Yes, a room with a view. It’s a cliché but also one of the great perks of a luxury hotel stay. Here are Tablet Hotels ten best hotels for city views.
Park Hyatt
Tokyo — Fifty stories above the lights of Shinjuku, the Park Hyatt Tokyo provides a bird’s-eye view of the urban scene below, with Mount Fuji looming in the background.
Mandarin Oriental, NYC
New York — In the city, as New Yorker’s call it, it doesn’t get much better than the top of a fifty-five-story tower at the corner of Central Park. With an expanse of green on one side and the skyline on the other, it might be tempting to just stay in and look out the window all day.
Hotel Unique
São Paulo — Architect Ruy Ohtake’s striking São Paulo hotel, at less than 100 feet tall, nearly presents a city view looking up. Taller structures roll away from the building’s low-slung Jardim Paulista neighborhood in every direction.
Trump International Hotel & Tower
Chicago — It’s the second-tallest building in America after the nearby Sears Tower, this Trump overlooks one of the world’s great cities for architecture, with the iconic sights of the Loop just on the other side of the Chicago River.
The Okura Prestige
Bangkok — Bangkok has no shortage of hotels with amazing views – even so, the Okura is a standout; its vast angled windows are like giant windshields in the clouds above the city.
Les Suites Orient
Shanghai — At just twenty-three stories, this is nowhere near Shanghai’s tallest — the Park Hyatt is a full seventy stories higher — but its serene rooms are just the right distance from the neighboring buildings that crowd the Huangpu River.
Mandarin Oriental, SF
San Francisco — It says something about the views when each room comes with a pair of binoculars. Stay here here and you could do most of your sightseeing – like Coit Tower, Alcatraz, the Golden Gate Bridge – without ever leaving.
Hotel Icon
Hong Kong — As if the densely packed skyscrapers crowding the banks of Kowloon Bay weren’t dramatic enough, by night Hong Kong Harbour turns into a full-on light show — and the best place to see it is here, at the ICON.
Jumeirah
Frankfurt — You wouldn’t expect this city to be on this list, but take the Jumeirah’s elevator up to one of the skyline-view suites and you’ll see why not is. Frankfurt’s cluster of modern towers look pretty futuristic.
Sofitel Vienna Stephansdom
Vienna — The illuminated roof by artist Pipilotti Rist turns the views from the Sofitel’s top-floor restaurant into something surreal, with the candy-like colors of the interior bleeding out into the sky above the city.
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