Library Hotel Guilty Pleasure Package
Published: July 3rd, 2014The Library Hotel has teamed up with two New York City literary icons to create the ultimate book lover’s “guilty pleasure.”
Dec. 18, 2012 – NEW YORK, NY — The Library Hotel has teamed up with two New York City literary icons to create the ultimate book lover’s “guilty pleasure.” The package includes “Books by the Foot” by Strand Bookstore which is one foot worth of books hand selected by our Honorary Librarian. Choose recent bestsellers or tell us your reading habits and we’ll tailor the selection and have them ready for your arrival. Plus visit the beautiful Morgan Library & Museum with two complimentary tickets and finish your stay with two cocktails at Bookmarks Lounge, our rooftop bar serving literary inspired cocktails.
For those that may be unfamiliar, Strand Bookstore has been supplying New Yorkers with books since 1927 and is home to over 2.5 million new, used and rare books. Today, Strand is famously known for their 18 miles of books and the Library Hotel is proud to be their partner. The Strand holds a special place in the heart of everyone at the Library Hotel because it was Nancy Bass Wyden, who owns the Strand along with her father, Fred Bass, who oversaw the Library Hotel’s original selection of 6,000 books that would line the shelves of the 60 guest rooms and four public spaces at the time of the Library Hotel’s opening in August of 2000. At over $85,000 worth of books, the project was complex, but Ms. Bass enthusiastically regarded the project as, “a labor of love”.
Another landmark, just steps from our front door, is the Morgan Library & Museum. Former home, library and office of J.Pierpont Morgan, the beautiful complex houses the banker turned philanthropist’
Books and art may satisfy most bibliophiles, but some may want to end their day with a nightcap. All guests of the Library Hotel can enjoy complimentary wine, cheese and Prosecco every evening on the hotel’s second floor lounge appropriately named the Reading Room. However, the Guilty Pleasure Package takes guests to the hotel’s rooftop bar, Bookmarks Lounge, where one can enjoy literary inspired cocktails like the Tequila Mockingbird or The Hemingway.
The Guilty Pleasure Package is available year round and requires a two night minimum. Rates start at $339 per night, plus taxes.
For reservations, call 212-983-4500 or via e-mail at reservations@
The innovative and much acclaimed Library Hotel Collection now has seven properties in varying stages of development, including four Manhattan properties: the book-lovers paradise, the Library Hotel on 41st and Madison Avenue, the country French-Style Hotel Elysée on East 54th and Madison Avenue, the retro glamorous Hotel Giraffe on 26th and Park Avenue South, and the Moroccan-motif Casablanca Hotel on West 43rd Street, just off Broadway. The Library Hotel Collection also launched the Aria Hotel Prague in 2004, which was recently ranked the #1 hotel in the Czech Republic on TripAdvisor’s Travelers Choice Awards. The Aria Hotel Budapest and Hotel X Toronto are both slated to open in 2015.
Due to its “Service is Marketing” philosophy, the Library Hotel Collection accomplished something remarkable that no other hotel group has achieved before, with all four New York City hotels continuously ranked in TripAdvisor among the top 10 hotels in New York City, this amongst some 440 listed hotel properties. At one time, the four hotels were ranked in all top four spots in New York City. All four hotels were also awarded Certificates of Excellence from TripAdvisor, with the Casablanca Hotel winning three Travelers Choice Awards: One was for Best Service USA and twice for Top 25 Hotels in the USA. Library Collection Hotel properties have also received high rankings and awards from Fodors, US News and World Report, TrustScore, the Global Review Index and many more.
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