The hotels you stay at when the city itself is the point. Walking distance to dinner, to the meeting, to the museum. Architecture that earns the postcode.
A city-center hotel is the opposite of a resort. The hotel earns its rate not by what is inside but by what is outside. Twelve minutes' walk to dinner. Five minutes to the office. Two minutes to a Metro stop that takes you anywhere.
What we look for: street life, not lobby life. A neighbourhood with seasons. Air rights and cubic feet — old-money city hotels are taller and quieter than the new ones. Sound proofing. The morning paper.
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