THE RYOKAN COLLECTION

While the locale provides plenty of opportunities for active enjoyment, the first floor of the annex building offers pleasures of a more cerebral kind. Entering the light, airy lobby, visitors are greeted by long shelves of attractive browsing books in various languages, plus studded leather armchairs and cabin-chic curios that invite lazy perusal. Beyond that is a separate “sound room” with turntable, McIntosh amplifier, Harbeth speakers, and a genre-spanning LP collection. Across the hall is a self-serve café with a DeLonghi coffee machine and broad selection of teas. Put on Portrait in Jazz, sink into a creamy suede couch with a cappuccino at your elbow, and before you know it, you’ll have whiled away a sublimely pleasant afternoon.