Location, location, location. For theater fans and other visitors to the City that Never Sleeps, the Algonquin Hotel is ideally located in the heart of Midtown Manhattan near the Theatre District and Times Square. Guests can walk to fashionable shopping on Fifth and Madison avenues and to the Empire State Building, Museum of Modern Art, Rockefeller Center and Radio City Music Hall. They can also drink up the history of the Algonquin Hotel: for 100 years, prominent writers and leading stage figures stayed, ate and played at this Manhatten hotel.

The Algonquin, which opened in 1902, underwent renovation in 2004. The lobby's charm and ambiance are echoed in antique desks, settees and chairs in deep jewel tones of plum, mahogany, caramel and olive - the perfect environment for reading, writing and conversation. USA Today praised The Algonquin Hotel as "one of 10 legendary hideaways of the rich and famous," while New York magazine called the Algonquin's Oak Room the city's best cabaret.

For dining, the Algonquin's Round Table Restaurant will delight guests with pan-seared swordfish, sautéed red snapper, grilled salmon and shrimp, white bean and pasta stew, roast lamb, and other delicacies. Diners can journey back to the 1920s and 1930s in the hotel's Oak Grove Cabaret where Porter, Gershwin, Kern, Berlin and Diana Krall mix with beef tenderloin, French chicken breasts, mesquite grilled North Atlantic salmon and veal chops.

Splashed with vibrant colors and adorned with modern fabrics, guests rooms boast such accommodations as flat-screen TVs, large desks, high-speed Internet access, and Algonquin Pillow Top beds with duvets and 350-thread count sheets. Other amenities include data port telephones, bathrobes, safes and Dorothy Prentice Aromatherapy bath amenities.

By staying at the Alqonguin Hotel in Manhattan, guests will agree with reviewers about this welcomed oasis of civility.