Three numbers, and you can add them up
Why the rate changes
A room that costs $189 on a Tuesday in March and $259 on a Saturday in October is the same room. Here is exactly what happened in between, and why it is arithmetic rather than an algorithm.
The arithmetic
Every night is priced on its own and the nights are added up. For one night the sum is:
the room's own rate + $30 if it is a Friday or a Saturday night + the seasonal adjustment, if that night is inside a season.
That is all of it. There is no fourth term, no occupancy multiplier, no lead-time discount and no price that moves because you looked at the page twice.
Why none of it is a percentage
A percentage compounds with the weekend uplift. Ten per cent on a Saturday in autumn is a different number of dollars from ten per cent on a Tuesday in January, so the same "ten per cent season" produces two different premiums and the person at the desk cannot explain either of them. Flat dollars survive being added in any order, which means a guest can check the total and an employee can defend it.
The seasons, in full
| Season | First night | Last night | Adjustment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Autumn | 15 September 2026 | 8 November 2026 | +$40 |
| Winter | 5 January 2027 | 28 February 2027 | $-25 |
| Late spring | 20 April 2027 | 15 June 2027 | +$25 |
Autumn. Late September to early November is the busiest stretch of the year in Queens and the only time we are reliably full midweek. The rate goes up by forty dollars a night and the minimum stay over weekends goes to two nights.
Winter. January and February are quiet and the garden is not much use to anybody. The rate comes down by twenty-five dollars a night. Nothing else changes: the same rooms, the same breakfast, the same people.
Late spring. The garden comes back and so does the demand for it. Twenty-five dollars a night, and no change to the minimum stay except over the last weekend in May.
A stay that crosses a boundary
It is priced night by night, so it pays both. A stay arriving on 7 November 2026 and leaving on 10 November 2026 is three nights: the Saturday and the Sunday are inside the autumn season and the Monday is not, so the last night is $40 cheaper than the one before it. The booking page lists all three with their own numbers before you type a name, precisely so that this is visible rather than surprising.
What is not in the rate
New York State and City taxes and the city occupancy charge: 14.75% plus $3.50 a night. Shown on the booking page on the same screen as the room, above the button rather than after it. There is no resort fee, no facility fee, no service charge and no "city fee" invented to sit alongside the real ones.
The rate moves by night, not by stay. The rate moves by night, not by stay: thirty dollars more on Friday and Saturday nights, plus or minus a seasonal adjustment. Every night of your stay is listed with its own price before you enter a name.
Fifteen rooms · breakfast included · no lift
Check availability
Give the form the night you arrive, the morning you leave and how many of you there are. It checks every night of the range rather than the first one, prices each night on its own and shows you the arithmetic before you type a name. If a night in the middle is full it says so and offers you the ranges nearby that do work.