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An aerial view of the manor beside the River Maigue, with golf greens and formal gardens around it.

Adare Manor

Adare Manor, once the family seat of the Earls of Dunraven, is a neo-Gothic house on the River Maigue in County Limerick, rebuilt between 1832 and 1862 for the 2nd Earl, with a great hall designed by Augustus Pugin.

Adare, County Limerick, Ireland
Formal gardens of clipped lawn and round pools below a long lake and woods.

Airelles Château de Versailles, Le Grand Contrôle

Le Grand Contrôle is the only hotel within the grounds of the Château de Versailles.

Château de Versailles, Versailles, France
The hilltop village of Gordes above the Luberon valley.

Airelles Gordes, La Bastide

La Bastide stands at the top of the medieval village of Gordes, looking across the valley to the Luberon.

Gordes, Luberon, Provence, France
The Tegernsee seen from the Wallberg in summer, wildflowers in the foreground.

Althoff Seehotel Überfahrt

Althoff Seehotel Überfahrt stands on the shore of Lake Tegernsee at Rottach-Egern in Upper Bavaria, about 45 minutes from Munich, with the Alps rising behind the water.

Rottach-Egern, Lake Tegernsee, Germany
The white stone facade of Palazzo Papadopoli rising from the Grand Canal, with mooring posts in the water in front.

Aman Venice

Aman Venice occupies Palazzo Papadopoli, a 16th-century palazzo in San Polo and one of the grand palaces on the Grand Canal, and was the group's first city hotel.

San Polo, Venice, Italy
Smooth, curving orange sandstone walls of a narrow slot canyon in deep shadow.

Amangiri

Amangiri, whose name means peaceful mountain, lies in a quiet valley on more than 900 acres of the Colorado Plateau at Canyon Point, in southern Utah, with views towards Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, and the Grand Canyon, Monument Valley and Zion within reach.

Canyon Point, Utah
Aerial view of the domed rotunda and pavilions of Amanjiwo among rice fields and forest, with a volcano on the horizon.

Amanjiwo

Amanjiwo, peaceful soul, sits in a natural amphitheatre in Central Java, with the limestone Menoreh Hills behind it, the Kedu Plain in front and four volcanoes, Sumbing, Sundoro, Merbabu and Merapi, on the horizon.

Borobudur, Central Java, Indonesia
An aerial view of villas scattered through forested hills around a lake, with the sea on the horizon.

Amanoi

Amanoi, the first Aman in Vietnam, sits on a hillside above Vinh Hy Bay within Nui Chua National Park, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve on the south-central coast; its name joins a Sanskrit-derived word for peace with the Vietnamese noi, meaning place.

Vinh Hy Bay, Khanh Hoa, Vietnam
An empty beach and wooded headland at Laem Singh, Phuket.

Amanpuri

Amanpuri, Sanskrit for 'place of peace', was the first Aman resort and remains the group's flagship, on its own peninsula on Phuket's west coast, in a former coconut plantation above the white curve of Pansea Beach.

Pansea Beach, Phuket, Thailand
A room open to the garden, two chairs facing maples in full autumn colour.

Asaba

Asaba was founded in 1484, when Yakuro Yukitada Asaba came to Shuzenji to help establish the Soto Zen temple and opened a lodging house before its gate.

Shuzenji, Izu, Japan
The towers and domes of the old town of Cáceres at sunset.

Atrio Restaurante Hotel

Atrio stands on the Plaza de San Mateo in the old walled city of Cáceres, in Extremadura, a town founded in the first century B.C.

Plaza de San Mateo, Cáceres, Spain
Rows of vines below wooded hills in the Napa Valley.

Auberge du Soleil, Auberge Collection

In 1981 the French restaurateur Claude Rouas and his partner Bob Harmon opened Napa Valley's first fine-dining restaurant on Rutherford Hill, conceived as a taste of Provence in California wine country.

Rutherford, Napa Valley, California
Lodge villas at dusk below the Torres del Paine massif lit pink at sunset.

Awasi Patagonia

Awasi Patagonia sits within a private reserve of 7,000 acres on the edge of Torres del Paine National Park, looking across Lake Sarmiento to the granite towers of the Paine range.

Torres del Paine, Magallanes, Chile
Badrutt's Palace lit up at night above the rooftops of St. Moritz, its tower roof glowing.

Badrutt's Palace Hotel

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St. Moritz, Engadin, Switzerland
Olive groves and pines across the valley below the limestone ridge of the Alpilles, near Les Baux-de-Provence.

Baumanière

Raymond Thuilier bought a farmhouse in the Val d'Enfer, below Les Baux-de-Provence, in 1943 and took his first guests two years later.

Les Baux-de-Provence, Alpilles, France
A lobby lounge with indoor trees, armchairs and a crystal chandelier under a glass dome.

Baur au Lac

Johannes Baur, an Austrian, opened Baur au Lac in 1844 on the site of Zurich's old war harbour, placing it to frame the lake and the Alps, and his descendants still run it, now in the seventh generation.

Talstrasse, Zurich, Switzerland
Terraced vineyards falling to a winding road and a wide blue lake, mountains beyond.

Beau-Rivage Palace

Beau-Rivage opened on the quays of Ouchy on March 25, 1861, the first Swiss hotel to light its suites with gas, and in 1908 the neo-baroque Palace wing by Eugène Jost made it Beau-Rivage Palace.

Ouchy, Lausanne, Switzerland
Green Tuscan hills under morning mist, a mountain on the horizon.

Borgo Santo Pietro

Borgo Santo Pietro lies in open country near Siena and the Abbey of San Galgano, an 800-year-old villa that once sheltered medieval pilgrims travelling near the Via Francigena.

Chiusdino, Tuscany, Italy
A double-arched stone bridge over a palace moat, with a white tower among pines behind.

Bvlgari Hotel Tokyo

Bvlgari Hotel Tokyo, the Roman jeweller's eighth hotel, fills the 40th to 45th floors of the Tokyo Midtown Yaesu tower, within walking distance of Nihombashi, Marunouchi and Ginza, with views over the Imperial Palace gardens and, on clear days, to Mount Fuji.

Yaesu, Tokyo, Japan
Lake Lucerne between steep wooded mountains, with snow peaks beyond.

Bürgenstock Hotel & Alpine Spa

Guests have come to the Bürgenstock ridge, high above Lake Lucerne, since 1873, and the resort has welcomed Audrey Hepburn, Konrad Adenauer, Jimmy Carter and Indira Gandhi.

Obbürgen, Lake Lucerne, Switzerland
The tall white central tower of Wat Arun above the river bank on a cloudy day.

Capella Bangkok

Capella Bangkok opened in 2020 on the east bank of the Chao Phraya, the group's first hotel in Thailand, and Michelin calls it an urban resort in the truest sense: landscaped gardens, a pool, several restaurants and a spa, 10 minutes on foot from the Old Town.

Charoenkrung Road, Bangkok, Thailand
A white Art Deco hotel building with gilded balconies on a tree-lined street corner.

Capella Hanoi

Capella Hanoi stands a few steps from the Hanoi Opera House, between the Old Quarter and Hoan Kiem Lake, and Bill Bensley conceived it as a tribute to the opera, imagining the inn where singers, composers and costume designers might have gathered after the final curtain in the jazz age.

Hoan Kiem, Hanoi, Vietnam
A still alpine lake reflecting golden larches and a snowy hillside.

Carlton Hotel St. Moritz

The Carlton stands above Lake St.

St. Moritz, Engadin, Switzerland
One World Trade Center and Lower Manhattan across the Hudson at golden hour.

Casa Cipriani New York

Casa Cipriani New York occupies the Battery Maritime Building, a Beaux-Arts ferry terminal of 1906 at 10 South Street in Lower Manhattan.

Battery Maritime Building, 10 South Street, Financial District, New York, New York, United States
Church towers rising above the rooftops of Modena.

Casa Maria Luigia

Casa Maria Luigia is an 18th-century country house at San Damaso in the Emilian countryside, about 15 minutes' drive from Modena.

San Damaso, Modena, Italy
An infinity pool with parasols and loungers below the stone borgo at sunset.

Castiglion del Bosco, A Rosewood Hotel

Castiglion del Bosco covers 5,000 acres of wooded hills, vineyards and farmland in the UNESCO-listed Val d'Orcia, one of the largest private estates in Tuscany, created by Massimo and Chiara Ferragamo on land with nine centuries of history.

Montalcino, Tuscany, Italy
Tea bushes covering rolling hillsides under a pale sky.

Ceylon Tea Trails

Ceylon Tea Trails occupies five restored planters' bungalows spread across three working tea estates in the Bogawantalawa Valley near Hatton, in Sri Lanka's Central Highlands, set between 1.5 and 16 kilometres apart around Castlereagh Lake.

Bogawantalawa Valley, Hatton, Sri Lanka
The yellow and timber hotel building under snow beside the ski slope, with pine forest behind.

Cheval Blanc Courchevel

Cheval Blanc Courchevel stands at the top of Courchevel 1850 in Le Jardin Alpin, ski-in and ski-out, with the pistes running past its terrace.

Le Jardin Alpin, Courchevel 1850, French Alps, France
Candlelit tables set with white flowers on a rooftop terrace, with the Eiffel Tower at sunset.

Cheval Blanc Paris

Cheval Blanc Paris fills the Art Deco building of La Samaritaine on the Quai du Louvre.

Quai du Louvre, Paris, France
Villas along the edge of the lagoon and the island's palms, seen from the air.

Cheval Blanc Randheli

Cheval Blanc Randheli has its own island in the Noonu Atoll, north of Malé, and brings the Cheval Blanc art de recevoir to the Indian Ocean.

Randheli Island, Noonu Atoll, Maldives
The La Case pool lined with loungers and parasols, with the sea and hills beyond.

Cheval Blanc St-Barth

Cheval Blanc St-Barth began in 1991 as the Hôtel Saint-Barth Isle de France on Flamands Bay, and reopened under LVMH's Cheval Blanc name in 2014, the year after the group bought it.

Flamands Bay, St Barthélemy
Brunelleschi's dome and Giotto's bell tower above the rooftops of Florence, hills behind.

Collegio alla Querce, Auberge Collection

Collegio alla Querce occupies a 16th-century villa on a quiet hill above Florence that, from 1868, served for more than a century as a college run by the Barnabite Fathers.

Le Cure, Florence, Italy
Birds flying over the mountains of Stellenbosch at sunset.

