Nine addresses the industry actually checks into, from SoHo screening rooms to a Tribeca spa built by Robert De Niro.
New York Fashion Week lands on 10 to 15 September this year, with Diane von Furstenberg opening the week and Thom Browne closing it, and if you’re going, this isn’t a trip you half do. Think of it less as “attending some shows” and more as a full luxury city break built around them, front row seats by day, the best restaurant tables by night, and a hotel that can actually keep pace with all of it. This isn’t a week for wandering back to a beige box after a 7am call time.
Here’s the problem: New York has roughly four hundred hotels that will call themselves “fashion week approved,” and about nine of them are actually worth building a whole trip around. The rest are just charging fashion week prices for a very ordinary king room.
We’ve stayed in most of these, been turned away from a couple in our early, less-connected days, and asked around enough industry insiders to know which addresses actually earn their reputation versus which ones just have good PR. Below, the nine hotels that turn a fashion week trip into a proper luxury escape, the kind you build the rest of the itinerary around rather than the other way round.
New York Fashion Week hotels at a glance:
Best for uptown glamour: The Mark
Best for total privacy: Aman New York
Best for old money elegance: The Carlyle
Best for the industry crowd: The Mercer
Best for design lovers: The Whitby Hotel
Best for a wellness reset: The Greenwich Hotel
Best for those five star views: The Ritz-Carlton New York, Central Park
The Mark, Upper East Side
Best for: uptown glamour with genuine fashion week pedigree
Price per night: from around £565 ($766), climbing past £1,300 on the nights that matter
Address: 25 East 77th Street
Come on, it’s The Mark. One block from Central Park, this is the hotel that’s hosted the Met Gala after party for over a decade, so the fashion crowd doesn’t so much stay here as colonise it every September. The rooms are done out in ebony and sycamore, the marble bathrooms are genuinely enormous, and Jean-Georges runs the restaurant downstairs, so room service arriving at 1am is a genuinely good meal rather than a sad club sandwich. Don’t miss Frédéric Fekkai’s salon on site either, because turning up to a show with flat hair is not the vibe. Service is warm but very “we know exactly who you are” (which might be our ideal combination, to be honest).
Aman New York, Fifth Avenue
Best for: total, complete privacy
Price per night: from around £1,250 ($1,700), with premier suites well into four figures and corner suites into five
Address: 730 Fifth Avenue
If The Mark is about being seen, Aman is the opposite. Tucked inside the old Crown Building above a Bulgari boutique, this is the hotel fashion’s quietest power players check into when they genuinely do not want to be found. The lobby is dim, almost hushed, and the wraparound 14th floor terrace with its two restaurants feels a world away from the traffic below, even though you’re two minutes from the shops on Fifth. There’s a jazz club, a genuinely excellent spa, and a level of anonymity that’s rare anywhere in this city, let alone during fashion week. We won’t pretend it’s cheap. It isn’t. But if this trip is meant to feel like a proper escape and not just a work trip in disguise, nowhere else comes close.
The Beekman, A Thompson Hotel, Financial District
Best for: architecture that steals the show
Price per night: from around £590 ($800), often climbing past £1,000 for suites
Address: 5 Beekman Street
Built in 1881 as one of Manhattan’s first skyscrapers, The Beekman’s real trick is the nine-story Victorian atrium with its pyramidal glass skylight, the kind of space that makes you stop mid-sentence the first time you walk in. Martin Brudnizki did the interiors, Tom Colicchio runs Temple Court downstairs, and Keith McNally’s Augustine handles the French classics next door. It sits right on the edge of Tribeca, a genuinely short hop from Spring Studios, which matters more this season than most. Don’t miss a nightcap looking up through all nine floors of that atrium. Stunning, no really.
Park Hyatt New York, Midtown
Best for: quiet, serious luxury without the noise
Price per night: from around £705 ($960), often over £1,000 for park view rooms
Address: 153 West 57th Street
Tucked inside the base of One57 opposite Carnegie Hall, the Park Hyatt does understated in a way most of Midtown doesn’t bother with. Le Labo toiletries in every bathroom, a genuinely excellent spa with an indoor saltwater pool, and rooms that lean residential rather than showy. We still think about the heated stone bathroom floors. It’s two minutes from Central Park and a short walk to most of the Fifth Avenue shopping, but it never feels like it’s trying to prove anything, which might be our ideal combination, to be honest.
The Fifth Avenue Hotel, NoMad
Best for: the address everyone’s talking about right now
Price per night: from around £590 ($800), climbing well past £1,500 for the suites
Address: 1 West 28th Street
Housed in a genuine Gilded Age mansion and reopened a couple of years ago to the kind of fanfare most hotels never get, The Fifth Avenue Hotel has already picked up a One to Watch nod from the World’s 50 Best Hotels and been voted New York’s best by Travel + Leisure readers two years running. Andrew Carmellini runs the kitchen at Café Carmellini downstairs, the art collection is genuinely worth lingering over, and the whole place leans into a bohemian, slightly theatrical grandeur rather than minimalist luxury. Trust us when we say this is the one your fashion friends will ask about first.
