The Post Oak Hotel at Uptown Houston

Character and identity

Set on a ten-acre block in Uptown Houston, steps from The Galleria, this 38-story tower from Tilman Fertitta opened in 2018 as the city's most expensive hotel and looks the part. The three-story atrium centres on a Czech-made chandelier with nearly 16,000 crystals, and Frank Stella, Robert Motherwell and Alex Katz works hang throughout the public spaces. The 250 rooms all run over 500 square feet. Bloom & Bee handles the lobby restaurant in a pink, glass-flower-canopied room, and the 20,000-square-foot fifth-floor spa, with thermal showers, hot-stone daybeds and an In-Skin facial machine, is the only Five-Star spa in Texas.

Who's it for

Bottom line

What you're paying for is consistency of detail: the art, the bathrooms, the in-room iPads and dumbbells, the spa, and a kitchen at Bloom & Bee good enough to visit on its own merits. Book if you want Houston's most polished room product and don't mind a dark, masculine palette; a standard king clears 500 square feet, so there's little reason to upsize unless the spa suites tempt.