Delaire Graff Estate

Delaire Graff sits at the top of the Helshoogte Pass above Stellenbosch, looking down the Banhoek Valley towards the Simonsberg and, on a clear day, Table Mountain.

Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa
Vineyards and hills under a heavy sky in Champagne.

Domaine Les Crayères

Domaine Les Crayères is an early 20th-century château in the centre of Reims, standing in seven hectares of parkland that once belonged to Madame Pommery, founder of the Champagne house; some of the trees she planted still shade the lawns.

Reims, Champagne, France
Waikiki's shoreline and the towers of Honolulu seen from above, with parkland in the foreground.

ESPACIO The Jewel of Waikiki

ESPACIO opened in September 2019 on Waikiki Beach with just nine suites, each taking up an entire floor.

Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii
A tall waterfall dropping into a pool in a deep, green jungle gorge.

Fairmont Kea Lani

Fairmont Kea Lani opened in December 1991 on 22 acres of the Wailea coast, designed by Jose Luis Ezquerra with Francis Oda of Group 70; its name means heavenly white.

Wailea, Maui, Hawaii
The Acropolis on its rock above trees and city roofs, lit by low golden sun.

Four Seasons Astir Palace Hotel Athens

The Astir Palace opened in the 1960s at the tip of a pine-covered peninsula at Vouliagmeni, a landmark of the Athens Riviera's golden years, and reopened as a Four Seasons in 2019 after a full modernisation.

Vouliagmeni, Athens Riviera, Greece
Brunelleschi's dome and Giotto's bell tower above the rooftops of Florence, hills behind.

Four Seasons Hotel Firenze

Four Seasons Hotel Firenze joins two historic buildings around one of the largest private gardens in Florence, a park of some 11 acres first planted in the 15th century and set with statues, fountains and centuries-old trees.

Borgo Pinti, Florence, Italy
The Seine and its bridges from high above Paris.

Four Seasons Hotel George V

Four Seasons Hotel George V has stood a few steps from the Champs-Élysées, in the Golden Triangle of the 8th arrondissement, since 1928.

Golden Triangle, Paris, France
A double-arched stone bridge over a palace moat, with a white tower among pines behind.

Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Otemachi

Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Otemachi fills the top six floors of the 39-storey Otemachi One Tower in the financial district, looking over the East Gardens of the Imperial Palace; on a clear day the view reaches Mount Fuji.

Otemachi, Tokyo, Japan
Two pagodas on a forested mountain ridge in northern Thailand at golden hour.

Four Seasons Resort Chiang Mai

Four Seasons Resort Chiang Mai lies in the Mae Rim Valley among rice paddies, jungle and mist-covered mountains, and sets out to be the classic Northern Thai resort.

Mae Rim, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Megève under fresh snow, the ski slopes above the chalets.

Four Seasons Resort Megève

Four Seasons Resort Megève stands on the slopes of Mont d'Arbois above Megève, a village that has drawn society for a century.

Mont d'Arbois, Megève, France
Mountains and the lake at Hakone, seen from above.

Gora Kadan

Gora Kadan stands in the grounds of the Kan'in-no-miya Villa, the summer retreat of Prince Kan'in Kotohito, who named it Kadan, the word imperial households used for residences where they received foreign dignitaries and honoured guests; the villa kept that role until 1948.

Gora, Hakone, Japan
A long covered wooden walkway beside a raked garden, with red and green maples behind.

HOTEL THE MITSUI KYOTO

Hotel The Mitsui Kyoto stands beside Nijo-jo Castle, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, on the site of the Kyoto residence of the Kitake, the senior branch of the Mitsui family, who held the property for more than 250 years.

Nakagyo, Kyoto, Japan
Snow-covered firs above the Black Forest near Baiersbronn in winter.

Hotel Bareiss

Hotel Bareiss began on May 1, 1951, when the war widow Hermine Bareiss opened the Kurhotel Mitteltal, a 25-bed house in the Black Forest village of Mitteltal near Baiersbronn.

Mitteltal, Baiersbronn, Black Forest, Germany
A reservoir ringed by dry hills in Bel Air, Los Angeles, from above.

Hotel Bel-Air, Dorchester Collection

Hotel Bel-Air opened in 1946 in Stone Canyon, just off Sunset Boulevard: a romantic Mediterranean arrangement of rose-pink, mission-style bungalows reached across an arched stone bridge and screened by bougainvillea, ficus and orange blossom.

Bel-Air, Los Angeles, California
Aerial view of Hotel Cipriani on Giudecca, with the swimming pool, gardens and terracotta roofs beside the green lagoon.

Hotel Cipriani, A Belmond Hotel

Giuseppe Cipriani, founder of Harry's Bar and inventor of the Bellini, opened Hotel Cipriani in 1958 on the island of Giudecca, across the lagoon from St Mark's Square, which the hotel's launch reaches in five minutes.

Giudecca, Venice, Italy
A white villa with a tiled roof and lit terrace at dusk, set behind a lawn with palm trees and torches.

Hotel Esencia

Hotel Esencia occupies a 50-acre estate on the bay of Xpu-Ha, midway between Playa del Carmen and Tulum, on one of the few undeveloped shores left on the Riviera Maya.

Xpu-Ha, Quintana Roo, Mexico
A private pool on a timber deck framed by palms, looking down a green valley to the sea.

Hotel Le Toiny

Hotel Le Toiny has been a St Barths favourite since 1992, on the island's quiet south-east coast above Anse de Toiny, a beach the local surfers largely keep to themselves.

Anse de Toiny, St Barthélemy
The Minster and old town of Basel above the Rhine.

Hotel Les Trois Rois

An inn called the Drei Könige is recorded on this stretch of the Rhine in 1681, and in 1797 General Napoléon Bonaparte was given a state reception here.

Blumenrain, Basel, Switzerland
The entrance hall, with a chandelier, a marble statue and an inlaid floor.

Hotel Sacher Wien

Eduard Sacher, son of Franz Sacher, who created the Original Sacher-Torte in 1832, opened his hotel opposite the Vienna State Opera in 1876, and it soon became a meeting place for the leading figures of politics, the arts and society.

Philharmonikerstrasse, Vienna, Austria
Snow-covered firs above the Black Forest near Baiersbronn in winter.

Hotel Traube Tonbach

Traube Tonbach traces its origins to 1789, when Tobias Finkbeiner opened a tavern for forest workers in the Tonbach valley above Baiersbronn, and the Finkbeiner family has run it ever since; Heiner Finkbeiner, of the seventh generation, took charge in 1993.

Tonbach, Baiersbronn, Black Forest, Germany
Spray rising from a long line of waterfalls in green forest.

Hotel das Cataratas, A Belmond Hotel

Hotel das Cataratas is the only hotel inside Brazil's Iguaçu National Park, a pastel-pink building in the rainforest a short walk from the falls, a run of more than 275 cascades on the border with Argentina.

Iguaçu Falls, Paraná, Brazil
The terracotta-coloured hotel behind its pool, red flowers and cypress trees in front.

Hôtel & Spa du Castellet

The Hôtel du Castellet stands at 430 metres in the hills of the Var, between Provence and the Riviera and close to the Paul Ricard circuit, its ochre, Tuscan-influenced buildings set among umbrella pines.

Le Castellet, Provence, France
The Seine and its bridges from high above Paris.

Hôtel Plaza Athénée

Hôtel Plaza Athénée is the Belle Époque landmark of Avenue Montaigne, known at once by the scarlet awnings and geraniums on its façade and long frequented by figures such as Josephine Baker and Rudolph Valentino.

Avenue Montaigne, Paris, France
Port Hercule and Monte Carlo from above, the mountains behind.

Hôtel de Paris Monte-Carlo

Hôtel de Paris Monte-Carlo has stood on Casino Square beside the Casino de Monte-Carlo since 1864, and it is still the grand hotel of the Principality.

Place du Casino, Monte Carlo, Monaco
Pastel houses stacked down a steep green hillside to a small bay of deep teal water, seen from above.

Il San Pietro di Positano

Carlino Cinque, who had opened Positano's Hotel Miramare in 1934, bought a stretch of cliff two kilometres from the town and opened Il San Pietro there in 1970.

Positano, Amalfi Coast, Italy
The pool on a lawn below the white hotel, with the cliffs of Capri across the bay.

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Marina Grande, Capri, Italy
The Dubai skyline in silhouette against an orange sunset, reflected in the water.

Jumeirah Burj Al Arab

The Burj Al Arab stands on its own man-made island about 280 metres off Jumeirah Beach, joined to the shore by a private curved bridge.

Jumeirah Beach, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
A white plume of volcanic gas rising from a glowing crater under a blue sky.

Kona Village, A Rosewood Resort

An old Hawaiian fishing village once stood on this shore at Ka'ūpūlehu, and in the 1960s Kona Village opened here as a scatter of thatched bungalows along the lagoon and the lava coast.

Kahuwai Bay, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
A still alpine lake reflecting golden larches and a snowy hillside.

Kulm Hotel St. Moritz

In 1856 Johannes Badrutt and his wife Maria Berry rented a 12-room pension above Lake St.

St. Moritz, Engadin, Switzerland
An aerial view of the hotel on its rocky point between a lagoon with moored boats and the sea.

La Casa de la Playa

La Casa de la Playa opened on December 13, 2021, created by Grupo Xcaret as an adults-only, all-inclusive retreat on the Riviera Maya.

Riviera Maya, Quintana Roo, Mexico
The Koutoubia minaret above the rooftops of Marrakech, with the snow-capped Atlas behind.

La Mamounia

La Mamounia opened in 1923 in gardens that the 18th-century Sultan Mohammed Ben Abdallah gave his son, Prince Al-Mamoun, as a wedding gift.

Medina, Marrakech, Morocco
The Seine and its bridges from high above Paris.

La Réserve Paris

La Réserve Paris occupies an 1854 Haussmann mansion on Avenue Gabriel, set back behind a screen of trees between the Champs-Élysées and the gardens of the Élysée.

Avenue Gabriel, Paris, France
The domed corner of the Haussmann building with wrought-iron balconies against a blue sky.

La Réserve Paris Apartments

La Réserve Paris Apartments are 10 private residences at 10 place du Trocadéro, in a Haussmann building with views of the Eiffel Tower, each between 140 and 300 square metres and with one to four bedrooms.

Trocadéro, Paris, France
A terracotta-roofed villa and its pool in gardens above the sea, with an island offshore.

