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Party Like It's 1929: F Scott Fitzgerald Style
Peacock Inn is one of Party Like It's 1929: F Scott Fitzgerald Style.

1. Peacock Inn

8.9
20 Bayard Ln, Princeton, NJ
Bed and Breakfast · 12 tips and reviews

Drew F.Drew Frey: During return visits in the late 1920s, F Scott Fitzgerald is said to have preferred the inn's basement, then the town speakeasy

The Plaza Hotel is one of Party Like It's 1929: F Scott Fitzgerald Style.

2. The Plaza Hotel

9.0
5th Avenue, Central Park South (at Central Park S), New York, NY
Hotel · Midtown East · 234 tips and reviews
The Willard InterContinental Washington D.C. Hotel is one of Party Like It's 1929: F Scott Fitzgerald Style.

3. The Willard InterContinental Washington D.C. Hotel

9.1
1401 Pennsylvania Ave NW (at 14th St NW), Washington, D.C.
Hotel · Downtown-Penn Quarter-Chinatown · 69 tips and reviews

Drew F.Drew Frey: Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, stayed at this 335-room grand dame shortly after their 1920 marriage. They saidthe hotel smelled "of peaches & hot biscuit & the cindery aroma of travelling salesmen"

Hôtel Saint James Albany is one of Party Like It's 1929: F Scott Fitzgerald Style.

4. Hôtel Saint James Albany

6.7
202 rue de Rivoli, Paris, Île-de-France
Hotel · Place Vendôme · 28 tips and reviews

Drew F.Drew Frey: F Scott Fitzgerald got kicked out of this hotel in 1921 during his European Tour for rigging the lift to his floor with a belt.

Claridge's is one of Party Like It's 1929: F Scott Fitzgerald Style.

5. Claridge's

9.3
49 Brook St, London, Greater London
Hotel · Mayfair · 115 tips and reviews

HISTORY UKHISTORY UK: No hotel has greater royal connections than Claridge’s, which entertained Queen Victoria in 1860, and was where the Crown Prince of Yugoslavia was born in 1945. The current building dates from 1898.

Hôtel de Paris is one of Party Like It's 1929: F Scott Fitzgerald Style.

6. Hôtel de Paris

9.3
Place du Casino, Monte-Carlo, Principality of Monaco
Hotel · 60 tips and reviews

Drew F.Drew Frey: The hotel's sumptuous, sprawling, belle epoque Hôtel de Paris, reminded the F Scott Fitzgerald of "a palace in a detective story"

Hôtel du Cap Eden Roc is one of Party Like It's 1929: F Scott Fitzgerald Style.

7. Hôtel du Cap Eden Roc

9.1
10 boulevard John F. Kennedy, Antibes, PACA
Hotel · Cap d'Antibes · 38 tips and reviews

Drew F.Drew Frey: To sample the rarefied air – and spectacular Mediterranean views – while skipping the stratospheric overnight rates, pop by the poolside Eden-Roc Grill for lunch or a sunset cocktail.

Hôtel de la Paix is one of Party Like It's 1929: F Scott Fitzgerald Style.

8. Hôtel de la Paix

7.4
Av. Benjamin-Constant 5 (Rue de la Paix), Lausanne, Vaud
Hotel · 12 tips and reviews

Drew F.Drew Frey: F Scott Fitzgerald stayed here while Zelda was being treated at the Prangins Clinic on Lake Geneva.

The Don CeSar is one of Party Like It's 1929: F Scott Fitzgerald Style.

9. The Don CeSar

9.1
3400 Gulf Blvd, St. Pete Beach, FL
Hotel · 66 tips and reviews

Drew F.Drew Frey: The 277-room hotel, on the Gulf of Mexico's pale sands, opened in 1928 as a stylish retreat for the well-heeled.

The Omni Grove Park Inn is one of Party Like It's 1929: F Scott Fitzgerald Style.

10. The Omni Grove Park Inn

8.6
290 Macon Ave, Asheville, NC
Resort · Grove Park- Sunset · 101 tips and reviews

Drew F.Drew Frey: F Scott Fitzgerald stayed here while Zelda was in a nearby hospital. The author's misbehavior didn't endear him to staff (he drank profusely and once fired a gun in his suite)