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The Editorial Hotel Guide · Hotel Types

City hotels with real address.

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.

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What we mean by city center hotels

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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