Here is the awkward truth about vegan hotels in New York: there isn't one in New York City. Not a single fully vegan hotel in the five boroughs, in a city with hundreds of vegan and vegetarian restaurants, Michelin-recognized vegan dining, and vegan dessert shops in half its neighborhoods. Costa Rica has the Mother Earth Vegan Hotel. Italy has two. New York City has a vegetarian guesthouse on the Lower East Side and a lot of hotels that happen to do vegan food well.
New York State is where it gets good. Three fully vegan places to stay sit upstate, and one of them puts you next door to several hundred rescued farm animals. This guide covers all three, the New York City hotels genuinely worth booking as a vegan, and the toiletries question most guides skip.
Is there a fully vegan hotel in New York City?
No. As of 2026, no hotel in New York City is fully vegan. The closest match in Manhattan is Sanctuary NYC Retreats, a vegetarian guesthouse on the Lower East Side. For a completely vegan stay you need to leave the city: The Gray Barn is about two hours north, Song of the Robin around two and a half, and Black Sheep Inn closer to five.
It is a strange gap, and someone will fill it eventually. Until then, here is how the options break down.
The fully vegan places to stay in New York State
All three of these run fully vegan kitchens. Two are attached to animal sanctuaries. None of them are in the city, which is either a drawback or the entire point, depending on the trip you want.
The Gray Barn at Woodstock Farm Sanctuary, High Falls
The Gray Barn sits on the grounds of Woodstock Farm Sanctuary in High Falls, in the Hudson Valley, about two hours from the city. (Not in the town of Woodstock, which catches people out.) Five rooms, each named after a rescued animal who lives at the sanctuary, each with its own bathroom and a private terrace looking toward the Shawangunk Mountains.
The whole property is vegan as policy, not just the kitchen. Guests are asked not to bring any animal products onto the grounds at all. Breakfast is cooked fresh each morning and served from 8:30 in the communal space, and every stay includes a private tour of the sanctuary and its few hundred rescued residents. You can wander the grounds all day, and plenty of the residents will come to the fence for scratches. In winter the inn lends out yak tracks for icy paths; there are yoga mats year round.
Now the booking quirks, because there are a few. Stays are a member benefit, so you join Woodstock Farm Sanctuary before booking. Memberships start at around $46 a year and the money goes to animal care, so it is less a fee than a donation with perks. The inn runs Thursday to Sunday, February through December. Individual room bookings are for guests aged 12 and over, though families with younger children can rent the whole inn. No pets, including emotional support animals. Bookings for each year open the previous June and go quickly, so plan ahead.
If you only do one stay from this list, do this one. Waking up to goats grazing outside your terrace is not something a Manhattan hotel can price in.
Song of the Robin, New Lebanon (formerly Red Robin Song Guest House)
If you have read about this place before, it was probably under its old name. The Red Robin Song Guest House renamed to Song of the Robin, and most of the guides still ranking for it have not caught up. Same property: a vegan bed and breakfast on 85 acres in New Lebanon, on the New York side of the Berkshires, around two and a half to three hours from the city.
The land doubles as the Song of the Robin Animal Sanctuary, plus a beaver rescue, which is not a sentence you get to write about many hotels. Rooms overlook the pasture where the goats, yaks, mini horse and mini donkey live, and a stay includes a sanctuary tour and forest walks with the dogs. The surrounding woods hold deer, foxes, porcupines and lots of birds, and the property connects to hundreds of acres of public conservancy trails. Hand Hollow Conservation Area is walkable; get to the small lake at sunrise and you may see the beavers.
Breakfast is vegan and homemade. Guests share a great room with a big fireplace and space for groups, which makes it a great place for family get-togethers as well as couples. Jiminy Peak ski resort and Tanglewood are both minutes away, so it works in winter and summer. You do not need to be vegan to stay. You do need to like animals, but if you did not, why would you be here?
Black Sheep Inn and Spa, Hammondsport
The geographic outlier. Black Sheep Inn is in Hammondsport at the southern tip of Keuka Lake, in the Finger Lakes, which puts it four and a half to five hours from Manhattan. Book it as the base for a Finger Lakes trip rather than a side trip from the city.
It is worth the drive. The building is an 1859 octagonal house on the National Register of Historic Places, with six en-suite rooms, run since 2020 by Miranda and Simon, a British couple whose fully plant-based breakfast menu gets rave reviews from non-vegan guests in particular. They will pack you a vegan picnic lunch for a day on the Keuka Lake Wine Trail, arrange wine tours through Simon's concierge service, and book you a massage in the on-site spa. Adults only, which suits the mood of the place: this one is about relaxation, wine and food rather than animals.
One practical note. The inn now markets itself to all travelers rather than leading with the vegan angle, so confirm the current breakfast setup when you book if it matters to your trip. As of mid 2026 the kitchen is still fully plant-based.
