Film director
1899
Leytonstone, England
English
$231
Alfred Hitchcock first crossed the Bristol Palace’s threshold in 1925, a 26-year-old director in Genoa to make The Pleasure Garden. He returned in 1955 for To Catch a Thief, by then world-famous. Between those visits stands the hotel’s dizzying white-marble staircase, said to have inspired the spiral motif in Vertigo. Today, its Art Nouveau curves make a stay feel like entering one of Hitchcock’s carefully composed frames.
$1,063
Badrutt’s Palace rises above Lake St. Moritz with the theatrical grandeur of a winter-season legend. Storied halls, lake-facing rooms and exacting service preserve the rarefied Alpine world once inhabited by Coco Chanel and generations of international icons.