Best Luxury Hotels in Colorado

The Limelight Hotel Denver presents 200-rooms in the heart of downtown Denver, Colorado, just steps away from the iconic Union Station. The hotel offers a vibrant retreat with a Scandinavian-inspired design, featuring expansive spaces, floor-to-ceiling windows, and unmatched views of the city and the Rocky Mountains. Each room is equipped with modern amenities, including Lavazza coffee makers, minibars, and plush bathrobes. Guests can indulge in American cuisine at the hotel’s in-house restaurant, Citizen Rail, or unwind at the bar/lounge. Additional facilities include a fitness center, in-room spa services, and complimentary Tesla service within a one-mile radius. The hotel’s prime location means easy access to Denver’s cultural and entertainment venues, such as the Museum of Contemporary Art, Ball Arena, and Coors Field, making it an ideal base for both leisure and business travelers.

Rising 45 storeys, this building is a landmark on Denver’s horizon. Its restaurant, Edge, is at the bottom, allowing diners to observe and soak in the streetside downtown buzz. A spa occupies the third floor, with a salon, hot tub and steam room. While up on the rooftop, you’ll find an outdoor pool, a whirlpool and an alfresco bar — overlooked by a state-of-the-art fitness centre. The Four Seasons’ skyscraper houses 239 guest rooms decorated in an urban-chic contemporary style, with huge picture windows (book a suite with a freestanding tub for a bath with a view).

Over a century old, The Brown Palace is especially popular with pop and rock and roll royalty, counting the likes of Taylor Swift, the Rolling Stones, Cindy Lauper, Metallica, Jon Bon Jovi and Pearl Jam among its past patrons. Instantly recognisable by its red sandstone facade, the building contains 241 bedrooms (whose showers tap water from an artesian well), a tavern, a cigar bar, a coffee shop, a fine dining restaurant, a high-end spa and a network of secret passages. Be sure to take its traditional afternoon tea, served beneath the stained-glass skylight of the impressive wood-panelled atrium lobby.

Are you travelling for work? The Ritz-Carlton’s Central Business District location just 30 minutes drive from the airport, will be ideal. It boasts the largest standard rooms in the city and a complimentary house car to take you anywhere you wish (within a five-mile radius). Elway’s, the hotel’s popular steakhouse, is named after a Denver Broncos player and provides a true taste of Colorado. 202 bedrooms come with 400-thread-count Frette linens, Frette robes, coffee makers and iPod docking alarm clocks. The spa has eight treatment rooms with Tempurpedic beds (including a couples suite and bathroom, and a Vichy wet treatment room).

Occupying a prime ski-in/ski-out location, the Viceroy offers upscale accommodations in Snowmass Village, just a little outside of Aspen’s centre. Ideal for families and those wanting to self-cater, rooms come with kitchenettes and there’s a daily programme of activities for younger guests. But there are also two eateries on-site – the fine dining Eight K Restaurant and a poolside Asian inspired cafe, Nest. After-dinner drinks can be taken alfresco, or indoors beside a roaring fire. The huge spa spans a total of 7,000-square-feet, incorporating plunge pools, a Vichy wet room, jacuzzis and a blissful relaxation suite. Outside, there‘s a heated saline pool with a fire pit and cabanas.