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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North America
City icons, desert resorts and Pacific escapes.
44 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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Beach Resort
Riviera Maya, Mexico
9.0
Hotel Esencia
A former duchess's estate on Xpu-Ha beach turned fashion-crowd hideaway, all white minimalism, jungle gardens and barefoot exclusivity.
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Wellness Retreat
Pérez Zeledón, Costa Rica
9.0
Hacienda AltaGracia, Auberge Resorts Collection
A highland wellness estate above the Valle de El General, where Auberge pairs casita luxury with one of Latin America's largest destination spas.
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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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Lakeside Hotel
Santa Catarina Palopó, Guatemala
8.9
Casa Palopó
A collector's villa above Lake Atitlán turned Relais & Châteaux hideaway, with volcano views that justify Guatemala's most painted lake.
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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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City Hotel
Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala
8.8
Hotel Museo Casa Santo Domingo
A seventeenth-century Dominican monastery in Antigua transformed into Central America's most atmospheric heritage hotel, part museum and part candlelit retreat.
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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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Beach Resort
Placencia, Belize
8.7
Turtle Inn, A Family Coppola Hideaway
Francis Ford Coppola's Balinese-built beach village on the Placencia peninsula, where thatched villas open straight onto Caribbean sand.
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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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Beach Resort
San Pedro, Belize
8.6
Victoria House Resort & Spa
Ambergris Caye's plantation-style classic on a palm-lined private beach, minutes by boat from the Belize Barrier Reef.
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City Hotel
Panama City, Panama
8.5
American Trade Hotel
A 1917 landmark on Casco Viejo's Plaza Herrera revived as the old quarter's design flagship, jazz club included.
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Lakeside Hotel
Granada, Nicaragua
8.5
Jicaro Island Lodge
A private-island eco-lodge in Lake Nicaragua's isletas, ten minutes by boat from Granada with volcano views from every casita.
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Beach Resort
Roatán, Honduras
8.5
Kimpton Grand Roatán Resort & Spa
Roatán's first true luxury resort, opened in 2023 on the powder sand of West Bay with the Mesoamerican Reef a fin-kick offshore.
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Country House
San Ignacio, Belize
8.4
The Lodge at Chaa Creek
Belize's pioneering jungle lodge on a private rainforest reserve beside the Macal River, close to caves, ruins and the Maya heartland.
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City Hotel
Panama City, Panama
8.3
The Bristol Panama
Panama City's discreet grande dame in the banking district, prized for butler service and refined Panamanian dining at Salsipuedes.
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City Hotel
San Salvador, El Salvador
8.3
Hyatt Centric San Salvador
The sharpest hotel in the Salvadoran capital: a contemporary tower in the Zona Rosa with a rooftop pool facing the San Salvador volcano.
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City Hotel
Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala
8.3
El Convento Boutique Hotel
An intimate colonial-style boutique opposite the Capuchinas convent ruins, pairing suite-sized rooms with rooftop volcano views.
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Beach Resort
Roatán, Honduras
8.2
Ibagari Boutique Hotel
An intimate design-led boutique on Roatán's West Bay shoreline, trading resort scale for privacy, personal service and reef access.
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City Hotel
Granada, Nicaragua
8.1
Hotel Plaza Colón
Granada's stateliest address: a colonial mansion on the Parque Central whose balconies overlook the cathedral and the city's painted facades.
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Lakeside Hotel
Lago de Coatepeque, El Salvador
8.1
Cardedeu
A clifftop boutique on the rim of the Coatepeque crater lake, pairing minimalist suites with the country's most scenic dining terrace.
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City Hotel
San Salvador, El Salvador
7.9
Barceló San Salvador
A landmark tower on Avenida Revolución combining the capital's largest event spaces with dependable upper-tier comfort.
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City Hotel
Tegucigalpa, Honduras
7.9
Real InterContinental Tegucigalpa
The Honduran capital's established business flagship beside the Multiplaza mall, delivering dependable international comfort and security.
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City Hotel
Managua, Nicaragua
7.8
Real InterContinental Metrocentro Managua
Managua's established international flagship beside the Metrocentro mall, the capital's reliable hub for business and stopovers.
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