Hotel Gansevoort

Credited as the first “hotspot” to transform the previously gritty Meatpacking District into its current state of chicness, the Gansevoort is all about kicking things up a notch. After a night of club-hopping (the city’s best clubs are a stone’s throw away), guests can swim at the rooftop pool, get a nightcap at Ono, or just hunker down amid Egyptian cotton sheets. And if all this isn’t enough, take Tia Williams’ endorsement: “The Gansevoort is cooler than cool.”