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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.
- Alexandria, Egypt
- Claridge's
- Hotel Cecil
- Majestic
- Athens, Greece
- Acropole Palace
- Grande Bretagne
- Baghdad, Iraq
- Claridge's Hotel
- Maude Hotel
- Tigris Palace Hotel
- Belfast, Ireland
- Grand Central Hotel
- Midland Station Hotel
- Berlin, Germany
- Adlon
- Hotel Excelsior
- Hotel Kaiserhof
- Hotel Savoy
- Beyrouth, Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon
- Hotel St. Georges
- Bombay, India
- The Taj Mahal Palace Hotel
- Boston, USA
- The Lenox
- Brindisi, Italy
- Hotel Internationale
- Cairo, Egypt
- Mena House
- Shepheard's Hotel
- Calcutta, India
- The Great Eastern Hotel
- Cawnpore, India
- Berkeley House
- Chicago, USA
- Palmer House
- Damascus, Syria
- Hotel Omayad
- Delhi, India
- Maiden's Hotel
- Hong Kong, China
- The Peninsula Hotel
- Istanbul, Turkey
- Bristol Hotel
- Pera Palace Hotel
- Grand Hotel de Londres
- Splendid Palace Hotel
- Tokatlian Hotel
- Jodhpur, India
- State Hotel
- Karachi, India
- Hotel Metropole
- Killarney Hotel
- Hotel Bristol
- Carlton Hotel
- Central Hotel
- North Western Hotel
- London, England
- Hotel Belgravia
- Berkeley
- Brown's
- Carlton
- Claridge's
- Connaught
- Dorchester
- Grosvenor House
- Hyde Park
- Mayfair
- Park Lane
- Piccadilly
- Ritz
- Royal Palace
- Savoy
- Splendide
- Victoria
- Waldorf
- Madras, India
- The Connemara
- Monte Carlo, Monaco
- Hotel d'Paris
- Hotel Metropole
- Moscow, USSR
- Metropol
- Naples, Italy
- Hotel Excelsior
- New York City, USA
- Algonquin
- Ambassador Hotel
- Barclay Hotel
- Biltmore Hotel
- Hotel Carlyle
- Chatham Hotel
- Essex House
- Gotham Hotel
- Hampshire House
- The Madison
- Hotel Pierre
- Plaza Hotel
- Ritz-Carlton Hotel
- The Ritz Tower
- Roosevelt Hotel
- St. Regis Hotel
- The Savoy Plaza
- The Sherry-Netherland
- The Waldorf-Astoria
- Paris, France
- Hôtel Le Bristol
- Carlton
- Claridges
- Crillon
- Edouard VII
- Élysée Palace Hôtel
- George V
- Le Meurice
- Hôtel Majestic
- Plaza-Athenee
- Hôtel Ritz
- Trianon Palace-Versailles
- Hôtel d'Alsace
- Le Clery Hôtel
- St. James Hôtel and d'Albany
- Hôtel Lotti
- Hôtel du Louvre
- Hôtel Molitor
- Palais d'Orsay
- Hôtel de Paris
- Ambassadeurs Hôtel
- Hôtel Lutetia
- Hôtel Regina
- Hôtel Westminster
- Peking, China
- Grand Hotel
- Penang, Malaysia
- Eastern & Oriental Hotel
- Rangoon, Burma
- Minto Mansions
- Strand Hotel
- Rio de Janiero, Brazil
- Copacabana Palace
- Rome, Italy
- Hotel d Angleterre
- Hotel Atlantico
- Bernini Bristol
- Hotel Excelsior
- Grand Hotel
- Hassler
- Hotel Majestic
- La Russie
- San Francisco, USA
- Palace Hotel
- Fairmont Hotel
- Shanghai, China
- Astor House Hotel
- Burlington Hotel
- Cathay Hotel
- Metropole Hotel
- Palace Hotel
- Park Hotel
- Plaza Hotel
- Singapore
- Raffles Hotel
- Tokyo, Japan
- Imperial Hotel
- Venice, Italy
- Danieli Royal
- Europa
- Gritti Palace
- Grand Hotel Lido
- The Excelsior Palace
- Vienna, Austria
- Hotel Bristol
- Grand Hotel
- Imperial
- Hotel Sacher
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Alexandria, Egypt
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Claridge's
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Hotel Cecil
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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.
Athens, Greece
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Acropole Palace
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Patissia Str. 51, opposite from the National Museum. In Art Nouveau style, opened in 1928, with 160 rooms, all with baths and telephones.
