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Pulp Hotels

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     Most of these hotels cater to the upper classes; information is "most correct" for the period 1930-1938. Examples of suites can be found here.

     There's a specific telegraph code for reserving rooms; it specifies the number of rooms and beds, the class of room (best, bon or plain), or the floor desired; whether a child's room, sitting room, or private bath is needed; the arrival time; and the expected length of stay.

 
  1. Alexandria, Egypt
    1. Claridge's
    2. Hotel Cecil
    3. Majestic
  2. Athens, Greece
    1. Acropole Palace
    2. Grande Bretagne
  3. Baghdad, Iraq
    1. Claridge's Hotel
    2. Maude Hotel
    3. Tigris Palace Hotel
  4. Belfast, Ireland
    1. Grand Central Hotel
    2. Midland Station Hotel
  5. Berlin, Germany
    1. Adlon
    2. Hotel Excelsior
    3. Hotel Kaiserhof
    4. Hotel Savoy
  6. Beyrouth, Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon
    1. Hotel St. Georges
  7. Bombay, India
    1. The Taj Mahal Palace Hotel
  8. Boston, USA
    1. The Lenox
  9. Brindisi, Italy
    1. Hotel Internationale
  10. Cairo, Egypt
    1. Mena House
    2. Shepheard's Hotel
  11. Calcutta, India
    1. The Great Eastern Hotel
  12. Cawnpore, India
    1. Berkeley House
  13. Chicago, USA
    1. Palmer House
  14. Damascus, Syria
    1. Hotel Omayad
  15. Delhi, India
    1. Maiden's Hotel
  16. Hong Kong, China
    1. The Peninsula Hotel
  17. Istanbul, Turkey
    1. Bristol Hotel
    2. Pera Palace Hotel
    3. Grand Hotel de Londres
    4. Splendid Palace Hotel
    5. Tokatlian Hotel
  18. Jodhpur, India
    1. State Hotel
  19. Karachi, India
    1. Hotel Metropole
    2. Killarney Hotel
    3. Hotel Bristol
    4. Carlton Hotel
    5. Central Hotel
    6. North Western Hotel
  20. London, England
    1. Hotel Belgravia
    2. Berkeley
    3. Brown's
    4. Carlton
    5. Claridge's
    6. Connaught
    7. Dorchester
    8. Grosvenor House
    9. Hyde Park
    10. Mayfair
    11. Park Lane
    12. Piccadilly
    13. Ritz
    14. Royal Palace
    15. Savoy
    16. Splendide
    17. Victoria
    18. Waldorf
  21. Madras, India
    1. The Connemara
  22. Monte Carlo, Monaco
    1. Hotel d'Paris
    2. Hotel Metropole
  23. Moscow, USSR
    1. Metropol
  24. Naples, Italy
    1. Hotel Excelsior
  25. New York City, USA
    1. Algonquin
    2. Ambassador Hotel
    3. Barclay Hotel
    4. Biltmore Hotel
    5. Hotel Carlyle
    6. Chatham Hotel
    7. Essex House
    8. Gotham Hotel
    9. Hampshire House
    10. The Madison
    11. Hotel Pierre
    12. Plaza Hotel
    13. Ritz-Carlton Hotel
    14. The Ritz Tower
    15. Roosevelt Hotel
    16. St. Regis Hotel
    17. The Savoy Plaza
    18. The Sherry-Netherland
    19. The Waldorf-Astoria
  26. Paris, France
    1. Hôtel Le Bristol
    2. Carlton
    3. Claridges
    4. Crillon
    5. Edouard VII
    6. Élysée Palace Hôtel
    7. George V
    8. Le Meurice
    9. Hôtel Majestic
    10. Plaza-Athenee
    11. Hôtel Ritz
    12. Trianon Palace-Versailles
    13. Hôtel d'Alsace
    14. Le Clery Hôtel
    15. St. James Hôtel and d'Albany
    16. Hôtel Lotti
    17. Hôtel du Louvre
    18. Hôtel Molitor
    19. Palais d'Orsay
    20. Hôtel de Paris
    21. Ambassadeurs Hôtel
    22. Hôtel Lutetia
    23. Hôtel Regina
    24. Hôtel Westminster
  27. Peking, China
    1. Grand Hotel
  28. Penang, Malaysia
    1. Eastern & Oriental Hotel
  29. Rangoon, Burma
    1. Minto Mansions
    2. Strand Hotel
  30. Rio de Janiero, Brazil
    1. Copacabana Palace
  31. Rome, Italy
    1. Hotel d Angleterre
    2. Hotel Atlantico
    3. Bernini Bristol
    4. Hotel Excelsior
    5. Grand Hotel
    6. Hassler
    7. Hotel Majestic
    8. La Russie
  32. San Francisco, USA
    1. Palace Hotel
    2. Fairmont Hotel
  33. Shanghai, China
    1. Astor House Hotel
    2. Burlington Hotel
    3. Cathay Hotel
    4. Metropole Hotel
    5. Palace Hotel
    6. Park Hotel
    7. Plaza Hotel 
  34. Singapore
    1. Raffles Hotel
  35. Tokyo, Japan
    1. Imperial Hotel
  36. Venice, Italy
    1. Danieli Royal
    2. Europa
    3. Gritti Palace
    4. Grand Hotel Lido
    5. The Excelsior Palace
  37. Vienna, Austria
    1. Hotel Bristol
    2. Grand Hotel
    3. Imperial
    4. Hotel Sacher


