Tribeca Tree House

I'm at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in the Tribeca section of New York. I'm looking down a vertigo view into my sitting area. I'm in a loft room. I feel like I'm in a tree house. My son Drew would love this. I have to climb up a ship's ladder to the sleeping loft, then I have to duck down when I get up here because the ceiling is only five feet tall. I'm five eleven. The room itself is only eight feet wide and 16 feet long. All and all pretty cozy though!

I've stayed in some funny places in NY. I once literally stayed under the stairs in a small room in a Murray Hill flop house. Very Harry Potter-esque.

Anyway I like the Cosmopolitan. The whole place has been redone. All the rooms are bright and clean, you just never know the size and shape you'll get. Mexicans seem to run the place. They are always so nice and cordial. The rooms are clean and it's the best price/value to be had in lower Manhattan.

There's a Starbucks on the first floor and better yet there's an old time soda shop/candy store too that serves a great breakfast.

The hotel is on the corner of W. Broadway and Chambers St. A walk north up W. Broadway will bring you to variety of places to eat. Asian, Mexican, French, Argentinian. I frequently haunt Circle Rouge, a fine French restaurant with good steak frites and Cotes du Rhone. Mmmm.

Close by is a lounge called Bubbles. If I'm bored it's a good place to pop into and listen to whatever quartet of musicians they have playing that night.

Anyway, my "tree house" room was the most surprising yet at the Cosmopolitan. I'm looking forward to future stays.

Side note - always ask for a room off the street. The street can be noisy until late and starts again early when the garbage trucks and nearby construction starts.

Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device 5/23/07