The rooftop here has a year-round nightclub, and summer-only pool. As with anything hotelier Gordon Campbell Gray does, this new hotel is instantly talk-of-the-town. Suite 411 is the most wow, for its views over the Mediterranean and the harbor, plus Mount Lebanon Mountains, Ottoman and Roman ruins and Martyrs’ Square. The wood bed, with Artemide touch-lights for reading, is made up with Hypnos mattress and VIDIVI linens and bedding.

The two-bedroom 3,500 sq ft Presidential Suite is a Rococo masterpiece, with Italian parquet floors and rugs, paneled and gilded walls and gold-framed fine art. The bed has a heavy wood bedhead and ceiling-high green half-tester curtain, a Beauty Rest Contour Flex mattress, and Bruno Richard linens. Wake up to a working gas-fuelled coal-look fire, and a superb room service breakfast, with roses.

Designer Anne Maria Jagfeld has made Westminster Suite, number 702, like your private apartment, with putty-color or gold silk walls and, over your Hypnos bed, a six-branch golden Murano chandelier with little vellum shades. There are clouds of finest-finest white Beltrami linens and a gray-putty fabric bedhead, and you wake to look at original head-only portraits from the 1950s. This is timeless glamour, for today.