Hotel Bel-Air, Dorchester Collection

What the classifiers highlight

Built in 1946 in a Mediterranean style on twelve acres in the Bel-Air Estates, the hotel scatters fifty-eight rooms and forty-five suites into rose-colored bungalows, several with private gated entrances. MICHELIN gives it Three Keys, the guide's top rank. Forbes rates it Four Star and singles out lemon pancakes and heated terracotta floors on the restaurant patio.