A Hotelaholic collection
Presidential Stays
Red, blue or undecided, these hotels win in a landslide.
United States
3 hotelsWashington D.C.
The Capital's Second White Houses: Where Presidents Made History
Lincoln's pre-inaugural hideaway, FDR's inaugural draft, a president who governed from a hotel suite, and the address that looks straight across Lafayette Square.
4 hotelsNew York
Manhattan's Presidential Suites: Park Avenue, Madison Avenue and the Upper East Side
The hotel that hosted every president from Hoover to Obama, Kennedy's 'New York White House,' and the Midtown addresses that took up the mantle.
2 hotelsVirginia & West Virginia
Springs of the Presidents: The Grand Resorts of the Allegheny Mountains
A president's secret honeymoon, a cottage that housed five antebellum presidents, a summit of North American leaders, and two centuries of taking the waters.
7 hotelsCalifornia
California's Western White Houses: Presidents on the Pacific Coast
A Victorian seaside palace, a Gilded Age grand hotel, the Century City tower where Reagan made himself at home, and the modern hotels presidents choose today.
4 hotelsTexas
Lone Star Presidential Stays: Fort Worth, Houston, Dallas and Austin
The hotel where John F. Kennedy spent his final night, the Houston retreat George H.W. Bush called home, LBJ's Austin landmark, and a Dallas mansion turned hotel.
1 hotelNevada
Debate Camp by the Lake: A Presidential Retreat Outside Las Vegas
The lakeside resort where Barack Obama prepared for his first 2012 presidential debate.
1 hotelFlorida
A Summit in the Tropics: The Biltmore's Presidential Story
The Coral Gables landmark where Bill Clinton welcomed the leaders of the Americas in 1994.
1 hotelGeorgia
Sea Island: Coolidge's Oak, a Bush Honeymoon and the G8
The Georgia coast's grandest resort, where presidents have been planting live oaks since 1928.
2 hotelsIllinois
Chicago's Hotels of Presidents: The Palmer House and the Blackstone
A grande dame that has hosted almost every sitting president since Grant, and the hotel that gave politics the 'smoke-filled room.'
1 hotelPennsylvania
The William Penn: Pittsburgh's Presidential Showplace
Henry Clay Frick's grand hotel, where John F. Kennedy slept in the presidential suite and Barack Obama based himself for the 2009 G20.
1 hotelPennsylvania
Omni Bedford Springs: James Buchanan's Summer White House
The Allegheny spa where Buchanan received Queen Victoria's transatlantic cable, and where Polk, Taylor and Tyler took the waters.
1 hotelOhio
Campaign Trail Cleveland: A Presidential Night on Public Square
The modern downtown tower where Barack Obama stayed during the 2016 campaign.
2 hotelsMichigan
Michigan's Presidential Grand Hotels: Mackinac Island and Detroit
A Victorian island resort with the world-famous porch, and the Jazz Age tower that hosted presidents from Hoover to Kennedy.
2 hotelsArizona
Desert Presidential Retreats: Phoenix and Scottsdale
The Frank Lloyd Wright–inspired resort that hosted nearly every president from Hoover onward, and the Scottsdale hideaway Barack Obama chose instead.
1 hotelColorado
The Brown Palace: Eisenhower's Summer White House in Denver
The stained-glass atrium hotel where Ike ran the country each summer and dented the fireplace practicing his golf swing.
1 hotelMassachusetts
The Omni Parker House: Boston's Kennedy Hotel
America's longest continuously operating hotel, where a young John F. Kennedy made his first speech and, tradition holds, proposed to Jacqueline Bouvier.
1 hotelVirginia
The Jefferson: Richmond's Grand Hotel of Presidents
A Gilded Age landmark that has welcomed a dozen presidents since 1895.
1 hotelTennessee
The Hermitage Hotel: Nashville's Presidential and Political Landmark
Taft's 1911 banquet, the suffrage battle of 1920, and a century of presidential guests steps from the Tennessee Capitol.
1 hotelHawaii
The Kahala: Where Presidents Go to Paradise
Every president from Lyndon B. Johnson to George W. Bush stayed at this oceanfront retreat on Oahu.
