The Standard Grill
7am to 11pm, until 1am Thursday to Saturday; the burger costs $29, and Monday to Friday from 4 to 6pm oysters are $1 each.
The Standard, High Line
The Standard, High Line, at 848 Washington Street in New York’s Meatpacking District, is the 2009 glass tower raised on concrete piers over the High Line: every room has a wall of glass on the Hudson or the city.
A week here, month by monthThe Standard suits the city and its nightlife, from $272 a night in January 2027: the lowest price any seller showed on Google for one night, for 2 adults. It suits light sleepers less: the rooftop club plays until 4am Wednesday to Saturday.
Le Bain, the Standard’s rooftop club: hours, entry, the plunge pool and prices Official siteDoes it suit you?
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The room to request
I would ask for a Deluxe King: a higher floor, 11 to 17, for a more breathtaking view, with a rain shower and a tub, and a room type that guarantees privacy in the bathroom.
The week to consider
Consider 14–20 February 2027: single nights for 2 adults ranged from $272 to $383 on Google, read 13 October 2026. The dearest week, 30 November–6 December 2026, ran from $575 to $1,120.
Facility fee and parking
The hotel charges a facility fee of $35 plus tax per night, covering the gym, wifi and daily bottled water. Parking at its partner garage costs $65 plus tax per 24 hours, without in-and-out privileges.
Happy hour at the Grill
The Standard Grill holds a happy hour from Monday to Friday, 4pm to 6pm, and weekend brunch from 11am to 4pm on Saturdays and Sundays.
What The Standard is
The hotelier André Balazs built it from the ground up, to a design by Polshek Partnership, now Ennead, and opened it in 2009: 18 floors of glass and concrete raised about 9 metres over the High Line, which runs beneath the building. In 2017 the tower went to Gaw Capital, for $340 million according to The Real Deal, $317 million according to Forbes; since 1 October 2024 the brand has belonged to Hyatt, and you now book on hyatt.com.
The 338 rooms run from the 21 m² Deluxe Queen to the 81 m² Empire Suite, all with floor-to-ceiling glass, nearly all with the bathroom open to the room. On the ground floor are the Standard Grill, from 7am until 11pm, 1am Thursday to Saturday, and the Biergarten under the High Line’s tracks; on the roof Le Bain, with its plunge pool and terrace. The gym is open to guests 24 hours; there is no spa and no pool.
On Google the hotel scores 4.3 out of 5 from 5,142 reviews, on Tripadvisor 4.4 from 6,996; the MICHELIN Guide lists it among its selected hotels. Le Bain’s bass carries until 4am, in most rooms the bathroom is open to the room, there is no coffee machine in the room, and there is a nightly facility fee of $35 plus tax, already included in the Google quotes according to the seller links.
Guests remember the glass walls and tubs facing the river; the same accounts return to limited space, club bass and bathrooms open to the bedroom. For a bathroom with a door, choose a Deluxe, a Corner King or the Empire or Liberty Suite. In the 500 most recent Google reviews with text, 87% of those discussing location are positive, against 68% of those discussing service. Guests who find the price fair cite the neighbourhood, the High Line beneath the hotel and suites on the Hudson; those who find it high cite small rooms and noisy nights.
In the Lumina Guide
Lumina Guide 2027
The Standard, High Line is the 2009 glass tower raised on concrete piers over the High Line, in New York’s Meatpacking District: every room has a wall of glass on the Hudson or the city.
How we choose the hotelsThose who come back
Among The Standard’s regulars, 6 praise the staff and 5 the views or the location. One, writing in March 2026 after many stays, finds it still the ultimate “oldie but goodie”. Another, writing in July 2023, was given the same room as the previous year and calls it a yearly tradition. A third, writing in August 2025 after a full week in the city for a trade show, calls it a go-to hotel in New York.
- 16 of the 974 reviews with text say it is not a first stay
- A second stay for some, a third for others
- One guest stays here a few times a year
Only reviews that state an earlier stay at this hotel are counted; plans to return and visits to other Standard hotels are left out.
Our reading, point by point
What we found reading the hotel’s own pages, one thing at a time.
Location
The High Line beneath the building, the Whitney 3 minutes away, Little Island 6; the subway 9.
Character
The 2009 glass tower straddling the High Line, with Le Bain on the roof.
Rooms
Floor-to-ceiling glass, but 21–25 m² in the entry rooms, open bathrooms and the club above.
Food and social life
The Standard Grill from 7am, the Biergarten under the High Line, Le Bain until 4am.
