TWA HOTEL New York, USA【4K Tour & Review】ICONIC 5-Star Hotel
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- The TWA Hotel at John F Kennedy International Airport in New York City is an iconic and stylish monument of a 5-star hotel. Located just next to Terminal 5, the hotel features the full restoration of Eero Saarinen's TWA Flight Center and it's hotel additions. Join us on this comprehensive tour as we check out: Location, All F&B Venues, Runway View King Room, Rooftop Pool & Bar, Plane Spotting and more.
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Not everyone will be happy to drop over $300 per night at an airport hotel, but for those of us that are passionate about aviation history, it's a small price to pay for such an incredible experience.
----Video Chapters----
0:00 Intro
00:34 Opening & Location
02:55 Exterior
04:26 Flight Center Interior Ground Floor
06:00 Mezzanine: Central
06:23 Sunken Lounge Pre-Dawn
07:06 Mezzanine: Ambassadors Club & Uniform Museum
08:44 Ground Floor Morning Light
09:26 Connie (Cocktail Bar)
10:39 Connie & Hotel Development
11:42 Ground Floor (Twister Room)
12:26 Ground Floor (Photo Studio & Gift Shop
12:55 The Red Tubes!
14:02 Hughes Wing Hall
14:32 Runway View King Room Tour
17:27 Rooftop Pool & Bar Sunrise
18:46 Plane Spotting (T4A)
20:40 Food Hall
21:30 Intelligentsia Coffee
21:46 Paris Cafe
22:19 Lisbon Lounge
22:40 Final Thoughts
23:05 The Flip Flop Score
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What a fantastic renovation. They respected and preserved all the history behind the TWA terminal's original purpose. I will find a way to stay here some day.
Please do! It’s worth every penny. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
That wind effect over the pool is amazing. Adds just that much more coolness to the already spectacular sunrise. 🌅
Oh I couldn't agree more! Makes sitting in the freezing cold for quite a while totally worth it 😆 Thanks for watching 🙏
My grandpa used to fly out of the JFK TWA terminal. He was a senior captain and flew all over till he retired shortly before they went bankrupt. Maybe his retirement package was the reason lol.
Your video was well done, and loved the music. I so agree with you on the trash mat on the desk table. Tacky imo. Thanks for sharing ! Aloha from Hawai'i
These are the kind of comments I love to see on a video like this. Too many people just don’t understand the history in those (curvy) walls. Thanks so much for watching 🙏🏻
This Hotel is my idea of utopia! I could watch those birds for hours, Emirates is such a classy looking plane and was so thrilled you filmed it for us Av geeks! I have never ever heard of a garbage mat is that common in US hotels? What a ridiculous concept when 2 bins without liners clearly labelled do the exact same job 🙄. Your pencil dilemma 😆. I like the idea of a food hall, love the museum included and loved the vibe, ld stay for days. Thanks so much this is the best TWA hotel review lve ever seen 👍
Certainly not common. It’s the first time I’ve ever seen a garbage mat myself.
I am a Aviation Geek. I booked 3 nights Deluxe King Runway View. I can't wait to experience this hotel. Thank you for the great Video it encourages me to take in all the TWA Hotel has to offer.
I just walked by it a few days ago. Still one of my favorite hotels, ever!
My Dad was a TWA pilot domiciled at JFK during the first years of my life. I have the vaguest of memories of the terminal, esp. the click-clack of the departure boards changing destinations and times. I'm thrilled they have restored it so nicely. It's a great tribute to when flying was something special, especially on TWA.
Thanks for sharing ✈️
24 Minutes in Heaven! Thank you for this footage and review! Those curves! That view! On my bucket list, though doubt I’ll get the chance so am glad I can live vicariously through people visiting and filming it. 😃 Thanks again 😊
So glad you were able to see it! Hoping you’ll see it in person some day 🙏🏻
TWA Hotel- aviation geek paradise . thank you for sharing with us
This one was a pleasure. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
I’m so glad I found your video. Number one I’m an MCM fan. Number two I’ve seen videos about the old TWA terminal ages ago but did not know it was renovated to a hotel recently!!
