Library Hotel
New York, United States [view map]
- Style
- Classical with deco accents
- Setting
- Madison Avenue midtown
The Library Hotel in Manhattan is a stylish and grown-up boutique hotel, featuring – you guessed it – scores of books. And, best of all, comfortable surroundings in which to enjoy them.
Need to know
- Rooms
- Ten Petite Singles, ten Petite Doubles, 30 Deluxe Queens, eight Junior Suites, one Love Room, and one Deluxe King.
- Rates
- $599–$769, including breakfast but not including taxes.
- Check-out
- 1pm, but flexible wherever possible.
- Facilities
- 24-hour concierge, passes to the New York Sports Club, business centre, WiFi, a reading room with over 1,000 books.
- Children
- The concierge can help you plan excursions and activities. Nanny/babysitting services are available. There are no cots available, but junior suites have pull-out couches. There’s a children’s section in the reading room.
- Also
- No pets. Appropriately, each of the hotel's ten floors is dedicated to a category of the Dewey Decimal System.
In the know
- Our favourite rooms
- All have similar decor, but books and art relate to the room’s theme, such as poetry, mysteries or fairy tales. The Love Room is huge, with an outdoor terrace.
- Packing tips
- Specs for reading all the great books – but if you forget yours, head to Selima Optique on Madison Avenue or Bleecker Street to buy the coolest pair in school.
- Also
- The first-floor lounge is where you have breakfast, and the hotel provides free orange juice, coffee and biscuits all day, with wine and nibbles early evening.
Food & drink
- Hotel restaurant
- Branzini brasserie (separate from the hotel) serves Mediterranean cuisine.
- Dress code
- Think bookish but cute...
- Top table
- Grab a window seat.
- Last orders
- 11am–10.30pm in the restaurant; 4pm–1am in the bar.
- Room service
- Dishes from the restaurant are available during opening hours. There’s also a 24-hour service using local Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Thai, American, pizza, deli and steakhouse takeouts.
- Hotel bar
- The Bookmarks Lounge is on the 14th floor. Try the Bookmark cocktail, made with Appleton Estate rum and passionfruit juice topped off with Moët, or a Hemingway, a Great Gatsby, a Capote – or a Jackie Collins.
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Library Hotel
299 Madison Avenue at 41st Street, New York