What should you try?<\/p>\n
With a 30-page treatment menu, the offerings here are extensive. But look a little closer and it is mainly variations on the classics: massages, facials, fitness coaching, makeup applications. I would highly recommend indulging in some skin care: Guerlain is a cosmetics company, after all, and there is a lot of expertise and thought that goes into each session. The New York spa is considered one of the two Guerlain flagships (the other being Paris) and is home to one of only two Longeviskin machines, a seven-treatment, all-in-one device for those who want to really excavate with LES, microcurrents, cryo, etc. But whatever role technology plays, an expert human eye is as central to the treatment. I was a little discouraged by my undereye circles and some flaky skin that I couldn\u2019t seem to dispel when I arrived. \u201cMight be dehydration,\u201d said Marie Barth\u00e9lemy, Guerlain\u2019s director of international spas and wellness\u2014sharing an appealing dose of honesty before she plied me with scrubs and serums.<\/p>\n
Barth\u00e9lemy treated me to a bespoke facial designed in consultation with a lengthy questionnaire and a close but gentle inspection of my skin that included exfoliation with rice powder and the gentle application with kabuki brushes of Orchid\u00e9e Imp\u00e9riale Mousse. Sensing the harried air that wafted into the treatment room around me, Barth\u00e9lemy kept both the treatments and their application fairly simple. It was time for me to breathe, relax under her expert fingertips, and perhaps prepare myself for a more meditative evening. Did I want a touch-up after I left her room? Was I headed off into the New York night for a glittering adventure? With apologies to the luminous ghosts haunting the glamorous lobby: I did not, and I was not. I was headed home to bed.<\/p>\n
What else do we need to know?<\/p>\n
Appealingly, and in keeping with fine-dining trends, gratuity is automatically added, eliminating the \u201cjust how much do I tip\u201d calculation at the end of your session, a zen-busting exercise if ever there was one. The amount can always be adjusted, of course.<\/p>\n
Who can go?<\/p>\n
The spa is for guests aged 18 and up, and you don\u2019t need to be staying at the hotel to book an appointment.<\/p>\n
Booking details for Waldorf Astoria New York<\/a><\/p>\n Address: 301 Park Ave, New York, NY 10022<\/p>\n Read more from Vogue\u2019s Global Spa Guide<\/a>. Read more about the Waldorf Astoria New York at the Conde Nast Traveler Hot List<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What should you try? With a 30-page treatment menu, the offerings here are extensive. But look a little…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,82207,56,63,65,64,7947],"class_list":{"0":"post-207340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-north-america-spa","10":"tag-ny","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-nyc-headlines","13":"tag-nyc-news","14":"tag-spa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}