![]() It is hectic, crowded, overpriced, and blatantly capitalistic, a place where no one actually lives and few New Yorkers hang out unless they’re seeing a show or bringing their out-of-town niece to the Disney Store. But while other locales can at least offer some seclusion from the world in the form of a beach or an island, Times Square is in the middle of everything. On the surface, Times Square feels like a natural addition. Almost all the Margaritaville restaurants and resorts - a vaguely tropics-themed hospitality empire inspired by one of Jimmy Buffett’s most popular songs - exist within massive tourist destinations like Cozumel, Mexico, or Atlantic City, New Jersey. The kind of leisure where you get on a plane and check into a resort just to not leave for a week, to see no other sights besides the novelty tiki drink cups lining the hotel’s bars.īut this is the kind of leisure Margaritaville is built on. ![]() But while I can picture wanting to visit New York for many things - the museums, the theater, the history, the chance to meet a pigeon who’s eaten a whole slice of pizza - I can’t imagine coming here to engage in leisure. I’m biased though being from here makes it hard to view the city through a tourist’s eyes. Like, I have been to a Times Square hotel bar before, and while I’ve enjoyed myself, it has never been a transformatively relaxing experience. To me at least, it does not mean a 32-floor hotel in Times Square. “Resort” conjures pristine beaches with reservable cabanas, room service delivered with an orchid, spas, and restaurants that will just charge your room, so you needn’t worry about even carrying a wallet on the grounds. The Margaritaville Resort Times Square sounds like an oxymoron. Jimmy Buffett would not wait until the boss says you can go home. Sure, the License to Chill Bar opens at 2, but it’s the principle of the thing. But no, for the 5 o’Clock Somewhere Bar, one of four restaurants and bars at Manhattan’s new Margaritaville Resort Times Square, you must wait until the workday is over. The whole point of the phrase is a justification to start drinking early, before the workday is done, because somebody, somewhere is off work. ![]() The 5 o’Clock Somewhere Bar does not open until 5 o’ Clock, which puts a crimp in trying to live out the metaphor of its name.
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