HotelChatter - Tag: Hotel Bookshelves

Falaknuma: India's Taj Falaknuma Palace Might Just Be a Librarian's Double Rainbow

Jennifer Kester — 2011-01-07T14:06:04-05:00

The newly opened Taj Falaknuma Palace in Hyderabad, India, has a lot of cool features, like it is one of the country's last remaining grand palaces, and it's built entirely of Italian marble and in the shape of a scorpion. But the geeks that we are, we're digging its expansive library.

The hotel carries more than 5,900 books in its Imperial Library. You'll find tomes on literature, history and religion. Though the standout is a rare collection of the holy Quran.

New York: The Mystery of The Gotham Hotel is Starting to Unfold

juliana — 2010-10-18T13:21:48-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/GothamHotelNYC_Exterior.jpg" class="top">UPDATE: It could be opening as early as this week! Last week we rounded up a bunch of <a href="">new NYC Hotels</a> that are opening later this year but there's one hotel that we missed--<a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Gotham+Hotel/local/4739">The Gotham Hotel</a>. This is that mysterious hotel going up on E. 46th Street, whose identity we just discovered <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/10/8/142623/241/hotels/The_Scary_Skinny_Hotel_on_E_46th_Street_Will_Be_Known_as_The_Gotham">the other week.</a>As it turns out, the hotel not only has a temporary <a href="http://thegothamhotelon46street.com/">website</a> but it even has some room photos up already! (Ahem, <a href="https://www.marriott.com/hotels/hotel-photos.mi?marshaCode=hnleb&pageID=HWGRD">Waikiki Edition.</a>) There's not a whole lot going on here but we are loving the typeset logo and the books on the nightstand. (The hotel is named after the old Gotham Book Mart that used to be

Waikiki: Books, iPads, and Surfboards Are Just a Few of the Waikiki Edition's Favorite Things

juliana — 2010-10-12T08:50:02-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/waikikilobbybookshelf.jpg" class="top"> The brand-new <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Waikiki+Edition/local/1703">Waikiki Edition Hotel</a> officially opens on October 15 but lucky guests have been able to stay at the hotel during its soft-opening for the past two weeks. And while we've learned that the hotel has loaner iPads available for guests, we just found out the lobby also sports an old-school bookcase. Ok, it's a little savvier than a traditional bookcase. <blockquote>A large, rotating bookcase divides the lobby space so it can be closed off to separate and define the Lobby Bar, which is hidden behind this secret passage as if tucked away in a castle. This bookcase will feature rotating art installations by local artists as well as curated collections of objects, books and

New York: The Scary Skinny Hotel on E. 46th Street Will Be Known as The Gotham

juliana — 2010-10-08T15:35:00-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/16e46thstreet.jpg" class="top">UPDATE 10.10.10: There is <a href="http://thegothamhotelon46street.com/">a website</a> for The Gotham Hotel as well as an updated exterior shot below. Also, the Real Deal article was actually written in August so the hotel didn't quite make the "next month" deadline but keep sending in the tips if you've got 'em. Nearly a <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/1/28/135310/021/hotels/Guess_The_Scary_Skinny_Hotel_Going_Up_on_East_46th_Street_Please_">year ago</a>, we received some snapshots from a tipster of a scary skinny hotel going up on East 46th Street but we had no idea what hotel this was going to turn into. So we asked you dear readers for some help and got radio silence instead.But now it looks like the hotel will open as The Gotham Hotel, a tribute to the old Gotham Book

Should Hotels Ditch Bibles Once and For All?

MsRebecca — 2010-06-17T09:55:53-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/30451/HotelBibles.JPG" class="top"> The yin and yang of top-drawer reading material at the Shangri-La Sydney. When we first enter a hotel room, we like to poke around and open drawers, checking out every tiny detail. But we were shocked to see a bibleand The Teaching of Buddhawhen we flung open the nightstand drawer at the Shangri-La Sydney recently. We shouldn't have been, of course. Bibles have been a mainstay of hotel rooms for at least a century. But aside from this encounter, we haven't actually seen one in eons. As hotels increasingly focus on providing geeked-up rooms with fancy light settings, glossy flatscreen TVs, and (more, please) free WiFi, they seem to be leaving the good old Gideons behind. But