La Réserve Ramatuelle

La Réserve Ramatuelle, owned by Michel Reybier, sits in its own garrigue above the sea near Saint-Tropez, beneath a modernist crescent of a roofline.

Ramatuelle, near Saint-Tropez, France
A deep canyon of folded brown and grey rock, with a green ribbon of trees along its floor.

Las Casitas, A Belmond Hotel

Las Casitas stands on a hillside estate at Yanque in the Colca Valley, above one of the deepest canyons in the world, in the homeland of the Cabana and Collagua peoples, whose small colonial villages still keep their crafts and festivals.

Yanque, Colca Canyon, Peru
The Seine and its bridges from high above Paris.

Le Bristol Paris

Le Bristol opened on the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in 1925, and in May 2011 it became the first hotel in France to receive the Palace distinction.

Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Paris, France
The Rochers des Mourres rock formations near Forcalquier.

Le Couvent des Minimes

Le Couvent des Minimes occupies a 17th-century convent on the edge of Mane, a village in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.

Mane, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France
A snow-covered Alpine peak above the clouds, photographed from Courchevel.

Le K2 Palace

Le K2 Palace opened in 2011 at Courchevel 1850, created by Suzanne and Philippe Capezzone as a Savoyard hamlet of wood and stone on the edge of a pine forest, with the peaks of the Himalayas as its inspiration.

Courchevel 1850, French Alps, France
The Seine and its bridges from high above Paris.

Le Meurice, Dorchester Collection

Le Meurice has faced the Jardin des Tuileries from the Rue de Rivoli since 1835, and a guest list running from Queen Victoria to Picasso and Coco Chanel earned it the name 'the hotel of kings'.

Rue de Rivoli, Paris, France
Vineyards near Saint-Émilion, Bordeaux.

Les Sources de Caudalie

Les Sources de Caudalie has welcomed guests since 1999 among the Grand Cru vineyards of Château Smith Haut Lafitte, between vines and pine forest about 20 minutes from the centre of Bordeaux.

Martillac, Bordeaux, France
An aerial view of the small wooded island ringed by shallow turquoise water and a jetty.

Little Palm Island Resort & Spa

Little Palm Island is a four-acre island off Little Torch Key, reached only by seaplane or by the resort's motor yacht from its welcome station at Mile Marker 28.5 on the Overseas Highway.

Little Torch Key, Florida Keys, Florida
An aerial view of a sheltered white sand cove and coral reef below wooded hills.

Lizard Island

Captain Cook named Lizard Island when he passed it on August 12, 1770, and climbed its summit, now Cook's Look, to chart a way through the reef.

Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
Two white rhinos at the edge of green bush.

Londolozi

Londolozi began in 1926, when Charles Boyd-Varty bought worn-out cattle land west of the Kruger, and in 2026 the Varty family marks a century on this bend of the Sand River in the Sabi Sand.

Sabi Sand, Greater Kruger, South Africa
The house among its parkland at sunset, seen from the air.

Lucknam Park, Emblems Collection

Lucknam Park is a Palladian mansion of 1720 on the southern edge of the Cotswolds, six miles from Bath, reached by a mile-long avenue of beech and lime through 500 acres of parkland.

Colerne, near Bath, Wiltshire
The Seine and its bridges from high above Paris.

Maison Villeroy

Maison Villeroy occupies a former private mansion at 33 rue Jean Goujon in the 8th arrondissement, close to the Champs-Élysées, and has become one of the most discreet addresses in Paris: a hotel of residential scale with the services of a palace.

Rue Jean Goujon, 8th Arrondissement, Paris, France
A stone path between ponds of lotus leaves leading to a carved temple gateway among trees.

Mandapa, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve

Mandapa takes its name from the Sanskrit for temple, and this Ritz-Carlton Reserve is laid out like a Balinese village on the banks of the Ayung River outside Ubud, with its own temple and working rice paddies.

Ayung River, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
The pale stone façade of the Royal Palace of Madrid across a wide paved square.

Mandarin Oriental Ritz, Madrid

King Alfonso XIII inaugurated the Ritz in 1910, founded with the hotelier César Ritz, and it has received royalty, politicians and society ever since.

Golden Triangle of Art, Madrid, Spain
A suite balcony with wicker seating overlooking the Chao Phraya river and city towers.

Mandarin Oriental, Bangkok

Mandarin Oriental, Bangkok opened on the banks of the Chao Phraya in 1876, and in 2026 it marks 150 years as the city's most storied address.

Bang Rak, Bangkok, Thailand
A row of restored shophouses painted pink, cream and green, with shuttered arched windows.

Mandarin Oriental, Singapore

Mandarin Oriental, Singapore opened in 1987 as The Oriental Singapore, its fan-shaped atrium designed by John Portman with theatre in mind, and reopened on September 8, 2023, after a six-month transformation.

Marina Bay, Singapore
Aerial view of NIHI's long sandy beach curving along the coast, with surf breaking and villas set into the green hillside.

NIHI Sumba

Nihi Sumba began with a wave.

Wanokaka, West Sumba, Indonesia
An aerial view of the resort on its peninsula, with white beaches, turquoise shallows and mangroves.

NIZUC Resort & Spa

NIZUC covers 29 acres at Punta Nizuc, once a private retreat for the presidents of Mexico, facing the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef; Michelin notes that the point was said to be a place where Maya astronomers watched the night sky.

Punta Nizuc, Cancún, Mexico
Arenal Volcano above the rainforest, its summit in cloud.

Nayara Springs

Nayara Springs sits in the rainforest at La Fortuna, facing Arenal Volcano in central Costa Rica, as the adults-only part of a Nayara complex that also includes Nayara Gardens and Nayara Tented Camp.

La Fortuna, Arenal, Costa Rica
Peninsula Papagayo from the air, green headlands reaching into a calm blue bay.

Nekajui, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve

Nekajui opened on February 25, 2025, as the first Ritz-Carlton Reserve in Central or South America, its name taken from the Chorotega for lush garden.

Peninsula Papagayo, Guanacaste, Costa Rica
A low white town along a rocky shoreline across a calm bay, with hills behind.

Parilio, a Member of Design Hotels

Parilio opened in July 2019 between Kolymbithres beach and Naoussa, created by Kalia and Antonis Eliopoulos, whose family also runs Vedema, Mystique and Istoria on Santorini.

Naoussa, Paros, Greece
A yellow and red hilltop palace above dense green forest under a blue sky with clouds.

Penha Longa Resort

Penha Longa Resort lies within the Sintra-Cascais Natural Park, on an estate of 220 hectares that was once a retreat of the Portuguese royal family.

Sintra, Lisbon Coast, Portugal
An outdoor pool with blue mosaic tiles, lined with sun loungers and parasols, facing a white colonnaded pavilion.

Raffles Singapore

The Armenian Sarkies brothers opened Raffles in 1887, and a century later, in 1987, it was declared a National Monument of Singapore.

Beach Road, Singapore
Old stone buildings of a hermitage stepped into a wooded hillside.

Reschio Hotel

The Castello di Reschio dates from 1050 and stands at the heart of a private estate of 3,700 acres in the Umbrian hills near the Tuscan border, a landscape of woodland, meadows, a lake and more than 50 farmhouses, many now restored.

Lisciano Niccone, Umbria, Italy
Waterfalls spilling through trees into a clear turquoise pool.

Rissai Valley, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve

Rissai Valley lies in the Zhongcha Valley near Jiuzhaigou, the UNESCO World Heritage Site in northern Sichuan named for the nine Tibetan villages in its mountains, where snow peaks, emerald lakes and waterfalls fill a nature reserve of nearly 180,000 acres.

Jiuzhaigou, Sichuan, China
The Seine and its bridges from high above Paris.

Ritz Paris

César Ritz opened the Ritz Paris on the Place Vendôme in 1898 with the chef Auguste Escoffier, and the hotel has been part of the city's social and cultural life ever since.

Place Vendôme, Paris, France
Boats on the river at Luang Prabang in low sun, with mountains beyond.

Rosewood Luang Prabang

Rosewood Luang Prabang lies on the edge of the town in the Nahm Dong Valley, within the UNESCO-listed area, where the designer Bill Bensley reimagined a forgotten 19th-century hill station around a waterfall flowing between the banks of the Nam Dong River.

Nahm Dong Valley, Luang Prabang, Laos
The sun setting over a calm lake between wooded hills.

Rosewood Schloss Fuschl

Schloss Fuschl was built in 1461 on the shore of Lake Fuschl and belonged to the Archbishops of Salzburg, whose hunts there were famous.

Lake Fuschl, Salzburg, Austria
The towers of São Paulo from the air.

Rosewood São Paulo

Rosewood São Paulo anchors Cidade Matarazzo, a leafy seven-acre enclave of preserved early 20th-century buildings in Bela Vista, in the heart of the city.

Bela Vista, São Paulo, Brazil
Champagne vines at Chavot-Courcourt, with the church of Saint-Martin on the hill.

Royal Champagne Hotel & Spa

Royal Champagne sits on a ridge above the vines between Reims and Épernay, inside the UNESCO-listed Champagne landscape, on the site of a 19th-century coaching inn where travellers changed horses and where Napoleon Bonaparte once stopped.

Champillon, Épernay, France
Wineglass Bay on the Freycinet Peninsula, Tasmania, from above.

Saffire Freycinet

Saffire Freycinet opened in 2010 at Coles Bay on Tasmania's east coast, a lodge by Circa Morris-Nunn Architects whose sweeping roof, reminiscent of a manta ray, follows the curve of the shore and faces the pink granite of the Hazards across Great Oyster Bay.

Coles Bay, Tasmania, Australia
The château's facade above its garden, a fountain playing on the lawn in front.

Saint James Paris

The Saint James is a neoclassical hôtel particulier behind its own wall and garden in the 16th arrondissement, a short walk from the Arc de Triomphe and the Trocadéro.

16th arrondissement, Paris, France
Snow-capped Etna above a green coastline and the town of Taormina on its cliffs.

San Domenico Palace, Taormina, A Four Seasons Hotel

San Domenico Palace occupies a 14th-century Dominican convent on a promontory above the Ionian Sea, with Mount Etna and Taormina's ancient Greek theatre in view.

Taormina, Sicily, Italy
A mountain stream running over boulders through a narrow, sunlit gorge.

Schloss Elmau

The theologian and philosopher Johannes Müller founded Schloss Elmau in 1916 as a cultural retreat in a high valley of the Bavarian Alps, 1,000 metres up near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, to designs by his brother-in-law Carlo Sattler.

