The room we'd ask for at Fouquet's New York

Fouquet's New York does something few city hotels manage: it feels like somewhere else. You are standing in Tribeca and you are in Paris. That is the whole point of the place, and it is why the room you choose matters more here than it would somewhere else.

The Prestige King is beautifully appointed. It is a genuinely good room, and nobody is unhappy in it. If the trip allows it, I would move up to the Prestige Junior Suite. The case is not square footage for its own sake; it is that the junior suite gives you somewhere to sit, somewhere to spread out, somewhere to be on your own terms in the evening rather than at a desk or in bed.

Stylish couples who notice the decor and would actually use everything the building offers. A speakeasy on site means a nightcap does not become a cab ride. A hammam means a morning has something in it besides a breakfast queue. And the gym is a knockout — the kind people train in.

It is, in that sense, a short hotel: almost everything you want is under one roof. That is what makes it easy to stay in, and what makes the room the centre of the trip. Choose the one that deserves it.