Equinox Hotels Is Finally Expanding. It’s Betting on Sleep

For $1,700 a night with a two-night minimum, Equinox Hotel New York will watch you sleep, score it, and share the results with a neuroscientist.

It’s the Sleep Lab, four Premier King rooms wired like a clinical trial, with an adaptive mattress, a contrast-therapy shower whose ice setting drops to 46 degrees — the industry’s cold plunge usually stops at a polite 50 — and a bedside device that assesses your sleep quality each morning. The hardware is only part of the story. The headline is Matthew Walker, the Berkeley neuroscientist and Why We Sleep author whose name now functions as a wellness imprimatur somewhere between a peer review and a Huberman episode. Guests enroll in his studies; the results go into something Equinox Hotels calls, without apparent irony, the Data Vault.

It would be easy to read the Sleep Lab as a wellness stunt. It’s closer to a statement of intent. After seven years as essentially a one-hotel company, Equinox Hotels is finally e