8 hotels
Legendary hotel bars
Hotels whose bars entered history: the birthplace of the Singapore Sling, Hemingway’s bar in Paris, the murals of Bemelmans.
Raffles Hotel
The colonial hotel opened by the Sarkies brothers in 1887, where the Singapore Sling was first mixed.
115 rooms
Hôtel Ritz Paris
César Ritz’s 1898 hotel on Place Vendôme, set behind a listed 17th-century façade by Jules Hardouin-Mansart.
Savoy Hotel
Richard D’Oyly Carte’s 1889 hotel on the Strand, where César Ritz and Auguste Escoffier made their names.
267 rooms
The Carlyle
The 1930 Art Deco tower on Madison Avenue, home of Bemelmans Bar and the Café Carlyle.
Hôtel de Paris Monte-Carlo
The Belle Époque palace on Place du Casino in Monte-Carlo, home of the restaurant Le Louis XV.
The Shelbourne
Dublin’s hotel on St Stephen’s Green since 1824, where the Constitution of the Irish Free State was drafted.
The Connaught
A Mayfair hotel rebuilt in 1897 whose carved mahogany staircase leads to a dining room with three Michelin stars and the bar twice named the world's best.
121 rooms
Hotel Continental Saigon
Saigon's oldest hotel, open since 1880 beside the Opera House, where Graham Greene set scenes of The Quiet American.
80 rooms