Elmau, Bavarian Alps, Germany
Rows of green vines on a sunny hillside below wooded ridges.

SingleThread Inn

SingleThread Inn stands on North Street in downtown Healdsburg, at the heart of Sonoma wine country, as an extension of one of the most personal restaurants in California.

Healdsburg, Sonoma County, California
A six-bedroom villa and its pool among the trees, seen from above.

Soneva Fushi

Soneva Fushi opened in 1995 on Kunfunadhoo Island in the Baa Atoll, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve that the resort helped to establish, and it is still the purest expression of Soneva's barefoot idea: shoes come off on arrival and stay off.

Kunfunadhoo Island, Baa Atoll, Maldives
Overwater villas scattered across a turquoise lagoon.

Soneva Secret

Soneva Secret is the first resort in the remote Makunudhoo Atoll, in the far north of the Maldives, and the most private of Soneva's three islands, reached by a 75-minute seaplane flight from Malé or a 40-minute hop from Soneva Fushi.

Makunudhoo, Haa Dhaalu Atoll, Maldives
The Buddha statue in Hussain Sagar lake at night, with the lights of Hyderabad behind.

Taj Falaknuma Palace

Falaknuma, 'mirror of the sky', stands on a hilltop 609 metres above sea level on the edge of Hyderabad.

Falaknuma, Hyderabad, India
A wide lake in Udaipur ringed by the city and low hills, seen through bare branches.

Taj Lake Palace

Jag Niwas was built in white marble between 1743 and 1746 by Maharana Jagat Singh II, the 62nd custodian of the House of Mewar, as a summer retreat on an island in Lake Pichola, facing east so that its residents could greet the sunrise.

Lake Pichola, Udaipur, India
A forested valley below rugged green mountains under a soft blue sky.

The Alpina Gstaad

The Alpina Gstaad opened on December 1, 2012, with interiors by Hirsch Bedner Associates made by craftspeople from the Saanenland and gardens by Jean Mus.

Gstaad, Switzerland
Aerial view of a palm-covered motu ringed by white sand and the turquoise lagoon of Tetiaroa, with other islets beyond.

The Brando

Tetiaroa, a ring of coral motu around a lagoon about 53 kilometres north of Tahiti, was bought by Marlon Brando in the 1960s, and his idea of a place where comfort and conservation could live together shaped everything that followed.

Tetiaroa, French Polynesia
Evening light on the hills above the River Lyon in Glen Lyon, Perthshire.

The Gleneagles Hotel

Gleneagles began as the idea of Donald Matheson, general manager of the Caledonian Railway, who in 1910 pictured a palatial country house hotel with golf in the Perthshire hills.

Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
The town of Bruton in Somerset among trees and fields.

The Newt in Somerset

The Newt in Somerset centres on Hadspen House, a honey-coloured limestone house of the 17th century, remodelled in Georgian times, which was home to the Hobhouse family for more than two centuries.

Bruton, Somerset, England, United Kingdom
Sunset over the sea and the rocky shore of Grand Cayman.

The Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman

The Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman opened on December 15, 2005, on a 144-acre estate running between Seven Mile Beach and the lagoon, with interiors by Champalimaud Design.

Seven Mile Beach, Grand Cayman
The Savoy Court entrance with its gilded statue, flags and illuminated canopy.

The Savoy

The Savoy takes its name from the palace that Count Peter of Savoy built beside the Thames in the 13th century.

Strand, London, United Kingdom
Aerial view of a curved pool, loungers and parasols above a palm-lined beach and turquoise sea.

The Shore Club Turks and Caicos

The Shore Club was the first resort of its kind on Long Bay Beach, on the south-east coast of Providenciales.

Long Bay Beach, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos
A golden chedi and red and gold temple roofs under a clear blue sky.

The Siam

The Siam stands in three acres of gardens on the Chao Phraya River in Dusit, Bangkok's quarter of palaces, temples and museums, and is owned and run by the Sukosols, a family of musicians and entertainers across several generations.

Dusit, Bangkok, Thailand
The long, low lodge on the steppe at dusk, a flat-topped mountain beyond.

Tierra Patagonia Hotel & Spa

Tierra Patagonia was created by the Chilean Purcell family, founders of Ski Portillo, on a bluff where the pampa meets Lake Sarmiento at the edge of Torres del Paine National Park, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve since 1978.

Lake Sarmiento, Torres del Paine, Chile
A stone gateway in the old town of Valderrobres, Teruel.

Torre del Marqués Hotel Spa & Winery

The estate enters history in 1090, when El Cid defeated the Count of Barcelona at the battle of the Pinar de Tévar, which the hotel places on its own land beside the Tastavins river.

Monroyo, Matarraña, Teruel, Spain
An aerial view of Vila Vita Parc, its gardens and pools on the clifftop above a sandy beach.

Vila Vita Parc Resort & Spa

Dr Reinfried and Anneliese Pohl founded Vila Vita Parc, which opened in 1992 on a clifftop near Porches, in 54 acres of subtropical gardens with a stairway down to a sandy cove.

Porches, Algarve, Portugal
Vineyards and wooded hills of Provence stretching to the horizon at sunset.

Villa La Coste

Villa La Coste sits high on a hillside within Château La Coste, a biodynamic wine estate of about 200 hectares between Aix-en-Provence, Cézanne's town, and the Luberon Natural Park, and a destination in its own right for art and architecture.

Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, Aix-en-Provence, France
Villa Nai from the air: curved stone buildings and a pool among olive groves.

Villa Nai 3.3

Villa Nai 3.3 lies in the village of Žman on Dugi Otok, an island off the Zadar coast in central Dalmatia, within a 500-year-old organic olive grove of 40,000 square metres.

Žman, Dugi Otok, Croatia
Los Arcos rocks in Banderas Bay, with the mountains of the Jalisco coast behind.

Xinalani

Xinalani, whose name means 'seeds' in Nahuatl, sits on a steep jungle hillside above Banderas Bay near the fishing village of Quimixto, some 12 miles down the coast from Puerto Vallarta.

Quimixto, Jalisco, Mexico
Pale rock pinnacles and an arch rising from blue water, with the sun low behind them.

Zadún, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve

Zadún opened on November 4, 2019, on a 20-acre hillside above the Sea of Cortés, its name drawn from dunas, the dunes around it.

San José del Cabo, Baja California Sur, Mexico
Lit tents on stilts among granite boulders above the desert at dusk.

Zannier Sonop

Zannier Sonop stands on granite boulders in the remote Hardap region of southern Namibia, on the edge of the NamibRand Nature Reserve, one of the largest private conservation areas in southern Africa, within 13,800 acres of its own desert.

Hardap, Namib Desert, Namibia
A forested green headland rising from deep blue sea under scattered cloud.

ÀNI Dominican Republic

ÀNI Dominican Republic is taken by one group at a time: an estate of just over four acres on its own peninsula on the Amber Coast, between Samaná and Cabarete, with views across 270 degrees of the Atlantic.

Cabrera, Amber Coast, Dominican Republic

More hotels I know

Hanalei Bay and the valley below it on the north shore of Kauaʻi, from above.

1 Hotel Hanalei Bay

1 Hotel Hanalei Bay stands on a bluff in Princeville, across the river from Hanalei Beach on Kauaʻi's North Shore.

Princeville, Kauaʻi, Hawaii
A fishing pier running out from a sandy point, with high-rise towers on the shore and the sea in the foreground.

1 Hotel South Beach

1 Hotel South Beach opened in March 2015 on 600 feet of beachfront and was the first hotel in Miami Beach to earn a five-key Green Key rating.

Miami Beach, Florida
Water and hills on Padar Island in Komodo.

AYANA Lako Di'a

AYANA Lako Di'a is a 54-metre phinisi, handcrafted in South Sulawesi, that sails from AYANA Komodo Waecicu Beach into the waters of Komodo National Park.

Sails from AYANA Komodo Waecicu Beach, Labuan Bajo, into Komodo National Park, Indonesia
A bay surrounded by trees and mountains.

Ahãma

Ahãma takes its name from an ancient Lycian word for beloved, and stands on its own sheltered bay at Günlüklü, near Fethiye, on the Turkish Riviera, a short way from the yachting harbour of Göcek.

Günlüklü Bay, Fethiye, Muğla, Türkiye
The Dubai skyline in silhouette against an orange sunset, reflected in the water.

Al Maha, a Luxury Collection Desert Resort & Spa, Dubai

Al Maha lies inside the Dubai Desert Conservation Reserve, 225 square kilometres of dunes and gravel plain off the Al Ain road, less than an hour from the city and a world away from it.

Dubai Desert Conservation Reserve, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
The stone columns of an ancient temple hall in Luxor, beneath clouds.

Al Moudira Hotel

Al Moudira stands among farmland on the quiet west bank of the Nile at Luxor, close to the Valley of the Kings and the temples of ancient Thebes, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and well away from the crowds on the east bank.

West Bank, Luxor, Egypt
A marble-paved street of ancient ruins leading to a two-storey library facade.

Alavya

Alavya is a small hotel in Alaçatı, the stone village on the Çeşme peninsula of the Aegean coast.

Alaçatı, Çeşme, Türkiye
Buenos Aires rooftops leading to the green dome of the Congress building.

Alvear Palace Hotel

The Alvear Palace stands at Avenida Alvear 1891 in Recoleta and is known as the high-society heart of Buenos Aires.

Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Jagged grey Dolomite peaks above a green meadow and dark forest under heavy cloud.

Aman Rosa Alpina

Aman Rosa Alpina stands in the village of San Cassiano in Alta Badia, in the UNESCO-listed Dolomites.

San Cassiano, Alta Badia, Italy
An aerial view of the white canvas tents set in a grid among trees.

Aman-i-Khás

Aman-i-Khás is a tented camp on the threshold of Ranthambhore National Park in eastern Rajasthan, the reserve people travel to for its Bengal tigers.

Ranthambhore, Rajasthan, India
Aerial view of the ruined stone town of Bhangarh among trees and low hills.

Amanbagh

Amanbagh lies in the Aravalli Hills near Alwar in Rajasthan, about two hours by road from Jaipur.

Ajabgarh, Alwar, Rajasthan, India
A white stone bridge and a pagoda beside a still lake, with snow-capped peaks behind.

