InterContinental Dhaka

Few hotels are stitched into a nation's history like this one. Opened in 1966 as the original InterContinental Dacca, the hotel on Minto Road served as the press corps' base and a declared neutral zone during the 1971 Liberation War, and its public rooms have hosted most of the state occasions since. After decades as the Sheraton and Ruposhi Bangla, a multi-year gut renovation returned it to the InterContinental flag in 2018, and the result reads as a new hotel behind a historic name—marble, glass and contemporary polish on the same commanding site beside Ramna Park.

The location remains the best in Dhaka for anyone whose business is with the state: the Secretariat, Supreme Court, Dhaka Club and the university quarter are all adjacent, and the park supplies green views that most of the city's hotels cannot. Rooms are crisp and internationally specified, with club floors and park-facing suites the ones to book.

The hotel runs the city's most complete food-and-leisure programme: an ambitious all-day dining room, Italian and pan-Asian tables, an elegant lobby lounge, and a large outdoor pool with a spa and serious gym behind it. Service has the polish of a flagship that knows it is one. For history, position and full-service confidence in Dhaka, the InterContinental leads.