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Most of us want to stay in luxury hotels
for youth-hostel prices. Why wouldn’t we? Or, as hotelier André Balazs thought, Why
shouldn’t we? The man behind the Standard mini-chain bought a rundown
office building “not big enough to be used for anything else” near Times Square
and converted it into the 140-room Hotel
QT. It has enough perks to make it interesting – flat-screen TVs, optional
bunk beds, warm pinkish décor – and not much more. The hotel’s name refers to
the phrase on the QT, which means “on the quiet”; yet with a lobby bar that has
a swimmable pool, quiet seems fairly unlikely. And with room sizes ranging from
190 to 270 square feet, so does spending much time lingering upstairs. But as
Balazs says, “If it is well designed, who cares if you have another hundred
square feel?” Plus, with a 25 percent discount for guests under 25, QT may just
be New York City’s cheapest rooms not offered by the hour. -
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