Upper East Side holiday apartment

We stayed here for a week with our one-year-old and were really happy with the place. As former New Yorkers, we didn't need a lot of advice about where to go, but the owner, John, would be a great resource for newcomers. The accomodations are clean and the bedrooms very spacious for this kind of property. The bathroom is quite small but frankly no smaller than in your average NYC apartment. The dishwasher was much appreciated.

This is a wonderful location for families. Our days generally went like this: wake up, go to Eli's or H&H to get bagels, walk to Central Park, watch our daughter run around like a maniac in one of the many nearby playgrounds, go back for a nap, then go exploring somewhere in the city. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is around the corner and the Natural History Museum is directly on the other side of the park, a pleasant walk away. Another very significant bonus, as far as we were concerned, is that one of the best pizza places in New York, Totonno's (no slices but they do deliver), is just two blocks away, on 2nd Ave. The location also is near many major bus lines and a major station on the Lexington Avenue subway line, so it is easy to travel just about anywhere in the city. We would return.