Amandayan

Amandayan stands on Lion Hill above the lanes and canals of Lijiang's UNESCO-listed Old Town, with Jade Dragon Snow Mountain on the horizon.

Lijiang, Yunnan, China
A white lighthouse on the stone ramparts of Galle Fort, with palms against a blue sky.

Amangalla

Amangalla occupies the former New Oriental Hotel inside the ramparts of Galle Fort, the 17th-century fortified town on Sri Lanka's south-west coast that is now UNESCO-listed.

Galle Fort, Galle, Sri Lanka
A river winding through a green valley between steep forested mountains.

Amankora Bumthang

Amankora is a journey of five lodges across the western and central valleys of Bhutan, at Paro, Thimphu, Punakha, Gangtey and Bumthang, designed to be travelled in sequence.

Jakar, Bumthang Valley, Bhutan
Traditional houses with painted windows on a green hillside, below a large temple building.

Amankora Gangtey

Amankora is a journey of five lodges across the western and central valleys of Bhutan, at Paro, Thimphu, Punakha, Gangtey and Bumthang, designed to be travelled in sequence.

Phobjikha Valley, Gangtey, Bhutan
Tiger's Nest monastery clinging to a cliff face, with cloud drifting through the forest below.

Amankora Paro

Amankora is a journey of five lodges across the western and central valleys of Bhutan, at Paro, Thimphu, Punakha, Gangtey and Bumthang, designed to be travelled in sequence, and Paro is usually where it begins and ends.

Paro Valley, Bhutan
Punakha Dzong on a riverbank beneath forested hills and a blue sky.

Amankora Punakha

Amankora is a journey of five lodges across the western and central valleys of Bhutan, at Paro, Thimphu, Punakha, Gangtey and Bumthang, designed to be travelled in sequence.

Punakha Valley, Bhutan
Snow-capped Himalayan peaks seen through pine trees above layered blue valleys.

Amankora Thimphu

Amankora is a journey of five lodges across the western and central valleys of Bhutan, at Paro, Thimphu, Punakha, Gangtey and Bumthang, designed to be travelled in sequence.

Thimphu, Bhutan
The towers of Angkor Wat glowing at sunrise, framed by trees.

Amansara

Amansara began life as the guesthouse King Sihanouk kept for visiting dignitaries, a building in the 1960s New Khmer style rather than a colonial villa.

Siem Reap, Cambodia
A gilded temple with a tiered roof and white stairs, framed by palms under a blue sky.

Amantaka

Amantaka occupies a group of French colonial buildings on a garden estate in the old town of Luang Prabang, which is UNESCO-listed.

Luang Prabang, Laos
Aerial view of a curved sandy beach between turquoise water and dense palm forest.

Amanwella

Amanwella sits above a curved beach on Sri Lanka's south coast near Tangalle, between two rocky headlands and backed by a coconut grove.

Tangalle, Sri Lanka
Low villa pavilions set among olive groves and cypress trees on a hillside above the sea.

Amanzoe

Amanzoe sits on a hilltop above Porto Heli on the eastern Peloponnese, with olive groves falling away towards the island of Spetses and the Argosaronic Gulf.

Porto Heli, Peloponnese, Greece
A wide valley of green scrub between red sandstone cliffs and buttes.

Ambiente, A Landscape Hotel

Ambiente stands among the red rocks of Sedona, an adults-only hotel built on the idea that the landscape should come first.

Sedona, Arizona
Green trees above the sea at Puerto Princesa.

Amorita Resort, Puerto Princesa

Amorita in Puerto Princesa is the Palawan sister of the Amorita on Bohol, opened in March 2026 by the Philippine group One-Of Collection.

Barangay San Pedro, Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines
Two pagodas on a forested mountain ridge in northern Thailand at golden hour.

Anantara Chiang Mai Resort

Anantara Chiang Mai Resort lies on the bank of the Mae Ping River, on Charoen Prathet Road in the centre of the city, in the grounds of the former British Consulate.

Mae Ping River, Chiang Mai, Thailand
A steel arch bridge over a gorge, with white water and spray below.

Anantara Stanley & Livingstone Victoria Falls Hotel

Anantara Stanley & Livingstone sits on Old Ursula Road, just south of Victoria Falls town, on the edge of a private game reserve, so a safari can begin at the end of the lawn.

Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
Aerial view looking down on palm trees at the edge of a shallow reef.

Aqua Blu

Aqua Blu is a 60-metre explorer yacht that lives full time in East Indonesia, sailing the reefs and volcanic islands of the Coral Triangle.

East Indonesia (Raja Ampat, Komodo, Spice Islands)
A wide glacier front behind a bay scattered with floating ice, dark mountains on either side.

Aqua Lares

Aqua Lares is a 77-metre icebreaker superyacht that sails two very different seas: the remote islands of the Seychelles and Tanzania, and, from June 2026, the Norwegian Arctic around Svalbard.

Svalbard, Norway (Arctic season); Seychelles and Tanzania
Green northern lights over a round timber building lit from within on a frozen river.

Arctic Bath

Arctic Bath floats on the Lule River at Harads, a small village in Swedish Lapland.

Harads, Swedish Lapland, Sweden
Dozens of hot air balloons rising at dawn over a town and rocky valleys.

Argos in Cappadocia

Argos sits in Uçhisar, a small village in the UNESCO-listed landscape of Cappadocia, on a slope looking across Pigeon Valley to Mount Erciyes.

Uçhisar, Cappadocia, Türkiye
An aerial view of the castle on the shore of Lough Corrib, surrounded by woodland and lawns.

Ashford Castle

Ashford Castle has stood on the shore of Lough Corrib for more than 800 years, and the Guinness family enlarged it in the 19th century.

Cong, County Mayo, Ireland
Snowy peaks above La Paz, lit by the last of the daylight.

Atix Hotel

Atix stands in Calacoto, in the Zona Sur of La Paz, the upscale southern district in the Andean valley of the city.

Calle 16, Calacoto, Zona Sur, La Paz, Bolivia
Green northern lights over the dark hills at Cleary Summit, north of Fairbanks.

Aurora Villa

A modern boutique hotel in dark countryside about half an hour from Fairbanks, built for watching the northern lights.

Near Fairbanks, Alaska
A sand dune ridge running into eroded desert under a blue sky.

Awasi Atacama

Awasi Atacama is a small lodge in San Pedro de Atacama, the desert town of northern Chile, a few blocks from the main square and the old church.

San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
A wide view over rainforest and a green river gorge, with waterfalls along its rim.

Awasi Iguazú

Awasi Iguazú takes the model Awasi first built in the Atacama and Patagonia into the subtropical rainforest of Argentina's Misiones province: every villa has its own private guide and 4x4, so each day is planned around the people staying in it.

Iguazú Falls, Misiones, Argentina
A grassy valley ringed by rocky hills under a cloudy sky.

Azur Hotel & Spa

Azur Hotel & Spa sits behind a small door on San Jerónimo street in the historic centre of Córdoba, a few minutes from the Jesuit Block, where three historic universities line one of the finest displays of Latin American baroque.

San Jerónimo, historic centre, Córdoba, Argentina
A rooftop pool terrace with loungers and parasols beside a church bell tower under a cloudy sky.

Banyan Tree Puebla

Banyan Tree Puebla occupies a 19th-century building on the edge of the historic centre of Puebla, one of Mexico's great colonial cities, in what used to be the Azul Talavera Hotel.

Puebla, Mexico
A golden-roofed Tibetan monastery spread across a hillside above a lake.

Banyan Tree Ringha

Banyan Tree Ringha sits in the Ringha Valley outside Shangri-La in north-west Yunnan, some 10,000 feet up in the mountains.

Ringha Valley, Shangri-La, Yunnan, China
Old town houses along a curve of the river in late sun, with bare trees on the bank.

Bellevue Palace

Bellevue Palace is the only grand hotel in the heart of Bern, standing at the edge of the UNESCO-listed Old Town with its arcades and fountains, above the Aare river and facing the Bernese Alps.

Bern, Switzerland
A stone torii gate on a sandy beach, with low islands on a pale sea beyond.

Benesse House

Benesse House on Naoshima is a hotel and a contemporary art museum at once.

Naoshima, Kagawa, Japan
A calm river flowing through green forest in Kaga.

Beniya Mukayu

Beniya Mukayu stands on a hill above the hot-spring town of Yamashiro Onsen in Kaga, Ishikawa Prefecture, about 40 minutes from Kanazawa.

Yamashiro Onsen, Kaga, Ishikawa, Japan
An aerial view of the rocky coast and town of Hermanus above the sea.

Birkenhead House

Birkenhead House is a small hotel on a raised headland between two coves in Hermanus, about 90 minutes from Cape Town, looking out over Walker Bay.

Hermanus, Western Cape, South Africa
Green Tuscan hills under morning mist, a mountain on the horizon.

Borgo Pignano

Borgo Pignano is a hamlet of Etruscan origin near Volterra, first recorded in 1139 and built up by the Incontri family in the late seventeenth century; its restoration began around 2000.

Volterra, Tuscany, Italy
A path under pine trees above a small harbour town with a pale stone bell tower.

Boutique Hotel Alhambra & The Historic Villas

Boutique Hotel Alhambra stands on Čikat Bay on the island of Lošinj, in the northern Adriatic between Istria and Dalmatia.

Čikat Bay, Mali Lošinj, Croatia
A Bvlgari Suite living room with a fireplace and a long sofa.

Bvlgari Hotel London

Bvlgari Hotel London stands at 171 Knightsbridge on the edge of Hyde Park, under a minute's walk from Harrods, with the museums of Kensington close by.

171 Knightsbridge, London SW7
The Matterhorn above a ridge of snow-covered peaks under a deep blue sky.

CERVO Mountain Resort

CERVO sits on the edge of Zermatt at the foot of the Matterhorn, at the end of a ski run, and its design comes from the Bavarian studio Dreimeta.

Zermatt, Valais, Switzerland
A rocky headland above a turquoise cove with a sandy beach beyond.

COMO The Treasury

COMO The Treasury occupies the State Buildings, a group of restored 19th-century government buildings on the corner of St Georges Terrace and Barrack Street in central Perth, facing Cathedral Square.

Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Green fields beneath brown hills at Punakha.

COMO Uma Punakha

COMO Uma Punakha sits on a small hill at the western end of the Punakha Valley, above the Mo Chhu river, and its rooms look over the valley and the water.

Botokha Kabesa, Punakha Valley, Bhutan
An infinity pool lit at dusk, a pavilion and palms against a pink sky.

