The Pierre, A Taj Hotel, New York

A 1930 tower on Fifth Avenue at East 61st Street, a city landmark since 1981, run by Taj since 2005: IHCL holds the leasehold, and it is the group’s North American flagship (The Pierre’s history). It has 189 rooms and suites, 140 rooms and 49 suites, and the building also holds private apartments. Forbes Travel Guide rates it Four-Star.

The rooms run from the 28 m² Superior, with an interior view, to the 51 m² Signature Park View; suites from the 65 m² Executive to the 194–445 m² Presidential Tata, which takes the whole 39th floor. The park is outside the Park View rooms on floors 34 to 39, the Signature Park View rooms, the Metropolitan, the Hutton, the Park Suite on the 28th floor and the Tata; bathrooms are Turkish marble.

Google Hotels, read on 15 October 2026, for 2 adults and one night: $579 on Sunday 22 November 2026, $686 on Monday 14 December, $523 on Sunday 24 January 2027 and $479 on Thursday 26 August 2027, the cheapest night in the calendar. The dearest night of 2026 is Friday 4 December, at $1,385, and the dearest in the calendar Tuesday 4 May 2027, at $1,458. Each figure already includes the $30 facility fee and leaves out New York’s taxes, 14.75% plus $3.50 a night; breakfast is extra.

The facility fee is compulsory: $30 a day, $34.43 with tax. It covers Wi-Fi for 5 devices, coffee and tea in the lobby from 6am to 8am, PressReader’s digital papers, local and domestic calls and Bedside Reading’s e-books.

Perrine, on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 61st Street, joins France and India: breakfast daily from 7am to 11am (continental $37, American $48, Indian dishes from $29), brunch on Saturday and Sunday from 11.30am to 4pm, lunch Monday to Saturday, dinner nightly from 5pm to 9.30pm. Two E opens at 5pm with bar dishes at $30 to $40; dinner in the Rotunda is by reservation. In-room breakfast runs from 6.45am to 11am, and the rest until 10.45pm.

The hotel’s pages, read on 15 October 2026, list no afternoon tea: Two E opens at 5pm.

No. There is a 24-hour gym, and the hotel books its wellness partners: an in-room massage therapist, Aire Ancient Baths, a medical spa, yoga, IV drips and a hair salon, on 212-940-8108.

In-room treatments are booked through the hotel with its partners and are not among the facility fee’s inclusions; with no spa, there is no day pass for visitors staying elsewhere.

The valet is at the East 61st Street entrance, and there is a public garage opposite the hotel; the price is not published. The hotel gives 45 to 60 minutes from JFK, 30 to 45 from LaGuardia and 45 to 60 from Newark; the concierge books transfers, and the hotel’s sedan drops guests in town when it is free.

Children up to 17 stay free in the existing beds, cots are provided up to age 2, and some rooms take an extra bed at $50 plus tax. A room holds 2 adults at most, so for a family the choice is a Pierre Suite connected to a Pierre Deluxe, or an Executive Suite with a Superior. Babysitting is offered.

Yes, dogs up to 15 lb (6.8 kg), 2 per room at most, at $75 a day each; you sign a waiver on arrival, they are not left alone in the room and they stay out of the restaurants and the gym. A dog bed, bowls and treats come on request.

Yes, in 1,672 m² of rooms: the Grand Ballroom seats 450 and holds 750 standing, the Cotillion Room over the park 360 and 450, the pre-function room 110 and 150, the Rotunda 50 and 100. The 4th floor has 4 meeting rooms, 146 m² in all. Prices come through the site’s enquiry form.

Check-in starts at 3pm and check-out is at noon; early arrival and late departure depend on availability and may cost extra. On arrival your card is held for the stay plus $200 a day for extras, up to $600; leaving early costs one night.

On the official site: up to 20% off if you prepay, non-refundable; up to 20% off from 3 nights, with breakfast for 2 at Perrine; 50% off a second bedroom with a Pierre Suite or above, for at least 2 nights.

Yes, it has no seasonal closure. The only works the hotel publishes concern the terraces of the Getty and Charles Pierre suites.

The hotel’s and Perrine’s pages, read on 15 October 2026, do not yet publish a New Year’s Eve programme.

Google gives 4.5 out of 5 from 1,928 reviews, Tripadvisor 4.5 out of 5 from 2,851, Booking.com 8.5 out of 10 from 845. Across the 500 latest Google reviews, those who mention the location nearly all write well of it, and the service, with the lift operators and doormen, comes up more than anything else. On price, most find it high against rooms and corridors due a refit.

Edward Melcarth painted its trompe-l’œil murals in 1967; the Rotunda, under a ceiling painted as a blue sky, is where dinner is now served. The Pierre’s history also records Escoffier leading the kitchen in 1932 and J. Paul Getty as owner from 1938.

The hotel has 8 accessible rooms and suites, to be booked ahead; the route from the door to the front desk and the lifts is clear of obstacles, the lift doors open to 81 cm and lift operators are on duty full time.