Inn at Irving Place

In a city overflowing with modern boutique hotels, New York City’s Inn at Irving Place stands out by reaching to the gilded past rather than an imagined future. Located in two meticulously restored townhouses just steps away from the old-school-upper-crust Gramercy Park, the inn boasts fireplaces and four poster beds that would please Henry James. All this lushness has made the Inn one of the most popular hotels in the entire city for romantic weekends – even among people who live there. Old fashioned though it is, rooms also sport updated amenities like wireless internet and television.

There’s also Lady Mendls, a restaurant and tea room on premises that keeps the turn-of-the century theme going. It even serves a five course tea that would have made Mrs. Vanderbilt, with all her anglophile ways, proud. Interestingly though, there’s a private room named after Evelyn Nesbitt. Since I wrote the long article about her and Stanford White over at crime library, I Ms. Nesbitt was a great and notorious figure of the gilded age but she was hardly respectable. No matter though, she and Edith Wharton have both gone to the grave, which is the great social equalizer.

Comments

[Annie]

Hi Melissa,

I just wanted to say this is a neat idea for a blog. (I love the wigwam "hotel" feature a few posts down.)

Are you planning to do some more posts on international hotels? I'm sure there are some exotic ones out there. :)

[Melissa]

Thanks Annie! And yes, I am planning to do more international hotels. I did one today, in fact. A castle!

Most of my recent travels have been domestic, though, so the posts do lean toward the places I've been recently.

[4Hotels.us]

Hi there - just stopping by to say I enjoyed your hotel reviews, particularly the US ones (as I'm in the US). Interested in guest blogging?

[Melissa]

Sure, why not?