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Equinox hours11/25/2023 "The offerings make it so much more than you’d expect. "I'd stay at the Equinox Hotel even though I live nearby," says Scott Reed, an Equinox Hudson Yards Select Member and Hudson Yards resident. The fireplace waiting area, the conscious plating, the Living Room lounge-every piece of this holistic experience extended past simply being a cool place to stay.īut who is the intended guest for the Equinox Hotel at Hudson Yards? Most people aren’t traveling to New York to spend time inside a hotel, no matter the amenities, and especially not at price points starting at $600 per night. Maybe it was the full bag of mood-boosting vitamins in my system, but my body felt alive ready to explore the newest addition to the hotel: Stephen Starr's Electric Lemon, a clean-eating restaurant that I believe is designed to make you fall in love with real, simply prepared food again. This sauna-sized confine with a built-in seat and three shower heads should have its own section on the website, as it was the nicest, most indulgent shower I will ever take. I sauntered back to my room in a full robe as if I lived in the hotel. Daft Punk played on the overhead speaker, while the temperature dropped super low to -150 degrees Fahrenheit for immune-boosting results. I gave my masseuse a hug (is that not what you’re supposed to do?) and was escorted to The Spa By Equinox where I got down to my underwear, put on snow gloves, socks, slippers, a face mask, a head band to step inside the cryotherapy chamber-charmingly called Siberia-for three minutes. My tension subsided into the massage table, removing each floating insecurity of whether my body was allowed to take up space here connecting my now-calm brain to how my body actually was feeling instead of worrying about being a plus-size woman traipsing the halls of this wellness castle. A 60-minute massage followed the aforementioned IV drip, where I could feel my smile grow wider as I absorbed every press, knead, and rub. Sure, I covet the evenings where I shell out for hot yoga, an acaí bowl, and a sheet mask, but I might as well have been drinking gasoline, when compared to the Equinox Hotel's wellness regimen. While purchasing à la carte amenities at The Spa by Equinox Hotels and the Equinox Club is available to all Equinox members, I took part in the Commit to Yourself Package, a restorative program for hotel guests seeking a total recharge, which includes consultations with health experts and an early morning group run up The Vessel, Hudson Yards' towering, honeycomb-style centerpiece structure, designed by Thomas Heatherwick. As I stared down my itinerary for the next 24 hours, I questioned if I could feel at home here under the Equinox brand. Equinox’s past campaigns, like Commit to Something and Equinox Made Me Do It, have always lived in the back of my brain communicating that if you're fit enough, you can do anything. The there is a thin woman living inside of you rhetoric has plagued me since puberty, no matter how many burpees I can do. While I have always been active, it’s difficult to ignore size bias in the fitness community when my size 18 body is constantly relegated to a before photo. I'll admit that stepping into this hotel, with its swanky rooftop and pool and glistening wellness floor, gave me anxiety. There are so many different view points of the city to be seen through the sleek glass walls you lose count after walking across the upper level lobby. The hotel, which takes up 14 floors of a 92-floor building, was designed by David Rockwell, the architect behind the New York Edition and several W hotels. It wasn’t too long ago that exploring anywhere beyond Ninth Avenue was a stretch, but the zip code once known for construction and the Javits Center is now home to a space dedicated to all things wellness. The new Equinox Hotel, a fitness franchise–turned–hospitality enclave, is on the fringe of Manhattan, in Hudson Yards.
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