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Most Famous Hotels

Here they are, the hotels with names so famous that even those uninitiated in the more indulgent excesses of luxury travelling would recognize their monikers. Some are famous by virtue of their venerable age and history, others because they are an architectural flight of fancy and still others, God help us, because of Hollywood and the elegant backdrop they presented in a movie.

Hilary Doling, 1/4/10

Four Seasons George V, Paris, France

Flowers, flowers,flowers and more lavish displays of flowers ...everywhere.

Waldorf =Astoria and Towers, New York, USA

The first hotel to feature in a movie, the first to introduce room service and let's not forget it invented the Waldorf salad.

Mena House Oberoi, Cairo, Egypt

The view has been enchanting guests since 1869 - the great pyramid of Khufu is practically in the back yard and looms large in the windows of many of the rooms.

Beverly Wilshire, Los Angeles, USA

Yes, it's the Pretty Woman Hotel where Richard Gere's character holes up in the penthouse with the kind of hooker you could take home to mum.

The Raffles, Singapore

This hotel has a legendary past. In colonial days the decadent and gin-soaked sat on its white-arched verandahs and discussed all kinds of dubious deeds.

The Mandarin Oriental, Bangkok, Thailand

The grand old Oriental, which has sat overlooking the Chao Phraya River for over 130 years, is a Bangkok institution.

The Taj Mahal Palace & Tower, Mumbai, India

The Taj Mahal hotel, in what was then known as Bombay, was built by Indian industrialist Tata in a stand against the colonialism and snobbery.

Burj Al Arab, Dubai, UAE

Roger Federer and Andre Agassi played tennis on this pad, and Tiger Woods has tee'd off a (though nobody reported whose skull 321 metres down below his ball might have become embedded in!).

Hotel Cipriani, Venice, Italy

What could be more refined, or famous, than Hotel Cipriani?

The Ritz London, England

Ritzy: (slang) adj: stylish, elegant, ostentatiously rich.

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