The Michelangelo New York—Starhotels Collezione
Italophiles feel like they've been transported to the good life in the Mediterranean at this deluxe hotel, where the long, wide lobby lounge is clad with multihued marble and Veronese-style oil paintings. Upstairs, rooms are spacious, averaging 475 square feet. You can choose contemporary, neoclassical, art deco, or French country styles; the different styles really just have to do with different color schemes. All have marble foyers and marble bathrooms equipped with bidets and oversize 55-gallon tubs. The hotel is a few blocks from Rockefeller Center and 5th Avenue shopping.