16 venues
Rooftop event venues
City hotels with a roof terrace you can hire for receptions: the rooftop of The Hollywood Roosevelt in Los Angeles, Top of the Hay in Washington, the terraces of Hotel Eden in Rome and The Peninsula New York.
The venues
Los Angeles, United States
The Hollywood Roosevelt
Ballroom for 300 seated where the first Oscars were held, 35,000 sq ft of event space and 300 rooms on Hollywood Boulevard
300 rooms · Since 1927
Washington, D.C., United States
The Hay-Adams
Built in 1928 on the site of John Hay's and Henry Adams's houses, with upper-floor windows looking across Lafayette Square at the White House.
145 rooms · Since 1928
New York, United States
The Peninsula New York
The 1905 Gotham Hotel on Fifth Avenue at 55th Street, a Beaux-Arts tower that became The Peninsula New York in 1988.
235 rooms · Since 1905
Rome, Italy
Hotel Eden
Open since 1889 at the top of Via Ludovisi, with a rooftop restaurant, La Terrazza, whose Michelin-starred tables look across every dome in Rome.
98 rooms · Since 1889
Shanghai, China
The Peninsula Shanghai
The first new building on the Bund in six decades, opened in October 2009 on the former British Consulate grounds at No. 32.
235 rooms · Since 2009
Rome, Italy
Bulgari Hotel Roma
Opened in June 2023 inside Vittorio Ballio Morpurgo's late-1930s block on Piazza Augusto Imperatore, facing the Mausoleum of Augustus.
114 rooms · Since 2023
Venice, Italy
Hotel Danieli
George Sand and Alfred de Musset wintered at the Hotel Danieli in 1834, twelve years after Giuseppe Dal Niel opened it in the Dandolo family's palace.
Since 1822
Vienna, Austria
Rosewood Vienna
A former bank headquarters on Petersplatz, beside St Peter's church, turned into 99 rooms and suites and a rooftop bar in August 2022.
71 rooms · Since 2022
Berlin, Germany
Hotel de Rome
The 1889 head office of the Dresdner Bank on Bebelplatz, reopened by Rocco Forte in 2006 with a pool in the old jewel vault.
145 rooms · Since 2006
Paris, France
Hôtel Raphael
A 1925 hotel still in the hands of its founding family, with a seventh-floor roof garden facing the Arc de Triomphe and the Eiffel Tower.
83 rooms · Since 1925
Istanbul, Türkiye
Four Seasons Hotel Istanbul at Sultanahmet
The hotel occupies a jail from the last years of the Ottoman Empire, with corner towers and a garden courtyard between Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque.
65 rooms · Since 1996
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Alvear Palace Hotel
The grand hotel of Buenos Aires since 1932, a French-style palace on Avenida Alvear in Recoleta with 207 rooms and La Bourgogne.
207 rooms · Since 1932
Lima, Peru
Miraflores Park, A Belmond Hotel
A tower on Lima's clifftop Malecón de la Reserva in Miraflores, with a rooftop pool at the edge of the building and the Pacific straight ahead.
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
The Lana
Dorchester Collection's first hotel outside Europe and America, a Foster + Partners tower on the Dubai Canal opened in February 2024 with a Dior spa.
225 rooms · Since 2024
Geneva, Switzerland
The Woodward
Twenty-six suites and no ordinary rooms, in a 1901 building on Quai Wilson with Mont Blanc across Lake Geneva on clear days.
26 rooms · Since 2021
Rome, Italy
Hotel de la Ville
An 18th-century palazzo at the top of the Spanish Steps, reopened by Rocco Forte in 2019 with Grand Tour interiors and the rooftop bar Cielo.
104 rooms · Since 2019