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Top Ten Best Boutique Hotels
Boutique hotels, favored for their intimate settings and attentive service, all have their own unique atmosphere and style. Yet some hotels are so fabulous that they transcend individual needs and desires, and these ten belong in that category. They are, quite simply, the ten best boutique hotels the world has to offer.
This marvelous cosmopolitan hotel specializes in the contemporary and the customer. Incredibly affordable, these rooms are about the detail: 100 percent Percale cotton beds, natural linens, sandstone and black granite bathrooms, sash windows with calming views, and a continental breakfast of fresh croissants served on fine bone china. Some rooms have private terraces and gardens, and all have DVD, modems, digital safes and personal answer phones. Located at the center of chic South Kensington, this boutique hotel is perfect for business or pleasure.
The Golden Apple is the first boutique hotel in Russia and offers a sumptuous place to stay while you enjoy this spellbinding city. This classical historical building contains modern interiors, with each of the six floors corresponding to different colors of the rainbow. There is also a health club and sauna if you want to stay in shape while on your vacation. A perfect base for sightseeing, the Golden Apple is but a short walk away from Red Square.
The Classical Vouligameni Suites provide the ultimate in luxury living, with 27 spacious rooms and stunning views over the sparkling blue sea of the Saronic Gulf. Relax in the two rooftop Jacuzzi tubs at the Classical Vouligameni Suites and you will be swept away by the magical allure of Vouliagmeni, the playground of the Athenian elite on the Attica Riviera where the tranquility and casual ambience of a resort hotel is combined with the lavish amenities of a boutique hotel.
In this turn-of-the century hotel, you will be pampered by the highest of standards in customer service. Your room, which combines the best of the old and the new and overlooks the Limmat River, will be climate-controlled, soundproofed and fitted with everything from mini bars to Satellite TV. Since it’s Zurich’s most central hotel, you’re just a pleasant walk away from several museums and the elegant shops of the incomparable “Bahnhofstrasse.” After a stay at the Central Plaza Hotel, you will have only raves.
There’s no place like Rome, and there’s not a better boutique hotel to stay at while taking it in. Each room in this three-hundred-year-old building is individually decorated with antique furniture. On the top floor is a terrace where you can sip an evening Chianti or eat your breakfast buffet while enjoying the panorama of Rome’s ancient historical center. And the exclusive shopping of the Via Condotti is so close you could crawl.
Recently honored with the 25 th International Award for Tourist Hotel and Catering, this boutique hotel is literally one of the best places in the world to take in the beach. All rooms have a private veranda with a breathtaking view of the sea as well as a private bar and mini wine cellar. There is an open-air lounge and a poolside restaurant that serves breakfast, but the real treat is the candlelit dinner with awe-inspiring views of the bay. The Petinos Beach Hotel also offers free airport shuttle service, boat trips to nearby beaches and a massage room.
Isn’t it finally time you went to San Francisco? You’ve heard so much about it—Union Square, Chinatown and the cable cars, all very near this fabulous boutique hotel where you’ll be staying. The Warwick San Francisco Hotel is a refurbished 1911 landmark where you can sleep in a Louis XVI-style four-poster or crown-canopied bed with an elaborately hand-carved headboard, and hang your clothes in an antique armoire. And after a day of shopping, if you’re too tired to enjoy some of the fine dining in the area, just head to the restaurant on location for Mediterranean cuisine with a California flair. So again, isn’t it finally time you went to San Francisco?
This is one of the few boutique hotels that caters as much to families as it does couples or travelers on business.
The hotel is located in the heart of Paris, a stone’s throw from the River Seine, La Concorde and the immortal Champs Elysees. Its forty-eight rooms are large, air-conditioned and fully soundproofed. It also has an exquisite lounge for romantic breakfasts. Best of all is the old-fashioned hospitality, which has not altered for generations.
This hotel was the winner of the 2006 Condé Nast Most Excellent Boutique Hotel in Central & South America, and once you’re there, you’ll understand why.
Wake up, walk to the beach, go shopping after lunch, and then return to the hotel for a massage. Unwind with a cocktail in your suite, which was designed by Brazil’s finest architects and overlooks the ocean, then walk to the legendary “Zona Sul” for dinner and a incredible Brazilian entertainment. Do that for a day or two, and you’ll know why this is the best boutique hotel in the world.