Budget Hotels & Hostels
Apartments
Guesthouses and B&Bs
Hotel Fort Des Moines
Everyone from Mae West to JFK has spent the night in this old-world hotel. It retains its 1917 elegance and the 204 rooms spread across 11 floors are well equipped.
The Breakers
Originally built by Henry Flagler (in 1904 rooms ran $4 per night, including meals), today this 550-room resort sprawls across 140 acres and boasts a staff of 2300 fluent in 56 languages...
Viceroy Snowmass
By far the best choice in Snowmass and with incredible $95 summer rates, it's the best deal in all of Aspen (it's the local rate, but just tell them you're a local – staff want you to have it)...
Inn On Ferry Street
Forty guest rooms fill a row of Victorian mansions right by the art museum. The lower- cost rooms are small but have deliciously soft bedding; the larger rooms feature plenty of antique wood furnishings...
Hotel Boheme
Our favorite boutique hotel is a love letter to the Beat era, with moody orange, black and sage-green color schemes that nod to the 1950s. Inverted Chinese umbrellas hang from the ceiling, and photos from the Beat years decorate the walls...
Hotel Del Coronado A Ksl Luxury Resort
San Diego's iconic hotel, the Del provides more than a century of history, tennis courts, spa, shops, splashy restaurants, manicured grounds and a white-sand beach. Book the original building. Parking is $25.
Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort & Spa
At sunset, scan the lonely horizon for the eponymous wild horses silhouetted against the South Mountains...
The Kendall Hotel
Once the Engine 7 Firehouse, this city landmark is now a cool and classy all-American hotel. The 65 guest rooms retain a firefighter riff, without a whiff of ‘cutesy.’ There’s no scrimping at the breakfast table, either, with a full buffet included...
Argonaut Hotel, A Kimpton Hotel
The top hotel at Fisherman's Wharf was built as a cannery in 1908, and has century-old wooden beams and exposed brick walls. Rooms sport an over-the-top nautical theme, with porthole-shaped mirrors and plush, deep-blue carpets...
Hotel Lombardy
Done up in Venetian decor (shuttered doors, warm gold walls), and beloved by World Bank and State Department types, this European boutique hotel has multilingual staff and an international vibe – you hear French and Spanish as often as English in it...
Jenny Lake Lodge
Worn timbers, down comforters and colorful quilts imbue this elegant lodging off Teton Park Rd with a cozy atmosphere. The log cabins sport a deck but no TVs or radios (phones on request)...
Providence Biltmore Hotel
Entering the chandeliered lobby of this historic downtown hotel is like stepping back into the 1920s. The classic appeal continues in the rooms fitted with damask upholstered chairs, gilt mirrors and king beds.
Magnolia Hotel Omaha
Not far from Old Market, the Magnolia is a boutique hotel housed in a gorgeous restored 1923 Italianate high-rise. The 145 rooms have a vibrant, modern style. Rates include a full buffet breakfast and bedtime milk and cookies.
The Beverly Hills Hotel
The legendary Pink Palace from 1912 oozes opulence. The pool deck is classic, the grounds are lush, and the Polo Lounge remains a clubby lunch spot for the well-heeled and well-dressed...
Historic Strater Hotel
The past lives large in this historical Durango hotel with walnut antiques, hand-stenciled wallpapers and relics ranging from a Stradivarius violin to a gold-plated Winchester...
21c Museum Hotel Louisville
This contemporary art-museum–hotel would be edgy anywhere; in laid-back Louisville, it's practically in a different dimension. Video screens project your distorted image on the wall as you wait for the elevator...
The Holland Hotel
Some renovations suck all the original charm out of a historic property, and some don't go far enough in updating it. But sometimes they get it just right...
Hotel St Augustine
Wood that's blonder than Barbie and a crisp-and-clean deco theme combine to create one of SoFi's most elegant yet stunningly modern sleeps...
Jw Marriott Denver Cherry Creek
This luxury hotel wears its accolades effortlessly, having had both Conde Nast and Zagat confirming it as Denver's best hotel. Spacious digs come with high-thread-count sheets, plump beds and marble bathrooms featuring top-class soaps and shampoos...
Stanley Hotel
The white Georgian Colonial Revival hotel stands in brilliant contrast to the towering peaks of Rocky Mountain National Park that surround it...
Belmont Hotel
Just two miles west of downtown, this stylish 1940s bungalow hotel is a fabulously low-key antidote to Dallas' flashier digs, with a touch of mid-century modern design and more than its share of soul...
Hotel Burnham, A Kimpton Hotel
The proprietors brag the Burnham has the highest guest return rates in Chicago; it’s easy to see why. Housed in the landmark 1890s Reliance Building (precedent for the modern skyscraper), the superslick Burnham woos architecture buffs...