Hilton New York Hotel

I've stayed here several times now and have always stayed in the executive rooms, which give access to the executive lounge for breakfast, hors d'oeuvres, cookies, tea/coffee all day, free drinks from the bar during certain times (alcoholic drinks are extra). The price of these rooms is rarely much more than the standard and deluxe rooms.
A friend was also staying in the hotel - we overlapped by a couple of days - and she was staying in one of the standard rooms. Our rooms were identical in size, decor, and facilities (such as coffee-making, Crabtree and Evelyn toiletries). I believe the deluxe rooms have been renovated over the last couple of years and from pictures I've seen, look very modern. The standard and executives rooms probably could do with a refurbishment too but our rooms were clean and comfortable.
We ate late in the hotel's Marketplace restaurant, which is a nice open, airy, and informal restaurant, and enjoyed a tasty pizza and salad at a very reasonable price.
The hotel is in a great location, close to Radio City Hall, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Rockefeller Centre, Central Park, Fifth Avenue, Times Square, and an easy walk to the Empire State Building, Macy's, Bloomingdale's, and Grand Central. The hotel also has its own taxi rank.
It's a huge hotel with almost 2,000 rooms so could be considered a little impersonal, but would recommend staying here all the same. Generally, I would consider the price is good value (and even better with the current exchange rate of as good as $2 to the pound) but staying just before Christmas was quite pricey (yet to be expected really). The hotel was very busy this time so the executive lounge was equally busy, particularly at breakfast time.