One of eight vibes
A building with a story. Once a palace, a monastery, a station.
36 hotels on this page
They did this well. You’ll notice.
Room Mate Bruno, Rotterdam
A nineteenth-century Dutch spice and tea warehouse complete with preserved cargo doors.
Room Mate Collection Alba
A seventeenth-century carriage entrance and central courtyard anchor the restored building.
Room Mate Collection Isabella, Florence
A nineteenth-century palazzina where Dostoevsky slept, above Guccio Gucci's original 1921 workshop.
Rooms Batumi
A restored nineteenth-century brick building, once a historic hotel and administrative landmark, anchors the Old Town streetscape.
Rooms Kazbegi
An abandoned Soviet sanatorium for party elites revived into a design lodge.
Rooms Tbilisi
Preserved printing-press architecture keeps its mid-century industrial character with original metro tiles and exposed brickwork intact.
ROOST Cleveland
Apartments occupy the 1915 May Company department store designed by Daniel Burnham.
Rosewood Vienna
Four interconnected nineteenth-century buildings center on Alois Pichl's grand 1835 bank headquarters.
Rothay Manor Hotel
A Grade II listed Regency residence retains its distinctive French cast-iron veranda.
Royal Emeraude Hotel Dinard - MGallery Collection
An 1892 seaside villa retaining its original Belle Époque iron-and-glass conservatory.
Royal Hotel Sanremo
An 1872 grand hotel overlooking the Corso Imperatrice promenade and Ligurian coast.
Royal Palms Resort and Spa
Private 1929 Spanish Colonial estate opened to resort guests in 1948.
Ruby Lissi Hotel Vienna by IHG
An eighteenth-century listed former monastery building along the historic Fleischmarkt street.
Ruby Luna Hotel Dusseldorf by IHG
A landmark 1962 Commerzbank tower designed by architect Paul Schneider-Esleben with protected pilotis.
Ruby Mimi Hotel Zurich by IHG
Haus Du Pont was built in 1913 as Zurich's first purpose-built cinema building.
Ruby Sofie Hotel Vienna by IHG
Set inside the historic Sofiensäle, where nineteenth-century Strauss waltzes once filled the hall.
Runo Hotel Porvoo
A 1912 Jugendstil building with restored tile fireplaces and Kalevala epic stone reliefs.
Ryokan Nishiyama
A 1943 tea estate with preserved wooden pavilions and thatched-roof garden villas.
Ryokan Sawanoya Tokyo
Operating continuously since 1949, preserving traditional post-war ryokan architecture and multigenerational family stewardship in old Tokyo.
S Paul Hotel
A listed nineteenth-century stone building that previously served as Limassol's first town hall and a gentlemen's club.
Sa Pedrissa
A late sixteenth-century olive estate once owned by Archduke Ludwig Salvatore of Austria.
Saboaria
A restored nineteenth-century soap factory preserving original granite walls, Baroque details, and historic hydraulic mosaic tiling.
Sacred House
A restored 250-year-old Greek stone mansion and former church preserved with bare rock walls and historic courtyards.
Safari Inn, a Coast Hotel
An original 1955 Googie motor lodge with famous Hollywood filming credits.
Saint Gervais Hotel & Spa
An early twentieth-century Art Nouveau mansion originally known as le Château.
Saint Ten Hotel
A 1929 aristocratic townhouse designed by Stojan Veljkovic with preserved historical architecture.
Saint Victor La Grand'Maison
A restored sixteenth-century hillside manor crowned with slate-covered turrets and an Italianate belvedere.
Saint-Delis Hôtel & Spa - la Maison du Peintre - Avec Hammam en chambre - Adult Only
A seventeenth-century residence where Fauvist painter Henri de Saint-Delis lived and worked among preserved timber beams.
Sala Lodges
Rescued mid-century timber houses preserved through traditional Cambodian carpentry techniques.
Sala Rattanakosin Bangkok
An adaptive-reuse conversion uniting historic Rama V era riverfront shophouses in the old Tha Tien quarter.
Salvadonica - Borgo del Chianti
Restored fourteenth-century stone buildings display original Corsini coats of arms.
Sam & Blondi Hotel
A 1919 tailor's residence restored with a yellow facade and green wooden shutters.
San Francisco Proper Hotel
A landmark 1904 Beaux-Arts flatiron structure preserves original lobby marble detailing, tall windows, and architectural moldings.
San Isidro Plaza Hotel
The 1930s Teatro Acassuso transformed into an intimate hotel preserving historic proportions.
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.