The Fairmont Hamilton Princess: Hamilton, Bermuda
If you’ve ever stayed at a Fairmont hotel, you know the rooms. Of course, the décor differs according to locale, but you can expect oversized chairs and large beds with big headboards. A suite at the Fairmont Hamilton Princess gets you a lovely sitting…
W Hotel Montreal: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Either you receive a relatively large room (with W’s slightly irritating monikers such as Cozy, Wonderful, Mega, Wow and Extreme Wow) with a view of the neighboring office building and its atrium (Hello, cute clerical staff boy— wanna come over for a…
Cafe Luxembourg: New York, New York
After nearly twenty-five years, Cafe Luxembourg’s glow has not diminished. There’s an energy immediately palpable upon entering the lovely room with its red leather banquettes and rattan bistro chairs and, for spring, huge floral arrangements…
Hotel Continentale: Florence, Italy
The rooms are a vision in white: sheer white curtains around the immaculately-dressed (Frette) white bed, and sheer white curtains billowing around the open windows, and white Frette bed mats and white Frette slippers and white Frette bathrobes—and all…
Hotel Bel-Ami: Paris, France
In a city notorious for les petites chambres, surely this room was the smallest of them all. We’d only just landed in Paris after a long-delayed flight—and now here we were, cramped in a dormer room with slanting ceilings and a bed that kept hitting our…
Hotel Nelligan: Montreal, Canada
Located in two early nineteenth-century stone buildings on rue St. Paul Ouest (which flanks the St. Lawrence River), the Nelligan’s suites include fireplaces—and given that we don’t have a fireplace at our domicile, we were thrilled to find out upon…
The Raleigh Hotel: Miami Beach, Florida
First of all, consider that the Raleigh’s icon is a pink elk astride the Raleigh shield: in other words, a bit of the rustic in the land of chic coral pink. The rooms take getting used to. Think Adirondacks cabin. The terrazzo floors are original—but…
The Albion: Miami Beach, Florida
Is there any better hotel greeting than “You’ve been upgraded?” Actually, there is, and it goes like this: “We hope you don’t mind, but there’s been a room change, and we’re upgrading you to a penthouse suite.” For a moment, we almost think it’s a joke.…