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The Hotel Arts Barcelona

One hundred yards from the Mediterranean, Barcelona’s Hotel Arts is the tallest building in Spain, and possibly the most over-the-top hotel in Western Europe. This 44-floor skyscraper is striking enough from the outside, its inside-out steel superstructure gleaming in the sun, but the insid...

Hotel Vertigo

Back when it was called the Empire, this downtown San Francisco classic played a role in Hitchcock’s Vertigo. Now, after a very thorough renovation and re-branding, the film plays on a loop in the lobby. Recently, as the York, it was showing its age — but that was before the reins were handed to ...

Tschuggen Grand Hotel

Please note: Tschuggen Grand Hotel is closed for the season from April 14th through June 26th. For 70-odd years this top-class Swiss mountain resort was strictly a ski-season getaway. But Arosa isn’t just for skiers anymore: as travelers everywhere embrace the sporting life, mou...

Gramercy Park Hotel

About the Gramercy Park Hotel: Gramercy Park Hotel is the latest luxury boutique hotel in New York from Ian Schrager. It is located on the private Gramercy Park, steps from Union Square and slightly below the Midtown area. The hotel features 2 bars (Rose Bar & Jade Bar) and a private ro...

The Listel Hotel

Don’t let the slightly anonymous exterior put you off: once you’re inside, the Listel is one of Vancouver’s most stylish hotels. It’s a local favorite not just for its design — most boutique hotels these days can afford some decent modern furniture — but for its personality, something that many h...

The Mansfield Hotel

In New York real estate circles the word “prewar” is one that holds a special significance. This is the era stretching back from the start of the Second World War to, for all practical purposes, roughly the dawn of the 20th century. When buildings were buildings, elevators had attendants...

The Talbott Hotel

Though it’s easy enough to forget, there’s no law of nature that says a small, independently owned urban boutique hotel has to look like something out of a design competition. The Talbott Hotel, on Chicago’s Gold Coast, is a throwback to another era, in this case the 1920s, a time before multinat...

Carlo IV

You may find yourself phoning the front desk just to hear a Czech voice reminding you you’re not in Rome or Milan. The Boscolo hotel family has expanded, and this newest offering brings a touch of Italian style to downtown Prague. Italian and international, really, given the invo...

The Pure Hotel

The Pure’s former life as a textile factory leaves little trace on what’s now Frankfurt’s sleekest hotel. There’s nothing you’d call industrial-chic, no exposed brick or metalwork or funky old doors: this place is as smooth and white and cool as an eggshell. White ma...

Blancaneaux Lodge

There was a time when the fact that the film director Francis Ford Coppola had a special fondness for the jungles of Belize would have simply been celebrity gossip, or Hollywood trivia. But now that he’s opened his holdings to the paying public, it’s a matter for the travel pages. Blan...

The Ritz-Carlton Osaka

One might expect a Japanese Ritz-Carlton to set aside the company style book and make some concessions to the local traditions. But one would be wrong. The only thing distinctly Japanese about the Ritz-Carlton Osaka is the fact that it occupies the upper floors of a mixed-use high-rise building —...

Hotel Stein

So effectively does Salzburg trade on the fact of having been Mozart’s birthplace that its more immediate charms are easily overlooked. But Amadeus or no Amadeus, the fact remains that Salzburg is a picturesque, ancient Alpine town, in the heart of Austria, one of western Europe’s most livable co...

The Ivy Hotel

Yes, this is the hotel with the stripper pole. Granted, it’s only in one room (the so very over-the-top Star Suite, complete with fuzzy plush king-size bunk beds and mirrored bedroom floor), but it goes a long way towards illustrating what sort of place the Ivy is. As in, maybe not the ideal plac...

Sofitel Lisbon Liberdade

Right on the Avenida Da Liberdade, the Sofitel isn’t exactly off the beaten path — but don’t hold that against it. We tend to shy away from the big luxury chains, in most cases, because while they typically offer methodical and attentive service (a big plus, obviously) there’s usually little to d...

Mandarin Oriental Boston

It may have been a long time coming but this new Mandarin Oriental, on Boylston Street in the upscale Back Bay, was exactly what Boston needed. It’s not simply that it’s a high-end luxury hotel — this town’s already got a few of those — but it’s the obsessive attention to the finer points of styl...

Cadogan Hotel

About Cadogan Hotel:The Cadogan Hotel is a luxury boutique hotel located between London's Knightsbridge area and Sloane Square. The Cadogan Hotel is a short stroll from Buckingham Palace, Green Park and the Natural History Museum as well as local restaurants. Tablet Ho...