City Hotel
New York, United States
9.4
Aman New York
A hushed urban sanctuary inside the Crown Building on Fifth Avenue, where every room has a fireplace and the spa spans three floors.
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Region
North America
City icons, desert resorts and Pacific escapes.
25 hotels profiled in North America
Beach Resort
Kailua-Kona, United States
9.3
Four Seasons Resort Hualalai
Hawaii's most complete luxury resort spreads low bungalows across Kona lava fields, with seven pools, championship golf and deep Hawaiian culture.
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City Hotel
New York, United States
9.3
The St. Regis New York
John Jacob Astor IV's 1904 Beaux-Arts flagship on Fifth Avenue, where butler service and the King Cole Bar keep Gilded Age Manhattan alive.
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City Hotel
New York, United States
9.2
The Carlyle, A Rosewood Hotel
An Art Deco tower on Madison Avenue that has been the discreet Upper East Side refuge of presidents, royals and jazz lovers since 1930.
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Resort
Palm Beach, United States
9.2
The Breakers
Henry Flagler's oceanfront Italian Renaissance palace of 1926, still family-owned and still the social anchor of Palm Beach.
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Lakeside Hotel
Lake Louise, Canada
9.2
Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise
The century-old railway chateau on the shore of Lake Louise, facing turquoise water and the Victoria Glacier in the heart of Banff National Park.
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Beach Resort
San Diego, United States
9.1
Hotel del Coronado
The red-turreted Victorian queen of Coronado Island, an 1888 wooden beach palace that Hollywood and holidaying families have adored for over a century.
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Resort
Mackinac Island, United States
9.1
Grand Hotel
The 1887 summer palace of the Great Lakes, famed for the world's longest front porch on a car-free island reached by ferry.
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Resort
Los Angeles, United States
9.0
The Beverly Hills Hotel
The 'Pink Palace' on Sunset Boulevard, serving banana-leaf wallpaper, bungalow legend and old-Hollywood poolside ritual since 1912.
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City Hotel
New York, United States
9.0
Waldorf Astoria New York
The Art Deco colossus of Park Avenue, returned to service after a monumental restoration of its 1931 landmark interiors.
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Ski Hotel
Banff, Canada
9.0
Fairmont Banff Springs
The 'Castle in the Rockies', a baronial railway hotel of 1888 vintage commanding the Bow Valley in Banff National Park.
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Resort
White Sulphur Springs, United States
9.0
The Greenbrier
America's grand resort in the Allegheny Mountains, taking the waters since 1778 and famously concealing a Cold War bunker for Congress.
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Lakeside Hotel
New Paltz, United States
9.0
Mohonk Mountain House
A Victorian castle on a glacial lake in the Shawangunk Mountains, run by the same family since 1869 with meals and activities included.
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Beach Resort
Honolulu, United States
9.0
The Royal Hawaiian
Waikiki's 1927 'Pink Palace of the Pacific', a Spanish-Moorish landmark on the sand from the golden age of ocean-liner travel.
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City Hotel
Québec City, Canada
8.9
Fairmont Le Château Frontenac
The turreted château above the St Lawrence that defines the Québec City skyline and claims the title of the world's most photographed hotel.
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City Hotel
New York, United States
8.8
The Plaza
The 1907 French Renaissance landmark at Central Park's corner, forever entwined with Eloise, Gatsby glamour and gilded New York occasion.
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City Hotel
Mexico City, Mexico
8.8
Four Seasons Hotel Mexico City
A hacienda-style palace wrapped around a lush courtyard garden on Paseo de la Reforma, steps from Chapultepec Park.
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Beach Resort
Miami Beach, United States
8.8
Faena Hotel Miami Beach
A gold-columned, red-velvet spectacle in Mid-Beach where art, cabaret and oceanfront glamour collide into Miami's most theatrical hotel.
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City Hotel
Washington DC, United States
8.8
The Willard InterContinental
The Beaux-Arts 'residence of presidents' two blocks from the White House, where American political history has unfolded in the lobby since the 19th century.
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Resort
Las Vegas, United States
8.7
Wynn Las Vegas
The Strip's most consistently polished mega-resort, pairing flower-filled maximalism with five-star service, top dining and an on-Strip golf course.
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City Hotel
Los Angeles, United States
8.7
Chateau Marmont
The Loire-styled castle above Sunset Boulevard that has sheltered Hollywood's secrets, romances and reinventions since 1929.
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City Hotel
San Francisco, United States
8.7
Fairmont San Francisco
The Nob Hill grande dame that survived the 1906 earthquake, hosted the drafting of the UN Charter and still crowns the city's cable-car summit.
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City Hotel
Chicago, United States
8.6
The Drake
Chicago's 1920 Gold Coast grande dame at the top of the Magnificent Mile, where Lake Michigan meets a century of Palm Court tradition.
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City Hotel
New Orleans, United States
8.6
The Roosevelt New Orleans
A gilded Southern institution a block from the French Quarter, home of the Sazerac Bar and a century of Louisiana political and musical lore.
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City Hotel
Boston, United States
8.6
Fairmont Copley Plaza
Boston's 1912 Beaux-Arts grande dame on Copley Square, designed by the architect of New York's Plaza and gilded to match.
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