Sometimes buidlings become characters in books. 

I sometimes select a hotel just because of its history.

These are some best Historic Hotels around the world.

Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan

Yamanashi, Japan
Opened: 705

Zum Roten Baeren

Freiburg, Germany
Opened: 1120

The Old Bell Hotel and Restaurant

Malmesbury, UK
Opened: 1220

Hotel Interlaken

Interlaken, Switzerland
Opened: 1323

Hotel El Convento

Location: Old San Juan, Puerto Rico

Opened: 1651

Fairmont The Norfolk Hotel

Location: Nairobi, Kenya

Opened: 1904

Don't you just want to pack your bags? 

Here are some great Historical Romance Novels that featuring Inns that you can visit. 

My lists are never in particular order. Enjoy!

1. It Happened One Night by Stephanie Laurens,  Mary Balogh, Jacquie D'Alessandro, and Candice Hern  

It Happened One Night . . . and nothing was ever the same again!

Once upon a time, four superstar storytellers—New York Times bestselling authors Stephanie Laurens and Mary Balogh, along with Jacquie D'Alessandro and Candice Hern—came up with a delicious idea. What if they each wrote a story about a proper young lady stranded at a remote inn away from society's constraints? What would happen? And how long would it take for her to give in to desire?

In these four amazing tales, four heroines will come face-to-face with the men who got away . . . only to discover that, instead of anger, there is still a passionate connection that cannot be denied. And while each of their lives is quite different, and their pasts utterly unique, they will all make a common discovery—that one night can change everything . . . forever.

2. Parting Gifts by Lorraine Heath

Marrying Maddie, a woman who works in a brothel in order to survive, widower Charles Lawson hopes to provide his three children with a loving mother until his terminal illness causes him to arrange a match between Maddie and his brother.

3. Tempt Me at Twilight by Lisa Kleypas

Poppy Hathaway loves her unconventional family, though she longs for normalcy. Then fate leads to a meeting with Harry Rutledge, an enigmatic hotel owner and inventor with wealth, power, and a dangerous hidden life. When their flirtation compromises her own reputation, Poppy shocks everyone by accepting his proposal--only to find that her new husband offers his passion, but not his trust.

Harry was willing to do anything to win Poppy--except to open his heart. All his life, he has held the world at arm's length…but the sharp, beguiling Poppy demands to be his wife in every way that matters. Still, as desire grows between them, an enemy lurks in the shadows. Now if Harry wants to keep Poppy by his side, he must forge a true union of body and soul, once and for all...

4. A Man and a Woman by Robin Schone

Widowed Megan Phillins longs to experience the intimacies shared with a man just once more. Playing the role of a harlot, she travels to the Land's End Inn, where she knocks upon the door of a mysterious stranger. After a night of forbidden passion Megan is shocked to discover the traveler is actually Connor Treffrey, an Englishman who was marooned and sold into slavery. But now Connor has returned to reunite with his well-bred family. And together, he and Megan will embark on a breathless journey of indescribable pleasure. 

5. The Grand Hotel by Elisabeth Fairchild, Barbara Metzger, Carla Kelly, and Allison Lane

London's luxurious Grand Hotel is the perfect setting for romantic rendezvous, glittering celebrations--and Cupid's good works. The impeccable staff and a host of most intriguing--and attractive--guests, will pamper, entertain, and romance readers in five heartwarming stories of love by five award-winning writers.

6. Make Me Yours by Betina Krahn

Mariah Eller was only trying to save her inn from being trashed. So how did the widow manage to attract the unwanted—and erotic—attention of the Prince of Wales? Not that being desired by royalty is necessarily bad… Only, Mariah much prefers the prince's best friend….

Jack St. Lawrence is very tempting, and very loyal. And he knows that the prince gets involved only with married women. So he figures sexy Mariah is safe…until the prince demands Jack find her a husband!

The problem? Jack and Mariah can't fight their sizzling attraction. And once they give in to their desires, the situation is even worse. Because the prince's man has found a husband for Mariah.

Himself…

7. A Place Called Rainwater by Dorothy Garlock

The small town of Rainwater, Oklahoma, has become a notorious boomtown now that a gusher has flooded its streets with drillers, welders and roustabouts of every description. Jill, a young woman who runs the hotel for her aunt, is unprepared to cope with the attention she receives from the woman-hungry men.

8. In the Heart of the Highlander by Maggie Robinson

Ever since Mary Evensong’s elderly aunt Mim got sick, Mary’s masqueraded as the owner of the Evensong Agency, finding housemaids and husbands, and solving pesky problems, for the peerage. Someday she’d like to shake off her silvery wig and spectacles and be the young woman she truly is, but desperate clients are waiting for “Mrs. Evensong” at the office.
 
Like a scandalous Scottish baron. Honor forbids Lord Alec Raeburn from explaining the suspicious circumstances surrounding his wife’s death, but he knows who’s responsible. He just needs to hire an actress to lure the scoundrel into a trap. 
 
