Movie Hotels: Favourite Stays of the Stars of Screen and Stage by Isabel Clift
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If there's one place that TI's luxury hotels truly belong, it's laid out in all their glory on the big screen. Whether they've joined the ranks of famous movie hotels by stealing a scene or two, been used for clandestine trysts (and continually name-checked in gossip mags), or seen the pithy passing of a playwright, there are plenty of places in the TI collection with A-list screen and stage credentials. And here's a run-down of a few of our favourites…
Gramercy Park, New York
When Gramercy Park isn't throwing glamorous movie opening parties, it's being rumoured as the meeting point for a rendezvous between ex-husband and wife Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston; scenes for the film Almost Famous were also shot at this New York centre of cool.
Chateau Marmont, Los Angeles
A home-from-home to everyone from Marilyn Monroe to Lindsay Lohan, Chateau Marmont is a party hotel with a darker past: in 1982 Blues Brothers star John Belushi died from an overdose in Bungalow Three.
Park Hyatt Tokyo
The third star of Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation, the bar at Park Hyatt Tokyo has been unwittingly transformed from sleek business base to an unusually romantic destination.
Grand Hotel Rimini
Legendary director Federico Fellini lived here for many years; after idolising the Grand Hotel Rimini and its glamorous inhabitants as a boy, he set his Oscar-winning film, Amarcord, inside it.
Beverly Hills Hotel, Los Angeles
Few LA movie hotels are as steeped in Golden Era Hollywood legend as the Beverly Hills Hotel. Howard Hughes lived here for 30 years (sometimes booking out blocks of 25 suites for himself) and Liz Taylor honeymooned here. Six times.
L'Hotel, Paris
It may not be a movie hotel per se, but as the final resting place of Oscar Wilde, it's fitting that there's more than a touch of the theatrical about L'Hotel. It's also hardly surprising that some of his bon mots have stuck to the place. The last words from his room (now the Oscar Wilde Suite) were, apparently: "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us must go."
Bellagio, Las Vegas
Vegas-tastic Bellagio was the setting for the George Clooney/Brad Pitt version of Ocean's Eleven – scenes from the movie were shot in the casino and the Picasso restaurant, while the ending showcases the famed fountains outside.
The Crown Inn, Amersham
In Four Weddings and a Funeral, Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell get together in the Queen Elizabeth Suite of The Crown Inn – in the film, the hotel's called The Jolly Boatman.
Beverly Wilshire, Los Angeles
Another luxury hotel in Los Angeles, another top-class movie association... The Beverly Wilshire was the 'Pretty Woman' hotel – but shh, only exterior shots of the building were used in the film. It nevertheless attracts movie devotees every year.