20 five-star hotels, rankedBest hotels in New York
Where to stay in New York: the 20 grand hotels within reach of the museums, in the order their guests rate them, with what each one has and where it stands.
- 20
- Five-star hotels on the list
- 1904
- The oldest: The St. Regis New York
- 6
- Have a swimming pool
- 4.8
- The highest rating: The Wall Street Hotel
The ranking for New York
14.8
Wall Street, not the hotel. Picture: Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0
The Wall Street Hotel
Five-star hotel, Wall Street
A hotel of 2022 in a Beaux-Arts building at the river end of Wall Street, on the site of the coffee house where New York's first stockbrokers traded.
- Restaurant
- Lounge and bar
- Fitness centre
- Meeting rooms
24.7
Four Seasons Hotel New York Downtown
Five-star hotel, Tribeca, by the World Trade Center
The lower floors of a limestone tower by Robert A. M. Stern, a block from the World Trade Center, with a lap pool and the 9/11 Memorial five minutes away.
- Indoor lap pool
- Spa
- Restaurant
- Bar
34.7
Greenwich Street, by the hotel. Picture: Gryffindor, CC BY-SA 3.0
The Greenwich Hotel
Five-star hotel, Tribeca
A brick hotel in Tribeca, part-owned by Robert De Niro, where no two rooms are alike and the pool lies under the beams of a Japanese farmhouse.
- Swimming pool
- Shibui Spa
- Locanda Verde restaurant
- Courtyard
44.6
Mandarin Oriental, New York
Five-star hotel, Columbus Circle
A hotel that begins on the thirty-fifth floor of a tower at Columbus Circle, with Central Park spread out below every window on its east side.
- Indoor lap pool
- Spa
- Restaurant and bar on the 35th floor
- Fitness centre
54.6
The Langham, New York, Fifth Avenue
Five-star hotel, Fifth Avenue at 36th Street
A hotel of large rooms in a limestone tower on Fifth Avenue, two blocks from the Empire State Building.
- Ai Fiori restaurant
- Bar
- Spa
- Fitness centre
64.6
Park Hyatt New York
Five-star hotel, West 57th Street, opposite Carnegie Hall
The hotel in the base of One57, the blue glass tower on 57th Street, across from Carnegie Hall and two blocks from Central Park.
- Indoor pool
- Spa
- Restaurant
- Bar
74.6
Baccarat Hotel New York
Five-star hotel, West 53rd Street, opposite MoMA
The hotel of the French crystal maker, across the street from the Museum of Modern Art: chandeliers in every room and a bar under a vaulted ceiling.
- Indoor pool
- Spa
- Grand Salon
- The Bar
84.6
Four Seasons Hotel New York
Five-star hotel, 57th Street, between Madison and Park
I. M. Pei's limestone tower of 1993 on 57th Street, fifty-two floors high, reopened in November 2024 after four years closed.
- Spa
- Fitness centre
- Restaurant
- Bar
94.6
Crosby Street, not the hotel. Picture: Beyond My Ken, CC BY-SA 4.0
Crosby Street Hotel
Five-star hotel, SoHo
A hotel of eighty-six rooms on a cobbled street in SoHo, with a garden, a cinema and interiors by Kit Kemp.
- The Crosby Bar
- Sculpture garden
- Cinema
- Fitness centre
104.6
The Ritz-Carlton New York, Central Park
Five-star hotel, Central Park South
The former Hotel St. Moritz of 1930, on the southern edge of Central Park, rebuilt from the inside and reopened as a Ritz-Carlton in 2002.
- Spa
- Club lounge
- Restaurant and bar
- Fitness centre
114.6
The Whitby Hotel
Five-star hotel, West 56th Street, off Fifth Avenue
A small hotel of colour and pattern by the English designer Kit Kemp, three blocks from MoMA and two from Central Park.
- The Whitby Bar
- The Orangery
- Cinema
- Fitness centre
124.6
The Sherry-Netherland
Five-star hotel, Fifth Avenue at 59th Street
A tower of 1927 with a Gothic spire at the corner of Central Park, most of it private apartments, with fifty hotel rooms among them.
- Harry Cipriani restaurant
- Lift attendants
- Fitness centre
- Hair salon
134.5
The Plaza
Five-star hotel, Fifth Avenue at Central Park South
The château at the corner of Central Park, open since 1907: the Palm Court, the home of Eloise, and the best-known hotel front in America.
- The Palm Court
- Champagne Bar
- Spa
- Fitness centre
144.5
The Pierre
Five-star hotel, Fifth Avenue at 61st Street
A slim tower of 1930 facing Central Park, with a copper roof modelled on the chapel of Versailles and lifts still worked by attendants in white gloves.
- Perrine restaurant
- Two E bar and lounge
- The Rotunda
- Fitness centre
154.5
The St. Regis New York
Five-star hotel, Fifth Avenue at 55th Street
John Jacob Astor's Beaux-Arts hotel of 1904 on Fifth Avenue, two blocks from MoMA, with a butler on every floor and the bar where the Bloody Mary took its American form.
- King Cole Bar
- Astor Court restaurant
- Butler service
- Fitness centre
164.5
The Peninsula New York
Five-star hotel, Fifth Avenue at 55th Street
The Gotham Hotel of 1905, a neoclassical block on Fifth Avenue across the street from the St. Regis, with a swimming pool under glass on the roof.