Calabash Hotel

Calabash Hotel sits on the calm, sheltered beach at L'Anse aux Épines on Grenada's southern coast, a family-run Relais & Châteaux hotel owned and managed by the Garbutt family since 1987.

L'Anse aux Épines, St George's, Grenada
A fire pit and sheepskin-draped chairs on a terrace, the snowy slopes and the tram beyond.

Caldera House

Caldera House stands at the foot of Jackson Hole Mountain Resort in Teton Village, a few steps from the aerial tram and a short drive from Grand Teton National Park.

Teton Village, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Rolling green tea plantations beneath a moody sky in the Cameron Highlands.

Cameron Highlands Resort

Cameron Highlands Resort stands on a hilltop beside the Cameron Highlands golf course, in the cool hill country of Pahang, almost a mile above sea level and among tea plantations and woodland trails.

By the Golf Course, Brinchang, Tanah Rata, Cameron Highlands, Pahang, Malaysia
Turquoise water over the reef below a green hillside on Anguilla.

Cap Juluca, A Belmond Hotel

Cap Juluca is a Belmond resort of white Greco-Moorish buildings along the curve of Maundays Bay, near the southern tip of Anguilla.

Maundays Bay, Anguilla
The beach on Smugglers Cove below the hotel, white sand between green headlands and clear water.

Cap Maison Resort & Spa

Cap Maison is a small hotel on a clifftop at Cap Estate, at the northern end of Saint Lucia, above Smugglers Cove and close to Rodney Bay.

Smugglers Cove, Saint Lucia
Table Mountain seen across the open water of the bay.

Cape Grace, A Fairmont Managed Hotel

Cape Grace stands on its own quay at the V&A Waterfront, between the working harbour and the yacht marina, with Table Mountain rising behind.

V&A Waterfront, Cape Town, South Africa
A blue and white boat moored by a simple dock among greenery in Weligama.

Cape Weligama

Cape Weligama sits on 12 acres of terraced clifftop on Sri Lanka's south coast, about 30 metres above the Indian Ocean and some 26 kilometres from Galle.

Weligama, Southern Province, Sri Lanka
A curved white sand beach fringed with tall palm trees and calm shallow water.

Capella Singapore

Capella Singapore sits on 30 acres of rolling parkland on Sentosa Island, about ten minutes from the centre of the city yet set apart from it.

Sentosa Island, Singapore
The Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge in silhouette at sunset.

Capella Sydney

Capella Sydney occupies the former Department of Education building, a heritage-listed sandstone landmark from 1912 on Loftus Street, a short walk from Circular Quay in the city centre.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
A grassy slope above the sea, looking out to neighbouring islands.

Capofaro Resort

Capofaro stands on Salina, which the resort calls the green pearl of the Aeolian Islands, between the island's lighthouse and the village of Malfa, among four and a half hectares of Malvasia vines, with Panarea and Stromboli on the horizon.

Malfa, Salina, Aeolian Islands, Italy
A fishing pier running out from a sandy point, with high-rise towers on the shore and the sea in the foreground.

Carillon Miami Wellness Resort

Carillon was built in 1958 by Norman Giller, a pioneer of Miami Modern architecture, and named after a niece of its founders, Doris and Alfred Kaskel.

North Beach, Miami Beach, Florida
A volcano rising behind cloud above yellow colonial houses with tiled roofs.

Carlisle Bay

Carlisle Bay was opened by the British hotelier Gordon Campbell Gray on Antigua's south coast, and it has long been admired for solving the family resort's central problem: families and couples have separate wings, each with its own beach, and the restaurants keep family hours.

Old Road, Antigua
The infinity pool, terrace loungers and thatched palapa above the ocean at Punta Mita, Mexico.

Casa Akai

Casa Akai is an eight-bedroom house in La Punta Estates at Punta Mita, on Mexico's Pacific coast, with views across the Bay of Banderas to Puerto Vallarta and Nuevo Vallarta.

La Punta Estates, Punta Mita, Mexico
Casa Angelina's white terraces on the cliffs of Praiano, seen from the sea.

Casa Angelina

Casa Angelina stands on the cliffs of Praiano, one of the quietest and least changed villages on the Amalfi Coast, a few minutes from Positano yet well away from its crowds.

Praiano, Amalfi Coast, Italy
Lake Atitlán and its volcanoes beyond a yellow dome and tiled roofs.

Casa Palopó

Casa Palopó stands at kilometre 6.8 on the road to San Antonio Palopó, on the shore of Lake Atitlán, the deepest lake in Central America, with the volcanoes Tolimán, Atitlán and San Pedro across the water.

Lake Atitlán, Guatemala
Brightly painted houses in Cartagena.

Casa Pestagua

Casa Pestagua is a mansion on Calle Santo Domingo, inside the walled old city of Cartagena that UNESCO lists as World Heritage.

Calle Santo Domingo, Centro Histórico, Cartagena, Colombia
A white mansion behind an iron fence, with a carved stone gateway and an ivy-covered tree.

Casa Polanco

Casa Polanco is a small hotel in a restored Neocolonial mansion from the 1940s, facing Parque Lincoln in the residential heart of Polanco.

Polanco, Mexico City, Mexico
The hilltop village of Rodello in the Langhe under a storm sky.

Casa di Langa

Casa di Langa opened in June 2021 on a 42-hectare estate of vineyards and hills in the UNESCO-listed Langhe, between Barolo, Barbaresco and Alta Langa.

Cerretto Langhe, Piedmont, Italy
Clear turquoise water over a sandy cove fringed by pines and red rocks.

Casadelmar

Casadelmar stands on a hillside above the Gulf of Porto-Vecchio, on Corsica's south-east coast, in a three-hectare garden by the landscape designer Jean Mus.

Porto-Vecchio, Corsica, France
Roofless grey stone buildings inside the walls of an old fort.

Castlemartyr Resort

Castlemartyr Resort spreads across 220 acres of parkland and woodland in East Cork.

Castlemartyr, East Cork, Ireland
An aerial view of a curving pool surrounded by palms and jungle.

Chablé Yucatán

Chablé Yucatán is a wellness resort in the jungle at Chocholá, about 26 kilometres from Mérida on the road towards Campeche.

Chocholá, Yucatán, Mexico
The beach at Boca Raton running along the Atlantic, from above.

Cloister at The Boca Raton

The Cloister is where The Boca Raton began: Addison Mizner opened it on February 6, 1926, as the 100-room Ritz-Carlton Cloister Inn, and its Spanish Colonial halls still hold the estate's hidden garden courtyards.

Boca Raton, Florida
Palm forest meeting the beach and lagoon at Dhigurah, South Ari Atoll, from above.

Conrad Maldives Rangali Island

Conrad Maldives Rangali Island spreads across two natural islands in the South Ari Atoll, joined by a bridge, with 151 villas set over the lagoon or along white beaches.

Rangali Island, South Ari Atoll, Maldives
A wooden pier and gazebo in silhouette on a still lake at dusk, with palm trees and a pink and blue sky.

Conrad Orlando

Conrad Orlando opened in early 2024 within Evermore Orlando Resort, 1,100 acres bordering Walt Disney World, and its 433 rooms include 51 suites and 10 family suites.

Evermore, Orlando, Florida
The granite dome of Sugarloaf Mountain over green water, with cable-car wires above.

Copacabana Palace, A Belmond Hotel

Copacabana Palace opened in 1923 on Avenida Atlântica, a white Belle Époque façade looking straight over Copacabana Beach, modelled in part on the Negresco in Nice and the Carlton in Cannes.

Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Poppies in a field near Gargas in the Luberon, an oak tree behind.

Coquillade Provence

Coquillade Provence occupies an eleventh-century hamlet in the Luberon, said in legend to have been built by Cistercian monks from the Abbey of Sénanque.

Gargas, Luberon, France
The volcanic high plateau around San Pedro de Atacama.

Cumbres San Pedro de Atacama

Hotel Cumbres San Pedro de Atacama is the desert hotel of Hoteles Cumbres, a Chilean group whose other hotels are in Santiago.

San Pedro de Atacama, Antofagasta, Chile
Waves breaking on a white beach below palm trees and granite boulders in the Seychelles.

Denis Private Island

Denis is a private coral island of 375 acres in the far north of the Seychelles, reached by a scheduled light aircraft from Mahé in about 30 minutes.

Denis Island, Seychelles
Desa Potato Head from the air, the pool and gardens running down to the Seminyak shore.

Desa Potato Head

Potato Head was founded in Indonesia in 2010 by Ronald Akili, under the motto Good Times, Do Good, and Desa Potato Head in Seminyak has become a manifesto for how a hotel can deal with its waste.

Seminyak, Bali, Indonesia
A pool edged with cobbles and red loungers, with parasols and woodland behind.

Domaine Le Mouflon d'Or

Le Mouflon d'Or stands among chestnut trees and old cedars outside Zonza, a granite village in the mountains of southern Corsica, inside the island's regional natural park.

Zonza, Alta Rocca, Corsica, France
The ruined castle on its limestone outcrop at Les Baux-de-Provence.

Domaine de Manville

Domaine de Manville began as a farm estate created in 1908 by Louis-Alexandre Blanc de Manville, and opened as a hotel in 2015 under its local owners, Edith and Patrick Saut, whose beekeeper grandfather once kept hives on the land.

Les Baux-de-Provence, France
Sea cliffs lit gold by a low evening sun, seen from a grassy clifftop.

Dromoland Castle

Dromoland Castle was the home of the O'Brien clan, who trace their line to the rulers of tenth-century Ireland.

Newmarket-on-Fergus, County Clare, Ireland
The Annapurna range in snow under a deep blue sky.

Dwarika's Sanctuary

Dwarika's Sanctuary stands high on a ridge in the Himalayan foothills at Dhulikhel, above terraced fields that fall away towards the Indrawati River, about an hour from its sister hotel, The Dwarika's, in Kathmandu.

Dhulikhel, Kavre, Nepal
The ice front of a glacier above turquoise lake water.

EOLO, Patagonia's Spirit

EOLO stands alone on a ranch of 10,000 acres in the La Anita valley, halfway between El Calafate and Los Glaciares National Park, and well away from the bustle of the town.

La Anita valley, near El Calafate, Santa Cruz, Argentina
Granite rocks in still water at sunset near Ouranoupoli, Halkidiki.

Eagles Villas

Eagles Villas rises on a hillside of the Athos peninsula in Halkidiki, near the fishing village of Ouranoupoli and within sight of Mount Athos.