Number 3 I’m looking over my flight itinerary from Portland Oregon to Atlanta Ga that’s in about a month and lo and behold I have a 2 hr 35 min layover at freakin JFK!! When I’ve done this flight before i usually layover in Minneapolis. I’m losing it!!!! Must book a day pass to that rooftop pool immediately!!! I’m so stoked about this I can hardly stand it!! Your thorough video was amazing and really got me pumped up for my visit! Will be there around 10 am on June 16. I’m walking outside to see that constellation plane too!! Wow!!!!!!!!!
I don’t know how you’re going to do that on a 2 hour layover… but good luck!
Your first comment on this one! I grew up in NYC in the 60s and still remember when JFK was called Idlewild. As one approached the airport the highway lights got shorter and shorter and reminded me of ducks. Anyway... in my college years I used to go to the airport and hang out to watch the Concords and the IL-62s (Aeroflot) for the daily departures to London, Paris and Moscow. The main terminal destinations were the TWA and Pan Am terminals. But of course the TWA was most stunning especially with those magic portals. And about 1978 my wife's sister immigrated to the US from Vietnam arriving at the TWA terminal on a snowy day in November being the first time she ever saw snow. Fast forward to 2019 I was in the area to do the paperwork for medicare as I was turning 65. I was planning on celebrating my 65th birthday at the TWA hotel with a lunch and a visit to the Connie as I have always loved that plane which I still remember growing up in Queens near Laguardia. By the way... those four giant rotary piston engines make a totally different sound from turboprops. I was incredibly lucky to experience that sound in 2014 taking a flight on a B24 (WWII heavy bomber) as tribute to my father who flew missions on them during the war. Sadly... those planes are no longer flying and there are few if any large rotary piston planes flying at all. Anyway, I could not make that lunch since I fractured my ankle a few days before that birthday. I am now back at my home in Vietnam since the beginning of the pandemic and I have no plans to travel since I need to be near my pets and will not risk being stuck away from them. I will be traveling through your lens and those of other vloggers.
I reckon few ‘hotels’ on earth have as much personal significance to so many people as this one does. A truly special place. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
We will love it ❤
It should still be called Idlewild!!!!
Kennedy never lived here, he only cheated on Jackie here!!!!
What an absolutely gorgeous space ✨
Excellent videography and detailed narration: best vid review seen of this hotel by far.
Thanks very much and thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Perhaps the best twa hotel review video out there. I flew thru there back in 1999 & stayed in the hotel last summer. I loved it, though as a hotel it does have room to improve. Overall, you can't beat the history, novelty and convenience of it, especially if you're flying JetBlue.
Thanks very much for that! I think it’s best to look at this hotel the same way anyone would look at a hotel that’s perhaps in a place like Disney World. Is it overpriced? Yeah… Could the hotel services be better? Yeah… Could the full package experience be created anywhere else on earth? Not a chance!
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Saarinen was a true artist and sculptor like very few architects are.
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Excellent video - thank you. Update about taking public transit to JFK - from Midtown Manhattan, it's easier and safer than ever - LIRR is now at Grand Central, with its own long awaited concourse. Just take it from GCT to Jamaica, grab AirTrain there. Also - for getting picked up or dropped off - even if checking out the hotel isn't in the cards, it's MUCH calmer and easier to use the hotel's driveway. And BTW, you expressed repeatedly how special this place is. I understood it intuitively even before going there once for a day visit in late 2019. Those are those who get it, and those that don't...
Appreciate that! I am curious how the new train service makes it safer though haha. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
@@tfft Ah! you suggested taking subways to the Airtrain station. I would suggest instead LIRR from GCT... commuter rail is WAY safer than subways!
Believe it or not; this building is actually 60-years-old this year! Glad to see the old flight center still standing and now occupied after nearly 20 years of it being abandoned.
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Really a great review video. I stayed their with my partner for two days JUST as it re-opened from COVID lockdown. What we lacked in restaurants and bars we totally gained in almost having the entire place to ourselves and it was AMAZING. I used to fly out of the terminal in the late 80's/early 90's flying back and forth from college in Los Angeles - the plane was always a 747 and it was just a magical place . So great to see the building get a great new life.
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Great review! Loved your commentary and the background music!
Appreciate your kind works and thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Great video, I'm going to be staying there tomorrow night and I'm very excited! I grew up with TWA, my mom flew for them for many years.
Have fun! Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
I love your vids and reviews,been looking at your Thai ones for future reference.
I fly into jfk t4 regularly and park right in front of this hotel and often point it out to my colleagues on the flight deck with particular note on the history of the main building.
A definite bucket list item for me, one day.
A definite good choice for a layover or just a bit of a lazy arrival. I suggest going in the Summer so you’ll be able to catch more long haul traffic in the evening with sunlight. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
I really enjoyed staying here !!! I'll do it again.
Glad you enjoyed! Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Amazing hotel and great video review 👍🏽
Thanks very much for watching 🙏🏻
I hope when we start building spaceports we will return to this kind of aesthetic. I love retrofuturism and that style seems perfect to rocket launchpads that will make the dreams of the future come true
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I stayed there last year on an (intentionally) long layover. It was very expensive for an airport hotel, but as an avgeek who loves mid-century modern design, it was well worth it.
It’s worth a night!
Great video... My wife just agreed to staying there when we visit NY. She must love me more than I thought... even with my aviation geekiness.
One of the best ‘gifts’ you’ll get all year! Thanks for watching and hope you enjoy it 🙏🏻
Amazing hotel, great review as usual ❤️❤️❤️ Thank you 😘
Thank you so much 🙏🏻
Going this weekend and so looking forward to it.
Enjoy every minute of it! Especially on the rooftop.
Another great review! Looking forward to trying this
Can’t wait to go back myself tbh! Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Loved this review. You told it like it is and as a person from Brooklyn you were right on!
Thanks very much 🙏🏻
@@tfft you're welcome.
Awesome! Just learned about the TWA hotel around 9-months ago and, I will be checking in for a few nights sometime next Spring as a new retiree (smile...smile).
Enjoy your trip 🗺️
kevin, you just said it so right: this is Disneyworld for all of us in love with aviation. Your review made me emotional. Thanks for the tour throughout this wonder. Cheers.
Appreciate that!
Never knew it was a landmark building that explains why it was not demolished with the rest of the iconic JFK terminals, ex PanAm. Noticed the room prices are very high; especially for an overnight stay. I do recall there was another TWA terminal behind the iconic wing building, but I guess it was demolished, too. As you mentioned in your presentation, you don't need to book a room to experience the building and the amenities. Too bad Connie was not open. Great presentation. Thanks for sharing it on CZcams.
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This is spectacular!!❤❤❤
Appreciate that! Thanks very much 🙏🏻
Came back to watch this again after your 100k special
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One of the most iconic, beautiful & cosy buildings in the world!
Cozy is a stretch haha- iconic for sure!
What an awesome place to stay !!!
Yes it certainly is! Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Fantastic review. Thank you.
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I loved this video. Thank you so much. It was comprehensive, music was great and your comments spot on. This hotel is on my bucket list. I’m going in October 2022. Can’t wait. I also subscribed because I enjoyed this video so much. Keep up the great work!
Thanks very much for the kind words and for watching 🙏🏻
Very cool! Thanks for the info + video!
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My favorite place I’ve ever stayed at. Made my own Vlog it, love seeing other people’s videos of this place
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Thank you so much for this amazing video. I will be there (TWA Hotel) in a few days, can't wait!
Thanks for watching 🙏🏻 enjoy!
Great tour. Thanks for making and posting this. Well done. My only quibble is that the music was too loud and annoying. It would have been ok if it was quiet and always in the background.
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Kevin, I worked for TWA 1980-1990. My goal is to stay here before the end of 2023. Hopefully the Connie bar will be open when I visit.
Enjoy your trip 🗺️
If (when) I win the lottery I'm building this for my home. Lol. Incredible. Thank you
That will be quite the lottery lol
WOW! So well done. Guess I'm gonna have to finally subscribe.
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Gracias por la reseña.
Gracias por ver 🙏
Great video! I’m staying there Friday in a runway King-super stoked.
See if they'll let you request a room 'under the pool' and have fun! Thanks for watching & Happy New Year 🎉
Memorable experience!
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Thanks for the tour. I'll probably never see it in person and your perspective was perfect.
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Love the sign that is continuously advertising Tab cola
Me too!
Excellent thorough video 💎 thank you
We will be staying in Nov 2024
Thanks very much 🙏🏻
WOW!!! ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE VIDEO!!! The quality, direction as well as the information was spot on!!!! When would you say were the best times that had the least amount of people when you were there? I would love to shoot some photos there!
