ATLANTA
Twelve Centennial Park twelvehotels.com Rates: From $189 Highlights: Full business amenities in an all-suite boutique hotel on Peachtree Street in downtown Atlanta. Reserve the executive boardroom for power meetings.
BOSTON
InterContinental Boston intercontinental.com Rates: From $466 Highlights: Spectacular city and harbor views. plus biz-friendly perks like an onsite tech concierge for laptop meltdowns.
CHICAGO
Trump International trumpchicagohotel.com Rates: From $525 Highlights: Tech-savvy concierges. plus a 23,000- square-foot wellness center. healthy room service. and a pool overlooking the Chicago River.
DALLAS
The Stoneleigh Hotel &Spa stoneleighhotel.com Rates: From $275 Highlights: A topnotch business center (with free energy-boosting snacks); spa menu with treatments to reduce travel fatigue and jet lag.
DENVER
Th Rib. Carlton ritzcarlton.com Rates: From $249 Highlights: The only new luxury hotel to open in Denver in years. Amenities include a Les Clefs d’Ors concierge willing to do the extraordinary (such as procure a flak jacket for a CEO who was giving a speech). plus an on-call tech butler and an indoor basketball court.
GREENSBORO, N.C.
Proximity Hotel proximityhotel.com Rates: One of the greenest hotels in America, Proximity is partly solar powered and uses rainwater to irrigate vegetables grown on the roof.
MIAMI
The Tides tidessouthbeach.com Rates: From $595 Highlights: This Kelly Wearstler redesign of a 1936 icon now offers round-theclock butler service for almost any need imaginable, plus.
BOSTON
The Liberty Hotel libertyhotel.com Rates: From $295 Highlights: It’s no mystery how this hotel got its name: The building began life in 1851 as the Charles Street jail. A thorough renovation (the last of the prisoners left in 1990) has mixed a few historical details, such as vestiges of jail cells in the lobby, with luxurious amenities befitting the Liberty’s location in Beacon I Jill. Travelers can take advantage of the 24-hour fitness center, free overnight shoeshine, VoiP phones with touchscreen hotel services, and a special “solitary dining” room-service menu, where you can mix and match items to custom i 7-C a meal. Don’t miss: The cheekily named Clink restaurant.
JET·SET WISDOM
Melissa Biggs Bradley
Founder of luxury travel website Indagare.com
Introduce yourself to the manager or head concierge when you arrive or even beforehand by phone, so you are not an anonymous face in the crowd. Tell him what made you choose the hotel, whether it was a friend’s recommendation or its proximity to your corporate office. either of which will identify you as someone with connections and the potential to influence others to follow your lead. Result: You become a VIP in his eyes.