Hotels

Standard Design Hotel Paris

The budget boutique has come to Paris. As improbable as it may seem in a city where high prices and high opulence rule the day, the Standard Design Hotel is a pared-down contemporary-design boutique hotel — in fact it’s reminiscent in terms of aesthetics and atmosphere of the similarly-named (but...

Hotel Pont Royal

Time was, in the early years of the last century, the Pont Royal was a haunt for literary types — this, of course, back when Paris was the destination of choice for writers in any language. Today it’s known for creation of a different sort; not only is it an intimate 75-room luxury boutique hotel...

Grosvenor House West Marina Beach By Le Meridien, Dubai

Please note: Due to the development work currently ongoing at the Dubai Marina, which is located near the hotel, there may be some noise disturbance caused around the hotel. Sea view rooms are not affected. It’s named for the classic Grosvenor House in London, but the Dubai versi...

Viceroy Palm Springs

It seems everything old becomes new again someday; who’d have thought geriatric Palm Springs could relive its glamorous glory days? Yet that’s just what’s happening, as a new generation of Angelenos skips out on Beverly Hills and heads inland to this desert oasis hideaway. And in Palm Springs, it...

Hotel Lisboa Plaza

Just off the the Avenida da Liberdade, the main boulevard in Lisbon’s city center, lies the fifty-year-old Hotel Lisboa Plaza, a classic family-owned hotel housed in a listed historic monument, behind a charming Art Nouveau facade. Here you’re within walking distance of the best of ce...

The Ritz-Carlton New Orleans

In a city filled with opulent manors and gleaming white columns, the Ritz-Carlton has found the ideal setting for its own tried-and-true formula for classic luxury. Don’t expect any funky twists on the chain’s standards, like the black terrazzo floors at the South Beach branch or the ...

42 The Calls

It may seem a perplexing name for a hotel, but The Calls is the name of an old cobbled street down by Leeds' waterfront, and 42 is, true to current style, merely the street address. The building was once home to a corn mill, and the city's riverfront area, though resurgent, bears strong remnants ...

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...

Baudon De Mauny

Please note: Baudon de Mauny has a 2 night minimum stay policy. If the South of France, for you, is simply shorthand for Provence and the Riviera, then there’s another world you’re missing out on. Not the vibrant old sailors’ city of Marseille — though you should make sure you...

Hotel Ormelune

Please note: this hotel is seasonal, and is open from December until the end of April. Our Tablet Spy program offers the chance to get early looks at the most promising new hotels. If you’re interested in staying in a hotel that’s just been opened, then you’ll be rewarded with ...

Le Meridien Stuttgart

For a city of its size, Stuttgart has perhaps more need than most for top-notch business accommodations. This is the home of Porsche and Daimler after all, among other auto companies, as well as any number of tech companies and research institutes — and that kind of brain power tends to travel in...

Faena Hotel And Universe

Buenos Aires’s new Faena Hotel + Universe, brainchild of Argentinean fashion designer Alan Faena, has been making some big waves, as much for the ambition of its universe-spanning concept as for its design, courtesy of a rather familiar name: Philippe Starck.Largely absent, though, is the ...

Eastwest Geneva

At first blush a Swiss luxury hotel seemingly named after a series of trade agreements might not sound like the most thrilling proposition. But Geneva is a town of subtler charms, and the same can be said for the Eastwest Hotel — which, to be fair, is rather more likely to have got its name from ...

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St. George Roma

Rome offers up so much history that it’s sometimes hard for the traveler to remember that, antiquity aside, Rome is a completely current and connected city too. It’s a cosmopolitan town fueled more by academia and the film business than by industry, and top-rate hotels usually aim for grandiloque...

Solar Do Castelo

The Castelo, of course, is St George's Castle, once a fortress and now a walled-off, pedestrians-only district, and one of Lisbon's hippest — the coolest shops, bars, and cafes are within walking distance of Solar do Castelo. The hotel itself occupies an 18th-century mansion, itself bu...