The London NYC (previously the RIHGA Royal Hotel) is a luxury Midtown hotel designed to engage both the discriminating business and leisure travelers in a personal luxury experience. Fifth Avenue shopping, Broadway theatres, Carnegie Hall, and Central Park are mere steps away. As Manhattan’s tallest and perhaps ‘best-situated’ city hotel, The London NYC affords rare and stirring vista views of Central Park and the city skyline. The hotel boasts a feeling of livable glamour, sophisticated style and intuitive service, making for a great stay in New York.

Features and Amenities

The London NYC has been crafted, from lobby to penthouse, with convenience and style in mind. Whether you’re traveling for business of pleasure, you’ll find that this Midtown luxury hotel, which boasts 561 suites, world-class dining and inspired interiors, has what you need. Combining a genuine cosmopolitan style with uncanny utility and precise, discreet service, The London NYC offers the ultimate in midtown NYC hotel accommodations — fashionable, functional, and forever. You will be greeted at every turn with trademark international style. Celebrated interior designer David Collins has imbued suites and flats, and the entire London NYC environment, with a sophisticated aesthetic. Acclaimed chef Gordon Ramsay makes his long-awaited American debut at The London NYC with a restaurant, lounge and exclusive 24-hour room-service dining. The London NYC Club has re-envisioned the hotel health club experience with an emphasis on fitness and well-being delivered in a context of luxury and convenience. Waterworks, the seminal bath design company debuts its first-ever complete hotel bath environment with custom fixtures, bath linens, robes, and apothecary products.

Each spacious David Collins-designed London Suite has a bed chamber and a parlor space, making the ideal modern salon for Manhattan work and play. Every well-considered element, from limed oak parquet flooring to gloss ceiling, is inspired by texture and color. Suites feature custom furniture, including an embossed-leather desk with plenty of room to work, a reinterpreted rocker, a custom-woven curvaceous banquette, and a wild swiveling table especially designed for Gordon Ramsay’s in-room dining service. The complete bath environment features double rain showerheads, hand-cut mosaic tiles, lush linens and robes, and personal apothecary products. All bedding is replete with plush Egyptian cotton bedding by Fili D’Oro of Italy. Each ‘tech-savvy’ Suite features complimentary high-speed Internet access, including wireless connection. Suites also include iHome iPod docking stations and LG flat-screen LCD televisions. All London Suites come with an automated personal bar brimming with essentials and indulgences.

With cutting-edge interiors designed by architects and David Collins Studio and Frank Williams and Partners, the London NYC Club will feature a host of appointments and services designed to motivate, challenge, and refresh you. The London NYC Club combines exercise and wellness with distinctive design rigor and amenities. As a uniquely inspired New York City fitness center, The London NYC Fitness Club features the most advanced, high-performance cardiovascular and strength training equipment by Life Fitness, individual TVs provided in all cardiovascular equipment, convenient multiple elevator access to the 4th- floor club, a Kinesis™ Wall – which allows infinite variety of exercises and movements which give the opportunity to create training programs for specific needs, personal trainers available through the hotel’s Quintessentially concierge service, 24-hour access to the club and bottle water available.

Dining

Gordon Ramsay, who been awarded 16 stars from the prestigious Michelin Guide, offers a variety of culinary venues at The London NYC. His luxurious fine dining experience, Gordon Ramsay at the London, offers French inspired elegant evenings and has been awarded two Michelin stars. The more casual yet sophisticated MAZE by Gordon Ramsay is based upon his innovative restaurant of the same name and serves lunch and dinner daily and a sumptuous brunch each week-end. The London Bar is abuzz throughout the day for breakfast, traditional afternoon tea, smart cocktails and small bites. In the center of this multi-million dollar kitchen resides the exclusive Chef’s Table which seats up to eight guests for a nine course tasting menu. Guests can enjoy Gordon Ramsay’s exemplary cuisine in the intimacy of their own suite with a special in-suite dining menu. Reinvent the fine art of gathering with meetings and private events artfully orchestrated through inspired hors d’ouevres and graciously appointed multi-course menus.

Location

The London NYC is located on West 54th Street right below the entrance to Central Park. Perfectly centered in Midtown Manhattan, the hotel is a great jumping off point for everything from dining to shopping to seeing a Broadway show. Many of the city’s greatest museums are within walking distance from The London NYC, including the MOMA, the Frick Collection, the Museum of Art and Design and more. You’ll also find that Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall aren’t far away, nor is the famous Ed Sullivan Theater. New York landmarks near the hotel include Bryant Park, which is about ten blocks south, and Columbus Circle, which is about ten blocks north. You’re also not far from Grand Central Station, Radio City Music Hall (home of the Rockettes!) nor the wonders of Central Park, which include the carousel, the zoo, the pond and Wollman Rink. If shopping is more your speed, try saying this one ten times fast: Barneys, Bulgari, Burberry and Bottega. Or Cartier, Chanel, Chopard and Chloe. Perhaps Valentino is your favorite? All of the city’s best luxury stores are located along upper Fifth Avenue, and The London NYC puts you right there. Subways abound in Midtown, so the area is a great jumping off point to get just about anywhere, whether you’re heading uptown, downtown, or even to Brooklyn.