Just my guess but I think it’s much more about the season than the time of day. If I went back I’d go in a warm shoulder season- maybe May or September when it’s warm enough to enjoy being outside but too cool to attract hundreds to the rooftop pool. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
For me mem although I love the vibe, since I don’t travel or take overseas holidays often, staying at or near the airport would be so depressing since it’ll constantly remind me of going back home (even though I love planes and airports)
Fair enough!
Awesome video! I'd definitely pay the price just for the experience:) May I ask what tool/program you use for the animations in the opening of this video? I'd love to be able to do stuff like that with maps and shapes for my job! Thanks:)
I’m in the process of learning and switching over to Final Cut Pro… but everything in this video is just Keynote + iMovie. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Takes me back to my childhood!
One of my all time favorites.
I love this hotel!! Been there twice!! ✈️ #TWA
One of my all time favorites!
I recall the main entrance and check in area and was enthralled by the tube on my way to boarding one of the first B747 flights to LHR in November 1970. . Incidentally George Harrison and his then partner Patty Boyd were on the same flight.
Wow. That’s one hell of a story! Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Kevin: Don’t be surprised if the Hanna-Barbera cartoons “The Jetsons” were inspired by that beautiful TWA airport hotel terminal(looks exactly like the Jetson’s house, including furniture and everything).
“The Jetsons” went officially on the air September 23,1962 after the hotel/terminal was officially opened.
That amazing TWA terminal and those cartoons were both ahead of their time no doubt.
By the way, The Jetsons and Dick Tracy were the first one’s doing FaceTime video conferencing to communicate with each other.
Science fiction back then, reality today.
Thanks for sharing ✈️
Wish there were more old twa planes at that airport, it’s a museum at this point
Agree!
I'm headed up to NYC this coming November and I've booked two nights! Deluxe King w/runway view... thanks so much for your video - I am so looking forward to my visit! I want to see and experience it all... and I don't care about the prices. It will be worth it to me - I've been looking forward to staying here for years!
Not that they should be able to charge whatever they want- but to anyone that says “the price doesn’t matter” about this property will surely enjoy the experience. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
I was at the TWA terminal in April of 1973. I was 16. Heading to Rome for an Easter trip with a group from High School.
I was in Rome yesterday! 🙃 Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Thank you for showing a general plan indicating where the rooms are and how many. And where the hotel is into the airport. And where the airport is related to Manhattan. I read many descriptions and reviews and videos, and none of them mentioned these points.
Thanks very much 🙏🏻
i love it
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I love that VW Microbus at 4:01 though! I'm a sucker for old automobiles like that.
My first airline flight was with TWA in 1966 - thank you
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Awesome......
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The video is amazing! How did you do the map animation?
Just using basic features in Keynote. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
17:41 holy cow! Would have loved to see you carefully wade in the pool with all the steam rising.
Lol, definitely not something coming to the channel soon :)
My home airlines spotted! Caribbean Airlines at the A gates of T4!
Beautiful birds... literally!
Sangat menarik ❤
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The setting for this is my birth year 1962 which also is the setting for the movie American Graffiti
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Hopefully staying here in December.
Hope you enjoy it! Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
This place is a time capsule it's designed the same exact way that airports were designed back in the 60s and 70s it still has the rotator boards for the flight schedule instead of all the flat screen monitors we have now in airports awsome place you don't see anything like this no more.
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hello, could I use clips from your video to make an analysis video on the design?
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Cool. But I would have loved some plane noise.. making it even cooler… this is why I like hotels in Heathrow on Bath road - view and noise))) PS. Thanks for another great review
Plane noise in the video? (Or…in the room?)
@@tfft (some) noise in the room like, for instance, in Renaissance on Bath Road new LHR…
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Is it Free to plane spot at The TWA and can people plane spot instead of staying the night
No definitly not free to access the roof, but last I knew of they sold day passes. Thanks for watching 🩴
had the exact same room there when i came to JFK in June. the windows were filthy on the outside so all of my photos were not so nice looking out onto JetBlue. i have 20 pencils since there was nothing else in the room to speak of. im a long fan of TWA and worked for them in st louis when i was young enough to do ramp baggage duties.flown through there a few times but mostly just changed planes and didn't stay. I liked the way it stayed true to its roots but i didn't like the price of a room for what you actually get
Yes I agree especially these days the pricing- for an independent hotel not listen on any other sites- is absurd. Thanks for watching 🩴
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I've been influenced.
