Ela Bonita specializes in Brazilian-style face and body treatments for men and women.

Specialties include the extensive options of face or body treatments, including full-body caviar scrubs and sea scented anti-aging serum facials.

Encased in rustic wood beams, with cozy antique touches like oriental carpets and overstuffed lounge chairs, the spa’s mud-walled treatment rooms offer a wide range of massage and facial treatments..

Decked out in shades of sea foam and driftwood, the spa features two deluxe lounges and virtually every treatment under the Midtown sun.

The world famous skin care company’s flagship store comes complete with its own spa, an earthy location that recalls a country cottage and offers antioxidant full-body wraps and facials.

Acqua Beauty Bar founder Jamie Ahn’s latest venture is a three-story, 6,000 square foot monster of a spa and lounge. The first floor, immaculately decorated in onyx and light wooden features, sells an impressively large collection of high-end products. The second floor is devoted entirely to men’s treatments and shaves, with ample space for corporate outings. The third floor is an all women’s domain with private manicure spaces and treatments fit for royalty, like a milk-and-olive full-body bath.

The concept around this all-in-one health and beauty retreat on the park is a mishmash of Asian influences. Vinyasa yoga classes are held in a large mahogany room adjacent to the spa, contrasting with Exhale's glowing white everything. Sip Elemental tea while testing out the 15 different treatment rooms, where you can browse from a menu of acupuncture skin lifts, state-of-the-art tweezing, massage and meditative reiki.

Go the opposite route of most luxury hotel spas, which more often than not are found in basement or first-floor hideaways. Mandarin’s palace of rejuvenation sits sky high, 35 stories above Central Park. The pristine spa is sprawling, with a spacious unisex tea room that feeds into long corridors loaded with rooms for every treatment imaginable: Abhyanga massage, chakra balancing, Ayurvedic skin treatments, and plenty of other decadent Asian-influenced styles of pampering you’ve probably never heard of, but will undoubtedly return for.

Since opening its first location in 1991, Equinox has grown into the most recognized brand in the New York City luxury fitness world.

The trend that’s taken New York fitness by storm. SoulCycle weds spinning to the principles of yoga.

FlyWheel fosters an atmosphere of friendly competition. Stationary bikes are situated stadium seating-style, with the instructor in the orchestra pit-like space below and big screens blasting your performance stats...as well as those of your fellow riders.

The 2,500 square foot facility mixes up its program on a weekly basis, in accordance with the CrossFit ideology.

A $25k annual membership is said to afford you the most elite and personalized level of training that money can buy. From the moment you sign up, every aspect of your one-on-one workout regimen is tailored to your fitness goals. E is very likely the best gym in New York City, and for the price tag, it ought to be.

Gravity employs the revolutionary FitLinxx system to equip every one of its Nautilus machines with a robotic personal trainer. Additional facilities include a three-lane pool lavishly decorated with rich woods and white plush recliners, cozy spa rooms, and racquetball courts.

While most of New York’s gyms are located in veritable bunkers, every inch of the Mercedes Club’s 80,000 square foot space is drenched in sun thanks to wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling windows. If that’s not sunny enough, you also have the option of cycle and cardio classes and a large lap pool located on the outdoor patio. Like the car company that spawned the club, the Mercedes’ facilities and equipment are luxurious and state-of-the-art. Their spa specialty is the art of the massage, available indoors or out.

The sister location of the famous Parisian spa offers the same services as its original counterpart: massage-heavy facial treatments that emphasize hydration and promote everlasting beauty.

Husband and wife team Junius and Carmen Morgan operate a variety of private and group Zumba®, aerobics, and yoga classes, but they’re best known for their “Ready to Rumble BootCamp,” an intensive circuit training program that mixes boxing, running, and jumping both indoors and out.

Method is one of the most respected personalized training programs in town, providing a well-rounded and ultra-custom program for each client based around cardio, strength and nutrition.

Lamar Mckay is famous for his client-based approach, in which he develops an individualized and holistic training regimen around your specific goals, strengths, and weaknesses.

Stands for Strengthen, Lengthen, and Tone. Vital Juice founder Amanda Freeman’s unique program combines Pilates, cross-training, and cardio.

Like the name suggests, Mix offers a variety of traditional yoga styles in both personal and group formats. But the studio is most famous for its own creation, HIPrana ®, a combination of yoga and belly dancing that they claim provides wonderful prenatal benefits for expectant mothers.

Tamara Newell’s program is centered around a holistic approach to Pilates that includes healthy eating and emotional well being. Her body-sensitive classes are particularly popular with pregnant women.

Boasting NYC’s best rated Pilates program, Bent is known for its rigorous commitment to mind and body.

The 2,500 square foot studio takes up two floors of a historic townhouse, featuring cathedral ceilings and veteran instructors.

Karen Shipley, a Radio City Rockette, developed a cross training program of traditional Pilates and Gyrotonic, a machine-assisted form of yoga.

The 30,000 square foot club provides everything you’ll need: complimentary shorts, towel, and water bottle are included with every visit.

This small studio is the perfect place to begin your path toward a black belt in MMA or kickboxing. Their classes are praised for being unintimidating, yet hard-core, and accessible to adults and kids of all abilities and fitness levels.

Choreographer Tanya Becker’s famous clientele rave about her uniquely modified isometric training program: a combo of ballet, Pilates, and weight training.

Classes feature a core strengthening regimen that welds techniques from ballet, yoga, and low-impact strength exercises concentrating on hips, thighs, abdominal, seat, and arms.

Somewhere between yoga, strength training, and modern dance lives the increasingly popular Gyrotonic practice, focusing on Pilates-esque stretching assisted by specially designed machines and tools.

Modern dance paradigm-shifter Alvin Ailey's company not only continues to put on some of the most exciting shows in New York and around the world, but also offers instruction by the best in the business, for anyone who wants to move. For the seriously talented, the Ailey school offers BFA and MFA programs run by preeminent figures in the field. Of course, you'll have to try out for those. For everyone else there are classes and workshops at the Ailey Extension in the same building, where aspiring to expert-level dancers can hone their movements. Even at the beginner level, classes are taught by pros.

Founded in 1913, this private membership club has been the go-to court for many of America’s wealthiest tennis and squash enthusiasts. With three dining rooms, a billiard room, library, lounge, gymnasium, four squash courts, two tennis (real tennis) courts, and two racquets courts on Park Avenue, it’s possibly the fanciest zip code on Earth in which to pick up a game.

A hidden gem at Grand Central Station, The Vanderbilt Club offers instruction to players of all ages and abilities, as well as court time for private games.

This golf equipment and apparel store has a special treat in the back of the building: a small putting green and a virtual swinging cage where you hit a real ball against a specialized video screen that calculates speed, distance, and direction.

A full driving range in Manhattan?! Well, you'll tee up on Manhattan, on a four-tier range on the edge of the Hudson River, but your ball flies out onto a 200-yard artificial turf fairway atop one of the floating piers. No need to worry about dealing with a bucket of balls. All of the greens are equipped with ingeniously designed automatic tee systems. The club is open to the public, but a membership gets you reservation privileges and access to a private locker room.