In addition to being the time to recharge your batteries (ideally at the beach), summer vacations are also your chance to finally delve into a book. Of course, things change and evolve (luckily for us). So if you were too busy with the planning and packing, and forgot to pop into the bookstore to pick a book for your travels, rejoice! We have the solution to your problem.
In the last few years, hotels have been trying to offer more and more services, including environmentally-friendly facilities, 5 star restaurants, and now catering to bookworms with a (sometimes beautiful!) library within the hotel itself.
Here are 5 hotels with libraries that stole our heart – and if that wasn’t enough, some of them are open to the public! Is this the real life?
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- The Library, Koh Samui, Thailand
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- Ambassade Hotel, Amsterdam
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- Gladstone’s Library, United Kingdom Flickr (Michael D Beckwith)
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- Bed & Book Hotel, Tokyo
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- Viceroy, Santa Monica, California