Ouranoupoli, Halkidiki, Greece
Islands scattered across a turquoise sea, seen from a forested hilltop.

Eastern & Oriental Express, A Belmond Train

The Eastern & Oriental Express first ran in 1993, built from carriages bought in Japan and refitted in the spirit of its sister train, the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express.

Round trips from Singapore through Malaysia
Chew Jetty in George Town, Penang, seen from the air.

Eastern & Oriental Hotel

The Eastern & Oriental Hotel stands on Lebuh Farquhar in George Town, Penang, facing the sea behind a seawall built in 1907.

Lebuh Farquhar, George Town, Penang, Malaysia
A white beach and turquoise sea at Punta Cana under a blue sky.

Eden Roc Cap Cana

Eden Roc Cap Cana sits within the Cap Cana estate at the eastern tip of the Dominican Republic, between the Caribbean and a landscape of palms and lagoons, and Virtuoso notes that it is the only member of Relais & Châteaux in the country.

Cap Cana, Juanillo, La Altagracia, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
Medellín spread across its valley, with mountains behind.

El Cielo Hotel

Elcielo Hotel stands on Calle 7D in the Astorga area of El Poblado, the liveliest and most polished part of Medellín.

El Poblado, Medellín, Colombia
A low building beneath the rocky hills of Purmamarca under a blue sky.

El Manantial del Silencio

El Manantial del Silencio is a colonial-style house 500 metres from the village of Purmamarca, at the foot of the Cerro de los Siete Colores, the hill of seven colours, in the Quebrada de Humahuaca, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Purmamarca, Quebrada de Humahuaca, Jujuy, Argentina
Jagged islands covered in green, rising from the sea at El Nido.

El Nido Resorts Lagen Island

Lagen Island sits in a forested cove on Bacuit Bay, between a four-hectare forest and a calm, shallow lagoon; the resort says it has the densest forest over limestone of the 45 islands and islets in the bay, and a trail climbs through it to a view of a cove on the far side.

Lagen Island, Bacuit Bay, El Nido, Palawan, Philippines
A sea-view villa's tiled roof among olive trees and wild planting, above the Ionian Sea.

Eliamos Villas Hotel & Spa

Eliamos Villas Hotel & Spa stands on a hillside above the sea at Spartia, on the south coast of Kefalonia, looking out over the Ionian Sea and the olive groves around it.

Spartia, Kefalonia, Greece
The dark timber houses of the hotel at dusk, lit from within, reflected in the water.

Elva Hotel

Elva is a design hotel at Skulestadmo, just outside Voss in western Norway, set beside Lundarvatnet lake with mountains on every side.

Skulestadmo, Voss, Norway
The white villa and its infinity pool behind a private beach on Providenciales, Turks and Caicos.

Emerald Bay

Emerald Bay is a new house on the south coast of Providenciales, reached by a single road, which keeps it private.

South coast, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands
A wide valley of green scrub between red sandstone cliffs and buttes.

Enchantment Resort

Enchantment Resort covers 70 acres at the foot of Boynton Canyon, a secluded box canyon among the red rocks of Sedona, and each of its 218 casitas, suites and villas has a fireplace, a vaulted ceiling and a private patio.

Boynton Canyon, Sedona, Arizona
An aerial view of the estancia's white buildings and red roofs on open grassland at sunset.

Estancia Vik José Ignacio

Estancia Vik stands on 4,000 acres of rolling countryside outside José Ignacio, on the Atlantic coast of Uruguay some 20 kilometres north-east of Punta del Este.

José Ignacio, Maldonado, Uruguay
Two weathered moai heads half-buried in a grassy volcanic slope.

Explora Rapa Nui

Explora's lodge on Rapa Nui is built as a base for exploring the island, a short distance from Hanga Roa and five minutes from the airport.

Easter Island, Chile
A fishing pier running out from a sandy point, with high-rise towers on the shore and the sea in the foreground.

Faena Hotel Miami Beach

Faena Miami Beach occupies the Saxony, completed in 1948 by the architect Roy F.

Miami Beach, Florida
Lake Louise reflecting the surrounding peaks and glacier.

Fairmont Banff Springs

The Canadian Pacific Railway opened the Fairmont Banff Springs in 1888, one of the first of Canada's grand railway hotels, designed by Bruce Price in a mix of Scottish Baronial and Loire château styles.

Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada
Lake Louise reflecting the surrounding peaks and glacier.

Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise

Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise stands on the shore of Lake Louise in Banff National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, facing the Victoria Glacier about two hours west of Calgary.

Lake Louise, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada
Snow-capped peaks above dark forested ridges and a small green lake in a valley.

Fairmont Chateau Whistler

Fairmont Chateau Whistler stands at the foot of Blackcomb Mountain, a large château-style resort with ski-in, ski-out access to one of the longest seasons and greatest vertical drops in North America.

Whistler, British Columbia, Canada
Rugged desert mountains and green trees under a partly cloudy sky.

Fairmont Scottsdale Princess

The Fairmont Scottsdale Princess opened in 1987 across 65 acres of Mexican colonial-style buildings and fountained plazas, and it describes itself as Arizona's longest-running AAA Five Diamond resort.

Scottsdale, Arizona
Vancouver's towers and a marina reflected in still water under white clouds.

Fairmont Waterfront

Fairmont Waterfront opened in July 1991, linked to the Canada Place cruise terminal and a short walk from Gastown and the Stanley Park Seawall.

Vancouver, Canada
A marina full of yachts in a blue bay, with white apartment towers behind and palm fronds in the foreground.

Fasano Punta del Este

Fasano Punta del Este, in the Las Piedras area of La Barra, takes the Brazilian Fasano family's style inland, away from the high-rise beachfront.

La Barra, Punta del Este, Uruguay
Buenos Aires seen from above at sunset.

Four Seasons Hotel Buenos Aires

Four Seasons Hotel Buenos Aires is in the heart of Recoleta and joins two buildings: La Mansión Álzaga Unzué, an early 20th-century house in the French style, and a 13-storey tower whose interiors keep to the same Belle Époque mood.

Posadas 1086/88, Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina
The sun setting behind the pyramids at Cairo.

Four Seasons Hotel Cairo at Nile Plaza

Four Seasons Hotel Cairo at Nile Plaza is a 30-storey tower on the Corniche El Nil in Garden City, on the edge of the river in central Cairo.

Corniche El Nil, Garden City, Cairo, Egypt
Bogotá spread across the plain below forested slopes, under a broken sky.

Four Seasons Hotel Casa Medina Bogotá

Four Seasons Hotel Casa Medina stands in Zona G, the Bogotá neighbourhood known for its restaurants.

Zona G, Bogotá, Colombia
A domed mosque on a hill above the old city, with ferries along the waterfront.

Four Seasons Hotel Istanbul at the Bosphorus

Four Seasons Hotel Istanbul at the Bosphorus occupies a restored 19th-century Ottoman palace on the European shore of the strait, in Beşiktaş, with the hills of Asia across the water.

Beşiktaş, Istanbul, Türkiye
The towers of the Golden Gate Bridge rising out of low fog.

Four Seasons Hotel San Francisco at Embarcadero

Four Seasons Hotel San Francisco at Embarcadero fills the top 11 floors of a 48-storey tower at 222 Sansome Street, in the Financial District, and its height is the point.

San Francisco, California
A fishing pier running out from a sandy point, with high-rise towers on the shore and the sea in the foreground.

Four Seasons Hotel at The Surf Club

The Surf Club opened on New Year's Eve in 1930 and was the place Miami society came to dance and swim for decades.

Surfside, Miami, Florida
A green island with a jagged central peak across a calm turquoise lagoon.

Four Seasons Resort Bora Bora

Four Seasons Resort Bora Bora occupies Motu Tehotu, a coral islet on the outer rim of the lagoon, facing Mount Otemanu across calm, clear water.

Motu Tehotu, Bora Bora, French Polynesia
Black lava sea cliffs and surf on the coast of Lanai.

Four Seasons Resort Lanai

Four Seasons Resort Lanai opened in 1991 as The Manele Bay Hotel, the year of Lanai's last pineapple harvest.

Lanai, Hawaii
A small island in the ocean off Langkawi, seen from the air.

Four Seasons Resort Langkawi

Four Seasons Resort Langkawi lies on Jalan Tanjung Rhu, between a mile-long sandy beach and towering limestone cliffs, inside the Langkawi UNESCO Global Geopark.

Jalan Tanjung Rhu, Langkawi, Malaysia
Wooden boats moored on a river in front of a row of old yellow shophouses.

Four Seasons Resort The Nam Hai, Hoi An, Vietnam

The Nam Hai lines a kilometre of Ha My Beach on Vietnam's central coast, a short drive from Hoi An.

Ha My Beach, Hoi An, Vietnam
A stone Maya structure on a green lawn at Caracol.

Gaïa Riverlodge

Gaïa Riverlodge, named for the Greek goddess of the Earth, lies deep in the Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve in western Belize, a reserve of pine forest, river valleys and waterfalls about an hour's drive from San Ignacio.

Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve, Cayo District, Belize
A white village spilling down a cliff edge above the deep blue sea, seen from above.

Grace Hotel, Auberge Collection

Grace Hotel sits high on the caldera cliffs at Imerovigli, about 15 minutes from Oia, and steps down a terraced hillside towards the Aegean.

Imerovigli, Santorini, Greece
Colourful lakeside village with a church bell tower at dusk, lights reflected in still water below steep mountains.

Grand Hotel Victoria Concept & Spa

Grand Hotel Victoria stands in Menaggio, on one of Lake Como's quieter shores, looking across the water to Bellagio.

Menaggio, Lake Como, Italy
A white motor yacht crossing still water beside a rocky, wooded island veiled in mist.

Grand Hôtel Stockholm

Régis Cadier opened the Grand Hôtel in 1874 on the waterfront facing the Royal Palace and Gamla Stan, and it has housed Nobel laureates, heads of state and actors ever since.

Stockholm, Sweden
Rovinj's old town and bell tower across a blue bay, framed by pine trees.

Grand Park Hotel Rovinj

Grand Park Hotel Rovinj stands on the eastern shore of Rovinj in Istria, looking across the water to the old town on its hill.

Rovinj, Istria, Croatia
A two-storey hacienda with bamboo verandas and a tiled roof behind gardens and a pool.

