Party Like It's 1929: F Scott Fitzgerald Style

Drew Frey: During return visits in the late 1920s, F Scott Fitzgerald is said to have preferred the inn's basement, then the town speakeasy

Drew Frey: Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, stayed at this 335-room grand dame shortly after their 1920 marriage. They saidthe hotel smelled "of peaches & hot biscuit & the cindery aroma of travelling salesmen"

Drew Frey: F Scott Fitzgerald got kicked out of this hotel in 1921 during his European Tour for rigging the lift to his floor with a belt.

HISTORY UK: No hotel has greater royal connections than Claridge’s, which entertained Queen Victoria in 1860, and was where the Crown Prince of Yugoslavia was born in 1945. The current building dates from 1898.

Drew Frey: The hotel's sumptuous, sprawling, belle epoque Hôtel de Paris, reminded the F Scott Fitzgerald of "a palace in a detective story"

Drew Frey: To sample the rarefied air – and spectacular Mediterranean views – while skipping the stratospheric overnight rates, pop by the poolside Eden-Roc Grill for lunch or a sunset cocktail.

Drew Frey: F Scott Fitzgerald stayed here while Zelda was being treated at the Prangins Clinic on Lake Geneva.

Drew Frey: The 277-room hotel, on the Gulf of Mexico's pale sands, opened in 1928 as a stylish retreat for the well-heeled.

Drew Frey: F Scott Fitzgerald stayed here while Zelda was in a nearby hospital. The author's misbehavior didn't endear him to staff (he drank profusely and once fired a gun in his suite)