Wellness
A gym open 24 hours with a Hudson view; no spa, no pool.
The stay as a whole
A single night at $238 in January, including the $35 nightly facility fee according to the seller links; then 14.75% and $3.50 of tax, breakfast not included.
The 5 things that matter, as guests tell them
What do The Standard, High Line’s guests say? They write it in their reviews, even those who only came for a drink or dinner: we read every one and tell the 5 things that matter, from the location to the bill.
Location
9 in 10 guests who mention it are happy with it. Guests write about the High Line running under the building, the Hudson a short walk away and the Meatpacking District on foot, with the Whitney and Chelsea Market minutes away.
Room
What guests like about the rooms are the glass walls and the tubs facing the river.
Staff and service
7 in 10 guests who mention it are happy with it. Guests remember the front-desk team and the bellmen at the door by name, for their welcome and their help; room service, they write, arrives quickly.
Breakfast
8 in 10 guests who mention it are happy with it. Breakfast is ordered à la carte at the Standard Grill on the ground floor, open from 7am, or sent up to the room; guests write warmly of both.
Price
Guests who say it is worth the money talk about the neighbourhood, with the High Line beneath the hotel, and the Hudson suites.
Where The Standard, High Line leads
- Breakfast
On breakfast it comes ahead of the 3 other hotels it is compared with in the Meatpacking District and Chelsea.
The numbers, and how we count them
| What | Score out of 10 | Guests who mention it | Happy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Location | 8.4 | 269 | 87% |
| Room | 5.6 | 282 | 43% |
| Staff and service | 6.6 | 336 | 68% |
| Breakfast | 7.2 | 20 | 80% |
| Price | – | 90 | 20% |
The scores come from 500 Google reviews with text, left from 12 January 2024 to 4 October 2026. The other hotels are the ones weighed for a stay in the Meatpacking District and Chelsea: for each we read its latest 500 Google reviews with text, or all of them where there are fewer, as of 4 October 2026. The score is the average of what they say, from 0 if they speak of it very badly to 10 if they speak of it very well. Where only a few mention something, the score stays close to the guide’s average: a handful of voices does not make a reputation.
The hotels we weigh it against in the Meatpacking District and Chelsea:
- Gansevoort Meatpacking
- The High Line Hotel
- Hotel Chelsea
- The Maritime Hotel
Price: for two on the night of 25 January 2027, from $272 (seen on Google Hotels on 13 October 2026).
What a night costs, season by season
Single nights for 2 adults run from $272 to $710 between 13 December 2026 and 31 March 2027, against $575 to $1,120 between 1 and 12 December 2026. I would start with the weeks from mid-December to March, when the dearest night is $710.
| Period | Dollars a night |
|---|---|
| 14 Oct. to 30 Nov. 2026 | 317–988 |
| 1 to 12 Dec. 2026 | 575–1,120 |
| 13 Dec. 2026 to 31 March 2027 | 253–710 |
| 1 April to 7 Sept. 2027 | 239–880 |
The lowest price any seller showed on Google Hotels for one night searched alone, for 2 adults, read 13 October 2026; no room or meal plan is specified. The calendar stops on 7 September 2027; 20 October 2026 has no price. Booked as 7 nights from 16 November 2026, the lowest seller Google listed that day asked $576 a night; the hotel’s own listing, $664.
The tower over the High Line, the Hudson from the rooms, Le Bain at sunset and by night
The glass tower raised on its piers over the High Line; the Hudson Studio’s tub facing the river; a room above the West Side Highway; Le Bain’s roof at sunset, its artificial lawn full of people; the same terrace by night, with Little Island lit up.
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What to expect
Breakfast at the Standard Grill, beer under the High Line, Le Bain’s roof, the gold room on the eighteenth floor and the gym over the river.
The Biergarten
Open all year, heated in winter: a 16 oz beer costs $13, paid in tickets; no children on Saturdays.
Le Bain
The top floor: sunset from 4pm, then DJs until 4am Wednesday to Saturday; 21 and over, no cover.
BOOM
The room once called Top of the Standard: it now opens only for private events, up to 300 standing.
The gym
Open 24 hours, for guests only, with Peloton bikes; it is covered by the facility fee.
Good to know before you book
You must be 21 to check in; there are no cots or extra beds and no connecting rooms. Source: standardhotels.com
There is no coffee machine in the room: coffee is offered in the lobby in the morning, several guests wrote between 2024 and 2026. Source: 500 Google reviews read, 12 January 2024 to 4 October 2026
The nightly $35 facility fee covers the gym, wifi and water; the Google quotes already include it according to the seller links. Tax adds 14.75% and $3.50; breakfast is not included.
