{"id":127517,"date":"2017-07-25T10:05:28","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T08:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magazine.theblondesalad.com\/?p=127517"},"modified":"2018-10-12T09:12:06","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T09:12:06","slug":"5-gorgeous-libraries-in-hotels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theblondesalad.com\/en\/stay\/5-gorgeous-libraries-in-hotels\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Gorgeous Libraries in Hotels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to being the time to recharge your batteries (ideally at the beach), <strong>summer vacations are also your chance to finally delve into a book<\/strong>. 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<br \/>\nHere are <strong>5 hotels with libraries that stole our heart<\/strong> \u2013 and if that wasn&#8217;t enough, some of them are open to the public! Is this the real life?<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 100%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-127517 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-post_listing_preview'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.theblondesalad.com\/en\/the-library-koh-samui-thailand-109213-1\/'><img width=\"775\" height=\"581\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblondesalad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/the-library-koh-samui-thailand-109213-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post_listing_preview size-post_listing_preview\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-127520\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-127520'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelibrarysamui.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Library<\/a>, Koh Samui, Thailand\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.theblondesalad.com\/en\/ambassade-hotel-library-bar-karel-appel\/'><img width=\"790\" height=\"527\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblondesalad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Ambassade-Hotel-Library-Bar-Karel-Appel-.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post_listing_preview size-post_listing_preview\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-127519\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-127519'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/ambassade-hotel.nl\/library-bar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ambassade Hotel<\/a>, Amsterdam\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.theblondesalad.com\/en\/gladstones-library-united-kingdom\/'><img width=\"790\" height=\"527\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblondesalad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Gladstone\u2019s-Library-United-Kingdom.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post_listing_preview size-post_listing_preview\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-129981\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-129981'>\n\t\t\t\tGladstone\u2019s Library, United Kingdom&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/118118485@N05\/31510777976\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Flickr (Michael D Beckwith)<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.theblondesalad.com\/en\/tokyo-3\/'><img width=\"790\" height=\"527\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblondesalad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/tokyo.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post_listing_preview size-post_listing_preview\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-127521\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-127521'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/bookandbedtokyo.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bed &amp; Book Hotel<\/a>, Tokyo\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.theblondesalad.com\/en\/vsm-library-1280x720\/'><img width=\"790\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblondesalad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/vsm-library-1280x720.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post_listing_preview size-post_listing_preview\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-127522\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-127522'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.viceroyhotelsandresorts.com\/en\/santamonica\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Viceroy<\/a>, Santa Monica, California\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to being the time to recharge your batteries (ideally at the beach), summer vacations are also your chance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[224],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblondesalad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblondesalad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblondesalad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblondesalad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblondesalad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblondesalad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201981,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblondesalad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127517\/revisions\/201981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblondesalad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblondesalad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblondesalad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}