How the three compare
| The Gray Barn | Song of the Robin | Black Sheep Inn | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Region | Hudson Valley (High Falls) | Berkshires (New Lebanon) | Finger Lakes (Hammondsport) |
| Drive from NYC | Around 2 hours | 2.5 to 3 hours | 4.5 to 5 hours |
| Rooms | 5, each named after a rescued animal | 3, plus a shared great room | 6, all en suite |
| The catch | Membership required (from about $46 a year); Thursday to Sunday only; guests 12 and over | Small, so dates go fast | Adults only; a long way from the city |
| Book it for | The sanctuary experience | Animals, hiking and quiet | A Finger Lakes wine and spa trip |
Sanctuary NYC Retreats: the nearest thing in Manhattan
Sanctuary NYC Retreats is a small vegetarian guesthouse on the Lower East Side, a few minutes' walk from the Essex Street subway and, in one of New York's better jokes, about five minutes from Katz's Delicatessen. It is the only meat-free accommodation in Manhattan. The rooms are aparthotel style with kitchens, so cooking fully vegan meals for yourself is easy. The house rule is simple: no meat or fish on the premises.
Be clear about what it is, though. This is a vegetarian facility with a spiritual character, not a vegan hotel. There is a yoga studio downstairs with classes included, each room comes with a small library on the Bhagavad Gita, and guests can volunteer with Food for Life, a community program feeding people in Tompkins Square Park over in the East Village. Reviewers love the calm, the kitchens and the price for the location; a few are surprised by the vibe. If a retreat from city life in the middle of the Lower East Side sounds right, nothing else in Manhattan offers that experience. If you just want a hotel, keep reading.
The best vegan-friendly hotels in New York City
The bar here is actual vegan food on the property, not proximity to vegan restaurants. Every hotel in Manhattan is near vegan restaurants. These are the ones where the kitchen has done the work.
Tempo by Hilton Times Square
Tempo opened in August 2023 in the TSX Broadway tower and has quietly become the hotel vegan travel writer Diana Edelman recommends for Times Square. It is a wellness hotel first: you can book a wellness room with a Peloton bike, yoga mats and resistance bands, the beds are built for serious sleep with blackout everything, and a Calm partnership covers meditation content for powering down.
Highball, the 11th floor restaurant and bar, has the largest outdoor terrace in Times Square and an unusually serious non-alcoholic drinks program built on Lyre's, with mocktails made to mirror their cocktail counterparts. The food menu is American with plant-based options rather than a dedicated vegan menu, so this is a hotel that accommodates a plant based diet well, not one built around it. For breakfast, the Bluestone Lane grab-and-go downstairs covers juices, fruit and salads. If you want to be inside the chaos of Times Square but sleep like you are not, this is the one to book.
1 Hotel Central Park and 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge
The 1 Hotels pair are the sustainability heavyweights, and both kitchens treat vegans as expected guests rather than a special request. At 1 Hotel Central Park, a block from the park itself, the restaurant Jams serves vegan dishes all day: peanut butter and chocolate overnight oats at breakfast, then roasted cauliflower with whipped vegan feta, beet tartare and a smoky tomato chickpea stew at dinner. Seasonal fruit sits at the lobby farm stand around the clock, the bath products are cruelty-free and come in refillable bottles, and the building is LEED certified and carbon neutral. Dogs are welcome too.
1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge does the same thing with a better view. It sits on the East River at 60 Furman Street with the Manhattan skyline out the window, a rooftop bar to watch it from, and vegan options across The Osprey's dinner menu, the roasted maitake mushrooms being the standout. Neighbors, the cafe downstairs, handles overnight oats and avocado toast in the morning. Between the two: Central Park for a first visit, Brooklyn for the view and calmer surroundings.
Arlo SoHo and Arlo NoMad
Arlo runs two micro-hotels in Manhattan, and SoHo is the better option for food. Lindens, its restaurant, serves possibly the best vegan breakfast lineup at any non-vegan hotel in the city, including a proper vegan take on the bodega sausage, egg and cheese, built with Impossible sausage and Just Egg. Lunch and dinner add pasta pomodoro and spiced cauliflower. Rooms are compact but well designed, there are free loaner bikes, and the in-room toiletries are Blind Barber, a cruelty-free range. You are in walking distance of the West Village and Greenwich Village for dinner, with Urban Vegan Kitchen and The Butcher's Daughter nearby, and the SoHo shopping is out the front door. There is even an on-site bodega for late-night snacks.
Arlo NoMad is the same idea in Midtown, an easy walk to the Empire State Building, Madison Square Garden and Bryant Park. Lamalo, the Middle Eastern restaurant on site, is strong on vegan dinner options, with the vegetables doing the heavy lifting the way Middle Eastern menus tend to. Breakfast is weaker than SoHo's. The rooftop bar has one of the better skyline views in Midtown for the price of a drink.
