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For more results, turn the page. lettering by STUDIO FEIXEN Condé Nast Traveler / 11.16 87 1116-TR-RCNV01 UNITED STATES 88 Condé Nast Traveler / 11.16 1116-TR-RCNV02 RCA nº. 12 6 Acme Hotel Company 93.62 Te Norman 7 Waldorf Astoria Chicago 93.61 Tel Aviv, Israel 8 Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel (page 108) Chicago 92.44 9 Silversmith Hotel 92.38 10 Fairmont Chicago, Millennium Park 90.63 11 Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago 89.99 12 Hotel Monaco Chicago 89.45 13 Swissôtel Chicago 89.41 14 Chicago Athletic Association Hotel 89.16 NEW YORK CITY 15 Four Seasons Hotel Chicago 88.49 TOP 40 16 Ritz-Carlton, Chicago 88.21 1 The Surrey 96.86 17 Hotel Palomar Chicago 87.45 2 The Peninsula New York 96.09 18 Dana Hotel and Spa 85.42 3 Crosby Street Hotel 95.98 19 W Chicago–Lakeshore 82.68 4 Library Hotel 94.66 20 Sofitel Chicago Water Tower 80.68 5 Park Hyatt New York 94.25 6 Roxy Hotel 94.03 BOSTON 7 Langham Place, New York, TOP 10 Fifth Avenue 93.95 8 WestHouse Hotel New York 93.83 1 XV Beacon 96.51 9 The Lowell 93.64 2 Nine Zero 95.94 10 Baccarat Hotel & Residences– 3 Boston Harbor Hotel 93.97 New York 93.49 4 Four Seasons Hotel Boston 92.86 11 Refinery Hotel 93.31 5 Hotel Marlowe, Cambridge 91.90 2 6 91.89 12 Trump International Hotel Commonwealth Hotel & Tower New York 92.86 Number of 7 The Langham, Boston 91.52 13 The Kimberly Hotel 92.62 consecutive years 8 Fairmont Copley Plaza 90.54 14 Sofitel New York 92.31 New York has 9 Omni Parker House 86.78 15 The Quin 91.94 been voted the 10 The Eliot Hotel 85.68 16 Mandarin Oriental, New York 91.45 No. 1 large city in the United States 17 The Michelangelo 90.83 WASHINGTON, D.C. 18 90.81 (page 112)— The Greenwich Hotel TOP 10 19 The Knickerbocker Hotel 90.53 impressive, 20 The High Line Hotel 90.25 considering that 1 The Jefferson 94.40 21 Dream Downtown 90.19 for decades it 2 Melrose Georgetown Hotel 94.33 22 Loews Regency Hotel 89.77 didn’t even make 3 InterContinental The Willard 23 Hotel Chandler 89.45 the list. Washington D.C. 93.96 24 The Carlyle (Rosewood) 89.25 4 Fairmont Washington D.C. 92.65 25 Le Parker Méridien 89.14 5 The Hay-Adams 91.25 26 The Plaza 89.01 6 Four Seasons Hotel 27 The New York Edition 88.72 Washington, D.C. 88.04 28 Omni Berkshire Place 88.53 7 The Embassy Row Hotel 87.61 29 St. Regis New York 88.46 8 The Mayflower Hotel 84.57 30 The NoMad Hotel 87.63 9 Omni Shoreham Hotel 83.39 31 The Mark 87.58 10 Mandarin Oriental, 32 Smyth 87.26 Washington, D.C. 81.07 33 The Bowery Hotel 86.26 34 Lotte New York Palace 86.05 CHARLESTON, S.C. 35 86.01 Trump SoHo New York TOP 10 36 Four Seasons Hotel New York 84.37 TOP 10 OVERALL 37 Ritz-Carlton New York, 1 French Quarter Inn 96.19 Central Park 82.31 2 Grand Bohemian Hotel 1 Virgin Hotels Chicago 98.81 38 The London NYC 81.49 Charleston 95.32 2 Thompson Chicago 97.73 39 JW Marriott Essex House New York 3 John Rutledge House Inn 94.98 3 Hotel Emma, San Antonio 97.33 80.90 4 Wentworth Mansion 94.97 4 Twin Farms, Barnard, Vt. 97.27 40 The Standard, High Line 80.70 5 The Spectator Hotel 94.67 5 The Umstead Hotel and Spa, 6 The Restoration 94.02 7 HarbourView Inn 93.93 Cary, N.C. 97.17 CHICAGO 6 Ritz-Carlton, Tysons Corner, 8 Market Pavilion Hotel 93.71 McLean, Va. 96.89 TOP 20 9 Planters Inn 92.53 7 The Surrey, New York City 96.86 1 Virgin Hotels Chicago 98.81 10 Belmond Charleston Place 90.46 8 Hotel Maison de Ville, 2 Thompson Chicago 97.73 New Orleans 96.85 3 