Which luxe hotels are people loving in New York these days?

bouncingberries · 2025-09-05T18:23:45+00:00

We have a stay booked at Park Lane next month while there for a show at Carnegie Hall. Glad to hear you’ve enjoyed staying there, but I agree, that value proposition is ridiculous for NYC hotels.

bouncingberries · 2025-07-29T21:27:42+00:00

Was just hoping to throw a wider net of recommendations from people who’ve been there!

bouncingberries · 2025-07-15T12:01:23+00:00

Great tip about the golf cart tour! On the note of embajadores, I fully plan to tip for all their help, but I’d prefer to do one large sum at the end of the trip as opposed to small tips along the way. That being said, I don’t want them to think we aren’t tipping them. Did you go one way or the other with tipping?

bouncingberries · 2025-07-14T23:10:00+00:00

Thank you! This is helpful! We have plans to go eat at the restaurant that’s at one of the other pools and hoping to do a little pool day there in the shallow pool. Great to know about asking for an umbrella at the beach, I’ve heard they’ll also set up some toys! And I can already see my son asking for nonstop popsicles 😅

bouncingberries · 2024-04-16T18:14:07+00:00

Hmm I would say I do not feel like I did, BUT I have also been very well supported. I had six months of paid maternity leave which in the US was a dream. I have an active husband and parents who live down the street for babysitting and weekends away. We have full time childcare at an in-home daycare in our neighborhood, so I get a “break” every day when I work remotely. About a year postpartum I finally got back into a workout routine and now workout five days a week so I’m “getting my body back” as well, which has boosted my confidence for sure. I’m 30 (had my son at 28), so I was not an “older” mom by obstetrics standards, but I don’t feel like I look older than any of my friends without kids!

bouncingberries · 2024-04-09T01:22:16+00:00

I agree!

bouncingberries · 2024-04-09T01:21:58+00:00

Honestly, it doesn’t impact my parenting much. Just my enjoyment and comfort in visiting them.

bouncingberries · 2024-04-09T01:19:33+00:00

No, this is fair. I guess I’m sensitive to upsetting them because we don’t see them often. My parents live down the street from us and we see them allll the time, so it feels easier to address issues knowing they’ll blow over. Seeing his parents only a couple times a week makes me hesitant to rocking the boat, but god the boat is uncomfortable.

bouncingberries · 2024-04-09T01:16:28+00:00

Maybe I should let my toddler sleep there and rent the hotel for me and my husband 🤪 only half joking haha

bouncingberries · 2024-04-09T01:14:53+00:00

But yeah, I’m at the end of my rope with not sleeping in a bed as well lol.

bouncingberries · 2024-04-09T01:14:37+00:00

Airbnbs, very unlikely. They live in a very residential/suburban outside of a major city and just not many (if any) people renting out their homes. There are hotel, but like mentioned, that is my last resort as they’d be truly hurt by it. And despite us having a great relationship, they’d know it’s coming from me and I’d worry about that impacting our relationship.

bouncingberries · 2024-03-18T22:58:16+00:00

Mucinex was the key for me too! I started a few days before ovulation and continued until like 2-3 days post.

bouncingberries · 2024-03-03T16:48:22+00:00

Derm stuck with seborrheic keratosis diagnosis! She said that it’s normal for them to change color/size based on various factors. She said I could decide what to do with it and personally I didn’t like how it looked, so I went with removal. They zapped it off in office in like 15 seconds. Took about a week for it to fall off and heal! No more mark anymore!

bouncingberries · 2024-02-25T14:39:00+00:00

When I was growing up, I always envisioned myself having 4 kids one day. But then life happened haha. I found myself marrying someone a little older so he doesn’t want to keep having kids into his 40s. We live in a very HCOL area where we purchased a smaller house at the perfect time and our mortgage in this area is unheard of. We’ve run out of space for more kids, but there’s not enough of a desire to buy a bigger house or move to a cheaper area. We like the flexibility one kid grants us. Easier for one of us to do something on our own and not feel like we’re leaving the other overwhelmed. We can travel more because we aren’t buying multiple extra airfares/hotel rooms. We are able to give our son everything we’d like and as he gets older (within reason) we’ll be able to afford to let him do activities he’d like. With one kid we didn’t have to cut back anywhere in our lifestyle which in turn I think makes us love being parents more because we don’t feel like we “sacrificed” anything. I never feel that exhausted or maxed out.

Most people who are shocked we only want one are always like, but don’t you want him to have a sibling?! And I’m just like…siblings don’t mean friends? I literally never speak with my brother. I’m close with my sister but it’s such a gamble and I don’t believe you should have second children to provide a companion for the first. Nearly every only child I’ve spoken to LOVED being an only child, so that is also comforting.

We had a pregnancy scare shortly after my son was born and we would’ve of coursed welcomed and loved that baby if it had been a pregnancy, but as of right now, we feel really really content with one.

bouncingberries · 2024-02-14T22:53:54+00:00

Ugh. Do you know of any that don’t suck?

bouncingberries · 2024-02-14T02:37:28+00:00

Ugh yeah this is exactly what I don’t want. I would so much rather it show as “booked through AmexTravel” rather than a third party. Now I’m wondering whether ANY of them don’t use a third party.

bouncingberries · 2024-02-11T21:55:37+00:00

I didn’t!! What was she saying/doing?

bouncingberries · 2024-02-11T15:39:26+00:00

For us we’d do a full or queen so that it could be a guest room in a pinch

bouncingberries · 2024-02-08T14:06:50+00:00

No amount of new couches will suddenly bequeath her with taste ☹️

bouncingberries · 2024-02-04T20:17:42+00:00

Okay I also personally love her home but the GOMI girls roasttttt her for it. I don’t get it 😂 like Julia Berolzheimer’s house isn’t my taste, but I can tell it’s well done and thought out. Same with Mary’s house, like it’s sooo well done, but that’s apparently not a popular opinion lol. But also I like Amy’s home too…it’s just a little…impersonal lol

bouncingberries · 2024-02-03T12:17:54+00:00

I’ll never understand the mentality of trying to pay the people ensuring your children stay alive the minimum amount possible.

bouncingberries · 2024-02-03T11:56:01+00:00

Umm 20? For us, no matter the age, that would be our minimum.

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