The Hazelton Hotel Toronto

Possibly the most luxe of Toronto’s collection of luxury boutiques, the Hazelton is a sign of the times: both high-design, with interiors by the ubiquitous Canadian firm Yabu Pushelberg, and unashamedly high-end, with suites averaging six hundred square feet and outfitted with all the latest luxury trimmings, from iPod docking stations to heated bathroom floors and flush mirror-mounted television screens. It’s meant to be a modern grand hotel, a contemporary version of what places like the Savoy in London or the Waldorf-Astoria in New York must have once been. And with a little luck that’s exactly what it’ll be.

The private screening room does a brisk business come film-festival season, and the hotel’s spa and health club, complete with indoor pool, is a big draw year-round. The same can be said of the One restaurant, and the bar is buzzing as a modern hotel bar must be — weather permitting, the scene spills out onto the street-level patio. Add a Yorkville location that could hardly be hipper or more high-profile, and you’ve got the formula for an instant classic, a hotel that’s at once cool enough for your generation and swanky enough for your parents’.

How to get there: The Hazelton Hotel is located 32km (30 min) from Toronto Pearson Airport and 6km (15 min) from Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport.