The Best Hotels to Book Near Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia

This five-star operation on the square itself has Philadelphia’s largest guest rooms – in which glass-enclosed showers with massage showerheads, separate seating areas and a twice-daily housekeeping service come as standard. Many rooms directly overlook the park. Highlights of the quintuple-aspect gastronomic offering are acclaimed French/Mediterranean restaurant Lacroix and the Library Bar, a sleek cocktail joint in which the shelves are lined with rare books on the city’s history. Drinks are also served around the atrium pool.

Sofitel’s Rittenhouse branch welcomes you in grand style, with a colorful lobby floor made from seven types of stone – based on the quilt patterns produced by the Shakers. As is fitting for a hotel steps away from Philadelphia’s French quarter, the main restaurant, Chez Colette, serves up classic French cuisine, using herbs, honey and vegetables grown in the Sofitel’s rooftop orchard and beehives, in an interior modeled on a typical brasserie from the 1930s.

Rooms at this century-old Georgian revival-style building center around a 75ft (23m)-high skylit atrium courtyard. Dressed in pale blues and grays, rooms have impressionistic charcoal sketches of City Hall’s iconic tower above the beds and views of the atrium or out towards the city. In the Amuse brasserie, chandeliers, wood-paneled walls and recessed, arched windows provide a refined setting for French classics such as snails in garlic sauce, onion soup gratinee (topped with a crust) and steak frites(fries).