If the walls of these historic hotels could talk, they would whisper of royal guests, political deals, wild parties and, in the case of The Peabody in Memphis, Tennessee, some very famous ducks. There are the world’s oldest hotels which have witnessed more than a millennium of check-ins and check-outs, and those which have packed luggage-loads of history into a few centuries or decades.

Click or scroll to check in to some of the most historic hotels around the world...