 

Alexandria, Egypt

 

  • Claridge's

    • 35 Rue Fouad Premier. Has 150 rooms, rates 60 piastre (12s 6p) to 150 piastre (£1 11s 3p) per night; the hotel has motorcars to carry guests from the harbor and railway-stations. It has a very central location in the city.

  • Hotel Cecil

    • 16 Saad Zaghloul Square. Six floors. Opened 1929; MI5 have their Middle Eastern headquarters here. It's on the promenade facing the old harbor. We have a version of their letterhead. Just to the left of it, in this photo, is the Hotel Acropole.

 

 

  • Majestic

    • 4 Place Saad Zaghloul. Has 200 rooms, rates 50 piastres (~10s) and up per night.

 

Athens, Greece

 

  • Acropole Palace

    • Patissia Str. 51, opposite from the National Museum. In Art Nouveau style, opened in 1928, with 160 rooms, all with baths and telephones.

  • Grande Bretagne

    • Constitution Square. 200 rooms. all with baths. Restaurant, lounges and bar, the most expensive room is £1 per day (though the penthouse suite is more expensive by far). 

 

Le Petit Palais is an adjacent smaller hotel, until 1933 when it was purchased for the Italian embassy

 

Baghdad, Iraq

 

  • Claridge's Hotel

  • Maude Hotel

    • overnight waypoint for Imperial Airways

  • Tigris Palace Hotel

 

Belfast, Ireland

 

  • Grand Central Hotel

  • Midland Station Hotel

     

Berlin, Germany

 

  • Adlon

    • 1 Unter den Linden; at the northwest corner of the Pariser-Platz, with embassies and important buildings all about.

 

an upper floor, with 5 foot wide hexes; south is the Unter der Linden, east is the Pariser-Platz

 

  • Hotel Excelsior

    • Königgrätzer Strasse 112/113. A large, modern and luxurious hotel, with a tunnel (lined with shops) connecting it to the Anhalter Bahnhof railway station.

 

rates at the Hotel Excelsior between 1929 and 1939

tariffs

price, ℛℳ

price, £

single bedroom, per night

4.50 to 10

6s 2d to 13s 8d

single bedroom with private bath, per night

9 to 15

12s 4d to £1 7d

double bedded room, per night

9 to 20

12s 4d to £1 7s 5d

double bedded room with private bath, per night

16 to 30

£1 2s to £2 1s 2d

breakfast

1.60

2s 2d

dinner

2.75

3s 9d

supper

3.00

4s 1d

pension arrangement for room and three meals, per night

14 to 20

19s 2d to £1 7s 5d

pension for servants, per night

10

13s 9d

Taxes and charges at 15% to room tariff, 10% to meals and drinks. Conversion at 14.58 ℛℳ per £1.

 

  • Hotel Kaiserhof

    • Wilhelmstrasse 3/5. Favored (and owned) by the government; it's next to the Reichs Chancellery.

