Hotel Chelsea
222 West Twenty-Third Street, New York, NY 10011, United StatesWe earn commission through affiliate links if you make a purchase through them which help us maintain and improve the site.
About Hotel Chelsea
El Quijote, the Hotel Chelsea’s century-old Spanish restaurant, gives this West 23rd Street address a living connection to its past, with a menu drawing on the Basque Country. Dining remains central to the hotel’s character: Café Chelsea serves French-American bistro fare, while Teruko brings a sushi bar and seasonal Japanese cooking to the subterranean level. Upstairs, accommodations range from compact, 200-square-foot queen rooms to suites with full kitchens and dining areas. Marble bathrooms recur throughout, with high ceilings, soaking tubs, and Manhattan views in selected categories. The Lobby Bar welcomes neighbors as well as overnight guests, making the Chelsea a place to spend an evening even without checking in.
Why Celebrities Love Hotel Chelsea
For an artist, a hotel so closely associated with creative life offers a kind of continuity that money alone cannot reproduce. Its appeal is as much imaginative as practical: somewhere to feel part of a larger New York story. The kitchen-equipped suites also make it possible to establish small domestic routines during a longer engagement.
Reported celebrity guests
4 guestsBob Dylan
Guernsey’s will be auctioning off ... hotel room doors from the Chelsea Hotel, where artists and musicians such as ... Bob Dylan frequently stayed in its heyday
Humphrey Bogart
Chelsea Hotel home too. ... doors, many of which have been heavily researched and traced back to the tenants who lived behind them. ... doors tied to icons such as Humphrey Bogart
Madonna
historic Chelsea Hotel ... Madonna lived and shot her Sex book there
Marilyn Monroe
the Chelsea was made into a hotel ... The pyramid ... is where Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller spent part of their honeymoon.