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The Maritime Hotel is a new hotel that features a unique
maritime décor concept. This hotel is a modern tower of white
ceramic tile with unique porthole windows. The Maritime Hotel enjoys
a very privileged location. This is the only full-service hotel in
the popular Chelsea section of Ma anhattan. From this hotel,guests
can easily access the popular attractions and boutiques of this vibrant
neighborhood. The Village is only a few blocks away. With their wide
5 1/2 feet porthole windows (which actually open), the guest rooms
are each designed to resemble a ships cabin. The rooms feature teak
wood paneling and handsome furnishings, as well as amenities like
flat-screen TV, DVD players and high-speed complimentary wireless
Internet access. The Maritime Hotel features an Italian restaurant,
La Bottega, which is currently only open for breakfast and the Japanese
Restaurant, Matsuri, open for dinner 6PM - 1AM Monday through Sunday.
The Maritime Hotel was designed in 1966 for the National Maritime
Museum; hence its name, and its nautical theme. Today it is one of
New York's hipster hangouts, owing as much to its location (just off
the Meatpacking District) as to the charms of the hotel itself.This
is not a traditional hotel, by any stretch — all rooms face
westward, looking over the Hudson and New Jersey through five-foot
porthole windows. The rooms are compact, but well-designed, with built-in
furniture, so that all the necessities (storage space, work desk,
flat-screen TV) easily fit into the tiny space, and wireless internet,
naturally, takes no space at all. The décor borders on kitsch,
but is actually quite charming, if one accepts the ship's cabin conceit,
in all its wood-paneled glory. |
