfortable. If you’re comfortable with Lyft, Uber, walking, and the subway getting to other parts and the major destinations in Manhattan are easy. The tour buses and ferries to the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Governor’s Island and Staten Island are within a short .5 block walk to Battery Park. We realized this on our last day since we were going North every day.
While the unit is a condo like space, the building is more like an upscale hotel and the staff and front desk are super helpful and friendly. We had a serious issue with a window that wouldn’t close and Sonder was able to move us to a different room with compensation for having to deal with such an issue in the cold room at 1am in a quick, friendly, and equitable manner. They were very professional.
If you’re not a bit tech savvy dealing with downloading their app and chat communication might be a bit inconvenient but otherwise they’re super attentive. Also, the TV is great for techy smartphone user’s who get their content from streaming devices. If you just want to turn on the tv and watch the local news and tv it’s not going to work since they only connect with screen mirroring from your streaming device. Also the tv connection is with Google chromcast and if you have an Apple phone and want to screen mirror, for example your great new photos you just took of NY, it won’t find the tv as a device to mirror. Casting from apps worked okay though.
Since we ended up in two different rooms I can say they were both exceptionally clean, elegant, sleek, and modern as shown in the pictures. The room on the east side had a much better view of residential buildings and a nice view of the water. The room on the west side, however, was overlooking the highway tunnel entrance and much less Interesting and mostly deserted office buildings.
Check out the neighborhood and make sure it’s where and what your interested in since anyone not familiar with Manhattan and looking for particular things to see and do might find the location ideal or a terrible fit?
We weren’t sure what to expect and were happy it turned out great for us to do and see much in the two nights we spent with Sonder in Manhattan. Overall, it was a pretty over-the-top visit to NYC and Sonder turned out to be a fantastic experience.