Last week on these pages, I mentioned that I’d managed to cross the Huntington in San Francisco off my hotel bucket list. This prompted some readers ? and assorted Twitter followers ? to enquire as to the remaining hotels on the list. Apparently they thought I actually had a neatly-ordered list of hotels, complete with […]The post By Somewhat Popular Demand: My Hotel Bucket List appeared first on Pursuitist.

Last week on these pages, I mentioned that I’d managed to cross the Huntington in San Francisco off my hotel bucket list. This prompted some readers ? and assorted Twitter followers ? to enquire as to the remaining hotels on the list. Apparently they thought I actually had a neatly-ordered list of hotels, complete with little check boxes ready to be filled in.But then I though — dammit, I *should* have that list. And so I set about making it. Here’s my top ten so far ? please do feel free to suggest others in the comments. Where would you stay if you had one hotel night left on earth"Raffles, Singapore I mean, come on. If there’s an archetypal bucket list hotel, it’s Raffles. Sure its reputation has slipped in recent years but it remains the birthplace of the Singapore Sling, and the place where the last wild tiger in Singapore was shot and killed. Colonialism for the win.Seal Rock Inn, San Francisco
To most passers by, the Seal Rock is just a crappy motor inn at the end of Geary Street, but to fans of Hunter S Thompson, it&...