The Benjamin Royal Sonesta
The Benjamin is a Midtown East boutique hotel that redesigned itself around rest, with sleep researcher Dr. Rebecca Robbins consulting on the details: a pillow menu, on-demand meditation, sleep masks, proper blackout curtains. For anyone who finds New York City exhausting, which is everyone, selling comfort itself is a smart move.
The food side holds up. The menus come from Food Network chef Geoffrey Zakarian and carry multiple vegan dishes, with much of the produce sourced through a farm-to-table program that includes fruit trees on the property. Some rooms have kitchenettes, useful if you like keeping your own snacks and plant milk in the room. Beyond Sushi and Le Botaniste are both a short walk away when you want a fully vegan restaurant for dinner.
Vegan and cruelty-free toiletries: what to check before you book
Vegan hospitality is more than the menu, and this is where most hotels, and most guides, go quiet. Two things to check before you book: the toiletries and the bedding.
On toiletries, a few of the hotels above have it handled. 1 Hotels stock cruelty-free products in refillable bottles, Arlo uses Blind Barber, and Tempo stocks Apotheke, the Brooklyn apothecary brand. Among the big chains, PETA has previously listed Even Hotels, Fairmont, Hyatt and several Marriott brands, including Courtyard, Residence Inn, SpringHill Suites and Renaissance, as using cruelty-free toiletries, and Marriott's Moxy brand runs down-free bedding as standard. Those lists age fast, so treat them as a starting point rather than a guarantee, and remember cruelty-free is not the same as vegan: lanolin and beeswax still turn up in cruelty-free products.
On bedding, down pillows and duvets remain the default at plenty of upscale New York hotels. Most large chains keep down-free alternatives if you ask, but the ask has to happen before arrival. One line in the booking notes solves it: please make up the room with down-free bedding. If the hotel cannot confirm, that tells you something too.
Where to stay, by trip
| The trip | Book this |
|---|---|
| First visit, everything walkable | Arlo NoMad |
| Times Square without the sensory damage | Tempo by Hilton Times Square |
| Luxury near Central Park | 1 Hotel Central Park |
| Brooklyn base with skyline views | 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge |
| Downtown food and shopping | Arlo SoHo |
| Self-catering on a budget | Sanctuary NYC Retreats |
| Sleep quality above all | The Benjamin Royal Sonesta |
| A weekend out of the city | The Gray Barn |
| Full vegan immersion with animals | Song of the Robin |
| A Finger Lakes wine trip | Black Sheep Inn and Spa |
A rough rule for first-timers deciding between neighborhoods: Midtown puts you close to the sights and Broadway, downtown puts you close to the food. The Lower East Side and East Village have the highest density of vegan cafes and restaurants in the city, SoHo covers shopping, and Greenwich Village is the pick for a slow dinner. Booking information for the upstate properties changes seasonally, so always check availability direct before building a trip around them.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is there a fully vegan hotel in NYC?
No. New York City has no fully vegan hotel as of 2026. Sanctuary NYC Retreats on the Lower East Side is vegetarian, and several hotels serve strong vegan menus, but for a completely vegan operation you need to head upstate to The Gray Barn, Song of the Robin or Black Sheep Inn.
What is the closest fully vegan hotel to New York City?
The Gray Barn at Woodstock Farm Sanctuary in High Falls, about 90 miles and two hours from Manhattan. The whole property is vegan, down to a no-animal-products policy on the grounds. You need a Woodstock Farm Sanctuary membership to book, which starts at around $46 a year and funds the animals' care.
Can I stay at these vegan hotels if I am not vegan?
Yes. All three upstate properties welcome non-vegan visitors; you simply eat vegan while you are there, and at The Gray Barn you are asked not to bring animal products onto the grounds. Reviews from non-vegan guests are consistently positive, particularly about the breakfasts at Black Sheep Inn.
Do any New York hotels use vegan toiletries?
Several stock cruelty-free ranges: 1 Hotels use refillable cruelty-free products, Arlo stocks Blind Barber, and Tempo by Hilton uses Apotheke. Cruelty-free does not always mean fully vegan, so check individual products if ingredients matter to you, and request down-free bedding before you arrive.
Is Sanctuary NYC Retreats vegan?
No, it is a 100% vegetarian facility rather than a vegan one. No meat or fish is allowed on the premises, and the in-room kitchens make fully vegan self-catering easy, but dairy and eggs are permitted. It is the closest thing Manhattan currently has to a plant-based place to stay.
New York will get a fully vegan hotel eventually; the demand is obviously there. When it happens, this page gets updated the same week. Until then, the goats at High Falls are waiting.