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Long Island offers visitors wonderful access to New York City and all its marvelous recreational opportunities. If you are looking for Long Island hotels, Extended Stay Hotels has several great places to stay, each offering comfortable accommodations and low rates. Click on a local area below for Extended Stay Hotels or view all metropolitan Long Island hotels. If you are coming to Long Island by air, you will likely arrive at LaGuardia Airport, named for one of New Yorks most colorful mayors and the closest airport to Manhattan. Just as its name suggests, Long Island is a narrow island heading east from New York City. This area is known for great little villages, like Great Neck, where F. Scott Fitzgerald penned The Great Gatsby. Here you can wander through the cute shops and take in the views. Close by is Manhasset, home to the Americana Mall. This is where some of the richest people on the Island shop, making it a great place for people watching. Those so inclined may want to take a drive around the nearby village of Old Brookville. Once home to families named Vanderbilt and Hutton, many exquisite mansions remain within this community. Museum goers have three wonderful options within a very short drive. The Hicksville Gregory Museum has amazing collections of butterflies, fossils and minerals. Visitors interested in the original inhabitants of the region will head for Gravies Point Museum and Preserve. For a glimpse into the wealth of an earlier age, Sands Point Preserve offers the natural beauty of its immense grounds and a stone castle suitable for English nobility. History buffs will want to visit Sagamore Hill, the home of President Theodore Roosevelt. From being a natural landing area for early aviators to its role in producing Americans mighty air power during World War II, Long Island played a significant part in the development of aviation. The Cradle of Aviation Museum tracks many of these important steps with interesting.
