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Best U.S. Hotels for the Business Traveler: Editor's Top 10

Our Editor's Top 10 list for Best U.S. Hotels for the Business Traveler helps you decide where you want to go. Editor's Top 10 lists offer selections from our editors that help you plan your travel based on your lifestyle, entertainment, sightseeing, or recreation options.

Schedule your next meeting or conference at one of the workhorses on this list. Chosen for their deluxe business centers, ample and versatile meeting venues, work-oriented guest rooms and access to commercial districts, these properties are tops. Road warriors and city slickers needing to connect can enjoy wireless Internet access in specially equipped accommodations complete with robes, desks, newspapers and plenty of other amenities that make that office-away-from-the-office quite comfortable. These hotels' dining venues are ideal for a power lunch or snazzy business dinner. Muscle kinks can be worked out in on-site gyms. From dutiful staffers and convenient locations to abundant amenities and top-of-the-line technology, everything works together at these hotels to accommodate you.

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1. The Ambrose Hotel
1255 20th St, Santa Monica, CA
Located on the east side of Santa Monica at Arizona Avenue, this property is a few blocks south of Wilshire Boulevard. This solid boutique business hotel tucked into a mixed commercial-residential neighborhood will not hold the attention of most tourists: The hotel lacks that most basic of leisure p... Read Entire Review »
2. Park Inn Toledo
101 N Summit St, Toledo, OH
This hotel sits below the superior waterside Wyndham in the ranks. Although both are dependable midrange hotels, this property could use more carpet shampoo and elbow grease. Most prefer the Wyndham's notable waterfront location. Still, this hotel is convenient to art galleries and the convention ce... Read Entire Review »
3. The Westin Cincinnati
21 E 5th St At Fountain Square, Cincinnati, OH
Set amid stylish surroundings in the city center, this establishment easily outclasses the reworked Crowne Plaza and aging Hyatt. Its true competitor is the fine Hilton in terms of comfort, though traditionalists will prefer the Hilton. It falls short of The Cincinnatian on all counts. The glassy mo... Read Entire Review »
4. Embassy Suites Cincinnati River Center
10 E RiverCenter Blvd, Covington, KY
Adjacent to the convention center and near the superior Cincinnati Marriott River Center, this place breaks no new ground in Covington's hospitality market, but provides dependable suite accommodation that is perfect for corporate long-stays and families on the go. Its proximity to River Center is a... Read Entire Review »
5. The Westin Charlotte
601 S College St, Charlotte, NC
This gleaming tower of modern design has redefined the Charlotte hotel scene with its mirrored surfaces, jarring architectural shape and designer appeal. Lying along the edge of the downtown area and across the street from the convention center, it is within walking distance of all the action. Guest... Read Entire Review »
6. The Sorrento Hotel
900 Madison St, Seattle, WA
A short but steep walk from downtown, Seattle's most elegant hotel sits aloof on an outlying hill, looking down on the self-consciously hip boutique-hotels below. Attention to intangibles draws corporate types, celebrities and a large repeat clientele through its front door. An Italian fountain is t... Read Entire Review »
7. The Fairmont Newport Beach
4500 MacArthur Blvd, Newport Beach, CA
Located midway between Fashion Island and the airport, this hotel remains a world-class operation thanks to Fairmont's adept management skills. Granted, it is in an unusual locale for a hotel of this stature, but its office-park setting draws top-notch gatherings and individuals who come to shop, di... Read Entire Review »
8. Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers
301 E North Water St, Chicago, IL
Located at Columbus Drive, near North Side, across the Chicago River from the more service oriented Swissotel and sprawling Hyatt Regency Chicago, this is a well-executed convention hotel that benefits from a prize riverfront location and stunning views from every room since there are no skyscrapers... Read Entire Review »
9. The Hay-Adams Hotel
800 16th St NW, Washington, DC
Like many buildings in the capital, this eight-story hotel sits atop a historical plot, this one harboring the former residence of John Hay, Abraham Lincoln's private secretary, and Henry Adams, son of U.S. President John Adams. The current structure, originally built as an apartment-hotel, actually... Read Entire Review »
10. W Atlanta Perimeter
111 Perimeter Center W, Atlanta, GA
Located within walking distance of the Perimeter Mall, amid commercial buildings and upscale shops, this was Atlanta's first design-hotel, and it remains a cool corporate-tinged outpost aimed at twenty- and thirtysomethings. Deft staffers, all dolled up in dark Armani attire, greet guests with profe... Read Entire Review »