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If there's anything more glamorous than staying in a hotel that s been used in the mooovies, well gee, I just can't think of it. Aside from the hotel from In Bruges , which I've already talked cheap hotels new orleans about plenty , these are my dream digs that have been featured on the silver screen over the years.
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The Plaza has been in more than its fair share of flicks, but no one else had quite as much fun there as Kevin McCallister when he was lost in New York in Home Alone 2 . Picture him reclining on a pile of cushions, knocking back the ice cream and chortling at Angels with Dirty Faces .
It's also the only film to star to simultaneously cheap hotels new orleans star both the Plaza and its former owner Donald Trump, who directs Kevin to the elevator. Thanks to Wikipedia , fountain of all Internet knowledge, I can inform you that when the lobby carpet was removed for filming, Trump saw the hotel's beautiful mosaic tiled floor for the first time, and never covered it again.
The Park Hyatt was the safe cocoon within which the gorgeously touching relationship between cheap hotels new orleans emotionally and physically isolated Scarlett Johansson and culturally alienated Bill Murray blossomed.  Filming in the hotel was only allowed to take place after 1am, which is why many of the scenes are set late at night in the bar on the 52 nd floor. But what a bar, and what a view. Speaking of which…
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This coming of age tale of a socially repressed young Edwardian lass pivots around the gaining of a room with a view over the river Arno at the Pensione Bertollini. The humble Pensione is actually a rather fancy hotel that I wouldn't mind falling in love in myself.
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