Le Bain plays until 4am Wednesday to Saturday: upper floors hear the bass, lower ones the street’s bars, and the hotel leaves earplugs.
In most rooms the bathroom is open to the room; privacy is guaranteed only in the Deluxe rooms, the Corner Kings and the Empire and Liberty Suites.
There is no swimming pool or spa. The plunge pool belongs to Le Bain, for ages 21 and over: even hotel guests must be admitted to the club.
The tower dates from 2009; between October 2023 and August 2026 some 20 Google reviews describe rooms and furnishings showing wear.
Rooms and suites
Getting here
The nearest subway is 14 St–8 Av: the L 654 metres away, 9 minutes on foot, the A, C and E 746 metres, 10 minutes.
| JFK | 37 minutes without traffic, 31 km; by taxi the flat fare to Manhattan is $70 plus surcharges. |
|---|---|
| Newark | 28 minutes without traffic, 23 km. |
| LaGuardia | 22 minutes without traffic, 16 km. |
| Check-in | From 3pm, check-out at noon; the paid “Standard Time” rate lets you choose both. |
Times computed on OpenStreetMap’s roads on 4 October 2026; hours and fares from the hotel’s and the Taxi and Limousine Commission’s pages read the same day.
Beyond the hotel
A few minutes on foot: the Whitney 3, Little Island 6, Chelsea Market 7; Washington Square is 23.
The Whitney Museum
The museum of American art where the High Line ends: 3 minutes on foot.
Little Island
The park on the river at Pier 55: 6 minutes on foot, in view from the west-side rooms.
Chelsea Market
The covered market in the old biscuit factory: 7 minutes on foot.
The High Line
The elevated railway turned park runs beneath the hotel and north to Hudson Yards.
Washington Square
The arch and the square of Greenwich Village: 23 minutes on foot.
From the Standard to the Whitney, Little Island and Chelsea Market
The hotel over the High Line, the Whitney and Little Island towards the river, Chelsea Market to the north, Washington Square to the east. Tap a place to see the route.
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A day at The Standard
7am
Breakfast at the Grill
Breakfast at The Standard Grill runs every day from 7am to 11am, with the option of having it brought to the room.
The morning
Up on the High Line
Climb onto the High Line beside the hotel and walk north to Chelsea Market, 7 minutes away.
4pm
Sunset from Le Bain
Le Bain, on the top floor, opens at 4pm from Wednesday to Friday and at 2pm on Saturday; entry is for ages 21 and over.
The evening
Sausages at the Biergarten
The Biergarten under the High Line serves sausages, pretzels and beer all year, open-air in summer and heated in winter.
Sunday, 9pm
Bingo at the Grill
On Sundays from 9pm the Grill hosts Not Your Standard Bingo, until late.
The Standard, High Line reviews
Platform scores and what guests say: the Hudson view, the rooftop club, the glass-walled rooms, breakfast.
Scores read on 4 October 2026
Google5,142 reviews4.3/5
Tripadvisor6,996 reviews4.4/5
Booking.com1,240 reviews8.0/10
Expedia2,024 reviews8.8/10Guest voices
From the hotel’s Google listing, in 2026: the river from the sixteenth floor, the position above the High Line, a room over the cobbles and the cabs, the lifts and their videos, and an $11 breakfast.
GoogleThe river from the sixteenth floor
Sixteenth floor, a clear view of the Hudson, One World Trade Center and Lower Manhattan. The room is small but well designed; the entrance takes a minute to find, and some noise comes down from the rooftop bar.
Google · August 2026Read the review
GoogleLe Bain’s bass
The location, above the High Line, is what drew him; but he had never felt a hotel thump so many floors up, not even with a white-noise machine.
Google · August 2026Read the review
GoogleOver the cobbles and the cabs
Glass the length of the wall, warm wood, and everything laid out so the room feels bigger; the window looks straight down on the Meatpacking cobbles and the yellow cabs.
Google · August 2026Read the review
GoogleThe lifts and the coffee
The lifts are nearly pitch black, with strange videos; there is no coffee maker in the room, and the free morning coffee in the lobby is not quite as described at check-in.
Google · August 2026Read the review
GoogleThe breakfast add-on
A slightly noisy Saturday night, but with the earplugs the hotel provides; the breakfast added to the booking for $11, à la carte in the restaurant downstairs, is worth it.
