Hotel 1898
The old Philippines Tobacco Company building, with a rooftop pool over the Rambla.
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Hotels, guesthouses and rooms we have slept in or documented from primary sources — grouped by city, never ranked by commission.
Barcelona, Spain
City guideLisbon, Portugal
City guideBairro Alto Hotel
Between the Chiado and the Bairro Alto, with the rooftop facing the river.
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Memmo Alfama
A terrace over the Tagus inside the Alfama lanes — the natural pre-cruise address.
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Pousada de Lisboa
Sleeping on Praça do Comércio itself, in a state building turned pousada.
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Marseille, France
City guideInterContinental Marseille — Hôtel Dieu
An eighteenth-century hospital on the hill, with the best terrace view of the Bonne Mère.
Documented
Les Bords de Mer
Nineteen rooms hung over the Mediterranean, with the horizon doing all the decorating.
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Sofitel Marseille Vieux-Port
On the Pharo headland, watching the ships come through the mouth of the old port.
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Naples, Italy
City guideGrand Hotel Vesuvio
The lungomare's grand hotel, facing Castel dell'Ovo and the gulf.
Documented
Hotel Piazza Bellini
A courtyard hotel in a sixteenth-century palazzo, on the square where the city talks all night.
Documented
Romeo Napoli
A design hotel facing the cruise terminal — embarkation logistics reduced to crossing a road.
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Palma de Mallorca, Spain
City guideCan Bordoy Grand House & Garden
A sixteenth-century house with the largest private garden in the old town.
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Hotel Cort
On the square with the thousand-year-old olive tree — the compass point of the centre.
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Sant Francesc Hotel Singular
An 1860 mansion on the quietest square in the old town, with the cathedral from the roof.
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Rome, Italy
City guideHotel Artemide
The pragmatic base: Via Nazionale, a rooftop and a spa, with Termini minutes away for the port train.
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Hotel de Russie
A terraced secret garden between Piazza del Popolo and the Spanish Steps — a stay in the city, not a tactic before a train.
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Hotel Locarno
A 1925 hotel with an art-house soul and a bar that extends the room into the street.
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Athens, Greece
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