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15 palace hotels that will make you feel like royalty

by Jessica Festa (RSS feed) on Mar 10th 2012 at 11:00AM

Have you ever wondered what it's like to live like a king or queen? While you may not have been born into royalty, you can still live lavishly, if only for a weekend.

While five-star hotels can offer plush bedding, spacious penthouse suites, and high-class amenities, it's nothing compared to the luxurious living offered at these palace properties. Genuine artifacts from centuries ago adorn the halls, acres of lush gardens, furniture made of gold - no expense is spared at a palace hotel. Not only that, but you'll be sleeping in the same space as kings, queens, and society's most elite members once did, long ago.

Sound like fun? Before you start planning your next royal getaway, check out the gallery below.

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Frank Mar 14th 2012 10:24AM

At least four of the hotels that you include in this list of "palace properties" were designed and built specifically as hotels, not as palaces: the Polonia, Warsaw; Brown Palace, Denver; Taj Mahal, Mubai; Alfonso XIII in Seville. Their only claim to being palaces lies in using the word in their name; using that criteria, any number of hotels and motels across the world could have been included in this article--including many that actually were built as palaces. You can do better than this, Gadling.

Pat Vasquez Mar 14th 2012 11:41AM

I got a mansion just over the hill top! In the New Jerusalem with the King of kings and Lord of lords!

Dan Radakovich Mar 14th 2012 12:08PM

Actually in Vienna a better hotel, and also a palace, is the hotel im Palast Schwarzenberg. The Coburgs were an extremely minor German princely family until they married into the British Royal family in the mid-1800s and also got ahold of Belgium, the Schwarzenbergs had the guy who beat Napoleon in charge of Austria's armies in 1814. So it is a bit flashier. Presumably that is why one would want to stay in a palace, though a private "zimmern" or room in someone's home might be more pleasant and much cheaper. And of course in Vienna is also the famous Sacher, home of the torte of the same name. Culinary royalty if not geneological.

Steve Mar 14th 2012 7:32PM

Ok, I have stayed at the Brown Palace in Denver, it's quite nice part could hardly be considered a palace. The Taj however is truly a grand place to stay.