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While I write this article to the pulp note Algonquin, clubby enclave with the most storied history of literature each hotel Manhattan, the domestic cat, Matilda, is a chaise longue on a bell of the car near the reception desk . I am sitting a few yards away with my laptop and my great pot of coffee, watch the cat, and observes the incoming and outgoing, hotel guests chat.

I am at a table near the window overlooking West 44th Street. It is dark here, but nice. Rainy Day outdoors, comfortable interior. Eighteen other small tables and chairs, couch and regulations are scattered around the dimly lit meeting beside the earth Blue Bar at the Oak Room, where the art of cabaret lives, lives well.

HL Mencken Algonquin called “the most comfortable hotel in America”. I do not know if it’s true, but if this is a good entry into America, tell me sign.

The hotel is famous for its quantity Algonquin Round Table, also known as the “vicious circle” of columnists, playwright, novelist and professional wags. These contain wags Dorothy Parker, Harpo Marx, George S. Kaufman, Robert Benchley and Alexander Woollcott. Your lionized endless “10 years lunch” spanned, for example in the years 1919 to 1929. This is where the idea of “The New Yorker magazine was born. Algonquin, where Orson Welles honeymooned at the beginning of its existence. William Faulkner wrote his Nobel speech of thanks in a space here. Composer Frederick Loewe’s Suite, Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner jumped songs for “Brigadoon” and later “My Fair Lady”.

Check-In / attitude: I was blowing in New York last weekend to see an old friend in a new party. My stay at the hotel Landmark 1902 began at 4:30 am on Friday. Check-in, a drop collaborators first plan was clear and pleasant and “Sir” and “Sir”, which is a mistake. I stayed on the Algonquin and staff were a little expense. Not this time.

ROOMS: There is a small hotel, 174 rooms and is currently the Algonquin closer to the end of a major renovation (you can color by wafting the smell of training). Small hotel corresponds to small rooms, at least those that I stayed in this time, if I booked a rate of $ 294 per website of the hotel.

But I loved my little room (901). The hotel is on the surprisingly quiet block in Midtown Manhattan, and while I had no perspective, I was calm. My room “Classic”, the website has been designated, had a double bed (a queen, proceeded to close form verrrrrry) with a very pillowy mattress and bedding combination. Big Screen flattie on the wall. CD / clock radio on the bed. Plate and iron in the closet. The hotel charges $ 12.95 a room in the wall of ADSL, Wi-Fi is free in both chambers and in this hall, I am Nertz.

No mini-bar, but be sure you the contents of bureau drawers, you can get drunk in literature last place copies of The New Yorker (one) and Time Out New York, The Atlantic Monthly. Book of hours of good reading. Plus, the evaluation of directory services ensures a fun time is more than what I can say, almost all directory services home I can remember. This one’s loaded with anecdotes about Round-Table-clients, including Benchley’s telegram back to the house upon arrival in Venice ( “ROADS flooded. Thank you”). Or, by the Clerk Marc Connelly : Someone came to Connelly in the lobby of the Algonquin hotel, an evening and has corrected his bald head and said she felt “like my wife is behind.” Connelly who stroked his head itself and replied: “There are sub!”

Bathroom: spacious compared to space, with a high wall separates reassuring bath tub / shower from the rest of the bathroom. The lights are quite elegant vanity for the glare of the hotel from the commitment distorting bulbs to energy conservation.

Kinderfreundliche: Well, not just Kid-friendly, certainly. It lies in the fact that cat. If your child has dreams of growth Mr. Banks in “Mary Poppins”, courtesy and serenity of the Edwardian request. Otherwise, well, you are in New York, New York, and the Algonquin is one of the five-minute walk of most Broadway theaters, and are easily accessible to most major lines of U-Bahn. With these standards, it is children.

Service in the Room: The room is fairly small, only discouraged. That is why I am firmly in the lobby, because it is a place where the sources of an overpriced but mellow pot of $ 9 tasting of the “Nordic” coffee. (What does this mean? She comes with excellent health insurance?) But if you need room service is available 7-11 hours for breakfast, lunch and-10: 30 hours Thursday and Sunday noon-11: 30 pm Friday - Saturday for lunch and dinner.

PERKS & PEEVES: flattie are the advantages on the wall, magazines in the office (when in reality they should be more) and the ghosts of the past wags wisecracking all available space. In addition, in the lobby are different newspapers cling to the study, including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. On the blue bar at the entrance hall, the last call for 1:15 pm Please check the Oak Room schedule: In a few weeks, I have the first sentence of jazz singer Tierney Sutton, which began in the J ‘ai Oak Room a few years.

Peeves? Well, I prefer to play the Algonquin home for a dog of the house of a domestic cat. But there are two types of people around the world: those who prefer dogs, and those who keep the bad preference regarding cats.

Bottom Line: In a AAA discounted $ 294 rate, my night, with tax, came to $ 336.86, not including coffee in the morning and take a drink in the evening. The hotel is handicap accessible.

And I do not know if I’ve mentioned above, but I really love the lobby.