GEM Hotel offers Manhattan rooms from $139 during the holidays

If you’re heading to New York City for business, pleasure or some shopping during the holiday season, you might not be holding your breath for bargain-basement deals at the city’s hotels.

Or maybe you’re already wise to the fact that the hard economic times have bitten into even Big Apple tourism, leading to some head-turning deals. For instance, the budget GEM Hotel brand, generally rated positively among travelers for good value, is offering the following rates at its centrally located properties.

Deal: The “Cool Yule” special offers rooms starting at $139 per night, pretax, at the three GEM Hotel locations in Manhattan during these dates: Nov. 20-29 and Dec. 13-29. This represents a savings of about $80 per night, since regular rates during these dates hover around $219.

The properties under this deal are in Chelsea (West 22nd Street and 8th Avenue), Midtown West (West 36th Street and 10th Avenue) and SoHo (East Houston and Forsyth streets).

Tested: To find the rate online, enter the reservations system via the promotion page, as the “LSSR Rate” option that you need for the discount does not appear if you enter the system via the GEM Hotel home page. The $139 rate turned up for several dates I tested during the offer period. Note, however, that there is limited availability for any given night (e.g., a Friday night I tried in November at the Chelsea location apparently had just one $139 room remaining when I tested it).

Contact: GEM Hotel

— Susan Derby, Special to the Los Angeles Times

Photo: The lobby at the GEM Hotel in Chelsea. Credit: GEM Hotel

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