The catch at The Beekman, A Thompson Hotel

The Bar Room is the hotel's centrepiece and a public bar, busy after work, at the foot of an open well nine storeys high. Its late menu and bar service run to 11pm on Sunday and Monday, midnight from Tuesday to Thursday and 1am on Friday and Saturday. In the cellar, Laissez Faire, the cocktail lounge and club entered from 10 Theatre Alley, puts DJs on a four-point Danley sound system until 3am on Thursday and 4am on Friday and Saturday. Noise on the lower floors, from the bar and from the street, is a complaint guests keep raising, and rooms whose doors open straight onto the atrium galleries take more of the sound rising up the well than rooms down the side hallways.

The hotel adds a daily destination fee of $45.89 a room plus tax, which it describes as subject to change. It covers wifi, local and long-distance calls, morning coffee in the lobby, shoe shining, the house car, priority access to the restaurants, partner discounts such as cheaper One World Observatory tickets, and the 24-hour gym on two levels with Peloton bikes. That gym is the whole of the wellness offer: there is no spa and no pool, only massages and facials in your room, arranged by the concierge. On the $506 entry rate for a Tuesday in late January 2027, tax, the $3.50 nightly city charge and the fee take the night past $630. Valet parking is $95 a day, $110 for an SUV, with no in-and-out.

The hotel does not sell its rooms by outlook, and the two sides of the building behave differently. Rooms on the street get the daylight through big windows, but guests on that side have raised thin glazing, traffic and early building work. Rooms that face the inner court are far quieter and dim with it: a courtyard-facing Deluxe King has had barely any daylight, and a dark hotel is the gripe that recurs from 2018 to late 2025. The public rooms are lit low by design, all dark wood, velvet and lamplight under the skylight.

The Superior Queen is 285 sq ft (26 m²), the Superior King 300 sq ft (28 m²) and the Deluxe King 320 sq ft (30 m²), and the two terrace rooms are smaller still at 280 sq ft (26 m²). The steps between the first three buy a bigger bed or room for a third guest rather than floor area. The Premium King is where the room changes, at 375 sq ft (35 m²) under high ceilings and crown mouldings, with velvet and leather, an armoire and a marble desk. For a Tuesday in late January 2027 the four ran $506, $570, $612 and $659 a night before tax and the fee, so space to unpack costs $153 a night over the entry rate.

Facade repairs have kept a sidewalk shed over the pavement at the building, under city permits renewed without a break since March 2022. The latest shed permit runs to 21 December 2026, a suspended scaffold is permitted to February 2027 and overhead protection to March 2027, so a winter stay should expect to find it there. City-mandated facade work also closed the terraces of the two terrace room categories in May 2024, for what the hotel then called about a year. The closure notice is still posted, there is no terrace access, and neither category was on sale for late January 2027.