One of eight vibes
A building with a story. Once a palace, a monastery, a station.
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Brilliant execution. And we’re picky.
The Passenger Hostel
Rooms inside São Bento Station retain tall arched windows and original Beaux-Arts ironwork.
The Peabody Memphis
A 1925 Italian Renaissance Revival landmark on the National Register of Historic Places, steeped in musical lore.
The Peacock at Rowsley
A 1652 stone dower house with leaded windows and an inscribed entrance tympanum.
The Peninsula Istanbul
Three protected maritime landmarks anchor the waterfront grounds, including a 1937 passenger terminal.
The Peninsula Paris
A 1908 Belle Époque landmark where George Gershwin composed and the 1973 Paris Peace Accords were signed.
The Pfister Hotel
Built in 1893, holding the world's largest hotel collection of Victorian art.
The Phoenicia Malta
Art Deco limestone landmark opened in 1947, incorporating sixteenth-century fortress bastions.
The Pierre Hotel
A 1930 neo-Georgian tower by Schultze and Weaver rising forty-one stories directly across from Central Park.
The Pig-in the Cotswolds
A seventeenth-century rectory set within Rosemary Verey's celebrated Arts and Crafts ornamental gardens.
The Plaza Hotel Pioneer Park
Built in 1930 as a skyscraper retreat, once home to Elizabeth Taylor.
The Point
A 1930s Rockefeller Adirondack Great Camp preserving original log structures, hand-waxed native timber, and stone fireplaces.
The Potlatch Club
A restored mid-century hideaway where Paul McCartney wrote Beatles songs on hotel stationery in the 1919 clubhouse.
The Pucic Palace
A restored seventeenth-century baroque palace with its own private stone chapel.
The Qvest
The 1897 municipal archive building survived wartime bombings with its Gothic vaults intact.
The Read House Hotel, Downtown
A 1926 Georgian Revival landmark listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Relais Henley
A sixteenth-century coaching inn beside Henley Bridge, featuring exposed timber beams and King Charles I's coat of arms.
The Richardson Hotel
Red Medina sandstone towers and preserved psychiatric wards on forty Olmsted-designed parkland acres.
The Ritz-Carlton Georgetown, Washington, D.C.
Georgetown's former municipal incinerator retains its landmark 130-foot smokestack and original red brickwork.
The Ritz-Carlton Hotel
The 1909 Metropolitan Life headquarters preserves its neoclassical white stone facade and fluted columns.
The Ritz-Carlton Hotel de la Paix, Geneva
Hosting world peace congresses and European royalty on Lake Geneva since 1865.
The Ritz-Carlton New Orleans
Built in 1908, the former Maison Blanche department store retains white glazed terra-cotta facades.
The Ritz-Carlton, Montreal
First hotel worldwide to bear the Ritz-Carlton name, hosting historic figures since New Year's Eve 1912.
The Ritz-Carlton, Philadelphia
A 1904 Pantheon-inspired banking rotunda clad in thousands of tons of Georgia marble.
The Ritz-Carlton, Vienna
Four stitched-together nineteenth-century Ringstrasse palaces preserve ornate salon ceilings and original woodcarvings.
The Rookery
Restored 1764 Georgian townhouses featuring salvaged period wood panelling, flagstone floors, and open stone fireplaces.
The Roosevelt New Orleans, A Waldorf Astoria Hotel
Opened as the Grunewald in 1893, this landmark stretches an entire city block.
The Royal Hawaiian Resort
Built in 1927, this Spanish-Moorish palace once sheltered Marilyn Monroe and Hollywood royalty.
The Royal Horseguards Hotel
An 1884 Grade II* listed French chateau building that once housed Britain's Secret Intelligence Service headquarters.
The Royce Hotel
A 1928 Rolls-Royce showroom designed by Harry Norris, restored with original architectural details.
The Scotsman Hotel
A 1905 Category A listed Edwardian press headquarters with an Italian marble staircase.
The Scott
An eighteenth-century baronial mansion restored with crow-stepped gables and preserved ceiling frescoes.
The Sea Ranch Lodge
An original 1968 coastal timber landmark faithfully restored to honor the founding utopian community design principles.
The Setai Tel Aviv
A restored twelfth-century Crusader fortress and Ottoman prison, complete with original stone corridors and royal sultan seals.
The Shelborne By Proper
Preserved Art Deco facades and a 1950s diving platform anchor the oceanfront landmark.
Gold. Extremely rare. Sets the global standard.
Silver. Brilliant execution. And we’re picky.
Bronze. They did this well. You’ll notice.
Listed. A defining trait. Makes the hotel what it is.
Design. Built around a vision. Even the door handles have a designer.
Luxe. Cared for at every turn. The bath is drawn before you ask.
Local. It could only be here. You wake up knowing where you are.
Heritage. A building with a story. Once a palace, a monastery, a station.
Wellness. You leave feeling new. Rest, sweat, soak and sleep like a stone.
Classic. The city grew up with it. Same rituals, same regulars, same bar.
Resort. A world of its own. Something to do from breakfast to nightcap.