  • Hotel Savoy

    • Fasanenstrasse 9

 

Beyrouth, Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon

 

  • Hotel St. Georges

 

Bombay, India

 

  • The Taj Mahal Palace Hotel

    • On the Colaba waterfront. Built by Sir Jamshedji Tata in 1903, supposedly in part because the adjacent Royal Bombay Yacht Club refused him service based on his race. In any case, they accept anyone regardless of race, religion, gender, etc. Very swanky, seven stories, was the first in India to have electricity (for which it had its own power plant), hard to find a top-class hotel anywhere in the world with a higher staff-to-guest ratio -- guests taking a suite can expect a personal valet, for example. A medical clinic, pharmacy, laundry, post office, Turkish bath, shopping arcade, etc. are available to guests.

      • a note for Kevin:  the Tata family, powerful Indian industrialists and philanthropists, are Zoroastrian Parsees.

         

 

Boston, USA

 

  • The Lenox

    • 61 Exeter Street, on Copley Square.

 

Brindisi, Italy

 

  • Hotel Internationale

    • located on the waterfront, with a rail line siding for trains connecting to steamships. This hotel is specifically established to suit travelers to and from the Levant or the Indian Ocean.

 

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." 

 

Calcutta, India

 

  • The Great Eastern Hotel

 

Cawnpore, India

 

  • Berkeley House

 

Chicago, USA

 

  • Palmer House

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

 

Damascus, Syria

 

  • Hotel Omayad

 

Delhi, India

 

  • Maiden's Hotel

 

Hong Kong, China

 

  • The Peninsula Hotel

    • Salisbury Road, Kowloon. Opened 1928. 

 

Istanbul, Turkey

 

     A room in these first-class hotels will cost between 5 to 15 lire per night.

 

  • Bristol Hotel

    • 65 Meşrutiyet Caddesi, Beyoğlu

  • Pera Palace Hotel

    • 100 Tepebasi

  • Grand Hotel de Londres

    • 53 Mesrutiyet Caddesi, Beyoglu; close to Taksim Square, in the Pera district; basic room rate 5 lire

  • Splendid Palace Hotel

    • on Büyükada, an island in the Sea of Marmara (no automobiles allowed). Built 1908, requisitioned by the British during post-war occupation. The hotel is a popular resort -- the island has many summer mansions for rich persons. Summer season is May to October.

  • Tokatlian Hotel

    • Rue de Pera (Istiklal Caddesi). It was originally owned by Armenians (hence the Armenian name), but was expropriated in the 1920s and is now in Turkish hands. 160 rooms, drawing and reception rooms, dining rooms and a restaurant; French and Turkish cuisine, and a well-stocked wine cellar.

 

Jodhpur, India

 

  • State Hotel

    • built in 1930 to a high standard, with air conditioning and a swimming pool. Just to the north of the hotel are two polo fields.

 

Karachi, India

 

  • Hotel Metropole

    • Club Road. Air conditioning, famous bar, good service, fine dining and dancing, etc.. 

  • Killarney Hotel

    • Club Road. Opened in 1933, in a former mansion; also known as Marder's Palace Hotel; it's very near the Karachi Gymkhana cricket ground. The Soviet consulate is located here.

  • Hotel Bristol

    • near the Cantt railway station

  • Carlton Hotel

    • near the Cannt railway station

  • Central Hotel

  • North Western Hotel

    • near the Cannt railway station 

 

London, England

 

     The terms for a room and bath vary between 25 shillings and 35 shillings per night in de luxe hotels, and from 10s 6d to 21s in first-class hotels. The de luxe rates for luncheon (6s 6d to 8s 6d) and dinner (10s 6 to 15s 6d) compare with 3s 6d to 6s 6d for luncheon and 6s 6d to 8s 6d for dinner in the first class hotels. Tips are expected, and will add about 20% to the bill at a de luxe hotel, or 15% at a first-class hotel. Tips at cloak-rooms, for waiters at tea, and other minor occasions are usually six pence.

     The following are all either hotels de luxe, or first class hotels.

 

  • Hotel Belgravia

    • Grosvenor Gardens, S.W. 1

  • Berkeley

    • Berkeley Street at Piccadilly. Entirely rebuilt in 1936. De luxe.

  • Brown's

    • 21-24 Dover Street.

  • Carlton

    • Haymarket & Pall Mall. Very conservative, quiet and dignified. De luxe.

