Best Boutique Hotels in Philadelphia
Philadelphia has one of the most underrated boutique hotel scenes on the East Coast — Old City's converted warehouses and Rittenhouse Square's townhouses are the best of it.
Philadelphia is chronically underrated as a hotel destination. The historic core — Old City, Society Hill, Washington Square West — has some of the best converted warehouse hotels in the country. Rittenhouse Square's townhouse hotels feel like staying in a wealthy friend's brownstone. Neither costs what the equivalent in New York or Washington would.
Old City & Society Hill
The Logan Philadelphia on Logan Square is the city's most architecturally significant boutique hotel — a Beaux-Arts building with a rooftop terrace and a lobby that functions as a cultural centre. Hotel Monaco Philadelphia in the historic Stephen Girard Building has the best location in Old City, steps from the Liberty Bell and the city's best restaurant blocks.
Rittenhouse Square
The Rittenhouse Hotel has dominated the square for three decades and earned every bit of its reputation — small, impeccably maintained, with a Sunday brunch that Philadelphians queue for. Sofitel Philadelphia at 17th and Sansom is the French influence the neighbourhood has always claimed as its own.
Fishtown & Northern Liberties
North of Market Street, Fishtown and Northern Liberties have become Philadelphia's most interesting hotel destination in the past five years. Converted warehouses, repurposed industrial buildings, and purpose-built boutique properties serve the neighbourhood's arts-and-dining corridor — one of the best concentrations of independent restaurants in any American city.
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