Hotels

Algonquin

A real hotel at 59 West 44th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues. Lancelot Biffen has a date there in The Small Bachelor.

Astor Hotel

New York, real and expensive, it faces onto Times Square between 7th Ave. and Broadway and has a restaurant in the roof garden. Features in Psmith Journalist, The Adventures of Sally and others.

Hotel Avenida

Rue de Colisée, Paris. Both are real.

Barchester Hotel

London hotel with restaurant offering a cabaret in Dudley is Back to Normal and Joy Bells for Barmy. Probably made-up from a mix of Berkeley (pronounced Bar'klee) and Dorchester hotels.

Barribault's Hotel

Brook Street, London. Very select, catering to American millionaires and visiting maharajahs, it has a grill-room open to non-residents. Used in Full Moon, Galahad at Blandings and others, it moves to Clarges Street in Ice in the Bedroom and is in St. James's in Spring Fever. In the latter it is described as a solid mass of stone and steel. (It's been suggested that Barribault's could be Claridge's Hotel, presumably as that is in Brook St., but both are mentioned in Cocktail Time such that PG is clearly thinking of two separate places. B's also tends to move about and the description of stone and steel is far better suited to other hotels, notably the Savoy. I believe Barribault's is an invention based on an amalgam of several hotels that PG knew, placed wherever it was convenient to the plot.)

Belvidere Hotel

Near Soho in London. (Money for Nothing)

Belvoir Hotel

London. Used by John Maude in The Prince and Betty. Arthur Welsh and Maud Peters work there in When Doctors Disagree.

Berkeley Hotel

In London, with a restaurant - used by Sue Brown and Monty Bodkin in Heavy Weather and Ann Moon in Big Money. Although a real hotel is currently in Wilton Place, Knightsbridge, there used to be one at the corner of Berkeley Street and Piccadilly, at the southern end of Mayfair, and this is most likely to be the one Wodehouse refers to.

Beverly Hills Hotel

A real hotel on Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles and known locally as the 'Pink Palace'. Bill and Joe meet there in The Old Reliable.

Beverley-Wilshire Hotel

Now the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel, built in 1928 at 9500 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, Ca. Mentioned in Laughing Gas and The Old Reliable.

Biltmore Hotel

New York, a real hotel on 43rd Street and Madison Avenue, with 1000 rooms. It is now the Bank of America Plaza. Freddie Rooke stayed there in Jill the Reckless. PG stayed there in April 1921.

Hotel Burbage

New York. Mentioned in French Leave as where the Comte d'Escrignon (Jeff) once worked as a waiter.

Cadillac Hotel

A real hotel from 1915 to 1923 when it was demolished to make way for a new hotel, the Book-Cadillac. Sited at the corner of Michigan Avenue and Washington Boulevard, New York. Mentioned in The Coming of Bill.

Cadogan Hotel

London, graced by the McTodds in Leave it to Psmith and by Mrs Gedge in Hot Water. (There is a real Cadogan Hotel in Sloane Street, possibly the one PG was thinking of.)

Carlton Hotel

London, used by George Bevan in A Damsel in Distress and mentioned in other stories. A real hotel on Park Lane.

Cecil Hotel

London, near the Strand. Used by the Morrisons in The Prince and Betty and Paul Bond in The Pro. It was a real hotel on the Strand, immediately west of the Savoy Hotel (but much larger), overlooking the Thames. It was very popular with Americans but was demolished in 1930.

Clarendon Hotel

The real one in Russell Square, London, is probably the one meant in Money for Nothing.

Claridge's Hotel

London, used by Lady Constance Keeble in Summer Lightning and Ann Moon in Big Money. A real hotel at 49 Brook Street in Mayfair.

Hotel Cosmopolis

A large, quality hotel in New York featuring in The Indiscretions of Archie and The Colour Line, and mentioned in Jill the Reckless.

Hotel Delehay

Scene of the action in Mr McGee's Big Day.

Dorchester Hotel

A real hotel and restaurant in Park Lane, London. Mentioned in The Mating Season and used by Ephraim Trout in Bachelors Anonymous.

Hotel Gigantic

Cannes, mentioned in The Luck of the Bodkins.

Hotel Guelph

In Piccadilly, London, has a restaurant and grill-room. Used in The Little Nugget, Creatures of Impulse, The Making of Mac's and Something Fresh. While there are a number of Hotel Guelphs world-wide, none are in London.

Hotel Hermitage

Owned by Daniel Brewster in The Indiscretions of Archie, it is in the mountains some 47 miles from New York.

Holland House Hotel

New York. Real, at 30th Street and 5th - mentioned in Jill the Reckless.

