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A full fitness club anchors a Hudson Yards hotel designed around training, sleep and recovery.
Equinox Hotels makes fitness and recovery central to the stay, with an Equinox Fitness Club as part of the hotel rather than an extra amenity. Developed by Related Companies, the concept opened at New York’s Hudson Yards in 2019 after years of interest from Equinox members in carrying the club experience into their travels.
1 Equinox Hotels hotel in 1 country on the Luxury Hotels Atlas, each placed on the six LHA Tiers.
- Owned by Related Companies
- Worldwide: Exactly 1 open hotel today (Equinox Hotel New York, 212 rooms) after seven years operating as what the trade press calls "essentially a one-hotel company" — but the brand has now begun a stated push toward roughly 33 properties over the next decade, with its next two addresses already announced
- On the atlas: 1 High Luxury
History
The Hudson Yards hotel gave Equinox several years to develop its approach to fitness, sleep, and recovery within a full-service stay. The substantial club and in-room attention to rest became important parts of that model. Announced hotels in Anguilla and the Red Sea point toward new settings for an idea first tested in Manhattan.
Timeline
- 1991 — Equinox Fitness opens its first club in New York City, the decades-old fitness-brand origin that eventually gives rise to the hotel concept.
- 2006 — Related Companies acquires Equinox Fitness for $505 million, pairing the fitness brand with its real-estate development arm.
- 2007 — An internal Equinox member survey reveals strong demand for an Equinox-branded hotel, planting the seed for what becomes a 12-year development process.
- 2016 — Chris Norton, after more than 25 years at Four Seasons Hotels, joins as CEO to build and launch Equinox Hotels.
- 15 July 2019 — Equinox Hotel New York opens at 35 Hudson Yards, the brand's hospitality debut and the anchor tenant of Related's Hudson Yards megadevelopment on Manhattan's Far West Side.
- 2022 — Equinox Hotel New York wins a Condé Nast Traveler Readers' Choice Award.
- 2023 — Equinox Hotel New York is named to The World's 50 Best Hotels list.
- March 2024 — Equinox Group completes a debt restructuring; its UK fitness-club subsidiary separately reports mounting losses amid a broader luxury-sector downturn, underscoring financial pressure on the wider Equinox corporate family even as the hotel itself is described as a strong performer
- November 2025 — Related Companies and Oxford Properties sell the real-estate portion of 35 Hudson Yards, floors 1 through 38, including the Equinox Hotel, office, and retail space, to Tokyo-based Mori Trust for $541 million; Equinox confirms the deal is a real-estate transaction only and does not affect the hotel brand, which retains full operational control of the property
- November 2025 — Equinox Hotels announces its expansion into the Caribbean with Equinox Resort Anguilla Port Nimara
- February 2026 — CEO Chris Norton confirms the brand's Equinox Resort Amaala on Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast and outlines a stated goal of roughly 33 Equinox Hotels properties over the next decade, at least half in the United States
- June 2026 — Equinox Hotels launches its Sleep Lab research program, four Premier King rooms at the New York flagship wired for sleep research in partnership with Berkeley neuroscientist and Why We Sleep author Matthew Walker, as the codified protocol the brand intends to build into every future property
The houses to know
- Equinox Hotel New York, New York City, United States — The proof-of-concept for an entire category: a 212-room limestone tower inside Hudson Yards built around the largest Equinox Fitness Club ever constructed.
Newest openings
- No new Equinox-branded hotel has opened since the brand's 2019 debut. Equinox Hotel New York remains the brand's sole open address as of 2026, though the company has begun actively developing its next several properties (see Pipeline, below).
Opening next
- Equinox Resort Amaala — Triple Bay, Amaala, Saudi Arabia — expected 2026 — Equinox Hotels' first destination resort, designed by Foster + Partners with interiors by Rockwell Group: 126–128 rooms and suites plus 21 branded residences, a 20,000-square-foot Equinox Club, science-backed sleep rooms, a rooftop magnesium pool, and five dining venues, developed in partnership with Red Sea Global as part of the broader Amaala luxury-tourism destination.
- Equinox Resort Anguilla Port Nimara — South West End, Anguilla — no confirmed opening date — A 62-room resort anchoring a 118-berth luxury marina at Port Nimara, developed by South West Harbour Inc. (a joint venture of SF Investments, Time Equities, and Antillean Developments), alongside 18 oceanfront villas, 18 upland villas, and 35 branded Equinox residences.
- Additional North American and international sites — reported but not yet fully detailed — CEO Chris Norton has confirmed deals "very solid in North America in key cities," with Los Angeles (a Gehry-designed building, per trade reporting), Nashville, New York, and Miami named as strategic priorities, followed by Atlanta, Austin, and Detroit; Business Insider additionally reports pipeline activity in Texas, Northern California, and Hawaii, and Norton has said the company is evaluating resort sites in Mexico. These sit within a stated goal of roughly 33 total Equinox Hotels properties over the next decade, at least half of them in the United States.
- Flagged as cancelled, not delayed: Equinox Hotels' previously announced Chicago property — Equinox Hotel & Residences, a 52-story, 165-room tower at 725 W. Randolph Street in the West Loop that cleared the Chicago Plan Commission in 2018 — was never built and is recorded as a cancelled project, not merely a delayed one.
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United States
- Equinox Hotel New York — New York City · High Luxury
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