Brown's Hotel - London

Dating back to 1837, the historic Brown's Hotel started the hospitality trade in London's fashionable Mayfair, where its convenient location to Bond Street shopping and the tranquil gardens of Hyde Park continue to attract business and incentive travelers. Included on the World's Best Hotels 2010 list of Travel + Leisure and Best Hotels 2010 for National Geographic Traveler, this stately boutique features 117 luxury guest rooms and suites with flat-panel TV, dual-line phones with voicemail, high-speed Internet access, and books by such frequent guests as Winston Churchill and Rudyard Kipling, who wrote The Jungle Book here.

High ceilings, antique furnishings, and copious natural sunlight distinguish the six conference rooms at Brown's Hotel, which welcomes business meetings and corporate events to 120. Amenities include HIX at the Albemarle restaurant, English Tea Room, and Donovan Bar.