Shoreham Hotel

If you haven’t always thought of Midtown West as the place you’d like to chill out and have some fun, you are going to change your opinion very soon. To begin with, it is home to the Shoreham Hotel, a mid price boutique hotel located just off Fifth Avenue on 55th Street. It is four blocks from Central Park, five blocks from Rockefeller Center, and within walking distance of Broadway Theaters, Carnegie Hall, and entertainment and shopping destinations. It also shares the same block with La Bonne Soupe, La Cote Basque, and La Caravelle – three of Manhattan’s most loved French restaurants.

As soon as the guests enter Shoreham’s lobby they are greeted with glasses of sparkling champagne.  The renovations in 2005 have replaced the classic Manhattan prewar Gotham style with a more contemporary ambience. The lobby has gray-marble floor, from which rise stainless-steel columns. The rest of the ambience is completed with candles, low seating, recessed floor, and ceiling lights. It sets the mood for what you are about to see further in the hotel.

Don’t make the mistake of comparing the Shoreham with some of the typical mid-priced hotels. It has style and it takes care of all your comforts. There are 177 guestrooms in the hotel spread over 11 floors and the rooms are pretty spacious and done up well.  They all come with all-white beds, pillow top mattresses, down comforters/pillows, and 300-thread-count Belgian linens. Furnishings for each room include dressing benches and small desks with draped chairs and original artwork.

The marble and slate bathrooms are functional and enclosed by frosted-glass walls. In the bathroom you find plush towels and bathrobes, small stainless-steel sinks, Aveda toiletries, and shower/tub combinations or stall showers without tubs. The penthouse suits are opulent, as they are meant to be with outdoor terraces and Jacuzzi tubs. Complimentary room services include 24-hour room service, cable/satellite television, CD and VCR players, multi lines telephones, in room safes, wireless internet access, and shoe shines.

The Shoreham Bar – a restaurant and lounge with great views of the streets of Manhattan is an excellent dining option. The décor comprises of sage green silk fabric sandwiched between sheets of beautiful aqua-colored translucent glass designed by Donna Glubo-Schwartz for Living Glass. The seating is lounge style and the color is a bright and sunny lime-green designed by Kazuhide Takahama for Knoll. It serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner and also offers bar service until late night.

The Shoreham restaurant has all that you’d like in a mid-range hotel and then, it surprises you by throwing in a few more perks that you may not expect from hotels in its league. Your stay here is bound to be enjoyable, there’s no doubt about that.

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