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Hi there, l need your help with something random as lve seen you mentioned you are in the industry.
My issue is lm often needing to book hotels and staying in separate rooms with my parents that lm hosting as a gift for the stay, put clearly l don't want them to know the cost of the stay, yet in every Hotel on the TV screen is "Guest services" then "your account" which dutifully has listed deposit, room rate and dining that is charged to the room costs. For the life of me despite asking for this to be removed at least in my parents room it is impossible to do so, lve explained its a gift and l do not wish them to be privy to the cost but l can't get it removed. Is there literally no way to remove this at all as lve been informed repeatedly? I've addressed this prior to my stays and on arrival in all our stays, the last one even told me no no it's not on the TV "we don't do that" ok that's great, went to their room and there it was! Went back to reception to notify them and blank stares l was met with let me see if l can fix it, she simply added my Mums name to the account😆 l gave up. Can you please inform me of what l might be doing wrong or if it is genuinely impossible to remove? I know this might sound odd but l really need help, l have 2 more stays upcoming Park Hyatt and Sofitel and ld love to have this resolved. 🙏
I typically prepay for all of my rooms and rarely book directly with the hotel. In room charges during the stay I couldn’t tell you how to hide from the TV bill if they were really trying to see it. But I can say for certain that my room rate charges are absolutely never on my room bill as the transaction isn’t actually with the hotel at all.
After landing Delta, grabbing luggage .... Can you just simply walk from terminal 4 to the TWA hotel ?
In theory yes but it would be much easier to take the air train. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Beautiful. Too bad they couldn't " snatch " a 747 repainted at one of Rte gates and use that as well with original 1st Class seating ,up front,a bar/lounge upper deck and passenger seats on either side with restaurant service within the center of the cabin,front to back .
But maybe,WHO KNOWS? Perhaps someone with "deep-seat " pockets who loves this idea would pursue it?🤔☺️
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Although funny, the trash mat exsits because its law to recycle in NYC and they can techinically be fined by the city if the recyclables and regular trash arent separated properly when they dispose at their dumpsters. This is here to make it easier for the roomservice to separate those items. Since recycling isn't mandatory in many places this is why this is here to remind you where to put the appropriate trash. Be a bro.
I mean, I get it… but I’ve stayed in a dozen hotels in NYC in the past couple of years and have never seen such a thing. Can’t understand why a recycling bin (on the ground) wouldn’t be just as effective. Heck, you can put the recycling bin on the desk… it’d still be more sanitary than the mat :) Thanks for watching 🙏
@@tfft I agree the counter placement where you place food is not the best choice.This was my first watch and loved it! I look forward to booking there sometime in the early fall season for fun.
Yes I’d say somewhere around September would be the best time to avoid the peak crowds but still get a good chunk of daylight in the evenings. Hope you enjoy!
It’s really sad just shabby this place has gotten since the pandemic… it was fairly nice back when it first opened, but it getting rather run down these days. It’s certainly nothing to brag about.
Perhaps things have changed recently, but I was there in November 2021 and thought the space was spectacular. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
13:28 beautiful
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Can we stay in the lounge for free?
It’s a public bar, you’re welcome to go in and have a drink.
Oh so it opens 24/7?
The days when flight was special. Not cattlecars.
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If I ever happen to be in New York City or at JFK for a layover I would like to stay at that hotel my only regret is that I never flew on TWA
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im from stl and my first flight to mexico was TWA when i was around 8 years old. when i got older and out of the army i worked for TWA as a bag loader and got out before the sell off of inventory and collapse of the company. i still love and collect TWA stuff now. the hotel reminds me of the old st louis terminals with the red tunnels and had to finally go to it on my return to the us this year.
Horrible experience!!! No signs warning or easy understanding regarding how to move where to go etc !! Cold ambience and nasty customer service !! The usual arrogance of who is in charge of helping but expect that ppl know everything and everywhere!!!!!
What kind of warning signs were you expecting? 😂