What It's Like to Stay in NYC's Most Expensive Hotel

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We throw the word “aspirational” a lot these days, but if you’re lucky, you get to learn its real meaning. You have an experience that’s so shoulder-looseningly luxurious that you reorient your life around having it again. You ask yourself: what do I have to do to become this guy? Friends, the Aman New York is aspirational.

The Aman Hotel Group already has swanky locations in the world’s exact most spectacular geographic coordinates, including the French Alps, Bali, and Japan’s Ago Bay. Their New York joint is on 57th Street, right across from Bergdorf Goodman, and I’ll be damned if they don’t make it feel as serene as Central Java. It's an entirely new take on New York City luxury: there’s no ostentatious street-level entrance, so you feel like you’re in on a hot secret before you even check in, before the 14th-floor lobby pulls you directly into the mahogany sophistication of a 1980s Adrian Lyne movie. Loll by your fireplace—every room has one—and pity the suckers on the street below. Relax in your oversized soaking tub, take an extra minute or ten in your massive marble rain shower, become a bidet believer on your gently-warmed Japanese toilet. Roll up to the omakase bar at Nama and curse every piece of sushi you have ever eaten before this moment, and have a long breakfast or a locally-sourced Italian dinner at Arva. Take the secret speakeasy entrance into their Jazz Club for a night of music directed by a true old-school New York City eccentric, who you’ll learn is Brian Newman, the arranger of those Lady Gaga/Tony Bennett albums. You’ve experienced the kind of fancy that makes you nervous you’re going to get thrown out. Aman offers the kind of luxury that both makes you feel at home and motivates you to step your home up about thirty notches. It’s a deep-tissue massage of a hotel, one that will deliver you back into the chaos of the city a more serene and frankly sexier human being. Suites from $3,200 Shop Now

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