The water tower views and the Deca Restaurant make it Chicago's most underrated luxury hotel. The lobby is on the 12th floor and the views begin immediately.
The Ritz-Carlton Chicago, a Four Seasons Hotel, occupies floors 12 through 31 of Water Tower Place on Chicago's Magnificent Mile. The hotel's 12th-floor lobby — connected to the ground by a dedicated elevator from the building's Pearson Street entrance — opens to views of the Water Tower, the lake, and the Gold Coast neighbourhood. The hotel has been managed by Four Seasons since 1975 and represents the brand's longest continuous management relationship in North America.
The 434 rooms are larger than the typical Magnificent Mile offering — the standard Deluxe Room begins at 485 square feet — and are finished in a warm contemporary palette. The lake-facing rooms on the upper floors have direct views of Lake Michigan that are difficult to match in the city. The fitness centre and spa facilities are comprehensive, and the indoor pool is one of the more seriously used in the city.
Deca Restaurant + Bar on the 12th floor serves a contemporary American menu with a wine programme that the sommelier team changes seasonally and takes seriously. The rooftop access, available to guests on the upper floors, provides the kind of unobstructed city view that most Chicago hotel guests never see. The hotel's Water Tower placement puts guests at the top of the Magnificent Mile's commercial concentration.
The Ritz-Carlton Chicago produces the Magnificent Mile's most consistently strong anniversary programme — the hotel's experience with the occasion shows in the execution. Lake-view rooms on floors 28–31, a private dinner arrangement at Deca, and the standard Ritz-Carlton floral and champagne delivery produce an anniversary stay that the hotel has refined across five decades of operation. See all anniversary hotels →
The Ritz-Carlton's combination of the Four Seasons spa, the lake-view rooms, and the Magnificent Mile retail immediately outside the door makes it the most self-contained solo hotel in Chicago. A weekend with a spa appointment Saturday morning, the Art Institute Saturday afternoon, and Deca on Saturday evening requires no planning and no car. See all solo retreat hotels →
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