Baccarat Hotel, Midtown
Best for: crystal glamour and after party proximity
Price per night: from around £680 ($930), with weekend rates closer to £850 ($1,150) (approx, and worth confirming closer to your dates)
Address: 28 West 53rd Street
Named after the crystal house, and yes, it shows. Chandeliers everywhere, an indoor pool that feels like something out of a fever dream, and a location directly across from MoMA that puts you a short walk from most of the Fifth Avenue shopping the fashion crowd will be doing between shows. We still think about the marble in the bathrooms. Genuinely one of the most photogenic hotels in the city, which, let’s be honest, matters more than usual this particular week.
The Carlyle, Upper East Side
Best for: old money elegance with a side of jazz
Price per night: from around £540 ($735), rising past £900 for a Classic King
Address: 35 East 76th Street
The Carlyle has been doing “quiet uptown wealth” since the jazz age and it has never once tried to be trendy, which is exactly why the fashion crowd loves it. Kiehl’s amenities, Rosewood service, and Bemelmans Bar downstairs, still the only bar in New York with original Ludwig Bemelmans murals on the walls and a cover charge that’s entirely worth it. It may have been renovated more than once since 1930, but the hotel has a serious old time vibe that no amount of new money can replicate. Don’t miss a nightcap at Bemelmans even if you’re not staying here. Actually, especially if you’re not staying here.
Crosby Street Hotel, SoHo
Best for: downtown insiders who know the difference
Price per night: from around £870 ($1,186), often closer to £1,300 on peak nights
Address: 79 Crosby Street
Firmdale’s cobbled SoHo townhouse has quietly become one of the most name checked hotels of fashion week, and once you’ve seen the 99 seat private screening room and the courtyard terrace, you’ll understand why. It’s discreet in a way that feels distinctly British rather than distinctly New York, with rooms that lean warm and layered rather than stark and minimal. We still dream of the afternoon tea in the drawing room. Trust us when we say the location, a genuine two minute walk from most of SoHo’s better shopping, does half the work for you.
The Mercer, SoHo
Best for: the industry’s longtime favourite address
Price per night: from around £635 ($864), rising with demand closer to the week itself
Address: 147 Mercer Street
Nearly three decades in and The Mercer is still the SoHo address fashion insiders quietly recommend to each other rather than shout about publicly. Christian Liaigre’s loft style interiors (all exposed brick, high ceilings and warm wood) feel like staying in a very well appointed friend’s apartment rather than a hotel, and Mercer Kitchen downstairs remains a genuine draw in its own right. What’s not to love about a hotel that’s been discreetly hosting the industry since 1997 and hasn’t needed to change a thing?
The Greenwich Hotel, Tribeca
Best for: a proper wellness reset between shows
Price per night: from around £840 ($1,145), climbing past £1,000 at weekends
Address: 377 Greenwich Street
Owned by Robert De Niro, and it shows in the best way. Carrara marble, Moroccan tile, and Picasso-ish paintings by his late father lining the lobby walls. But the real draw is Shibui Spa, built around a reconstructed three hundred year old Japanese farmhouse with a heated pool lit by lanterns. After back to back shows and zero sleep, this is where you go to remember you have a body. Tribeca puts you close to Spring Studios too, which is no small thing this season. Genuinely one of the best kept secrets in downtown luxury (natch).
The Ritz-Carlton New York, Central Park, Fifth Avenue
Best for: the skyline view you’ll actually use for content
Price per night: from around £1,100 ($1,500) during fashion week itself
Address: 50 Central Park South
If you want the postcard New York view (Central Park sprawling out beneath floor to ceiling windows), this is your hotel. It’s the picture of timeless, slightly formal luxury, with a Fifth Avenue adjacent address that puts you within easy reach of most of the Midtown shopping and several show venues. Rates jump hard during fashion week itself, no surprise there, but the fashion focused turndown amenities and genuinely five star service make the case for why people keep paying it. Stunning, no really.
The Whitby Hotel, Midtown
Best for: design lovers who want their room to be a talking point
Price per night: from around £610 ($825), often over £1,000 during peak fashion week nights (approx)
Address: 18 West 56th Street
Kit Kemp’s New York outpost is the hotel equivalent of an outfit you can’t stop looking at. Bold prints, original artwork, oversized windows, and a private screening room, because of course. A few blocks from MoMA, this is the choice for anyone who wants their hotel room to have as much personality as the shows they’re attending. Afternoon tea in the bar is a genuine highlight, not just a box ticking exercise. It’s a tough job, but someone has to test the bone china.
Fashion week rates move fast and can jump significantly in the final weeks before the shows (all prices above are current averages, so treat them as a guide rather than gospel and confirm before you book). Up next: our full guide to the best restaurants for landing a table during fashion week without knowing anyone.
