The welcoming limestone-and-granite lobby is decorated with a gleaming grandfather clock and an enormous spray of fresh-cut flowers. The hotel's acclaimed restaurant, Triomphe, offers innovative continental cuisine of sautéed sea bass, dill peached salmon, grilled shrimp and sea scallops, seared breast of chicken, seared cordiander crusted muscovy duck breast, and other delicious delicacies. Guests can also enjoy breakfasts of fresh juices, fruits, croissants, bagels, muffins and pastries at the neighboring Le Petite Ttiomphe. This Manhattan hotel's leisure facilities include a 24-hour fitness center, Finnish sauna and cozy, well-stocked library.

Guest rooms feature relaxing color schemes of greens and creams, complemented by elegant furnishings, bathrooms appointed with floor-to-ceiling marble and brass fittings, and beds decked out with Italian Frette linens and goose down pillows. Rooms also include CD players and dual- line phones with one direct private line that can transfer calls to cell phones.

Hotels.com customers looking for an oasis of extraordinary comfort and tranquility can look no further than The Iroquois, a retreat with the style of an elegant private mansion along a tree-lined sidewalk -- and close to everything that drew them to New York City.