Hotels in Dallas

Renowned as home to the TPC Byron Nelson Golf Classic, the Four Seasons is a contemporary hotel affording a distinctive setting for business gatherings. Accommodating functions for up to 700 people, the sleek and elegant resort has a new ballroom, 31 multi-purpose meeting rooms and an astounding audio-visual/technology department. Along with an 18-hole championship golf course, indoor/outdoor tennis facilities, four swimming pools, jogging paths through beautiful landscape and a fitness centre with personal training staff, there is a European-style spa to die for. Guests can select from 357 rooms and suites, most with private balconies overlooking fairways, and 50 grouped into private villas. Café on the Green is one of the most highly regarded restaurants in the metro area, with exceptional sommelier service.

This mind-boggling lodging in Uptown seems drawn from a Hollywood movie set. Lavish furnishings, Frette linens, cutting-edge technology, rainforest showers in luxurious bathrooms and high ceilings make the large 146 guest rooms and suites feel like private apartments within the South-of-France-style building. Meeting spaces accommodate up to 300. The on-site Dragonfly restaurant has won numerous awards for inspired Eurasian cuisine and throngs of fans for its chic bar scene.

This magnificently renovated downtown landmark stands out as one of the choice hotels in all of Texas. Most of the 1,840 guest rooms offer exceptional views of the city, and more than 200 suites in four designs provide guests with excellent work and entertainment settings. The Sheraton Dallas also has a brand new Club Lounge that offers guests complimentary breakfast and afternoon hors d'oeuvres. There is a fully equipped health club, with indoor and outdoor swimming pools, as well as a nice selection of ballrooms and boardrooms, allowing guests to host functions for up to 5,000 people.

Open since 1924, this divine lodging was declared a historic landmark in 1983. Easily one of the city's favourite sites for weddings, the Melrose has hosted well-heeled guests through the years, including Elizabeth Taylor, Arthur Miller and Luciano Pavarotti. Situated in the Oak Lawn neighbourhood, with wonderful convenience to top-notch dining and shopping in the Uptown and Highland Park districts, the hotel is home to the swanky Landmark Restaurant and the very popular Library Bar . Inside the 184 guest rooms and suites are marble baths with full-length towelling bathrobes and hairdryers, work desks, two-line speaker telephones with voice-mail, data ports and high-speed Internet connection, and mahogany furniture draped in luxurious fabrics.

This newly opened boutique hotel is located in the city's downtown historic district in a renovated 1920s neo-Gothic building. An added 10-storey tower and contemporary lobby showcase stunning art and design structures highlighting the oil and gas theme appropriate to the 'Big D' (Dallas). The Joule's cantilevered pool extends 5ft off the edge of the building, and is even open free in the summer to non-guests from 0500 to noon. Rooms and suites have sleek, inventive décor, and the Fitness Center is state-of-the-art. Don't miss the hotel's restaurant and wine room, run by celebrity chef Charlie Palmer.