Google · October 2026Read the review
Questions before you go
Sources read on 4 October 2026.
How much does a night at The Standard, High Line cost?
On Google Hotels, read on 4 October 2026 for 2 adults before tax, the cheapest night of each month runs from $238 (17 January 2027, a single night) to $432 (18 October 2026): $323 on 22 November, $262 on 20 December, a single night between dearer ones. Some nights climb to $1,146 (7 October) and $1,156 (1 December). For 5 October hyatt.com asked $1,233, the cheapest seller $885. 14.75% and $3.50 a night of tax come on top; going by the seller links, Google’s figure already includes the $35 facility fee.
What is the facility fee?
It is $35 a night plus tax, charged to everyone: it covers the gym, wifi and daily bottled water, and according to Booking local calls and bicycles too. Hyatt calls it a destination fee, Expedia a resort fee, and shows $40.16, that is $35 plus 14.75%.
Is breakfast included?
No. It is served at the Standard Grill, 7 to 11am, à la carte: 2 eggs $20, the full English $29, steak and eggs $34. Some direct rates include two $35 credits a day.
Do hotel guests get into Le Bain?
The hotel invites guests to book a table subject to availability, and Le Bain is 21 and over. Standing, dancing and the bar carry no cover; tables are booked on Resy with a minimum spend.
Is there a pool or a spa?
There is no swimming pool or spa. Le Bain has an indoor plunge pool, used in summer during club nights by those admitted; the hotel publishes no rules or dates for it. Guests have a gym open 24 hours, with Peloton bikes and a Hudson view.
Are the rooms noisy?
Often, yes. Le Bain plays until 4am Wednesday to Saturday and upper rooms hear the bass; lower ones hear the street’s bars. The hotel leaves earplugs in the bathroom.
Does the bathroom have a door?
In most rooms, no: the shower and tub open onto the room, and a curtain is fitted on request. Privacy is guaranteed only in the Deluxe Queen, the Deluxe King, the Corner Kings, the Empire Suite and the Liberty Suite.
Which rooms have a tub and a river view?
A tub is guaranteed in the Studio Suite, the Deluxe Queen, the Premium King, the Empire Suite and the Liberty Suite. The Premium King, the Liberty Corner King and the Studio Suite, with 3 glass walls on the river, face the Hudson; the Standard rooms, the Empire Corner King and the Empire Suite face the city.
How far are the airports and the subway?
Without traffic JFK is 37 minutes away, Newark 28 and LaGuardia 22 (OpenStreetMap, 4 October 2026). The subway is at 14 St–8 Av: the L 9 minutes on foot, the A, C and E 10.
Where can you park?
There is no valet: the hotel has an arrangement with the Icon garage at 385 West 15th Street, a 7-minute walk, at $65 plus tax for 24 hours, $10 more for SUVs and large vehicles, with no in-and-out. The ticket is validated at the front desk.
Does the Standard allow pets?
Yes: the hotel’s FAQ says it is pet friendly, and Booking and Expedia say there is no charge. No weight or number limits are published. The Standard Grill welcomes dogs too.
Is it good for children?
With limits: you must be 21 to check in, there are no cots or extra beds and no connecting rooms; 4 people need a suite. The Biergarten admits children with an adult, but never on Saturdays, and Le Bain is closed to under-21s.
Can you hold a wedding at the Standard?
Yes. BOOM, the gold eighteenth-floor room, holds 300 standing; Le Bain 200, 350 with the terrace; the High Line Room 100 for dinner, with 3,100 sq ft of covered terrace; the Biergarten 200 seated. Prices are not published.
What happens on New Year’s Eve?
Le Bain throws a ticketed party: the last one, on 31 December 2025, started at 9pm and was sold on Eventbrite. Nothing is published yet for 31 December 2026; tickets usually appear on Eventbrite and Le Bain’s site in late autumn.
Is there still a winter ice rink?
No. The hotel’s events site lists it among past installations, and in winter 2025–26 the plaza became The Holiday Plaza, with no rink. Google Hotels still mentions it.
Is the hotel open all year?
Yes, and no closure is announced for late 2026; Google Hotels has prices to August 2027. The Biergarten stays open in winter, heated; BOOM opens only for private events.
Is it cheaper to book direct?
Direct means hyatt.com: you earn World of Hyatt points and get packages the agencies do not sell, from 15% off 4 nights to breakfast credits. But the price is not always the best: for 5 October hyatt.com asked $1,233, KAYAK $885. Direct offers cancel until 4pm 2 days before arrival.
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