New York arrival

I didn't sleep all that much on the flight, although it was maybe a couple of hours, and I did sleep through breakfast and coffee, which was irritating, as I was woken up to get my seat back upright for landing.

I had a breakfast at a place in the airport terminal before exiting, as most of the food places are on the airside of security.  I've checked into my hotel, but check-in only starts at 3pm, so that's 7 hours after landing.

I got to New York Penn station at about 11.30am, and then walked around the train hall wondering whether to buy lunch or not and then decided to just go up to the hotel anyway and see if I could at least drop my bags off, as I didn't want to be lugging them around for hours, and I was still a bit tired.

I got to the hotel about 1pm, as it's only a few blocks away from Penn Station, so I'd walked up there.  Then it got a bit strange, because I was informed that my room wasn't "available" until 3pm, although I could pay $50 for an early check-in, because the room was ready.

The guy at the check-in desk said that he couldn't waive the fee, but he could for new Hilton Honors signups, so he suggested that if I had another email address not associated with my HH account already, I could "sign up" and then he could let me into the room straight away, and then he said I could close the second account after I'd left.

So I now have a second HH account with my work email address.  I'm wondering whether this is a thing or whether he's on an incentive to sign up as many new members as possible!

The view from my room (taken the next morning) is OK - I had paid extra for a city view, so I'm on the 30th floor, just one below the top.

I wasn't sure whether I'd stayed here before, but now I'm sure that I have, as I remember the breakfast room and the three lifts, which always take an age to service all the floors, as there are so many of them, even though there's only half a dozen rooms on each floor.

As soon as I got in I decided to try to catch up on some sleep, and woke up a few hours later, only then realising that I was still thinking it was Monday, when in fact it was Tuesday, so I had a game to go to which was due to start in 5 minutes time!