Need to know

Rooms

75, including seven suites.

Rates

US$495–US$895, not including taxes (14.75 per cent plus US$3.50 a night). Breakfast is an additional US$20–US$30 a person.

Check-out

Check-out is flexible; arrange a time with the receptionist when you arrive.

Facilities

Library, CD/DVD library, in-room beauty/spa treatments, free access to a local fitness club, free WiFi, laundry service. In rooms: flatscreen TV, CD/DVD player, air-conditioning, minibar, iPod dock, free bottled water, Face Stockholm toiletries.

Poolside

There is no swimming pool at the Mercer.

Children

Kids are welcome at the Mercer. Baby cots and additional beds are available free of charge, and babysitting can be arranged with a local nanny from around US$30 an hour. There’s no children’s menu in the restaurant.

Also

Both pets and smoking are allowed at the hotel. Bring your beagles…

In the know

Our favourite rooms

We adore the Loft Suite, a penthouse-style, street-facing room with gorgeous exposed-brick arched windows, wood-burning fireplaces and oversized furnishings. It also comes with giant mirrors that cover entire walls, ensuring that, when skies are even vaguely clear, the room will be bathed in natural sunlight. Like most rooms, it comes with an absolutely gargantuan marble bathroom that incorporates a tub large enough for at least two families. We also like the Loft Studio, which has French doors that open out onto its own romantic Juliet-style balcony.

Packing tips

Don’t forget your oversized sunglasses. Not only will you want to blend in with the hotel’s impossibly attractive clientele, but they’ll also help cover up a multitude of sins after a night in the downstairs SubMercer club.

Also

Open till 4am, Wednesday to Saturday, the hotel’s achingly hip late-night bar/club SubMercer is still one of SoHo’s biggest draws. Entry is guaranteed to hotel guests – just as well, because you’d struggle to get past the velvet rope otherwise. Inside, it’s all gold, bronze and copper mosaic floors, red-leather seating, low mirrored ceilings and exposed brickwork walls, making it the perfect decadent spot to try and snag an off-duty Hollywood star.

Food & drink

Hotel restaurant

The Mercer Kitchen is where world-renowned chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten serves up delicious contemporary French cuisine with an Asian twist – steak in a caramelised soy sauce, steamed shrimp salad – in an exposed-brickwork space before a bustling open kitchen and purple-backlit steel bar. The tables situated right underneath SoHo’s iconic iron-and-glass sidewalks are particularly cool – to sit there and eat is like being part of a MOMA light installation.

Dress code

Anything goes, but there’s definitely an understated edgy, fashion-focused vibe among those choosing crustaceons from the lobster and oyster bar. Think 3.1 Philip Lim dresses and Tim Hamilton tailoring.

Top table

When we were there, a couple in the restaurant told us that they’d met at cosy table 28, returned to the same spot to get engaged and were now here to celebrate their one-year anniversary. Perhaps 28 could be your lucky number, too?

Last orders

Both the restaurant and bar stop serving at 1am on Monday to Thursday, at 2am on Friday and Saturday, and midnight on Sunday.

Room service

Drinks and a comprehensive selection from the restaurant menu are available 24 hours a day.

Hotel bar

Situated at street level, the Mercer Kitchen Bar draws in stylish shoppers during the day, and is abuzz with the fashion and media crowd at night. Aluminium glass-topped tables and black-and-white leather seating furnish the joint, while a huge yellow blossom in a giant glass vase makes an attractive statement piece on the small bar. In daylight hours, it opens out onto the street – though curtains prevent over-enthusiastic paps from photographing the cocktail-sippers inside.

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The Mercer

147 Mercer Street