NYC hotels offer a sweetheart deal starting at $199

Turn Valentine’s Day into a romantic - and affordable - weekend in New York City.

The affordable Apple Core Hotels offers the “Art & Love” package on stays from Feb. 9-16 with rates from $199.99 a night for two persons.

Packages include accommodations in the heart of the city and two priority-entrance tickets to the Art and Love in Renaissance Italy exhibit at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which explores objects created during the Italian Renaissance to celebrate love and marriage. The exhibit includes paintings by Titian and Botticelli, erotic drawings and prints, and many other rare and significant works, including one of the earliest known diamond wedding rings.

Guests also receive a complimentary bottle of Champagne, free breakfast and in-room coffee.

Apple Core Hotels is a group of five, centrally-located, midtown Manhattan hotels:

- La Quinta Inn Manhattan, 17 West 32nd Street

- Red Roof Inn Manhattan, 6 West 32nd Street

- Comfort Inn Midtown, 129 West 46th Street

- The Hotel @ Times Square, 59 West 46th Street

- Ramada Inn East Side, 161 Lexington Avenue

To book this package, call 1-800-567-7720 and mention the “Art & Love” package, or visit http://www.applecorehotels.com/promotions/artandlove and use package code “ARTANDLOVE.”