Chestnut Residence

89 Chestnut Residence is a university residence operated by the University of Toronto, opposite the Metropolitan Hotel on Chestnut Street. Known as "The Nut" by its student residents, it was converted from the Colony Hotel in 2004 and turned into a student residence to accommodate the incoming double cohort in 2003 and 2004. It is located in downtown Toronto, just north of Toronto City Hall and near Nathan Philips Square.The building was originally constructed as a Holiday Inn. When it opened in 1972 it was the fourth largest hotel in the city, with 749 rooms. It cost some $18 million to build and was built on the site of many small buildings of what was then the centre of Toronto's Chinatown.The hotel was purchased by Hong Kong investor Sally Aw for $73 million in 1989 and renamed the Colony Hotel. After Aw ran into financial difficulties the university purchased the hotel from $72 million in 2003, at the height of a downtown in Toronto's hotel industry.

Hôtel Ritz Paris

The Hôtel Ritz is a hotel located at 15 Place Vendôme, in the heart of Paris, France. It is one of the most prestigious and luxurious hotels in the world and is one of the seven recognized Parisian palace hotels. Established in 1898, it is the oldest Ritz Hotel in the world.The building was constructed in the early part of the 18th century as a private dwelling. In 1854 it was acquired by the Péreire brothers who made it the head office of their Crédit Mobilier financial institution.The façade was designed by Jules Hardouin Mansart. Converted to a luxury hotel by Swiss hotelier César Ritz, it opened on June 1, 1898. Together with the culinary talents of minority partner Auguste Escoffier, Ritz made the hotel synonymous with opulence, service, and fine dining, as embodied in the term ritzy.The Hôtel Ritz consists of the Vendôme and the Cambon buildings with rooms facing Place Vendôme and on the opposite side, rooms overlooking its famous garden. The hotel became a favorite of many of the world's wealthiest people, with luxurious suites named for some of its notable patrons from the past. These include Ernest Hemingway, for whom a bar in the hotel was named, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Marcel Proust, King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, Iranian leader Reza Shah, Rudolph Valentino, Charlie Chaplin, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Maurice Chevalier, Jean-Paul Sartre, Elton John, plus couturier Coco Chanel who made the Ritz her home for more than thirty years.

Kempinski Hotel Falkenstein

Kempinski Hotel Falkenstein is a luxurious hotel in Königstein im Taunus (Falkenstein im Taunus), Germany. It was owned by Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1909 as a sanatorium for officers. Since 1999 it belongs to chain Kempinski.The building was openned in 1875. It was a sanatorium from 1875 to 1976. Also it was a hospital, military sanatorium, hospital for invalids and was closed in 1991. On 9th September 1999 there was opennned Kempinski hotel with 106rooms. In 2001 The German Hotel and Restaurant Association awarded Kempinski Hotel Falkenstein as 5-star hotel.

Hotel Atlantic Kempinski

Hotel Atlantic Kempinski Hamburg is a luxurious hotel in Hamburg, Germany. It was opened in 1909 as a grand hotel. It was awarded as the best hotel in Germany until June 2009. Since 1957 it belongs to the chain Kempinski and also it belongs to The Leading Hotels of the World. The hotel is located beetwen the lake Alster and Hamburg Hauptbahnhof. In May 2008, the facade of the hotel was restored. The general restoration of the hotel has began in 2010. The reconstruction will take 12-14 months and 25 millions euro.In 1997, a part of the James Bond series, Tomorrow Never Dies, was filmed in the hotel.

Erbil International Hotel

The Erbil International Hotel is a luxurious hotel based in the capital of the Kurdistan Region in Iraq. The hotel was constructed and completed in 2004 and is since then the first 5-star hotel in Kurdistan and Iraq by western standards.The hotel is located at the 30 Meter Street, 2 kilometers from the historical citadel of Erbil. The hotel has a good connection to Erbil International Airport by having an Airport Transfer service.

Selsdon Park Hotel

Selsdon Park Hotel is a luxurious hotel located in Selsdon, England.Selsdon Park passed through several private owners until 1924 when Allan Doble Sanderson bought the house and the accompanying 200 acres (0.81 km2) of land for £13,000.In 1924 the Victorian country residence was converted into a 24 bedroom hotel which opened in 1925, and the first lift was installed to aid convenience. Between 1927 and 1930, the East Wing was built and in 1935 the West Wing was added. At the same time, the whole of the building was covered in brick to give a Neo-Jacobean appearance. In 1929, the golf course was added. It was designed by JH Taylor, five-times British Open champion.In 1960, Basil Sanderson took over the running of the hotel from his parents. Improvements and additional rooms were added to the hotel, and in 1985 the leisure complex was completed to the cost of £1.5 million. The latest addition to the building, The Cambridge Wing, was finished in 1988 and has 25 bedrooms and one conference suite. On 13 March 1997, Principal Hayley Group purchased the Selsdon Park Hotel. Since acquiring this property Principal Hayley have undertaken a £2.5 million refurbishment of the Hotel, including a new reception area, additional conference and banqueting facilities and a business centre.

Copacabana Palace

The Copacabana Palace Hotel is the most famous and luxurious hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and one of the most famous of the world.It's considered South America's premier hotel such as the best hotel of the Southern Hemisphere, having received the rich and famous for the past 80 years. It faces the world renowned Copacabana Beach. It consists of an 8-storey main building and a 14-storey annex. The hotel was designed by french arquitect Joseph Gire. It has 216 rooms (148 in the main building and 78 in the annex), a semi-olympic swimming pool, an exclusive swimming pool for VIP guests located at the penthouse, a tennis court, fitness center, a 3-storey spa, two bars, a nightclub and two restaurants. It was inaugurated on August 14, 1923. It was featured in the 1933 film Flying Down to Rio. After Brasília became the Brazilian capital in 1960, the hotel underwent a period of slow decline and was surpassed by the more modern hotels which were built in the 1970s. There were plans to demolish the hotel in 1985, but they were scrapped afterwards. The hotel was refurbished sometime after 1989 when Orient Express group bought it.