  • Claridge's

    • Brook Street, Mayfair. Very "Art Deco"; particularly popular with the English aristocracy. Has no single rooms -- only suites of rooms. De luxe. Completed in its current form in November 1898, it's a seven-story building.

 

the ground level of Claridge's Hotel in 1932

 

  • Connaught

    • Carlos Place, Mayfair. De luxe.

  • Dorchester

    • 53 Park Lane. Opened 1931, very fashionable; considered the most luxurious of London's hotels. Lots of American millionaires and foreign royalty. The Midnight Cabaret is especially popular. Room rates start at 30s per night.

  • Grosvenor House

    • Park Lane. Opened 1929.

  • Hyde Park

    • 66 Knightsbridge. Favored by diplomats, since it's close to many embassies around Belgrave Square.

  • Mayfair

    • Berkeley Street. Opened 1927. De luxe.

  • Park Lane

    • 108 Piccadilly. Opened 1927. De luxe.

  • Piccadilly

    • Piccadilly Circus. De luxe.

  • Ritz

    • 150 Piccadilly. Overlooking Green Park. The restaurant and Palm Court are very famous. De luxe.

  • Royal Palace

    • 6 Kensington High Street, at the corner of Palace Avenue. A "stunningly over-decorated" Victorian establishment.

  • 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. The hotel has a notable set of meeting and dining rooms available. De luxe.

  • Splendide

    • 105 Piccadilly at Brick Street, facing Green Park and Buckingham Palace. A Victorian building with very high ceilings.  

  • Victoria

    • Northumberland Avenue; rooms available from 12s 6d per day. Opened in 1887, it has its own generators, and obtains water from an underground stream on the site; but it's getting long in the tooth, and won't remain open after this decade.

  • Waldorf

    • Aldwych, WC2. Founded by William Waldorf Astor, it opened in 1908. The Palm Court is famous.

 

Madras, India

 

The Connemara

  • 2 Binny Road. It's built above a Spencer's department store, one of the largest in Asia, and set in a 4.2 acre park. The hotel was thoroughly modernized during the 1930s, and features air conditioning. A single-occupancy room costs 10 rupees (breakfast included) per day -- or, with all meals, 17.80 rupees. 

 

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.

 

Naples, Italy

 

  • Hotel Excelsior

 

New York City, USA

 

     These are all de luxe hotels in Manhattan; less fancy hotels can be found at the New York City accommodations page.

 

  • Algonquin

    • 59 W. 44th Street, in the theater district (the Hippodrome is across the street). Single rooms $3.50 and up; the large three-bedroom suites cost $18 per night. The "Blue Bar" (so-called from the blue lighting) opened as soon as Prohibition ended; the "Rose Room" restaurant hosted the Algonquin Round Table in the 1920s.

  • Ambassador Hotel

    • Park Ave. at 51st St. 600 rooms; singles from $5, doubles from $7.

  • Barclay Hotel

    • Lexington Ave. at 48th St. 850 rooms, $5 and up.

  • Biltmore Hotel

    • Madison Ave. at 43d St. 1000 rooms; singles from $6; doubles from $8. Under same roof as Grand Central Station.

  • Hotel Carlyle

    • 33 East 76th Street at Madison Ave. Constructed 1930 in Art Deco style.

  • Chatham Hotel

    • Vanderbilt Ave. at 48th St. 300 rooms, from $5 up.

  • Essex House

    • 160 59th Street. Opened 1931, very Art Deco. Room $4 up.

  • Gotham Hotel

    • 2 West 55th St. at Fifth Ave. 400 rooms, $7 up.

  • Hampshire House

    • 150 Central Park South. 500 rooms, $6 and up.

  • The Madison

    • 15 E. 58th St. 350 rooms, $5 and up.

  • Hotel Pierre

    • 795 Fifth Ave. at 61st St. Constructed 1928 in Art Deco style. 44 stories, 615 rooms, from $6 up. Largely residential; the penthouse has two suites that share a ballroom to hold 300 persons, and have open-air terraces on each corner.

  • Plaza Hotel

    • 768 Fifth Ave. at 59th St. Constructed 1909 in Second Empire Baroque style. 1060 rooms, $6 and up. Beautiful situation, facing Central Park. The Palm Court (aka the tea garden) is favored for lunch or tea; the Oak Room bar doesn't permit unaccompanied women.