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Grande Bretagne
Le Petit Palais is an adjacent smaller hotel, until 1933 when it was purchased for the Italian embassy
Baghdad, Iraq
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Claridge's Hotel
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Maude Hotel
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Tigris Palace Hotel
Belfast, Ireland
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Grand Central Hotel
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Midland Station Hotel
Berlin, Germany
an upper floor, with 5 foot wide hexes; south is the Unter der Linden, east is the Pariser-Platz
rates at the Hotel Excelsior between 1929 and 1939
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tariffs
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price, ℛℳ
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price, £
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single bedroom, per night
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4.50 to 10
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6s 2d to 13s 8d
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single bedroom with private bath, per night
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9 to 15
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12s 4d to £1 7d
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double bedded room, per night
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9 to 20
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12s 4d to £1 7s 5d
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double bedded room with private bath, per night
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16 to 30
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£1 2s to £2 1s 2d
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breakfast
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1.60
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2s 2d
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dinner
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2.75
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3s 9d
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supper
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3.00
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4s 1d
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pension arrangement for room and three meals, per night
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14 to 20
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19s 2d to £1 7s 5d
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pension for servants, per night
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10
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13s 9d
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Taxes and charges at 15% to room tariff, 10% to meals and drinks. Conversion at 14.58 ℛℳ per £1.
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Hotel Kaiserhof
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Hotel Savoy
Beyrouth, Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon
Bombay, India
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The Taj Mahal Palace Hotel
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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.
Boston, USA
Brindisi, Italy
Cairo, Egypt
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Mena House
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6 Pyramids Road, Giza. Riding, 18 hole golf course, swimming pools, tennis, 40 acres of gardens, etc..1st class tram into Cairo proper.
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Shepheard's Hotel
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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
Cawnpore, India
Chicago, USA
Damascus, Syria
Delhi, India
Hong Kong, China
A room in these first-class hotels will cost between 5 to 15 lire per night.
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Bristol Hotel
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Grand Hotel de Londres
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Splendid Palace Hotel
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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.
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Tokatlian Hotel
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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
Karachi, India
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Hotel Metropole
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Club Road. Air conditioning, famous bar, good service, fine dining and dancing, etc..
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Killarney Hotel
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Hotel Bristol
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Carlton Hotel
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Central Hotel
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North Western Hotel
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.
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Hotel Belgravia
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Berkeley
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Brown's
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Carlton
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Claridge's
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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
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Connaught
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Dorchester
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Grosvenor House
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Hyde Park
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Mayfair
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Park Lane
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Piccadilly
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Ritz
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Royal Palace
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Savoy
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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.
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Splendide
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Victoria
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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.
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Waldorf
Madras, India
The Connemara
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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
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Hotel d'Paris
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Hotel Metropole
Moscow, USSR
Naples, Italy
These are all de luxe hotels in Manhattan; less fancy hotels can be found at the New York City accommodations page.
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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.
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Ambassador Hotel
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Barclay Hotel
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Biltmore Hotel
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Hotel Carlyle
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Chatham Hotel
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Essex House
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Gotham Hotel
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Hampshire House
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The Madison
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Hotel Pierre
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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.
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Plaza Hotel
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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.
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Ritz-Carlton Hotel
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The Ritz Tower
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Roosevelt Hotel
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St. Regis Hotel
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The Savoy Plaza
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The Sherry-Netherland
Plan of the 9th through 17th floors, with a 2 yard grid superimposed.
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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.
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.
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Hôtel Le Bristol
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112 Rue du Faubourg Saint Honoré. Often patronized by royalty, has especially large suites available (drawing room, dining room, 2 to 4 bedrooms, bathrooms).
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Carlton
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Edouard VII
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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).
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Élysée Palace Hôtel
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George V
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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.
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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).
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Le Meurice
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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.
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Grand Hôtel du Louvre
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Hôtel Majestic
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Plaza-Athenee
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Hôtel Ritz
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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).
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Trianon Palace-Versailles
The following Parisian hotels are less world-famous (but still excellent):
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Hôtel d'Alsace
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Le Clery Hôtel
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St. James Hôtel and d'Albany
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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.
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Hôtel Lotti
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Hôtel du Louvre
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Hôtel Molitor
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Palais d'Orsay
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Hôtel de Paris
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Ambassadeurs Hôtel
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Hôtel Lutetia
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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.
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Hôtel Regina
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Hôtel Westminster
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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
Penang, Malaysia
Rangoon, Burma
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Minto Mansions
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Strand Hotel
Rio de Janiero, Brazil
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Hotel d Angleterre
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Hotel Atlantico
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Bernini Bristol
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Hotel Excelsior
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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.
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Grand Hotel
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Hassler
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San Francisco, USA
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Palace Hotel
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Fairmont Hotel
See also this other wiki.
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Astor House Hotel
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Burlington Hotel
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Cathay Hotel
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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".
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Metropole Hotel
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Palace Hotel
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Park Hotel
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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.
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Plaza Hotel
Singapore
Tokyo, Japan
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Danieli Royal
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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.
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Europa
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Gritti Palace
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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.
Vienna, Austria
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Hotel Bristol
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Grand Hotel
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Imperial
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Hotel Sacher
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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