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Even If You're a Hotel Guest, The Standard's Boom Boom Room Kicks You Out at 9

Where: 848 Washington Street [map], New York , ny, United States, 10014
November 11, 2009 at 9:33 AM | by | Comments (0)

Who wants to hear some ridiculous Manhattan hotel news? The Standard's top-floor lounge/club Boom Boom Room (or whatever they're calling it), only allows hotel guests up between the hours of 4-9pm. What happens at 9pm, you ask? Well, a very PYT HotelChatter operative reported back from a boozy evening in the Boom Boom Room that everyone is kicked out at the stroke of nine. This way, the place can be reopened for private and celeb-filled parties at 10pm.

This means no late night socializing and snacking and no nightcaps in the Boom Boom's plush environs, even though you are a paying guest of the hotel. Still, our operative managed to capture a few undercover pictures before the curfew came down, and we see a sampling of the "Sweets" menu above, with a fireplace after the jump.

Jessie, our PYT operative, reported that her drink— a "barefoot lady"—was quite tasty, but the room was cleared and everyone shooed back downstairs just when the alcohol began to kick in. Of the menu, she said: "everything is quite sexual; I mean, the first item is 'Mont Blanc Nipples!'" And she's right, looking down the list... "banana pops with salty nuts," "cherry poppers," "coin purses," "stuffed apricots," and "frothy rum cream?" Wow, they even exhausted euphemisms. And can we just ask about the "23K Gold Chocolate Bars"— isn't 24K standard? What happened to the other 1K? If we're paying $40 for 8 of them, we better get all 24K.

After this report, we aren't exactly clamoring to get up there anymore, especially if we'll be kicked out just when the party gets started and our beverages and bites bill teeters in the triple digits. The sexual undertones also remind us of when you're at a Sandals resort or wannabe hot club and they use all the risque drink names just to make their guests giggle and feel all naughty, asking for "Sex on the Beach" and "Slippery Nipples." No thank you.

[Photos: Jessie Liu]

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