The Fifth Avenue Hotel
When you book The Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York City, USA, through our Virtuoso partnership, your stay includes daily full breakfast for up to two guests. Your stay also includes a $100 USD food and beverage credit. You also receive a room upgrade, early check-in and late check-out when available. No premium credit card or membership needed: request a quote and our advisor books it at the same rate as booking direct.
Exclusive Booking Perks
These perks are included with your stay at the same rate as booking direct with the hotel.
- Upgrade on arrival, subject to availability
- Daily Full Breakfast for up to two guests per bedroom, served in the restaurant
- $100 USD equivalent Food & Beverage credit to be utilized during stay (not combinable, not valid on room rate, no cash value if not redeemed in full)
- Bespoke Virtuoso Amenity
- Early Check-In / Late Check-Out, subject to availability
Guest feedback
9.4/10 from 130 guest reviews
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Guests liked
- Great service
- Beautiful decor
Points to consider
- Cleanliness issue in the bathroom
- Some staff were not as helpful
Location
The Fifth Avenue Hotel reclaims a Gilded Age address in NoMad, the quietly confident neighbourhood where Madison Square Park anchors a district of Beaux-Arts facades and cast-iron storefronts. This is Manhattan at its most considered: blocks where the pavement hums with purpose but never hysteria, where century-old buildings house contemporary dining rooms and where the grid tilts just slightly off the island's relentless north-south axis.
NoMad, short for North of Madison Square Park, rose as a hotel and theatre district in the late 1800s, and that legacy lingers in the bones of the architecture. Walk east and you'll find the marble lions guarding the New York Public Library; head south and the Flatiron Building slices the intersection of Broadway and Fifth with its unmistakable prow.
The neighbourhood's restaurant scene has matured into one of the city's most assured, with sidewalk tables spilling onto tree-lined blocks where delivery trucks and dog walkers negotiate the morning choreography. LaGuardia Airport lies ten kilometres northeast, a straightforward taxi or ride-share journey across the Queensboro Bridge.
The property's Café Carmellini brings chef Andrew Carmellini's Italian inflections to a dining room dressed in curved sapphire-blue velvet booths and caramel leather, the kind of setting that suits both morning espresso and late-night martinis. For serious culinary pilgrimage, Eleven Madison Park holds three Michelin stars just 384 metres south, where Daniel Humm's modern precision plays out in custom-made everything, from handblown water vases to the suits his staff wear. Sushi Sho, one kilometre north in the shadow of the library, delivers Chef Keiji Nakazawa's utterly unique omakase. Book weeks ahead.
Union Square Greenmarket sprawls 900 metres south four days a week, farmers from upstate arriving before dawn with heirloom tomatoes, grass-fed beef, and apple cider pressed the day before. The vendors know their regulars. Madison Square Park hosts seasonal art installations and a gravel-path perimeter popular with dog walkers at dusk. Winter Village transforms Bryant Park into a European-style holiday market each December, wooden stalls selling everything from handmade ornaments to raclette. Don't miss the Statue of Liberty, eight kilometres south in the harbour, Bartholdi and Eiffel's steel-and-copper monument still catching the afternoon sun as ferries carve white wakes across the bay.
Winter arrives sharp and unambiguous, with January mornings dipping below freezing and sidewalks acquiring a grey patina of slush and salt. The light turns brittle, slanting low through the avenue grid, and holiday decorations linger into early February before the city shakes off the cold. Spring unfolds slowly, with April still capable of surprise frosts, but by May the park benches fill and outdoor tables reappear.
Summer brings thick, adhesive heat, the kind that rises from subway grates and sends the entire city outdoors after dark, when restaurant patios and rooftop bars become the default living rooms. Fall is the city's finest hour: September light arrives golden and slanted, the air cools just enough to make walking a pleasure, and October delivers that rare combination of clear skies and tolerable humidity.
Come between late September and early November for the season New Yorkers actually enjoy.
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