- Rooftop swimming pool
- Spa
- Roof terrace bar
- Clement restaurant
174.5
The Mark
Five-star hotel, Madison Avenue at 77th Street
A hotel of 1927 a block from Central Park and five from the Met, redone in black and white stripes by the French designer Jacques Grange.
- The Mark Restaurant
- The Mark Bar
- Hair salon
- Fitness centre
184.4
Lotte New York Palace
Five-star hotel, Madison Avenue at 50th Street
A tower of rooms rising behind the Villard Houses, a group of Renaissance palaces of the 1880s on Madison Avenue, opposite the back of St Patrick's Cathedral.
- Courtyard
- Bars in the Villard Houses
- Spa
- Fitness centre
194.4
Waldorf Astoria New York
Five-star hotel, Park Avenue
The Art Deco hotel that fills a block of Park Avenue, home to presidents and to Cole Porter, open again since July 2025 after eight years of restoration.
- Peacock Alley
- Lex Yard restaurant
- Yoshoku restaurant
- Spa
204.4
The Surrey
Five-star hotel, Madison Avenue at 76th Street
A residential hotel of 1926 one block from Central Park and the galleries of Madison Avenue, reopened in October 2024 after a complete restoration.
- Casa Tua restaurant
- Bar
- Spa
- Fitness centre
Closest to the museums and sights
For each museum and sight this site has a guide to in New York, the 3 hotels nearest to it. Distances are in a straight line.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- The Mark450 m
- The Surrey550 m
- The Pierre1.7 km
- The Museum of Modern Art
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- The Mark950 m
- The Surrey1.1 km
- The Pierre2.3 km
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Statue of Liberty
- Empire State Building
- Brooklyn Bridge
- Central Park
- The Surrey550 m
- The Mark650 m
- The Pierre1.0 km
- The High Line
By area
Financial District
- The Wall Street Hotel, Wall Street
Midtown Manhattan
- Mandarin Oriental, New York, Columbus Circle
- The Langham, New York, Fifth Avenue, Fifth Avenue at 36th Street
- Park Hyatt New York, West 57th Street, opposite Carnegie Hall
- Baccarat Hotel New York, West 53rd Street, opposite MoMA
- Four Seasons Hotel New York, 57th Street, between Madison and Park
- The Ritz-Carlton New York, Central Park, Central Park South
- The Whitby Hotel, West 56th Street, off Fifth Avenue
- The Plaza, Fifth Avenue at Central Park South
- The St. Regis New York, Fifth Avenue at 55th Street
- The Peninsula New York, Fifth Avenue at 55th Street
- Lotte New York Palace, Madison Avenue at 50th Street
- Waldorf Astoria New York, Park Avenue
SoHo
- Crosby Street Hotel, SoHo
Tribeca
- Four Seasons Hotel New York Downtown, Tribeca, by the World Trade Center
- The Greenwich Hotel, Tribeca
Upper East Side
- The Sherry-Netherland, Fifth Avenue at 59th Street
- The Pierre, Fifth Avenue at 61st Street
- The Mark, Madison Avenue at 77th Street
- The Surrey, Madison Avenue at 76th Street
Hotels in New York: common questions
- Which is the best hotel in New York?
- By what guests say on Google, The Wall Street Hotel: 4.8 out of 5 from 819 ratings. Four Seasons Hotel New York Downtown and The Greenwich Hotel come next. The ranking on this page follows that rating and nothing else.
- Which five-star hotels in New York have a swimming pool?
- 6 of the 20: Four Seasons Hotel New York Downtown, The Greenwich Hotel, Mandarin Oriental, New York, Park Hyatt New York, Baccarat Hotel New York and The Peninsula New York.
- Which five-star hotels are closest to the Met?
- The Mark, 450 m away; The Surrey, 550 m away; The Pierre, 1.7 km away. Distances are in a straight line.
- Which is the oldest grand hotel in New York?
- Of the hotels on this list, The St. Regis New York, which opened in 1904.
- How is the ranking made?
- The hotels are chosen by this site: five-star hotels with a history, close to the museums. The United States has no official star rating for hotels: five-star here is the class each hotel is given on Google Maps. Their order is not chosen. It follows each hotel's overall rating on Google, and where two are level, the one more guests have rated comes first. No hotel pays to be listed or to be higher.
Where to eat in New York
- McSorley's Old Ale House4.7Ale house, East Village
- Keens Steakhouse4.6Steakhouse, Herald Square
- John's of Bleecker Street4.6Pizzeria, Greenwich Village
- Le Bernardin4.6Grand restaurant, Midtown, near Rockefeller Center
How the ranking is made
Which hotels are on the list is this site's choice: five-star hotels with a history, close to the museums. Their order is not. It follows each hotel's overall rating on Google, highest first, and where two are level, the one more guests have rated comes first. No hotel has paid to be here or to be higher.
The United States has no official star rating for hotels: five-star here is the class each hotel is given on Google Maps.
The ratings are read from each hotel's entry on Google Maps and change over time, so the order can change too. No room rates are given, because they change by the night. The button on each hotel's page leads to the hotel's own site.