The Library Hotel in New York
Remember late last year, when we featured La Belle Juliette literary hotel in Paris? Ever since then I’ve been investigating other literary destinations, and as a result I’ve become besotted by The Library Hotel in Manhattan, New York.
With ten floors themed according to the Dewey Decimal System, each room corresponds to a genre. For instance, in the Dewey Decimal System, the 500s are the sciences, and the rooms on the 5th floor reflect that, such as the Botany Room (500.004) or Mathematics (500.001).
An assortment of room themes, from Dinosaurs to Erotic Literature via Fairytales and Fashion Design, mean whatever your taste in reading matter, you’ll be able to find one perfect for you.
Best of all for bibliophiles, each room comes with an allocation books corresponding to its theme, and there’s around 6,000 altogether throughout the hotel.
If you can drag yourself away from the fictional adventures and intrigue to be found on your boudoir’s bookshelves, the Bookmarks bar features a literary cocktail menu, with signature tipples including The Great Gatsby and The Capote. And if all that isn’t enough to keep you entertained, there’s a Poetry Garden and Reading Room too.
Now, who do we have to bribe to bag ourselves a free stay?
Jane Bradley
That is incredible! there should be one in every city
Oh my goodness. Wonder if I can spend a night here when I go to New York this summer? And by ‘wonder’ I mean ‘afford to’.
It looks great. I have been looking for hotels in New York all morning but hadn’t come across this one. If I end up staying here, I’ll let you know.
I think I might actually be hyperventilating at the sight of this. I. MUST. GO. For me, it’s got to be the Classic Fiction room. Nothing says ‘perfect holiday’ like a room all crammed with Dickens and Bronte and the like.
Well then ladies, you need St Deniol’s in Wales. Not a hotel, it’s a residential library and it’s so peaceful, and so calm there.
http://www.st-deiniols.com/
Dead cheap, quite basic but lovely and well worth visiting. Nominally run by the Church, but there’s no pressure or anything. They just leave you alone to read, eat great food, sleep and have lots of hot baths. I practically floated home…
Thanks Lucy, will definitely investigate that one…
I’m going to check out their reading room/poetry garden the next time I find myself waiting around midtown. Looks beautiful!
Oh it looks so wonderful. Loving Lucy’s Wales recommendation too!
this looks wonderfull but it would need more than one night to read the books there. I wonder if they need any chambermailds.