  • Ritz-Carlton Hotel

    • Madison Ave. at 46th St. Opened 1917, in the Renaissance Revival style, 300 rooms, $7 and up.

  • The Ritz Tower

    • 455 Park Ave. at 109 E 57th St. Constructed 1925 in Art Deco and Late Italian Renaissance style. 40 stories, 449 rooms, $6 and up. Largely residential.

  • Roosevelt Hotel

    • Madison Ave. at 45th St. 1100 rooms from $5 up.

  • St. Regis Hotel

    • 2 East 55th Street at Fifth Ave. Expanded and renovated 1927, in Second Empire Baroque style. 600 rooms, $6 and up.

  • The Savoy Plaza

    • 767 Fifth Ave. at 59th St. Built 1927 with 33 stories, in Art Deco style. 1000 rooms, $6 and up.

  • The Sherry-Netherland

    • 781 Fifth Ave. just above 59th St., facing Central Park. Constructed 1927, in Art Deco style. 38 stories (but above the 24th floor are entirely whole-floor residential apartments.)

Plan of the 9th through 17th floors, with a 2 yard grid superimposed.

 

  • The Waldorf-Astoria

    • 301 Park Ave., between East 49th to East 50th Streets. Opened 1931, in Art Deco style. 47 stories, with a Japanese roof garden. Room rates from $8 up.

 

Restaurants in New York City can be found here.

 

Paris, France

 

     At a minimum, you will pay at least 100 francs/$5/£1 per night at one of these hotels in the mid-Thirties, and at least 25 francs/$1/5 s for a meal; charges twice this are common. The concierge, maître d'hôtel, and other senior staff at these hotels all have excellent connections for any manner of odd request.

 

  • Hôtel Le Bristol

    • 112 Rue du Faubourg Saint Honoré. Often patronized by royalty, has especially large suites available (drawing room, dining room, 2 to 4 bedrooms, bathrooms). 

  • Carlton

    • 119-121 Avenue des Champs-Elysees. Room 125 francs, breakfast from 10 francs, lunch 40 francs, dinner 45 francs; there's also a tea room. Full pension (includes all meals) 200 francs.

  • Claridges

    • 74 Avenue des Champs-Elysees. Room 150 francs, breakfast 10 francs, lunch or dinner 50 francs; there's also a tea room. Opened 1918, has a swimming pool and Turkish bath. The restaurant has a dance floor, with the world's most famous jazz groups playing there -- Django Reinhardt and his Quintette du Hot Club de France are essentially the house band (violin, double bass, guitar, and two rhythm guitars).

 

Up to four bedrooms en suite; the master bedroom costs 200 francs per night, and includes a sauna.

Green tint is bathtubs (master tub is for 2 persons), yellow is beds. Hex grid is 2 yards.

 

  • Crillon

    • 10 Place de la Concorde. Room 160 francs, breakfast 12 francs; also has a tea room and a first-class restaurant. An 18th Century palace, turned into a hotel in 1909. George Orwell worked here as a dishwasher in 1929. The British embassy is next door; the headquarters of the French Navy is in an identical building on the other side; the Automobile Club of France is also adjacent.

 

   

 

The Hotel Crillon and the Automobile Club of France.

 

  • Edouard VII

    • 39 Avenue de l'Opera. Room 80 francs, breakfast 10 francs, lunch 33 francs, dinner 38. Full pension (includes all meals) 145 francs. The Restaurant Delmonico is downstairs (no connection with the famous American restaurants, aside from the name).

  • Élysée Palace Hôtel

    • Avenue des Champs-Élysée

  • George V

    • 31 Avenue George V; telegraph address georgeotel. Relatively new (1928). Room 150 francs; each room has a telephone (which can direct dial to outside numbers). Suites of five rooms are common; most of these have an electric dumbwaiter, or service elevator, to the ground-floor kitchen. There are 70 rooms for maids, valets, and other guests' staff. They also have "salons", majestic suites with grand views -- from 500 francs per night and up (meals included). The main room of a salon can easily hold an audience of 24 persons. A Chinese-themed tea room, a tea room a l'anglaise, a smoking room, ballroom, barber shop and branch of the Chase National Bank are other amenities. Here's our version of the 1930s letterhead.

