World's tallest Holiday Inn debuts in Manhattan — usatoday.com

USA TODAY's Nancy Trejos pays a visit to the world's tallest Holiday Inn for a tour with its general manager. 00:02 There's Lewis 250 dollars a night he can stay at 00:05 the world's tallest holiday and which just opened in Manhattan's financial 00:09 district. I met up with the hotel's general manager to check 00:12 out for myself. We are fifty stories high. 583. Total B. 00:19 We've got 492 rooms. One suite free Internet throughout the building 00:24 not just in the rooms and its high speed. Palm with 00:27 got a business center stationed in the lobby area. High speed 00:33 elevator from lobby to fiftieth floor you can make it in 00:36 25 seconds. If it. As people come in we kind of 00:43 nicknamed it the wow broom because that's the first thing they 00:46 say as soon as they walked in. They look at the 00:48 scenery and and what they get to see out the windows 00:51 you've got Jersey City views you've got fuse statue of liberty. 00:55 Ellis Island. And then to the north is the 9/11 memorial. 01:00 And one World Trade Center misses one of the fastest growing 01:04 neighborhoods and markets in Manhattan. For. Business and leisure especially where 01:11 is it. One World Trade Center opening and Conde Nast just 01:15 moved in and then forms that are train station's gonna. Be 01:19 able to get. Just about anywhere in Manhattan and Brooklyn. From 01:25 that train stations it's only a few blocks away.

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