After listening to Raeburn’s story—and seeing him in his kilt—Mary knows the perfect person for the role. Letting her red hair down, she heads off to the Scottish Highlands to pose as a seductress, but soon finds herself with more than her virtue at stake in a tug-of-war between two powerful men. She could wind up in danger—or in the heart of the highlander.

9. Hooked by Stef Ann Holm

Using an alias, stunt reporter Matthew Gage arrives in Harmony, Montana, to uncover the cheating going on in the town’s famous annual fly-fishing contest—not to tangle lines with a husband-hunting miss. But as soon as Meg Brooks gets stuck under his hotel bed, he’s hooked on her high-spirited charm. Besides, he hopes she’ll provide him with insider information—and a few kisses—while he snoops around.

But innocent Meg believes Matthew is “Vernon Wilberforce,” a polite carpet-sweeper salesman, the gentleman caller of her dreams. As the fishy scandal threatens to upset Harmony, Meg employs every lure in the book to land Matthew. But her heart will be broken by a man who isn’t what he seems…unless they each learn the truth: The best prize in life is given, not won. It’s love.

10. The Earl of Her Dreams by Anne Mallory

Facing the choice of flight or a wedding she cannot abide, Kate Simon has chosen to flee. Disguised as a boy, she takes refuge in a roadside inn, and finds herself rooming with intensely secretive Christian Black. Kate is breathless in the presence of this handsome, mysterious rogue whose piercing gaze seems to strip her naked. But neither suspects that a savage storm and a murder will draw them closer together still. But not the passion in their hearts

Christian dares not let anyone learn of his haunted past—or that he is, in truth, the Earl of Canley—especially not a slip of a girl whose masculine attire cannot disguise the exquisite female form beneath. But now that destiny and a dastardly crime have united them, Christian can no longer contain his desire to taste the nectar of Kate's sweet kiss. Danger certainly abounds, but the gravest peril might be resisting a once-in-a-lifetime passion that can heal all wounds.

Vote for the best of the best on my Goodreads list: Room for the Night: Inns in Historical Romance.

Couldn't finish it. The heroine feels an almost overwhelming attraction for her cousin's husband, who is her employer, while the cousin herself is severely ill and has suffered a miscarriage. The cousin's husband, in the meantime, has noticed that the heroine is attracted to him, and being a weak male with a sick wife, decides she would be perfect as a mistress and propositions her. She sort-of refuses, but nevertheless can barely control herself when she's in the vicinity of this scumbag. Blecch! Completely off-putting. I also couldn't see how the heroine could fall out of love with the scumbag, recover from the horrible situation and fall in love with the hero, within the space of a week (and with less than half the length of this traditional-style Regency in the old Signet format remaining, because the heroine was still agonizing over her feelings for the scumbag at the point where I dropped the book).

 I was warned by many..but the hero was a dimwit! The writing of course was beautiful but the hero needed a kick in the head for him to get it together!  

    It's funny, dealing with one of the worse reader's slump this year. I think I have read more these two months then I have all year. Plus them being traditional and sweet Christmas stories- it's been great escape from a busy time of year

  Christmas for some can be double-edged. One side showing the joy and the togetherness we feel when we are with our love ones. The other a sharp dull pain for those who we have lost or the inability to be with the ones we love.
Fairchild again writes the harder side of life and in the time of Christmas while showing us one thing Christmas is know for the most: hope.

Mary River is spending time with her grandmother in London away from her family this Christmas. She tries to make the best of it on her own for her dear but ailing grandmother. Missing her family and dealing with a few troubles along the way, she uses her cheerfulness and smiles as a shield to hide her loneliness. Her smile is what attaches and repulses her grandmother's cold neighbor, Lord Balfour aka Lord Thorn.

Balfour is dealing with a great deal of grief for the lost of his only true friend he's had since he was a boy. Abandoned by his parents to travel the world and leave the child to the care of others. Balfour has never truly liked Christmas, even more so with his close friend sudden death. When Balfour sees Mary so cheerful, it rubs the wound upon his heart raw. Until he helps the young woman and her grandmother one day and starts to see another side of the not so cheerful woman.

It was great to sit down and get lost again in Fairchild's lyrical writing. She always hit the nail on the head with people's emotions, especially when surrounded by so much cheer and dealing with lost.

Mary and Balfour come from different walks of life, yet find common ground in their loneliness. Each helps the other with troubles that come across from a Christmas Eve ball to hiring a new maid. These things are just pieces that bring the two together.

You grow to care for each of these characters, sadly not everything is smooth sailing. Balfour gets some bad advice that as the reader you know bad tidings are coming. I hate misunderstandings and this was Balfour's own insecurities coming forth. Still, it didn't ruin the book, perhaps because he groveled so nicely. *grins* And in Mary's time of need he helped her and held her and letting go of the loneliness that so ruled his life.

This was beautiful Christmas tale and perfect to curl up with for the season and a reminder of the greater things of the season, family, hope and love.