Royalton
Style Smart, sultry and seductive
Setting In the thick of theatreland
Enshrined in design history as Philippe Starck’s first interiors project, Manhattan’s Royalton hotel has since been brought up to date, with an artfully dark and seductive lobby, exclusive gent’s club atmosphere, and a buzzy cocktail bar that’s on every hipster’s tick-list.
Need to know
- Rooms 168, including 96 suites.
- Rates Double rooms from $259.00, excluding tax at 14.75 per cent. Please note the hotel charges an additional local city tax of $3.50 per room per night on checkout.
- More details Rates exclude breakfast.
- Facilities Gym, in-room spa and beauty treatments, WiFi throughout (US$10 a day), valet parking (US$56 a night). In rooms: plasma TV, Bose iPod dock, minibar, Korres toiletries. Some rooms have working fireplaces (these have to be lit by staff).
- Check-out Midday, but may be flexible, depending on occupancy. Check-in, 3pm.
- Children Free cots are available for babies and extra beds are available for US$30 a night. Babysitting with a local nanny is US$30 an hour. More...
- Also One floor of the hotel is set aside for smokers.
Food and drink at Royalton
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Hotel restaurant
Nautically inspired in both decor and dishes, Brasserie 4 is a warm, woody space hung with nets and lined camel leather booths. The Modern America menu leans heavily on fresh fish and seafood, but chef Scott Ekstrom also works wonders with classic New York steaks. There’s a pre-theatre menu for early diners. -
Dress code
After-party chic – louche and loungey. -
Top table
The brasserie’s banquette booths all afford privacy, so hunker down in one of these. For snacky bar food or drinks, Royalton’s packed with moodily lit nooks, alcoves and cubbyholes to lose entire evenings in. -
Last orders
Breakfast is available from 7am to 10am; lunch, midday to 3pm; dinner from 5pm to 10pm. Liquor flows until the early hours. -
Room service
Full meals and lighter bites can be brought to your room between 7am and midnight. -
Hotel bar
Bar 44 is a dark and alluring affair, with rich chocolate tones and chunky brass and iron fixtures softened by suedes and weathered leathers. Cocktail waiters gambol in and out of darkened doorways, delivering food and drink to city bigwigs and incognito c’lebs.
Royalton 44 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036
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A free room upgrade at check-in (based on availability). GoldSmith members get a double upgrade (the offer excludes penthouses and apartments)
In the know
Our favourite rooms
The Studio Loft room 1018 has a wood-burning fireplace at the foot of the bed and is laid out to maximise the sense of space– the Standard rooms are on the small side. The Alcove Suite has a huge soaking tub set within a sparkly-tiled nook – it’s like bathing inside a disco ball. If you can, book a room above the eighth floor to minimise Midtown street noise. If you’re lucky enough to spend a night in the three Penthouses, you’ll have a lavish private roof terrace where you can lord it over the Manhattan skyline.
Packing tips
Opera glasses for scrutinising the stages of nearby Broadway, and an iPod stuffed with showtunes to bring the showbiz soundtrack back to your boudoir.
Also
As well as an impressive selection of snacks and drinks, Royalton’s rather eccentric minibars include intimacy kits, hangover cures, Korres products, and saucily sloganned T-shirts.
From the Guestbook…
An absolutely fabulous experience. The Royalton is very discreet from the outside and it's lovely to walk into a warm and tastefully decorated main hallway, especially on a cold De...
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