New York: Hotel Guides

Staying at a hotel should be an exciting escape to a new home of your choosing, if just for a few nights. Whether you’re searching for something chic, romantic or family-friendly, New York’s best hotels rise to the occasion

Best for… Spa: Four Seasons Hotel New York

Four Seasons Hotel New York

Inside one of New York’s most famous hotels lies a spa fit for the gods. The 4,500ft space boasts ten treatment rooms, nail stations, a full hair salon, makeup artists and locker rooms equipped with saunas and whirlpools. As the first L.Raphael U.S. outpost, you can have traditional relaxation services like a four-hands massage and firming and lifting revitalizing facials as well as cutting edge anti-ageing treatments like anti-cellulite and tightening or anti-pigmentation treatment. For a big night on the town, splurge on deluxe manicures and pedicures, waxing services and full hair and makeup prep.

57 East 57th Street

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Best for… Romance: Equinox Hotel, Hudson Yards

Equinox Hotel Hudson Yards
equinox

If your dream romantic weekend involves shared gym sessions, antioxidant-rich cocktails and healthy but flavoursome food, you’ll be in seventh heaven at Equinox Hotel, Hudson Yards, a swish new lifestyle hotel that’s all about maximising physical and mental wellbeing. Design is sleek and sexy and the high-spec fitness centre and spa comes with indoor and outdoor pools, cryotherapy chambers and relaxation pods with a view. In the well-soundproofed bedrooms you’ll find in-room exercise equipment, massage essentials and his and hers workout gear, plus a next-level Room Bar containing everything from vitamin supplements and ginger shots to grooming products and a lovers kit. At the end of the day a bedside switch instantly puts the room into optimal sleep mode, switching off lights, setting the perfect temperature and drawing the blackout shades.

33 Hudson Yards

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Best for… Food: The NoMad

The Library Hotel

The plush NoMad Hotel is an elegant destination in its own right, but its high status is certainly helped by chef Daniel Humm’s in-house restaurants. The co-owner and chef of Michelin-starred Eleven Madison Park crafted a weighty American-European dining menu stacked with items like foie gras, blue prawns and suckling pig with an extensive wine and Champagne list, and made the classic-feeling NoMad Bar dashing but approachable, with steak frites, bacon-wrapped hot dog and popsicle to enjoy alongside a traditional Manhattan. This is a bar Hemingway would haunt.

1170 Broadway

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Best for… Family: The Peninsula New York

The Peninsula New York

Children and five-star hotels don’t always go hand in hand, but The Peninsula New York is a notable exception, positively welcoming younger guests. Rooms are large (many can be interconnected) and kids will love the child-sized bathrobes and the bedside console that controls lights, TV, temperature and music. You can swim in the indoor pool, enjoy Children’s Afternoon Tea in Gotham Lounge and walk to Central Park with its zoo and many playgrounds. Year-round family friendly activities include fun guided trips round town and a choice of kids’ cooking classes but come in the run-up to Christmas and you’re in for a real treat, with extra goodies such as candy cane scavenger hunts, storytelling sessions and gingerbread playhouses.

700 Fifth Avenue at 55th Street

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Best for… Business: The Dominick

The Dominick

The Dominick is proof positive that business-friendly hotels don’t have to be blandly corporate and boring. Far from it. This cool metropolitan base is top-to-toe chic, with a soaring, wow-factor lobby, world-class spa and on-trend signature restaurant. The residential-style bedrooms combine good looks (custom-made Casa Fendi furnishings and oversized Italian marble bathrooms) with full connectivity, high-tech room controls and round-the-clock service and in-room dining. The hotel’s meeting and event spaces, all equipped with state-of-the-art technology, run the gamut from an intimate boardroom to a vast ballroom and a guaranteed-to-impress rooftop venue with killer views over downtown Manhattan and the Hudson River through floor-to-ceiling windows.

246 Spring Street

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Best for… Design: The New York EDITION

The New York EDITION

Converted from the historic Metropolitan Life tower, the New York Edition combines the aesthetic appeal of a design hotel with the high service levels of a five-star. Bedrooms are havens of calm amid the bustle of Midtown, understated but luxurious with their neutral colour palette, wood-panelled headboards, and soft faux-fur throws draped across plush, super-comfy beds. Natural stone bathrooms come with rainforest showers and fragrant Le Labo toiletries, custom-blended with EDITION’S own signature scent. Make time to hang out in the lobby, with its amber-backlit bar, and dine in the Clocktower restaurant, where the walls are crammed with gold-framed vintage photographs and Jason Atherton’s modern British food has earned a Michelin star.

5 Madison Avenue

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Best for… Concious: Conrad New York Downtown

Conrad New York Downtown

At first glance, the elegant Conrad New York Downtown, with its large rooms, smart metropolitan vibe and sophisticated restaurant and bar, might not seem the obvious choice for anyone choosing a hotel based on sustainability principles. But as part of the Hilton family, the Conrad is signed up to Hilton’s corporate responsibility strategy, which pledges to halve the group’s environmental impact by 2030 and double its investment in social programmes. The building itself has a prestigious LEED Gold certification and green initiatives include a soap recycling programme, software that tracks energy, water and waste, and smart filtration devices in every bedroom, to do away with single-use plastic water bottles.

102 North End Avenue

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Best for… Views The Pierre

The Pierre

There’s nothing quite like looking out over the far-reaching lushness of Central Park, surrounded on all sides by towering skyscrapers gleaming in the sun. The Pierre sits at the south-eastern tip of the park, near Bergdorf Goodman, the glass Apple Cube and the Central Park Zoo. Book one of the Park rooms and you’ll have blanketed views of the park, even being able to spot the George Washington bridge more than 50 blocks away from some. Be sure to head to the hotel’s newly opened French-American restaurant Perrine, or try afternoon tea at the Two E Bar and Lounge.

2 East 61st Street

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