 

 


    • The hotel has a small Caudron C.286 monoplane (their own pilot plus 3 passengers) for flights to London, Berlin, Rome, Madrid, and other Continental cities within about 750 miles of Paris (specifically, Le Bourget airfield). They won't take more than 3 passengers, they won't let you pilot the plane, and they won't fly at night or in bad weather.

 

A five-bedroom 'salon' suite, 800 francs (£9) per night, meals included;

red tint are the staff areas, green are outdoors, hex grid is 2 yards.

Probably on the 5th or 6th floor (above the ground floor).

 

  • Le Meurice

    • 228 Rue de Rivoli. Room with bath 180 francs, breakfast 12 francs, first-class restaurants (including the Roof Garden) serve lunch and dinner a la carte. All the staff speak English, and the hotel is thus popular with Britons (such as the Prince of Wales); also with Salvador Dali. English-style billiards tables are available. It's located opposite the Tuileries Gardens.

  • Grand Hôtel du Louvre

    • Place André Malraux.

  • Hôtel Majestic

    • 19 Avenue Kléber. Purchased by the government in 1936 for use as War Ministry offices.

  • Plaza-Athenee

    • 25 Avenue Montaigne. Room 175 francs, breakfast 12 francs; also has a first-class restaurant for dinner.

  • Hôtel Ritz

    • 15 Place Vendôme. The restaurant, grill room, wine cellar and Le Grand Bar are famous; ladies are not yet allowed in the Grand bar (where F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and many members of the "international aristocracy" can be found). Room 225 francs, breakfast 12 francs; also has a tea room, a first-class restaurant and a garden cafe, plus the Ritz Bar (very Victorian). All rooms have a bath; the Imperial Suite is probably the most fashionable and expensive set of hotel rooms in Paris (rate not known). 

      • Winston Churchill stayed here on 13 September 1935; his bill including meals for the stay was 365.50 francs.

  • Trianon Palace-Versailles

    • 1 Boulevard de la Reine, Versailles. Not actually in Paris, but nearby. Gorgeous views of gardens and parkland.

 

The following Parisian hotels are less world-famous (but still excellent):

 

  • Hôtel d'Alsace

    • 13 Rue des Beaux-Arts. Only 20 rooms. 

  • Le Clery Hôtel

    • 13 Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle. An outre British intelligence agency has their French station here.

  • St. James Hôtel and d'Albany

    • 211 Rue St. Honoré. A former palace, facing the Tuileries Garden, and with its own garden and car-park. Single room with bath, 45 francs ($1.80); double with bath, 65 francs ($2.60); full pension (i.e., with all meals included) add 30 francs ($1.20) per person. 

  • Hôtel Lotti

    • 7-9 Rue de Castiglione. Near the Tuileries.

  • Hôtel du Louvre

    • at the corner of the Rue de Rivoli and the Place du Palais-Royal. 

  • Hôtel Molitor

    • 13 Rue Nungesser et Coli, near the Bois de Boulogne. Includes a large swimming pool.

  • Palais d'Orsay

    • at the Gare du Quai d'Orsay. Overlooking the Seine, the Tuileries Garden, and the Avenue des Champs-Élysées.

  • Hôtel de Paris

    • 8 Boulevard de la Madeleine. Near the Opera; single room with bath, from 60 francs ($2.40); double room with bath, from 70 francs ($2.80).

  • Ambassadeurs Hôtel

    • 16 Boulevard Haussmann. Opened 1927; 600 rooms. 

  • Hôtel Lutetia

    • 45 Boulevard Raspail. Built in the Art Nouveau style, opened in 1910, it stands opposite from Le Bon Marché department store. It has a very large indoor swimming-pool ("piscine") ... possibly Olympic-sized.

 


  • Hôtel Regina

    • on the Rue de Rivoli. Built in the Second Empire style, opened in 1900, with 99 bedrooms.

  • Hôtel Westminster

    • 13 Rue de la Paix, "Between Place Vendome and Opera. Single room with bath, from 100 francs. Double room with bath, from 150 francs. Suite from 200 francs. Telegrams:  "Westmlotel." Managing director:  E. Bruchon.

