Luxury Gay New York

The only New York luxury hotel with a gay party literally on its roof: Le Bain, the top-floor club with a plunge-pool dance floor, hosts the Paradisco gay tea most Sundays and runs to 4 a.m. André Balazs's 18-storey glass slab still frames the High Line itself, and every room has floor-to-ceiling windows over the Hudson or the skyline.

A five-star temple of body culture ten minutes' walk from the Ninth Avenue strip: a 25-yard indoor saltwater lap pool, a 27,000-square-foot spa with cryotherapy and infrared saunas, and sleep-engineered "dark, quiet, cool" rooms over the Vessel. A World Rainbow Hotels member — the natural landing pad for the circuit-and-wellness crowd that fills Hell's Kitchen after dark.

The crystal maison's flagship is Forbes five-star, holds One Michelin Key and houses the first La Mer spa in the United States — its 50-foot checkerboard-marble pool is lined with Côte d'Azur cabanas and white daybeds. Baccarat crystal glitters in every room. A World Rainbow Hotels member: the uptown splurge when you want grandeur over gaybourhood.

SoHo's only AAA Five-Diamond hotel: a 46-storey glass tower with a seasonal seventh-floor rooftop pool wrapped in cabanas and skyline. Travel Gay lists it among New York's best LGBT-friendly luxury hotels and clocks the walk to the Stonewall Inn at under ten minutes — the rare five-star you can stroll home to from Julius' or Cubbyhole.