#5 in Top 20 New York for Business · ★★★★★
Mandarin Oriental, New York
Columbus Circle, full Central Park views from above the 35th floor, the most cinematic NY business hotel.
Columbus Circle, full Central Park views from above the 35th floor, the most cinematic NY business hotel.
"Columbus Circle, full Central Park views from above the 35th floor, the most cinematic NY business hotel."
Mandarin Oriental New York occupies floors 35 through 54 of the Time Warner Center on Columbus Circle, which means every guest room and every suite is at minimum thirty-five storeys above the southern edge of Central Park. Two hundred and forty-four rooms, all with full-height Park-view windows, all with desk product designed for actual work. The asset is the view, the 35th-floor lobby has a hundred-foot wall of glass facing the park, and the hotel's lobby-level Lobby Lounge bar is the most-cinematic meeting room in Manhattan. Asiate (the 35th-floor restaurant) is the highest-rated business-dinner room in the city; the wine list is curated and the fixed-menu is the right format for the multi-course client meal. The Spa at Mandarin Oriental is the most-decorated hotel spa in Manhattan. Mandarin Oriental is the right pick for the business trip where the client is West-Side oriented (Columbus Circle is the natural meeting point for finance offices on the West Side and the major media offices on Sixth Avenue). The cinematic-view advantage is real and the building has a gym, restaurant, and shopping mall all under one roof.
Premier Park View Room (the entry-level full-park-view) or Oriental Suite for the multi-room option.
The Lobby Lounge bar at 6pm is where to land a client after a meeting, the panoramic Central Park view doing part of the conversational work. Asiate dinner reservations should be booked four weeks ahead for the window-seat tables. The 35th-floor pool is at the same level as the lobby, book a swim before any major meeting.
Mandarin Oriental, New York sits within our broader Top 20 Hotels in New York for Business list. It scored an aggregate 9.8/10 across the three editorial criteria, competitive against the field but, on business-specific factors, the angle above is what earned its rank. For the alternatives in the same New York neighbourhood, see Columbus Circle, Time Warner Center and adjacent. For a different city entirely, see the related lists below.
Have firm dates? Our editor's advice is to book roughly twelve weeks in advance. The view-facing suites disappear earliest, and high-season inventory moves on a timescale of months, not weeks. Suite-level rooms with private plunge pools or terraces, the ones that earn this rank, are typically the first to sell out.
A ranked shortlist, a special offer worth booking, and the overpriced stay to skip. Straight from the editors.