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If you are making plans to visit New York City then you should definitly pencil in some time at Central Park. Central Park is a beautiful refuge from the skyscrapers and the busy streets of Manhattan. I will guide you on a tour through the best parts of Central Park so get your notepad ready because you'll want to jot this down! Not only that but I'll also tell you how to get a hotel that's right by Central Park, how convenient would that be? I recommend New York Hotel Deals for all New York City Hotel reservations and they have a great section just for hotels near Central Park! Central Park is a large park! It is about 843 acres in size. It is also a very popular park. It is easily the most visited city park in the United States. The park was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux who also later created Brooklyn's Prospect Park. It was officialy completed in 1873 after over 10 years of work. There are many things to see in Central Park. It seems sometimes you could spend forever in Central Park and not see everything. There's many miles of walkways to walk through! So that's all the more reason to try and help you find some of the really cool parts. The Central Park Zoo is one such really cool part! There's also a Children's Petting Zoo which is the only place to see a goat in NYC! I believe you can actually get a ticket to both at the same time! While the Central Park Zoo is nowhere near the size of the Bronx Zoo it's still a very nice Zoo and a lot less overwhelming! You can find the Zoos if you enter the park on 64th street on the east side! Another cool thing in Central Park are all the artists there that want to draw your picture. Usually you can't walk too far in Central Park before you find these great sketch artists who usually have a very cheap price to do some really cool sketches. They do them very quickly too! If you are a Beatles fan like me you'll also definitly want to see the Strawberry Fields Memorial which was inaugurated on October 9th, 1985 on what would have been John Lennon's 45th birthday. John Lennon lived at the Dakota apartment building on West 72nd street which overlooked Central Park. This is why the memorial is located where it is at Central Park West & 72nd street. Often you can find people there playing guitars and singing songs. Before he was a TV star Donald Trump was a real estate mogul. That's a joke by the way. I don't know if it translates? Anyway one of the best hotels near Central Park in Manhattan is Trump's very own Trump International Hotel Towers. It's a five star upper class hotel as you might imagine. It's address is One Central Park West so as you might guess it's very close to Central Park! Trump International in Midtown Manhattan - making your hotel reservations online with New York Hotel Deals is always easy. They are all New York City all the time.