The soaring white-ceramic tower that is the Maritime earns the title of the first luxury hotel in the heart of the Chelsea gallery scene. And with the Meatpacking District two blocks away, you're near some of the city's chicest boutiques and hippest nightclubs. Rooms here resemble modern ship's cabins, with burnished teak paneling, sea-blue drapes and bed accents, and large porthole windows that face the Hudson River skyline. Matsuri, the cavernous Japanese restaurant below the hotel, is an experience in itself.
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