I’ve stayed at a lot of St Regis’s and maybe 10 RC’s and I have to say the worst St Regis is pretty close to the best RC for me, but obviously it’s a matter of taste.

I don’t actually think there is that much of an overlap in cities where they are located, but New York and Bali immediately come to mind.

actually that would have been a nearly completely different company. The Marriott owned, for 20 years, Ritz-Carlton is only distantly related to the old Ritz hotels that The Ritz in Paris and London made the famous. In fact the Saint Rigis in Rome was originally built by that Ritz chain. The Ritz-Carlton in Chicago was part of that group and for years was not affiliated with the Marriott own RC company. It now is of courses .
As I recall the current RC grew out of a Ritz franchise in Boston that was more famous for building and managing residences with almost a side business of first class Hotels.

the description of a Ritz customer fits customers of the Ritz in Paris and Ritz in London, which aren’t affiliated with each other now or the Marriott owned Ritz-Carlton. It’s really a description to a class of hotels above Ritz-Carlton's like custerms of the Four Seasons, Mandarin Oriental, Penninsuls or Fairmont.

The RC for the last few decades have been a high end consumer chain with resorts focused on wealthy family vacations, doctor level wealth not private jet company owner level wealth. The hotels are focused of top end executives travel and smaller delux conferences with s sideline in weddings. Thiese realky are not the markets that true luxury hotels cater to.

This is is why a stay at the Oriental in Bangkok or the Carlyle in NY or George V it Ritz in Paris is a completely different experience than staying at a StR or RC. The StR in Rome and maybe Florence might be near that class of hotel.

the Ritz-Carlton is really the hotel version of Ralph Lauren Polo collection clothing sometimes working there way to the Polo Purple Lable stuff having the components of true Luxury goods but being off the rack at its and marketed to a wider audience. They’re in the Capital Grill chain restraint space not the Michelin star restaurant class. They really aren’t even close to the cost no object luxury market.

I absolutely agree, the staff at the CL in my experience brings an RC up to a a real luxury hotel or st least a Four Seasons level. This is especially the case when check in, is in the CL. I also think the house keeping staff of the CL floor is a bit better.

when its leisure stay, I really really don’t care much about getting a suite upgrade if we're on the CL floor.

The Ritz Carlton in Geneva to me is probably one of the best in regards to recognition,location, and in pristine condition.