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The Top 100 Hotels 2015: Europe…

From London and Paris to Athens and Istanbul, Robb Report settles into 14 private havens in Europe’s finest city hotels…

Set on the Thames riverfront in a sprawling Victorian-era Belle Epoque building, the Corinthia Hotel London has reshaped London’s luxury-hotel landscape since opening in April 2011.

First opened in 1885—and having sat vacant since 2004—the former Metropole Hotel reemerged in May as the Corinthia Hotel London after a dazzling $495 million renovation. This significant sum included $1.6 million for a 1,001-crystal Baccarat chandelier—the largest ever created—that now hangs in the Corinthia’s Lobby Lounge. Such extravagances seem appropriate in the grandiloquent Belle […]