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New York: Hilton New York City Midtown – Offering a Family Friendly Urban Vacation Base. Stay in the heart of Manhattan and share an urban adventure with your kids. The Hilton provides an ideal family vacation base just steps from great art, shopping, museums, and theatre.

Accommodations: With elegance and thoughtful comfort the hotel maintains 1,980 elegant guest rooms, including forty six spacious suites providing plenty of options for families. Every guest room and suite features wall-to-wall windows and Hilton’s signature Serenity™ bedding package, with luxurious linens, mountains of pillows, and everything you need for a restful night’s sleep. Unwind with a favorite movie. Or catch up on business at a spacious work desk. Sophisticated marble baths, MP3 connections and the full array of Hilton services.  Bonus points: A multi-lingual staff ensures all guests will have a comfortable stay. Value added: Family friendly hotels must offer benefits for parents. This hotel maintains children's menu offerings. Available onsite cribs, high chairs, booster chairs, playpen, and Vacation Station. If your family includes a pooch, the hotel has a limited number of beds and bowls.

Stop in for your favorite beverages and breakfast pastries, located in the main lobby, adjacent to the New York Marketplace or try Etrusca offering Tuscan fare at its finest.

Activities: When creating an urban family adventure in Manhattan location does make a difference. For some of the time it is nice to be within walking distance of city activities. The good news - the Museum of Modern Art is footsteps from the hotel. Both children and adults are invited to explore painting, sculptures, and installations together through hands-on projects and online activities. MoMA is the home of Red Studio a website with menu of modern art topics and activities relevant to teens. Visit the Film Desk for free same-day screenings. Take advantage of unique audio tapes scripted for young ears. “Destination: Modern Art, An Intergalactic Journey” invites visitors to explore MoMA with an alien creature, “listen” to a painting or create an online collage. (The Museum of Modern Art 11 West 52 Street, 10019. 1(212) 708-9400 or www.moma.org)

Almost next door, the American Folk Art Museum offers families a unique way to share time together. On the first Saturday of each month the museum hosts Families and Folk Art, a chance for families to join interactive discussion-based tours in the galleries followed by hands-on art making activities. In addition the museum offers Free Music Fridays inviting the public to explore the galleries free of charge, have refreshment in the cafe, and enjoy live music in the atrium. (Museum of American Folk Art 45 West 53rd Street New York NY 10019. (212) 265-1040 or www.folkartmuseum.org)

In addition to the art connection, this hotel is a short walk from Central Park with the Central Park Zoo and the Tisch Children's Zoo and along the way checkout F.A.O. Schwarz (at 5th and 58th). Walk to Sony Wonder Tech Lab (55th between 5th and Madison) for a fun, free experience. In the opposite direction you will find American Girl® - New York (at 49th and 5th), Rockefeller Center (think ice skating) and Radio City Music Hall plus Fifth Avenue shopping, Broadway theatres and Times Square.

Discovery: This hotel is 100% non-smoking.

Location on the planet: LaGuardia, JFK and Newark airports are all just a short ride away, as well as NYC's the three other transportation hubs - Grand Central Station, Penn Station, and the Port Authority.

Make it happen. To get the best rate guarantee book online. Hilton New York. 1335 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York, 10019. www.newyorkhiltonhotel.com
 
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Content created by FTF; images provided by FTF and MoMA image Copyright Timothy Hursely. Copyright 2009.
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