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

March 19, 2007 at 9:54 AM | by amandak | 1 Comment

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? Send the story our way.

In this episode, Hotel Maven Amanda K escapes to Manhattan. Enjoy.

Until five minutes ago, I never knew that my idea of a perfect hotel actually existed, and I'm so cut up about the fact that I missed out on this when I visited NYC last year. Confession time: I'm a book-geek. Even while I'm typing this post, I've probably got a novel open on one side of the keyboard and the newest greatest travel narrative on the other. And that's why the ultimate hotel experience for me would be Manhattan's Library Hotel.

Just in case you've managed to remain as ignorant as me until now, the Library Hotel is built around the concept of (surprise) a library. The concept is really best explained by the librarian-hoteliers themselves:

The Library Hotel in New York City is the first hotel ever to offer its guest over 6,000 volumes organized throughout the hotel by the Dewey Decimal System. Each of the 10 guestrooms floors honors one of the 10 categories of the DDC and each of the 60 rooms is uniquely adorned with a collection of books and art exploring a distinctive topic within the category or floor it belongs to.

If you're not quite as intimate with the Dewey Decimal System as I am, perhaps you'd like to stay in the 400s (Languages) for a bit of French romance, the 700s (Arts) for classic architecture or popular music, or the 900s (History) if you want to, well, make history. My personal vote is for the 800s (Literature) where there'll definitely be enough reading material to keep me off the streets for however long I stay. I won't be needing any Wifi, in-house movies or even much breakfast while I'm at the Library.

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