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Hawarden: Booking a Night With a Bunch of Books

MsRebecca — 2009-08-18T11:43:44-05:00

We’ve been following the hotel bookshelves trend for awhile now, but we’ve only just stumbled across what may be the pi�ce de r�sistance of hotel libraries (and, no, it’s not New York’s Library Hotel.)

Forget hipster-curated lobby and guestroom collections—over in Wales, you can stay in an honest-to-God actual library (and we don’t mean taking a catnap behind the stacks at your local branch).

St Deiniol’s—Britain’s only residential library—was created by book nerd William Ewart Gladstone in the town of Hawarden, in North East Wales. It’s been around since 1898 and looks fittingly Victorian and scholarly-like.

Are Bookshelves the Latest Hotel Craze?

juliana — 2008-11-12T10:49:01-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/ninesgame.jpg" class="top"> As we've been poking around new hotels that have opened recently, we are noticing a trend--Bookshelves. Hotels are trying to not only appeal to your nightowl tastes with their fancy celeb chef restaurants and their dark mysterious lounges but also to your inner bookworm.Some examples of bookshelves in new hotels? · <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/11/4/121318/753/hotels/What_s_Wrong_With_These_Pictures_of_the_Cooper_Square_Lobby_">Cooper Square</a>: We've been eagerly anticipating this NYC hotel and while the 70s-inspired decor got panned, no one seemed to mind the bookshelves. That's a good thing because there are some bookshelves in the guestrooms as well. · <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/inside%20sls">SLS Hotel</a>: In a city more likely to tote around screenplays rather than books, the SLS Hotel in Los Angeles has peppered its public spaces with books

New York: Use Your Indoor Voice: A New Library Hotel for NYC

juliana — 2007-11-12T10:15:01-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/donnell_library.png" class="imgborder">The New York Public Library has recently agreed to sell its building and property for the West 53rd Street branch, The Donnell, to <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Orient-Express%20Hotels">Orient-Express Hotels</a> for $59 million. Normally, that would just be another hotel transaction in the news but what's different about this sale is that the library will still maintain a presence on the hotel's first and underground floors. The rest of the floors will be for the hotel, with five of those having direct access to the storied 21 Club on 52nd street.<blockquote>The sale may strike some as an odd mix of culture and commerce, but the library said it had little choice because the branch, built in 1955, was in dire need of

New York: Cubicle Dreamin': Bookworm Heaven in NY's Library Hotel

amandak — 2007-03-19T09:54:55-05:00

<![CDATA[ Cubicle Dreamin' is a feature in which we ask the hotel mavens to take some time out of their busy work day, surf the Internet, and tell us what hotel they wish they could beam themselves to right that very second--all on the slave driving companies dime, of course. Oh, like these people aren't surfing aimlessly anyway--at least now their purposeless clicking will be cobbled together into useful hotel stories--we hope. Have a destination hotel you are just dying to leave your cube for? <a href="tips@hotelchatter.com">Send the story our way</a>. In this episode, Hotel Maven <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/user/amandak/stories">Amanda K</a> escapes to Manhattan. Enjoy.<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/library_flickrpool.jpg">Until five minutes ago, I never knew that my idea of a perfect hotel actually existed, and

New York: Flickr Photo Pool: The Library Hotel

juliana — 2006-05-15T16:45:01-05:00

Hotel Maven Mnot recently stayed at the Library Hotel in New York and snapped this shot of the Native American Religion room on the 12th floor.

Each room in the hotel has a unique theme, falling under a different Dewey Decimal category such as Religion, Math and Sciene, History, and Technology. The room's decor is then built around the theme/category. Of course, the hotel has books--6,000 of them throughout, all arranged according to the Dewey Decimal System.

If you don't know what this system is, then you obviously weren't paying attention in middle school.

Related Stories:
· Library Hotel Review [HotelChatter]
· Mnot's photostream [Flickr]
· Library Hotel reviews [TripAdvisor]