Excessive-rolling Thanksgiving Day paradegoers are shelling out small fortunes for a glimpse at Gotham’s annual spectacle on Sixth Avenue, with restaurant seats going for a whole lot of {dollars} and even a $36,000-a-night room booked out for its aerial views.
House is already offered out on the Appel Room at Jazz at Lincoln Middle — the place gawkers are forking over $2,500 per individual for personal tables with direct views of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade by way of a 50-foot wall of glass.
Low-cost seats on the shiny jazz room begin at $1,000 per individual – to share parade-viewing tables of as much as 12 strangers.
The “premium viewing expertise” will supply “cutting-edge audio seize and broadcast by way of world class sound engineering,” in keeping with an occasion rep. The spectacular native comes with reside music, brunch and an open bar.
The Central Park Room, of the long-lasting JW Marriott Essex Home — one other sold-out Thanksgiving parade viewing venue — is providing a “true NYC-style” expertise with an early morning brunch buffet, limitless cocktails and “indoor streaming broadcast of the parade for added consolation and visibility,” in keeping with the web site.
Different sold-out venues embody eating places, artwork galleries and lofts, the place particular person window views, patio and terrace seating go for $300 to $1,000, in keeping with big-ticket occasion organizer ThanksgivingParade.com.
Seats going for $1,000 a pop at Marea Restaurant are already utterly booked, whereas $500 seats at High quality Meats and $300 seats at High quality Bistro are nonetheless out there. At every eatery, the meals is included within the worth.
All three venues will likely be exhibiting the parade from non-public outside terraces with the addition of boozy brunch, face portray and balloon artists at Marea.
5-star Mandarin Oriental resort at Columbus Circle is peddling its personal suites with aerial glimpses of the parade for an common $36,000 per night time on Nov. 26 and 27 – and a compulsory three-night keep.
A rep for the resort identified that cheaper rooms offered out rapidly prematurely, thus elevating the common charge over the vacation to the “prime signature lodging,” a lavish two-bedroom suite on the fiftieth flooring.
“Our parade-facing rooms and suites offered out rapidly with Suite 5000 as the ultimate parade-view lodging out there till earlier this week, when it was booked as nicely,” the rep stated.
However even a room on the ritzy abode overlooking the parade route is small potatoes in comparison with The Mark Resort’s Thanksgiving Penthouse bundle – priced at a jaw-dropping $250,000, the luxe providing features a “prime viewing desk” of the parade at Columbus Circle’s Nougatine by Jean-Georges restaurant.
Other than parade views, massive spenders at The Mark will get an after-hours tour of The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork, non-public Black Friday buying at Bergdorf Goodman, a four-course Thanksgiving feast and a vacation makeover at celebrity-favorite Frederic Fekkai Salon – all included for a keep on the resort’s 10,000-square-foot penthouse.
Different themed perks embody entry to a non-public terrace with a chilly plunge and post-Thanksgiving in-suite massages, a rep for the resort stated.
“Image this: a grand four-course Thanksgiving feast, curated by none aside from Michelin-starred Chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten, served within the privateness of the gorgeous penthouse eating room,” a brochure for the expertise coos. “Full with a full gourmand kitchen, that is Thanksgiving accomplished The Mark means — with type and class.”
Within the true spirit of giving, The Mark Resort will likely be donating a “proportion” of proceeds from the extravagant spend to the Metropolis Harvest meals financial institution.
