"If you want all the trappings of a resort, yet don't really want to leave the city, The Ballantyne delivers the best of both worlds. If you took a gentleman's library and married it with a little Hollywood Regency glamour, you'd have the rooms and suites here. The hotel is swanky sophistication in a very polished and restrained way. Tufted headboards and brass accents lean traditional while a few pops of color punch up the primarily gray palette." - Nancy DePalma