Elizabeth Taylor

The restored Waldorf Astoria New York revives Park Avenue's grandest Art Deco address. The glamour is personal for Paris and Nicky Hilton: both sisters spent part of their teenage years living in the hotel with their family.

Hotel Excelsior looks across the Adriatic to Dubrovnik's stone walls from a grand villa and sea-facing tower. Queen Elizabeth II stayed here in October 1972, adding royal ceremony to a waterfront address whose private terraces still feel removed from the city.

Cashel Palace sits beneath the Rock of Cashel with the composed grandeur of an Irish country house restored for a new era. Jackie Kennedy was among its celebrated guests, giving the Palladian rooms a thread of Camelot-era elegance.

Elizabeth Taylor brought a touch of Hollywood to Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten Kempinski: former head chef Dieter Biesler remembered her ordering hand-cut steak tartare for her cat during the 1972 Munich Olympics. The hotel had already been welcoming guests since 1858, and its Maximilianstrasse address still puts you close to the opera and the Old Town. Come for the grand-hotel atmosphere, linger beneath the lobby's stained-glass dome, and leave time for a swim in the heated indoor pool.

The Nile Ritz-Carlton stands between Tahrir Square and the river, carrying forward the address that opened as the Nile Hilton in 1959. Elizabeth Taylor was welcomed at the hotel during its Hilton era, when this modernist landmark drew Hollywood figures to Cairo. Business Traveller documents both her presence and the property's later restoration as a Ritz-Carlton, while current hotel and Booking records confirm the same Corniche location. The name and interiors changed; the celebrity history belongs to the physical hotel that remains.

Splendido occupies a former monastery above Portofino's harbor, with terraced gardens and broad Ligurian Sea views. Belmond's own history connects Elizabeth Taylor with repeated stays at the hotel, often with Richard Burton, making the relationship stronger than a one-off restaurant appearance. The hillside Splendido is distinct from its smaller sister property, Splendido Mare, on the piazzetta below.