The bedsheets were printed with scenes of Eloise and there were pink sleeping bags on hand in case anyone wanted to sleep on the floor. The bar in the room was stocked with a ton of candy and even a manicure set. Also waiting for them were personalized bathrobes embroidered with their names. (She’s stayed there with her granddaughter.) The screaming started when the doors opened and the girls took in the zebra-striped floors, the flashing neon Eloise sign above the bed, the Eloise videos and dress-up clothes and complimentary stack of brownies, cookies and pink lemonade. When we arrived, a butler met the girls and took them up to the suite, which was designed by celebrated fashion designer Betsey Johnson. My daughter, who loves Eloise, wanted to know before she got to New York if she’d be allowed to run around the lobby, order room service on her own, and eat lunch by herself in the restaurant, “like Eloise.” The original book, Eloise, was published in 1955 and there were four sequels. To book the adjoining “adult suite” brings the total to $2,300 a night.Įloise, the fictional six-year-old girl who lived at the Plaza, is the creation of writer Kay Thompson. The demand for the Plaza’s suite doesn’t seem to be affected by the price: $1,150 a night. We’d be bringing three little girls, 4, 7 and 8. We, on the other hand, had a coveted reservation (after booking almost two months in advance).

And yes, Krige’s five-year-old daughter, Madeleine, isn’t thrilled that her own father, who definitely has an “in,” can’t get her a night in the suite where the Plaza Hotel’s most famous, glamorous, precocious (and pretend) resident lives. Even Shane Krige, the general manager of the Plaza Hotel in New York, can’t book the Eloise Suite.

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