Hotels in Detroit

Detroit gave the world the moving assembly line, Motown and techno, and after decades of decline and a 2013 bankruptcy it has become one of the more compelling American cities to visit. Downtown and Midtown have been substantially rebuilt, while whole districts elsewhere remain thinly populated, and the contrast is part of what makes the place interesting.

The cultural holdings are world class. The Detroit Institute of Arts contains Diego Rivera's Detroit Industry Murals, painted on site in 1932 and among the finest frescoes in North America. The Motown Museum occupies Hitsville U.S.A., the actual house where Studio A produced the hits, and the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn is one of the great collections of American industrial history.

Eastern Market runs the largest historic public market district in the US, Corktown around Michigan Central Station is the restaurant and bar quarter, and the Detroit RiverWalk faces Windsor, Ontario, which sits directly south across the water, the only place in America where you look south into Canada.