Cities are chosen for being major transportation hubs or destinations.

 

 

Alexandria, Egypt

• Hotel Cecil
  • 16 Saad Zaghloul Square. Opened 1929; MI5 have their Middle Eastern headquarters here.  

 

Athens, Greece

• Grande Bretagne
  • Constitution Square. 

 

Berlin, Germany

• Adlon
  • 77 Unter den Linden.
• Hotel Kaiserhof
  • Wilhelmstrasse 3/5. Favored (and owned) by the government. 

 

Boston, USA

• The Lenox
  • 61 Exeter Street, on Copley Square.

 

Cairo, Egypt

• Mena House
  • 6 Pyramids Road, Giza. Riding, 18 hole golf course, swimming pools, tennis, 40 acres of gardens, etc..1st class tram into Cairo proper.
• Shepheard's Hotel
  • Corniche el-Nil. The "Long Bar" is a notable gathering place for British officers, administrators, and adventurers. During the Great War "... there were sixty generals at one time quartered in Shepheard's Hotel." 

 

Chicago, USA

• Palmer House
  • 17 E. Monroe Street, corner of State and Monroe. 

 

Hong Kong, China

• The Peninsula Hotel
  • Salisbury Road, Kowloon. Opened 1928. 

 

Istanbul, Turkey

• Pera Palace Hotel
  • 100 Tepebasi. 

 

London, England

• Berkeley
  • Berkeley Street.
• Brown's
  • 21-24 Dover Street.
• Carlton
  • Haymarket & Pall Mall.
• Claridge's
  • Brook Street, Mayfair. Very "Art Deco".
• Connaught
  • Carlos Place, Mayfair.
• Grosvenor House
  • Park Lane. Opened 1929.
• Hyde Park
  • 66 Knightsbridge.
• Mayfair
  • Berkeley Street. Opened 1927.
• Park Lane
  • 108 Piccadilly. Opened 1927.
• Piccadilly
  • Piccadilly Circus.
• Ritz
  • 150 Piccadilly. The restaurant and Palm Court are very famous.
• Savoy
  • The Strand. Harry Craddock is the head barman at the American Bar here, and has done much to popularize the Dry Martini. The Grille is closed in August, during the "summer break" for Parliament.

 

Monte Carlo, Monaco

• Hotel d'Paris

• Casino Square. Built 1863; just a few yards from the Grand Casino.

   

• Hotel Metropole
  • 4 Avenue de la Madone.

 

Moscow, USSR

• Metropol
  • Teatralny proezd 1/4.

 

New York City, USA

• Algonquin
  • 59 W. 44th Street.
• Essex House
  • 160 59th Street. Opened 1931, very Art Deco.
• Waldorf-Astoria
  • 301 Park Avenue. Also opened 1931, also very Art Deco.

 

Paris, France

• Crillon
  • 10 Place de la Concorde.
• George V
  • 31 Avenue George V. Relatively new (1928).
• Grand Hotel du Louvre
  • Place André Malraux.
• Ritz
  • 15 Place Vendome. Ladies not yet allowed in the Cambon Bar.

 

Peking, China

• Grand Hotel
  • 35 East Chang An Avenue.

 

Rio de Janiero, Brazil

• Copacabana Palace
  • Avenida Atlântica 1702.

 

Rome, Italy

• Hassler
  • Trinita' dei Monti, 6.
• Bernini Bristol
  • Piazza Barberini, 23.
• Grand Hotel
  • Via Vittorio E. Orlando, 3. The unofficial court of the King of Italy.
• Hotel d Angleterre
  • Via Bocca di Leone, 14.

 

San Francisco, USA

• Palace Hotel
  • 2 New Montgomery Street.
• Fairmont Hotel
  • 950 Mason Street.

 

Shanghai, China

• Astor House
  • 15 Huangpu Road.
    Cathay Hotel

    • 20 Nanking Road.

Singapore

• Raffles Hotel
  • 1 Beach Road. Home of the "Singapore Sling."

 

Tokyo, Japan

• Imperial Hotel
  • 1-1, Uchisaiwai-cho 1-chome Chiyoda-ku. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, as a pyramid in the "Mayan Revival" style.

 

Venice, Italy

• Danieli
  • Castello 4196. 14th Century building close to the Piazza San Marco.

 

Vienna, Austria

• Hotel Bristol
  • Kaerntnering 5.
• Grand Hotel
  • Kaerntnering 7-9.
• Imperial
  • Kaerntnering 16.
• Hotel Sacher
  • Philharmonikerstrasse 4. Franz Sacher, the founder, invented the sachertorte.

 

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Sources: Most Famous Hotels; "London and its Environs", pub. Karl Baedeker, 1930.