Judson Hotel

A real New York hotel on the south side of Washington Square (at least up to 1932 which is the last date I have) built to fund the nearby Judson Memorial Church. Mentioned in Crowned Heads and Black for Luck.

Knickerbocker Hotel

Overlooked the intersection of 42nd Street and Broadway. It was a hotel from 1903 - 21 but is now merely 6 Times Square having had many uses over the years. Mentioned in The Prince and Betty (US version) and Psmith Journalist.

Lakeside Inn

Skeewassett. Maine, USA. Owned by J. G. Anderson in Barmy in Wonderland.

Lincoln Hotel

Curzon Street, Mayfair, London. (Money for Nothing) (Not real, but if it were it would be expensive at this address.)

Hotel Magnificent

1. In or near Northumberland Avenue in London. Mentioned in The Custody of the Pumpkin.

2. Bingley-on-the-Sea, where Sam Marlowe stayed in The Girl on the Boat.

Hôtel Magnifique

1. Bramley-on-Sea. Lord Bodsham and his daughter stayed there in Bramley is so Bracing.

2. Cannes, France. Monty Bodkin stayed there in The Luck of the Bodkins.

3. St. Rocque, France. The Trent girls and others stayed there in French Leave.

4. Nice, France. Oofy Prosser stayed there in All's Well with Algy.

Hotel Majestic

Bingley-on-Sea, used by William Bannister in Doctor Sally.

Hotel Mathis

A real hotel, now gone, at 10-11 Arundell Street near Leicester Square, London. Appeared in Something Fresh.

Mayflower Hotel

Syracuse, New York. The seniors in the company of the play 'Sacrifice' held an important meeting here in Barmy and Wonderland.

Hotel McAstor

New York. Mentioned in Spring Suit. Possibly a variation on the real Astor Hotel.

Metropole Hotel

Brighton. Used by Mr Gish for a meeting with a client in Something Fishy. (There is a large Victorian hotel of this name in Brighton, now run by Hilton as a conference hotel.)

Hôtel Meurice

Paris. Used by Betty Silver in The Prince and Betty (UK version).

Hotel Normandie

Roville-sur-Mer, near the station. Used by Sally in The Adventures of Sally.

Northumberland Hotel

A real hotel in the Euston Road, London. Used by Senator and Jane Opal in Hot Water.

Hotel Piazza

New York. Used in The Luck of the Bodkins and Barmy in Wonderland.

Hotel Picardy

Le Touquet, France. Mentioned in Uncle Fred in the Springtime.

Piccadilly Palace Hotel

London. The lobby was used as a meeting place in Leave it to Psmith.

Hotel Pierre

A real hotel at 2 East 51st Street at Fifth Avenue, mentioned in Mr McGee's Big Day.

Plaza Hotel

New York, a real hotel at 768 Fifth Avenue and W58th at Central Park South. Mentioned in Psmith Journalist, Jill the Reckless and Galahad at Blandings.

Hotel Previtali

A real hotel, now gone, at 14 Arundell Street near Leicester Square, London. Appeared in Something Fresh and mentioned in Frozen Assets.

Renfrew Hotel

East 66th St New York - an apartment / hotel used by Barmy Phipps in Barmy in Wonderland.

Ritz-Carlton Hotel.

New York. Used as a meeting place in The Small Bachelor.

St. Aurea

Bertie Wooster stayed there in The Aunt and the Sluggard and it gets a passing mention in Jill the Reckless which implies a restaurant. There is a real saint of the name but I cannot find a real hotel.

St. Regis

A real hotel at 2 East 55th Street at 5th Avenue, New York. Mentioned in The Adventures of Sally.

Savoy Hotel

A real, expensive, hotel off the Strand near Waterloo Bridge in London. Aggie Donaldson stayed there in Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best, Mr Wade-Pigott and Wendell Stickney have drinks there in Company for Henry and it is frequently mentioned elsewhere.

Sherry-Netherland

A real hotel at 781, 5th Avenue, New York. Mentioned in Thank You, Jeeves.

Hotel Statler

A real hotel in Detroit from 1915 to its closure in 1975. At its peak it had 1000 rooms. Sally Nicholas stayed there in The Adventures of Sally.

Hotel Superba

Bingley-on-Sea, used by Lottie Higginbotham in Doctor Sally.

Hotel Superbe

At Saint Brüle in the South of France, where Mortimer Sturgis stayed in Sundered Hearts.

Waldorf Hotel

New York. It opened in 1893 and merged with the Astoria to form the Waldorf=Astoria (sic). The current hotel is not the same building as mentioned in The Gem Collector.

Hotel Washington

Bessemer, Ohio. Owned by J. G. Anderson and which he wants to sell to Barmy Phipps in Barmy in Wonderland.

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