Check into one of New York City’s Unique Boutique Hotels Ideal for Female Business Travelers

Business travel can be exhausting, even to an incredible and vibrant destination as New York City. If it’s your first time to Manhattan or your fiftieth, try staying ay one of the city’s amazing and distinctively unique boutique hotels. With a local vibe and personal service, small boutique hotels offer a break from the hustle and bustle of large chain hotels, so you don’t feel like it’s just another business trip. 

Refinery Hotel
Location: 63 West 38th Street, Garment District
This 12-Story luxury boutique hotel is located in the heart of the Fashion District. With an industrial contemporary design, each of its 197 guest rooms offer dark hardwood floors, wrought iron design elements, and a walk-in rain shower. Head up to the rooftop for an artisanal cocktail in their rooftop lounge with views of the Empire State Building. Ask for a corner room on a high floor.
Recommended Nearby: Culture Espresso, Keens Steakhouse, Szechuan Gourmet, Ai Fiori

Hotel Giraffe
Location: 365 Park Avenue South, NoMad
This boutique hotel is located one block east of Madison Square Park. Embodying the elegance and grace from 1920’s and 1930’s, this hotel offers it’s guests free continental breakfast, refreshments, wine & cheese reception every evening from 5-8pm, and passes to New York Sports Club. During the Warmer months, head-up to their rooftop garden for a cocktail in a relaxed informal setting.
Recommend Nearby:  Gregory’s Coffee, Eleven Madison Park, ABC Kitchen, Gramercy Tavern

Hotel Elysee
Location: 60 East 54th Street, Midtown
Built in the 1920’s, decorated in a French Country style, and once home to artists, writers, and intellectuals, this elegant boutique hotel offers a quiet refuge from the bustling Midtown Manhattan. It also offers its guest a long list of complimentary amenities: continental breakfast and newspapers each morning, cookies, fruit, coffee and teas throughout the day, and wine & cheese daily from 5-8pm. A short walk from Rockefeller Center, Central Park and Grand Central Station, this hotel is a great location for business travelers needing to stay somewhere central. Ask for a room at the back of the hotel on a high floor.
Recommend Nearby: Monkey Bar, Casa Lever, Salon de Ning @ThePeninsulaNYC, Melt Shop, Little Collins

The Surrey
Location: 20 E. 76th Street, Upper East Side
Nestled in Manhattan’s Upper East Side, this luxurious boutique hotel is a modern delight. Built in 1926, and once home to notable celebrities JFK and Bette Davis, the hotel offers a modern twist to such a historical location. During the warm summer months, make your way to the private roof garden for a tranquil elegant setting. This hotel is also home to a Michelin Star restaurant Café Boulud, inspired French cuisine.
Recommended Nearby: Bemelmans Bar, Café Boulud

The Mark
Location: 25 East 77th Street, Upper East Side
At the corner of 77^th Street and Madison Avenue, this landmark boutique hotel has all the elegance of the year it was built, in 1927, mixed with a luxurious 21^st century avant-garde design, offering its guests five-star service and spacious rooms. Head into Mark’s Bar after a long day of work for a signature cocktail.
Recommended Nearby:  Lady M Cake Boutique, Bemelmans Bar, Café Boulud, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

the Quin
Location: 101 West 57th Street, Midtown
This 208-room boutique hotel is one of New York City’s newest, offering contemporary opulence with rich artistic design. Guest rooms offer fresh flowers, spa & beauty products, Nespresso Machines, and a direct hotline to Bergdorf Goodman.  Offering unparalleled service, your personal attachés will track down hard-to-come-by tickets and reservations for exclusive happenings all over the city. Ask for a corner room for the best views of the city. 
Recommended Nearby: Quality Meats. Nobu, Zibetto Espresso

Gramercy Park Hotel
Location: 2 Lexington Avenue, Gramercy Park
Located in the heart of the city, this unique boutique hotel offers luxurious accommodations from the moment you step through its doors, with a warm inviting fireplace in the lobby and an exceptional contemporary art collection throughout, including masterpieces from Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Opening its doors in 1925, the hotel has hosted some notable celebrities through the years – Humphrey Bogart, Babe Ruth, John F. Kennedy, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Madonna and U2.  This hotel also features a rooftop restaurant providing stunning city views, on-site spa services and elegant individually decorated guestrooms.
Recommended Nearby: Maialino, Defonte’s of Brooklyn, Gramercy Tavern

Smyth – a Thompson Hotel
Location: 85 West Broadway, Tribeca
This boutique hotel, located in the very trendy Tribeca, matches it’s neighborhood with every detail, offering spacious, modern, yet comfortable rooms to its high powered, fashionable guests. Some of the rooms even have balconies. It also offers event space for corporate functions.
Recommended Nearby:  Laughing Man Coffee , Takahachi Bakery, Kaffe 1668, Ward III, Nobu, Locanda Verde, Terroir, Leonida’s Chocolate, Clinton Hall beer garden

Gansevoort Park Avenue
Location: 420 Park Avenue South, NoMad
Centrally located, this 4-star, modern boutique hotel features 249 luxurious rooms, a Spa, a rooftop pool [Marilyn Monroe themed], and a bi-level rooftop bar + lounge. If you don’t make it to the rooftop, no worries, the downstairs bar with a roaring fireplace offers great cocktails and light yet delicious snacks from Ristorante Aselina.
Recommended Nearby:  Hillstone, Blue Smoke, Gramercy Tavern, ABC Kitchen

The Bryant Park Hotel
Location: 40 West 40th St, Bryant Park
Ideally located in Manhattan, directly across the street from Bryant Park, this luxury boutique hotel caters to the “fashion culturati”. Offering its guests, spacious, stylish guestrooms with hardwood floors, handmade Tibetan rugs, and leather furniture, the friendly and attentive staff are known to make every guest’s stay magical with complimentary drinks every evening.  After a long day, have a signature cocktail at Cellar Bar and Japanese cuisine at their the award-winning Koi Restaurant.
Recommended Nearby: Bryant Park, Szechuan Gourmet, Culture Espresso, Ai Fiori, The Breslin Bar & Dining Room

Library Hotel
Location: 299 Madison Avenue, Midtown
Located minutes from Grand Central and the New York Public Library, this boutique hotel is true its name; it’s decorated with the theme of a traditional American Library and offers its guests an assortment of books [over 6,000 books] and art in its lobby area and in each of its 60 rooms. Each of its 10 floors honors one of the 10 categories of the Dewey Decimal system, with art and books exploring each category. Guests are offered a complimentary continental breakfast every morning, wine & cheese every evening, and a turndown service that includeds Belgian chocolates. After a long day of business meetings, head-up to the rooftop bar and Poetry Garden for literary inspired cocktails.
Recommended Nearby:  The Breslin Bar & Dining Room, Stumptown Coffee Roasters, Ai Fiori

The Pearl Hotel
Location: 233 West 49th Street, Times Square
If you have to stay in Times Square, this modern luxury boutique hotel is a great choice.  With soundproof windows and walls, the chaos from Times Square is barely heard. Each of its 94 non-smoking rooms offer guests a tranquil oasis of sleek sophisticated beauty.  There’s an onsite and the staff can help with any ticket services that are needed. The hotel offers a daily complimentary continental breakfast and an evening reception with wine.
Recommended Nearby: The Palm, Toloache, VLADA Lounge, Sake Bar Hagi, Amy’s Bread, Marea