The Hazelton Hotel, Toronto, Canada

The Hazelton Hotel is a sybarite's paradise - there's Mark McEwan's restaurant, One, an upscale spa with pool, spacious rooms with pillow-top mattresses clad in 300 thread-count linen and huge green-granite Bvlgari-stocked bathrooms.

Packing tips

Your designer-label swimwear. If you forget your Celine handbag or designer cocktail dress you can always pick them up in the boutique, Hazel.

Hotel restaurants

Mark McEwan is Toronto's answer to Ramsay and you can sample the work of this superchef at breakfast through to supper in One. Smoked glass, striking cowhide and tiger's eye onyx create a setting ideal to enjoy elegant modern classics.

Hotel bars
For a cocktail befitting of such a stylish scenario, order a Chilled Navan Vanilla Cognac (Stolichnaya vanilla vodka with a splash of Frangelico) or The One (apple and pear vodka with fresh pineapple and lime juice, a touch of cinnamon and clove).

Activities

Right here you're in one of the best shopping areas, only a stroll from Hazelton Lanes shopping centre and Holt Renfrew department store. This is also a cultural hub as most of the major museums are within walking distance of the Hazelton Hotel; the Gehry-enhanced Art Gallery of Ontario is at 317 Dundas Street West (+1 416 979 6648; www.ago.net); and Daniel Libeskind's crystal-augmented Royal Ontario Museum is at 100 Queen's Park (+1 416 586 8000; www.rom.on.ca). The world-class ceramics collection at Gardiner Museum is at 111 Queen's Park (+1 416 586 8080; www. gardinermuseum.on.ca). Footwear fetishists should hotfoot it to the Bata Shoe Museum at 327 Bloor St West (+1 416 979 7799; www.batashoemuseum.ca).

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