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Jimmy Buffett's New Kids Book is About a Pig-Friendly Carlyle Hotel

Where: 35 E. 76th Street [map], New York, NY, United States, 10021

Parrotheads-in-Training and their Parrothead Parents listen up: Your hero Jimmy Buffett has just released a new book, called Swine Not?, about a family who lives with a pet pig inside the Carlyle Hotel. And the story was actually inspired by a family who once lived in the hotel with their pet pig.

Bloomberg writes:

When the McBrides move to Manhattan, Rumpy takes surreptitious walks on the hotel roof, wears a dog suit to Central Park, outwits the villainous chef of the hotel restaurant and provides narration for half the book (the other half being told by the family's soccer-loving son, Barley). The feel-good plot nominally revolves around Rumpy's quest to find her brother in New York, though really it's just an excuse for Buffett to offer his laid-back commentary on life through the eyes of the pig and the boy (whose voices as narrators are exactly the same).

So through Rumpy the pig, Buffett is telling his own experiences with New York in this fish (pig) out of water tale which is aimed for tweens.

In real life, the Carlyle is pet-friendly. Dogs are welcome so long as they are under 25 pounds (would Tank make it?) and a $50 fee is required. here is a $50 per night fee. Canine guests (under 25 lbs.) The dogs do get pet beds, food bowls, treats and Fiji water.

But the Carlyle may want to tighten up their pet policy going forward. We have a feeling a lot of pigs will try and check-in here.