Fodor's Expert Review Hotel Topazz Lamee

Recently merged into one hotel, the Topazz and Lamee hotels offer spectacular architecture, central locations, a focus on sustainability and innovation, and supreme style and comfort. The Lamée, named after Hedy Lamarr, offers a playful wink to actors' dressing rooms of her era: pink crushed-velvet sofas and chairs, and muted gold-toned bedding and drapes. Another design reference is the iconic Orient Express train—a small seating area at the entrance to each room recalls train compartments, with high-gloss Makassar wood paneling and portal windows. The Topazz across the street is like a nine-story cylindrical silver vase gemmed with big oval amber stones. The interiors are slick and subdued, with monochromatic hues and geometric prints, and a chic basement-level lounge. The Lamee's rooftop terrace bar provides stunning views of the Innere Stadt and the location, just around the corner from St. Stephen's Cathedral, can't be beat.