 

Peking, China

 

  • Grand Hotel

    • 35 East Chang An Avenue.

 

Penang, Malaysia

 

  • Eastern & Oriental Hotel

    • 10 Farquhar Street, George Town

 

Rangoon, Burma

 

  • Minto Mansions

  • Strand Hotel

 

Rio de Janiero, Brazil

 

  • Copacabana Palace

    • Avenida Atlântica 1702.

 

Rome, Italy

 

  • Hotel d Angleterre

    • Via Bocca di Leone, 14. Very high class.

  • Hotel Atlantico

    • Via Cavour, 23

  • Bernini Bristol

    • Piazza Barberini, 23. 

  • Hotel Excelsior

    • Via Vittorio Veneto, 125. The two-story "Villa la Cupola" suite is noted as one of the most expensive hotel rooms in the world, and includes hand-painted frescoes, up to seven bedrooms, and a private cinema.

  • Grand Hotel

    • Via Vittorio E. Orlando, 3. The unofficial court of the King of Italy. 

  • Hassler

    • Trinita' dei Monti, 6. Opened 1893, more or less at the top of the Spanish Steps. The owners are Swiss. Note that the Pulp-era building was almost entirely demolished and rebuilt in 1939.

  • Hotel Majestic

    • Via Vittorio Veneto, 50. Close to the Spanish Steps and the Trevi Fountain.

 

 

 

  • La Russie

    • Via del Babuino, 9. Between Piazza del Popolo and Piazza di Spagna.

 

San Francisco, USA

 

  • Palace Hotel

    • 2 New Montgomery Street.

  • Fairmont Hotel

    • 950 Mason Street.

 

Shanghai, China

 

     See also this other wiki.

 

  • Astor House Hotel

    • 15 Huangpu Road. Cable address "ASTOR".

  • Burlington Hotel

    • 1225 Bubbling Well Road. Single rooms $8; double rooms, $15.

  • Cathay Hotel

    • 20 Nanking Road. Owned by Victor Sassoon. 5th through 7th floors of Sassoon House; the hotel suites are each decorated to a different cultural or national theme. Cable address is, perhaps unfortunately, "CATHOTEL".

  • Metropole Hotel

    • 180 Kiangse Road. Owned by Victor Sassoon.

  • Palace Hotel

    • 19 The Bund. Built in 1906. Cable address "PALACE".

  • Park Hotel

    • Bubbling Well Road. Opened 1934, the tallest building outside of North America (24 floors), it overlooks the Race Course. Has a dining room, lounge, American Bar; the Grill Room and Roof Garden (with sliding roof) are on the 14th floor (the 15th and higher floors are much smaller). Cable address "PARKHOTEL"; single room with bath, M$12 and up; double room with bath, M$22 and up.

  • Plaza Hotel 

 

Singapore

 

  • Raffles Hotel

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

 

Tokyo, Japan

 

  • Imperial Hotel

 

Venice, Italy

 

  • Danieli Royal

    • Castello 4196, close to the Piazza San Marco. 14th Century building close to the Piazza San Marco. Lire 30 and up per night; only breakfast available, lire 5 (no restaurant in the hotel), but has 350 beds.

  • Europa

    • Located at Calle Ridotto, two short blocks from the Piazza San Marco. Lire 50 and up per night, 120 beds.

  • Gritti Palace

    • On the Campo San Moise, three blocks from Piazza San Marco. Extremely ornate and old-fashioned, with antique furnishings, damask drapes, and paintings by famous artists.

 

     The following two de luxe hotels are at the Lido, the beach resort along the lagoon from the city. They are much larger than anything in Venice proper, and allow for more anonymous visits.

 

  • Grand Hotel Lido

    • rate per night lire 35 to 65

  • The Excelsior Palace

    • facing the Adriatic beach near the southern end of the Lido, rates per night lire 50 to 225

 

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.

 


 

     Sources: Most Famous Hotels; "London and its Environs", pub. Karl Baedeker, 1930; "Bradshaw's Air Guide", November 1934 (reprint Old House Books, 2013); "Bradshaw's Continental Guide", June 1937; "London Guide Book and Atlas", pub. 1937 Thos. Cook & Son, Ltd., London; "Muirhead's England", pub. 1930 Macmillan, London.

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