HOT GOTHAM GETAWAYS!
Forget the big impersonal hotels. Treat yourself to a more intimate hotel where they treat you special. Where you’re a name, not just a room number. Where the emphasis is on providing distinctive amenities and unique surroundings. Where it’s not just a room for the night. After all, you’re special. You deserve it!
Here are five of our NYC faves:
Inn at Irving Place
Away from the madding crowds. Two blocks to seductive Grammercy Park. No hotel name on the door – just a number. Two historic townhouses… exquisite antiques… continental breakfast and Lady Mendl’s Tea Salon with 5-course High Tea.
Intimacy, luxury, and privacy. Feels like home…not a hotel. Only 12 guest rooms – so you KNOW you’re SPECIAL.
Toast martinis in the bamboo garden at Cibar. Dine at Pure Food and Wine. New York’s premier raw foods restaurant. Snuggle in your comfy four-poster bed. We did – it was heaven!
Inn at Irving Place
56 Irving Place
New York, NY 10003
800-685-1447
www.innatirving.com
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HOTEL ELYSEE
East Midtown romantic haven. Elegant Trompe l’oeil murals and antique furnishings. Club
room for lavish Continental Breakfast. Cookies, fruit, coffee & tea throughout the day. Happy Hour with complimentary champagne, wines, cheeses, and hors d’oeuvres every evening Mon-Friday, 5-8. 86 charming guest rooms, 15 suites.
Try the Royal Suite for a Royal Weekend with Leonidas champagne truffles, strawberries, pink champagne and a dozen roses. You may never want to leave!
Legendary Monkey Bar & Restaurant. Reopened Asian theme and Fusion Food.
We wish we could have stayed longer. But we will be back…. for more!
Hotel Elysee
60 East 54 th Street
New York, NY 10022
(212) 753-1066
800.535.9733
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CASABLANCA HOTEL
Quiet and intimate haven – in the midst of Times Square. You’d barely know it was there. But it is. Lucky for us. 48 guest rooms. 5 star rating. Exotic Moroccan theme. Gracious staff and management. European breakfast buffet. Wine and cheese receptions every afternoon. And on Friday – a piano player tickling the keys.
If you love theater – walk. It’s easy. Do a matinee – come back for Happy Hour – and then stroll back to another show in the evening.
If you love film – thousands of movies available in Rick’s lounge on the mezzanine. Bogey and Bergman on screen, all day.
Don’t tell too many people – it’s too good a secret! We can’t wait to hide out here again.
Casablanca Hotel
147 West 43rd. St.
New York, NY, 10036
888.922.7225
www.casablancahotel.com
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HOTEL MELA
New. Stylish comfort. Luscious linens. Spacious rooms. DesirableTheatre District/Times Square locale.
Your Desires program – personal concierge insures your favorite snack and beverage is
waiting in your room.
Mela’s cool Vietnamese restaurant, Saju, open for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Walk everywhere. Full time doorman will point you to the best activities.
People-friendly atmosphere. And you can bring your pet!
Hotel Mela
120 West 44th Street
New York, NY 10036
1-800-555-7555
www.hotelmela.com
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THE RITZ CARLTON, BATTERY PARK
Best Rooftop Bar in New York City – Rise. Breathtaking views. Innovative drinks & food. Don’t miss sunset… any day! Way downtown location, overlooking Battery Park and lower Manhattan Harbor.
Superbly elegant. Discreet. Businessmen love it. Lovers will, too. Ask for the“Can’t Buy Me Love… But You Can Try” package. You get the 2,000 square-feet Presidential Suite with a private butler. Dom Perignon and fresh strawberries. A helicopter ride. Oh, and… your own 10-minuteFIREWORKS SHOW. Only $40,000!
Other stays aren’t quite so decadent. But, rest assured, the Ritz Carlton is always wonderful. That’s why we keep going back!
The Ritz-Carlton New York, Battery Park
Two West Street
New York, New York 10004
USA
212.344.0800
www.ritzcarlton.com/en/Properties/BatteryPark
Marilyn Anderson
Romance on the Road