1 hotelWisconsin
The Pfister: McKinley's Western White House in Milwaukee
The 1893 'Grand Hotel of the West' that has hosted every president since William McKinley.
1 hotelSouth Carolina
Breakfast with George Washington: The John Rutledge House Inn
One of the few surviving hotels to have welcomed President Washington while he was in office.
1 hotelOregon
The Benson: Portland's Residence of the Presidents
Simon Benson's 1913 landmark, which has welcomed nearly every president since William Howard Taft.
Europe
3 hotelsScotland
Summits and Links: Presidential Stays in Scotland
A G8 summit in the Perthshire hills and a president's own Ayrshire links, where golf and statecraft have shared the fairways.
3 hotelsParis & Nouvelle-Aquitaine
From the Place de la Concorde to the Basque Coast: Presidential France
The salon where Woodrow Wilson's League of Nations took shape, an empress's seaside palace that hosted a G7, and Biden's D-Day base in Paris.
2 hotelsBerlin & Bavaria
Presidential Germany: The Adlon and Schloss Elmau
The rebuilt grand hotel beside the Brandenburg Gate, and the Alpine castle that hosted two G7 summits.
England
Tregenna Castle: Biden's G7 Base on the Cornish Coast
The castellated hilltop resort above St Ives where Joe Biden stayed for the 2021 G7 summit.
2 hotelsPuglia
A G7 in Puglia: Masseria San Domenico and Borgo Egnazia
Where Joe Biden stayed and met the world's leaders, the Pope and Andrea Bocelli included, on the Adriatic coast in 2024.
1 hotelAnkara
JW Marriott Ankara: Donald Trump's Base for the 2026 NATO Summit
The Turkish capital's luxury address during the July 2026 summit.
1 hotelNorthern Ireland
The Europa: Belfast's Hotel of Peace
Once the 'most bombed hotel in Europe,' it hosted Bill Clinton on the first visit by a sitting president to Northern Ireland.
1 hotelOslo
Grand Hotel Oslo: A Nobel Laureate's Balcony
Where Barack Obama greeted the torchlight parade after receiving the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.
Asia & the Pacific
2 hotelsDelhi & Mumbai
India's Presidential Palaces: New Delhi and Mumbai
The New Delhi hotel that has hosted five U.S. presidents, and the Mumbai icon where Obama paid tribute to a city's resilience.
3 hotelsHanoi
Hanoi's Presidential Hotels: Summits, State Visits and a Colonial Grande Dame
The lakeside hotel chosen by two presidents, the 1901 landmark where Trump stayed and met Kim Jong Un, and George W. Bush's West Lake base.
2 hotelsSingapore
Singapore 2018: The Hotels of a Historic Summit
The garden hotel that hosted Obama in 2009 and Trump on the eve of his first meeting with Kim Jong Un, and the Sentosa hideaway where they shook hands.
4 hotelsTokyo & Hiroshima
Presidential Japan: Tokyo's Grand Hotels and a Summit in Hiroshima
Three Tokyo landmarks chosen by Obama, Trump and Biden, and the Hiroshima base for the 2023 G7.
1 hotelSeoul
Grand Hyatt Seoul: A Presidential Perch on Namsan
Joe Biden's residence during his 2022 state visit to South Korea.
2 hotelsBeijing & Shanghai
Presidential China: Beijing and Shanghai
Where Barack Obama stayed on his first presidential visit to China in 2009.
Middle East & Africa
1 hotelJerusalem
The King David: Jerusalem's Presidential Residence
Every American president from Nixon to Biden has stayed at this 1931 landmark facing the walls of the Old City.
1 hotelRiyadh
The Ritz-Carlton, Riyadh: A Palace for Presidential Visits
Donald Trump's residence on both of his presidential visits to Saudi Arabia, in 2017 and 2025.
1 hotelAbu Dhabi
The Ritz-Carlton Abu Dhabi: A Presidential Stop on the Grand Canal
Where Donald Trump stayed on the final leg of his 2025 Gulf tour.
The Americas
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