New York: Interlude: Algonquin Hotel

It's nice to have a New York 'base' that you return to on subsequent visits and for us it's the Algonquin Hotel on w44th street between 5th and 6th Avenues and a stones throw from Times Square. Nice and central, close to banks, delis and theatres, subway routes to everywhere and, of course, Matilda the Cat onsite (if she can be bothered waiting for strokes).

As you'd expect with an old hotel in New York, the rooms aren't very big but who wants to spend a lot of time in a hotel room in New York? The lobby/lounge is great, with a variety of seating making it more of a big living room than a corporate lobby and, of course, the restaurant includes the 'round table' of Dorothy Parker et al in their evenings of witty banter.

The wallpaper upstairs in the corridors ouside the bedrooms is made of cartoons of the hotel that have appeared in various magazines in the last century, which is a bit novel. None of the cartoons are particularly funny but that's not the point. Here are some pics: