Stale Crackers: Ritz Battery Park: Highball: New York

Highball reports from lower Manhattan and the view ain't pretty. What she was doing at the off the beaten track / dirty weekend / affair friendly Ritz at Battery Park we don't want to know:

"The Ritz-Carlton Battery Park should be avoided at all costs even if there is nowhere else to house visiting friends and family. I am still troubled by my recent stay which turned out to be a regrettable and sizable error in judgment. Clearly, the most obvious weakness is the unbelievably inconvenient location which is smack in the middle of a loud and messy construction zone. The hotel is impossible to reach and there are zero cabs available at any time. To even get away from the place, guests have to line up outside near a construction site and wait endlessly for a trickle of arriving cabs. It becomes a zoo of impatient businessmen and annoying tourists that the Ritz staff is simply unable to manage. The rooms are standard new construction issues thus my suite was less than impressive (although the master bathroom wasn’t too bad). My "“sweeping"” view of the Statue of Liberty was instead interrupted by construction cranes and bright construction lights down below. To add insult to injury, the Ritz overcharged my credit card by $400 and their inept and unhelpful staff has still been unable to resolve my conflict two months later. My stay at this Ritz can only be described as a headache that no one else should ever have to endure. This Ritz Battery Park: truly a stale cracker."

+The Ritz-Carlton Battery Park, 25 Battery Pl, New York, +1 212 344-0800.
+W4 Photog: Triborough Bridge at The Ichan Stadium, 7 March 2006.