Hôtel Thellusson

The Hôtel Thellusson was a luxurious hôtel particulier, built in 1778 by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux for Marie-Jeanne Girardot de Vermenoux (1736-1781), widow of the banker from Geneva Georges-Tobie de Thellusson (1728-1776).This hotel was situated at 30, rue de Provence, in an English garden between the rue de Provence and the rue de la Victoire. It opened on the rue de Provence with a huge portal with the shape of a triumphal arch, in antique Medicis style, in the axis of the rue Laffitte, at that time called the rue d'Artois. It was visible from the boulevard. Coaches entered the hôtel by a swept drive; there was also an exit in rue de la Victoire.The central hall was also circular. In the center was a rock and around it a colonnade.After her death in 1781, Mme Thelusson's eldest son, John Isaac de Thellusson Sorcy (1764-1828) completed the hotel. As they were Genevan nationals, the Thellusson kept ownership of the hotel during the Revolution, but they returned to it only in 1797.After the Thermidorian Reaction, there was a bal des victimes, a "victims' ball" in the hotel. It was reserved for people with a close parent guillotined during the Revolution.

Club Hotel de la Ventana

Club Hotel de la Ventana was a large, luxurious hotel resort, built by the Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway and opened in 1911 near Villa Ventana, 17 km from the town of Sierra de La Ventana, in the southeast of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina.The resort was designed by the Italian architect Antonio Gherardi, who also designed the customs house in the nearby city of Bahía Blanca. Construction began in 1904 with bricks provided by Ernesto Tornquist, a prominent local businessman,. The Hotel had a luxurious interior and rivalled the best hotels in the world at that time. It could accommodate 350 guests and had 173 rooms and four large suites. Features included a solarium, a restaurant decorated in Louis XVI style, a winter garden, a ballroom with 150 seats were films could be shown, three casino halls, a night club, two beauty salons, a tower with a panoramic view over the surrounding mountains, a concert hall, a well-stocked library, an 18-hole golf course, a football pitch and three tennis courts. There was also a riding stable, a swimming pool, a hospital, a pharmacy, a hair dresser, and a large gymnasium. The resort was set in a park of 126 ha. designed by the French-born Argentine architect and landscape designer Carlos Thays who included a wide variety of European trees.

Saranac Inn

The Saranac Inn was a large, luxurious hotel located on a peninsula at the northern end of the Upper Saranac Lake in the town of Santa Clara in the Adirondacks in New York State, USA. It was frequented by US Presidents Grover Cleveland and Chester A. Arthur and New York Governor Charles Evans Hughes. It closed in 1962, and burned to the ground in 1978.
Saranac Inn is also the name of a small hamlet that grew up in the vicinity of the Inn, and to the public golf course that was originally part of the Inn. The par 72 Saranac Inn Golf Club was recognized by Golf Digest as one of four U.S. courses that are one hundred years or older that received four and a half stars.

Patterson Hotel

The Patterson Hotel was a prominent and luxurious hotel located in Bismarck, North Dakota that was home to the Nonpartisan League and well-known for its continued construction that lasted over twenty years. The hotel was a major hotspot for politicians throughout the 1960s. The lobby of the hotel now houses Peacock Alley Bar & Grill.First named the McKenzie Hotel, the structure was constructed by Alexander McKenzie and first opened its doors on New Year's Day, 1911. At the time it opened, the seven-story, 150-room hotel was the tallest structure in Bismarck, and would retain this distinction until the new North Dakota State Capitol was completed in 1934. Edward Patterson, a close friend of McKenzie, would later purchase the hotel. Patterson had constructed the adjacent Soo Hotel, also listed on the National Register, in 1906. The hotel was renamed the Patterson Hotel in 1927, shortly after the passing of Alexander McKenzie.

Grosvenor House Hotel

Grosvenor House, A JW Marriott Hotel London was built in the 1920s and opened in 1929 on the site of the former London residence of the Dukes of Westminster, whose family name is Grosvenor. The hotel has a pedestrian entrance on Park Lane in Mayfair but this is not the 'main / courtyard' entrance which is actually on Park Street. The official address of the hotel is 86-90 Park Lane. It is an outpost of London's largest cluster of luxury hotels, which is centred on Hyde Park Corner. The Great Room (which is a separate room to the Ballroom) at the Grosvenor House is the venue of many prominent awards evenings, charity balls and the like and is often seen on British television. It is one of the largest ballrooms in Europe, with a maximum capacity of 2,000 seated (200 10-person tables) or 1,100 theatre style. Although now not used as such, the Great Room was originally built as an ice-rink and much of the machinery lies dormant under the current flooring.The Great Room, Ballroom, Court Suite, restaurants, bars, meeting spaces and 494 guest rooms can accommodate a total of over 6000 people.The Grosvenor House Hotel is now managed by Marriott International and has undergone a £142 million renovation and restoration. This includes a full refurbishment of all restaurants, guest rooms, health facilities, and public areas. It is hoped that the hotel's swimming pool will reopen in 2009.Upon majority-completion in September 2008, the hotel was renamed Grosvenor House, A JW Marriott Hotel, this is the first of its kind in the United Kingdom.Richard Corrigan rents a restaurant space within the hotel where he runs 'Corrigan's Mayfair'.