Overlooking Central Park atop the Time Warner Center, the luxurious Mandarin Oriental New York sits 50 floors above Columbus Circle and features 202 guestrooms and 46 suites with floor-to-ceiling windows, bathrooms with tubs and large flatscreen TVs.

Modern American cuisine is on offer at Asiate, which also has one of the city’s most extensive wine lists, while a stay wouldn’t be complete without a swim in the sky-high indoor pool.

80 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10023. +1 (212) 805 8800.