Need to know
Rooms
47, including 19 suites.
Check–Out
Noon, but flexible, subject to availability. Earliest check-in, 3pm.
More details
Rates don’t include breakfast, but you can use the hotel’s courtesy car for free drop-offs within a three-mile radius, and the New York Times or Wall Street Journal delivered each morning. Staff reach out two weeks before arrival to ask your preferences.
Also
The hotel is fully accessible, and five guest rooms have been adapted to be ADA-compliant.
At the hotel
Members’ club with indoor-outdoor lounges; spa with steam room and sauna; yoga studio; fitness center; concierge; small boutique; charged laundry and dry-cleaning service; free WiFi. In rooms: 55-inch HD TV; minibar; Bluetooth speaker; smart lighting system by Interel; electronic blinds; and custom La Bottega bath products.
Our favourite rooms
Rooms are timelessly elegant in art deco style, with polished mahogany furnishings by Tedeschi, brass accents, Rivolta Carmignani linens, and warm hues. Some have walls lined with Loro Piana cashmere, dining and entertaining spaces, and large walk-in closets. But, the most covetable are those with private terraces or uninterrupted views of the Statue of Liberty; or – in the case of the Premier River View, Verrazzano and Roebling Presidential suites – both. Stay in the latter two and you’ll get more guest entries into the club too.
Spa
The spa’s breadth of treatments ranges from chakra-balancing massages and reflexology, to acupuncture and cupping, to vitamin injections, IV infusions, LED therapies, and cryotherapy sessions (some of which can take place in your room). Couples can indulge together, there are twin steam rooms and saunas in the locker rooms, and beautifying therapies which come in handy when keeping up with Cipriani’s glamorous club clientele. Even the gym has a sense of occasion, with its original cast-iron architectural detailing. It’s kitted out with cardio, strength-training and regeneration equipment, or you can call on a personal trainer for a bespoke work-out and nutrition plan. And there’s a separate studio for yoga and meditation sessions.
Packing tips
Bring your top-tier wardrobe additions, but holster your phone in the club, where pictures and posting on social media are verboten. And, bring your laptop if you need to work while away, but close it for cocktails at 6pm.
Also
The clued-in concierge can arrange tickets for the theater, concerts and sports games; and book tables at hot-ticket tables, private art experiences and cultural tours. And staff will contact you two weeks in advance to enquire about your preferences.
Pet‐friendly
Pets can stay on request. See more pet-friendly hotels in New York.
Children
This is Cipriani’s, darling, not Chuck E Cheese – kids can dine (obediently) in the club’s main restaurant from 7am to 5pm, but then they’ll need to leave the fun to the adults. Rooms and suites can fit an extra bed on request ($75 per bed a night).
Sustainability efforts
Whom does one trust to restore a Manhattan icon? Well, in bringing the spectacular Beaux-Arts Battery Maritime Building back to its former glory, there was no-one better qualified than Thierry Despont, who oversaw the nearby Statue of Liberty’s centennial brush-up in 1986. He’s also refreshed the Ritz Paris and Claridge’s in London, and has done exquisite work with Casa Cipriani’s glass Great Hall ceiling, Guastovino tiled arches, mullioned windows, and period ironwork – recycling at its best.