The Peninsula Chicago 95.94 9 Sentinel, Portland, Ore. 96.81 4 The Langham, Chicago 95.57 Photograph by Sivan Askayo Sivan Photographby 10 JW Marriott Austin 96.71 5 Park Hyatt Chicago 94.25 P.94 Condé Nast Traveler / 11.16 89 1116-TR-RCNV03 RCA HOTELS MIAMI NEW YORK STATE & TOP 15 THE MID-ATLANTIC 1 Epic 96.50 TOP 15 2 Faena Hotel Miami Beach 93.90 1 Baron’s Cove, Sag Harbor, N.Y. 96.51 3 1 Hotel South Beach 90.40 2 Hotel Monaco Pittsburgh 95.83 4 The Biltmore Hotel Miami– 3 The Lodge at Glendorn, 90.00 Coral Gables 7 Hotel Bel-Air 89.29 Bradford, Pa. 95.24 5 89.58 Washington Park Hotel 8 The Peninsula Beverly Hills 88.33 4 The Rittenhouse, Philadelphia 95.00 6 88.94 The Betsy 9 Shutters on the Beach 88.22 5 Hotel Monaco Philadelphia 94.38 7 86.91 Ritz-Carlton, South Beach 10 The Beverly Hills Hotel 87.36 6 Congress Hall, Cape May, N.J. 94.10 8 86.29 W South Beach 11 Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles 7 The Virginia Hotel, 9 85.71 Loews Miami Beach Hotel at Beverly Hills 84.84 Cape May, N.J. 93.79 10 Ritz-Carlton Coconut Grove, 12 The Hollywood Roosevelt 82.14 8 The Mill House Inn, Miami 85.24 East Hampton, N.Y. 92.86 11 Mandarin Oriental, Miami 84.52 9 Sandpiper Beach Club, 12 The Miami Beach Edition 84.15 SAN FRANCISCO Cape May, N.J. 92.41 13 Surfcomber 82.78 TOP 15 10 Four Seasons Hotel Baltimore 89.72 14 81.96 Fontainebleau 1 The Scarlet Huntington 92.14 11 Sofitel Philadelphia 89.64 15 80.99 The Standard Spa, Miami Beach 2 Four Seasons Hotel San Francisco 12 Omni William Penn Hotel, 92.05 Pittsburgh 89.29 NEW ORLEANS 3 Ritz-Carlton, San Francisco 91.45 13 Hotel Palomar Philadelphia 88.94 14 Inn at Perry Cabin by Belmond, TOP 10 4 Fairmont San Francisco 88.12 5 Inn at the Presidio 87.15 St. Michaels, Md. 87.50 1 96.85 Hotel Maison de Ville 6 Omni San Francisco Hotel 87.07 15 Thayer Hotel, West Point, N.Y. 82.36 2 The Old No. 77 7 Palace Hotel (Luxury Collection) 86.31 94.57 Hotel & Chandlery 8 The Marker 85.47 3 The Roosevelt New Orleans 9 InterContinental San Francisco 84.67 93.70 (Waldorf Astoria) 10 InterContinental Mark Hopkins 4 93.06 Hotel Le Marais San Francisco 84.07 5 92.23 Hotel Mazarin 11 St. Regis San Francisco 83.39 6 91.74 Bourbon Orleans Hotel 12 Hotel Zephyr 82.29 7 90.14 Windsor Court Hotel 13 Stanford Court 81.91 8 88.92 Ritz-Carlton, New Orleans 14 Grand Hyatt San Francisco 81.66 9 88.77 Hotel Monteleone 15 Hotel Vitale 80.82 10 Le Pavillon Hotel 84.99 NEW ENGLAND LAS VEGAS TOP 20 TOP 10 1 Twin Farms, Barnard, Vt. 97.27 1 90.26 Wynn Las Vegas & Encore 2 Hotel Vermont, Burlington, Vt. 96.04 2 89.34 Four Seasons Hotel Las Vegas 3 Harraseeket Inn, Freeport, Me. 95.36 3 87.45 Mandarin Oriental, Las Vegas 4 The Press Hotel, Portland, Me. 95.08 4 87.10 The Palazzo 5 West Street Hotel, 5 The Venetian 86.79 Bar Harbor, Me. 94.94 6 86.60 Bellagio 6 The Cottages & Lofts at the 7 86.50 The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas Boat Basin, Nantucket, Mass. 94.23 8 84.34 Aria 7 The Pitcher Inn, Warren, Vt. 93.75 9 84.16 Vdara Hotel & Spa 8 The Hermitage, West Dover, Vt. 93.10 10 Trump International Hotel 9 Chebeague Island Inn, Me. 92.35 83.90 Las Vegas 10 The Dean, Providence, R.I. 91.53 11 Harborside Hotel, Spa & Marina, LOS ANGELES Bar Harbor, Me. 90.95 TOP 12 12 The Nantucket Hotel & Resort, Mass. 90.77 1 94.76 Montage Beverly Hills 13 The Chanler at Cliff Walk, 2 The Garland 92.70 Newport, R.I. 90.60 3 92.00 The Beverly Hilton 14 Delamar Greenwich Harbor, 4 JW Marriott Los Angeles Conn. 89.54 91.89 L.A.