Hacienda Bambusa

Hacienda Bambusa stands on a working farm in Colombia's Coffee Region, surrounded by the Central Andes, old trees and plantations of cacao and pineapple.

Near Armenia, Quindío, Coffee Region, Colombia
A white lighthouse with a red roof on a grassy headland at dusk.

Harbor House Inn

Harbor House Inn stands on a rugged cliff above the Pacific at Elk, on the Mendocino coast of northern California, far from any busy resort scene.

Elk, Mendocino Coast, California
A square stone sea tower above a harbour packed with blue fishing boats.

Heure Bleue Palais

Heure Bleue Palais is a traditional riad inside the old medina of Essaouira, the Atlantic port once known as Mogador.

Essaouira, Morocco
A long vaulted underground bath with a still pool reflecting warm orange light.

Hotel Alfonso XIII, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Seville

Hotel Alfonso XIII was built in 1928, ahead of the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929, and named for the king who commissioned it.

Santa Cruz, Seville, Spain
A row of brightly painted pink, yellow and blue townhouses with shutters and window boxes along a pavement.

Hotel Bennett

Hotel Bennett overlooks Marion Square in the centre of historic Charleston, with King Street at the door.

Marion Square, Charleston, South Carolina
The rooftops of Punta Arenas with the sea beyond.

Hotel Cabo de Hornos

Hotel Cabo de Hornos faces the Plaza Muñoz Gamero in the historic centre of Punta Arenas, close to the city's restaurants, museums and offices.

Plaza Muñoz Gamero, Punta Arenas, Chile
The red dome of Cartagena cathedral above the old city walls and rooftops.

Hotel Casa San Agustín

Casa San Agustín is made of three colonial houses in the walled historic centre of Cartagena, on Calle de la Universidad, joined around a central courtyard where part of a 300-year-old aqueduct survives.

Historic Centre, Cartagena, Colombia
The white sloping roof of Oslo's opera house reflected in still harbour water.

Hotel Continental

Hotel Continental has been run by the same family since 1900, and it sits in the middle of Oslo, steps from the National Theatre, the Royal Palace and the shops of Karl Johans gate, with the waterfront a short walk away.

Oslo, Norway
A suite sitting room with red armchairs and a sofa, looking out to a terrace and the citadel.

Hotel La Villa Calvi

La Villa stands on the hillside of Notre-Dame de la Serra above Calvi, in the Balagne of north-west Corsica, looking over the bay to the citadel.

Calvi, Corsica, France
A historic church and market square in Granada on a sunny day.

Hotel Plaza Colón

Hotel Plaza Colón stands on the Parque Central of Granada, the main square of the colonial city, close to the cathedral, the church of La Merced, the museum and convent of San Francisco, the ChocoMuseum and La Calzada, the street of bars and restaurants.

Parque Central, Granada, Nicaragua
The timber lodge on the open plain under a summer sky.

Hotel Rangá

Hotel Rangá is a timber lodge on Iceland's south coast, just off the main ring road between Hella and Hvolsvöllur, about an hour and a half from Reykjavík.

Hella, South Iceland, Iceland
A small harbour town beneath a volcanic cone, seen across calm water.

Hotel Signum

Hotel Signum sits in the village of Malfa on Salina in the Aeolian Islands, in a cluster of old island houses joined by terraces, lemon trees and bougainvillea.

Malfa, Salina, Aeolian Islands, Italy
The villa on its green slope above Lake Lucerne, mountains fading into the distance.

Hotel Villa Honegg

Villa Honegg stands 914 metres up on the Bürgenstock, high above Lake Lucerne, in an Art Nouveau villa built in 1905 as a summer resort.

Bürgenstock, Ennetbürgen, Lake Lucerne, Switzerland
A row of painted townhouses in yellow, blue and red above a canal with small boats.

Hotel d'Angleterre

The d'Angleterre traces its story to 1755, when a French servant, Jean Marchal, and Maria Coppy, daughter of the royal cook, opened a restaurant by Copenhagen's lakes.

Kongens Nytorv, Copenhagen, Denmark
Terraced rice fields stepping down a green valley under a hazy sun.

Hotel de la Coupole - MGallery

Hotel de la Coupole stands on Hoang Lien Street in Sa Pa, the hill town in Vietnam's far north, and it was the first modern hotel of its kind in the town.

Sa Pa, Lao Cai, Vietnam
A white farmhouse with a tiled roof framed by eucalyptus trees, with green hills behind.

House of Jasmines

House of Jasmines is an estancia at La Merced Chica, at the foot of the Andes, about 15 minutes from the centre of Salta and 10 minutes from the airport.

Salta, Argentina
A great white mosque with a green roof beside the ocean in Casablanca.

Hôtel Le Doge

Hôtel Le Doge is a private mansion turned small hotel in the Art Deco district of Casablanca, and a member of Relais & Châteaux.

Art Deco district, Casablanca, Morocco
Terraced vineyards falling to a winding road and a wide blue lake, mountains beyond.

Hôtel Royal, Évian Resort

Hôtel Royal opened in 1909 above Lake Geneva, designed by Albert Hébrard, with a suite set aside for Edward VII, who died the following year without visiting.

Évian-les-Bains, Lake Geneva, France
Green Tuscan hills under morning mist, a mountain on the horizon.

Il Falconiere Relais & Spa

Il Falconiere stands above Cortona, a mid-17th-century villa once home to the poet Antonio Guadagnoli and owned by the Baracchi family since 1860, with rooms spread across the manor house, chapel, farmhouse and stables.

Cortona, Tuscany, Italy
Baroque church towers and pale stone rooftops of Noto under a summer sky with clouds.

Il San Corrado di Noto

Il San Corrado di Noto is a former masseria, a fortified farmhouse that once belonged to Prince Nicolaci, set among old citrus and olive groves in the Val di Noto, not far from the southern tip of Sicily.

Noto, Sicily, Italy
The main house lit at dusk, with the Sacred Valley's mountains behind.

Inkaterra Hacienda Urubamba

Inkaterra Hacienda Urubamba sits on a hillside at kilometre 63 of the road through the Sacred Valley, on about 100 acres between Cusco and Machu Picchu, with green mountains rising on every side.

Urubamba, Sacred Valley, Peru
Three volcanoes rising beyond Guatemala City.

InterContinental Real Guatemala

InterContinental Real Guatemala stands on 14 Calle in Zona Viva, the business, dining and entertainment district of Zona 10 in Guatemala City.

Zona Viva, Zona 10, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Forested mountains above the ocean at Papeete.

InterContinental Tahiti Resort & Spa

InterContinental Resort Tahiti stands on the lagoon at Faa'a, on Tahiti, about 2.8 kilometres from Faa'a International Airport, which makes it the practical choice for a first or last night in French Polynesia.

Faa'a, Tahiti, French Polynesia
The castle beyond a still loch, snow on the mountains behind.

Inverlochy Castle Hotel

Inverlochy Castle stands in the foothills of Ben Nevis on the edge of Fort William, in a Highland setting between mountain and loch.

Torlundy, Fort William, Scottish Highlands
Cliffs and scrub above a deep blue sea along a rugged coast.

Jackalope Hotel

Jackalope takes its name from the horned rabbit of folklore, and the hotel leans into the myth.

Merricks North, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia
Green islets in Lake Nicaragua below Mombacho.

Jicaro Island Ecolodge

Jicaro is a private island among the isletas of Lake Nicaragua, reached by a boat ride of about 15 minutes from Asese Port, just outside the colonial town of Granada.

Isletas de Granada, Lake Nicaragua, Nicaragua
Kiyomizu-dera temple in Kyoto at sunset, with cherry blossom.

Kanamean Nishitomiya

Kanamean Nishitomiya is a small ryokan in central Kyoto, on Tominokoji street in Nakagyo-ku, that has welcomed guests since 1873.

Tominokoji Rokkaku-sagaru, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan
A small town with twin church spires below a snow-capped mountain in morning light.

Kempinski Hotel Berchtesgaden

Kempinski Hotel Berchtesgaden stands about 1,000 metres up in the Bavarian Alps, above the market town of Berchtesgaden, with mountains on every side.

Berchtesgaden, Bavarian Alps, Germany
An abandoned boat on a rocky beach at Gelinkaya Beach in Urla.

KeyUrla

KeyUrla is a vineyard hotel in the Kuşçular district of Urla, outside İzmir, among the Aegean vines.

Kuşçular, Urla, İzmir, Türkiye
Turquoise channels and sandbanks from above, a wooded shore and dunes beyond.

Kisawa Sanctuary

Kisawa occupies 300 hectares of forest, beach and dune on the southern tip of Benguerra Island, 14 kilometres off the coast of Mozambique.

Benguerra Island, Bazaruto Archipelago, Mozambique
Aerial view of a forested shore beside a shallow turquoise reef.

Kokomo Private Island Fiji

Kokomo Private Island covers 140 acres on the Great Astrolabe Reef in Fiji's Kadavu group, created by the late Lang Walker AO, who found the abandoned frame of an earlier resort and built something entirely his own.

Yaukuve Levu, Kadavu, Fiji
Cork oaks scattered across a golden meadow under a clear sky.

L'AND Vineyards

L'AND Vineyards sits in a south-facing valley in the Alentejo, about four kilometres from Montemor-o-Novo and its medieval castle, 20 minutes from Évora and around 45 minutes from Lisbon airport.

Montemor-o-Novo, Alentejo, Portugal
A tall stepped Maya temple rising above the forest canopy at dusk.

La Lancha

La Lancha is a lodge of 10 rooms in the rainforest of Guatemala's Petén, set above Lake Petén Itzá and a short drive from Tikal, the great Maya city.

Lake Petén Itzá, Petén, Guatemala
Calm water with desert mountains in the background.

La Maison Bleue

La Maison Bleue is a pastel-blue house on Egypt's Red Sea coast at El Gouna, built as a dock and guest house where the developer Samih Sawiris could host friends and family.

El Gouna, Red Sea, Egypt
Franschhoek in its valley, with a mountain range behind.

La Residence

La Residence occupies a 30-acre estate in the Franschhoek Valley, ringed by mountains and planted with vineyards and plum orchards, a few minutes from Franschhoek, a small town known for its restaurants and wine estates.

Franschhoek, Cape Winelands, South Africa
Terraced vineyards falling to a winding road and a wide blue lake, mountains beyond.

La Réserve Genève Hotel & Spa

La Réserve Genève sits in a 10-acre park on the shore of Lake Geneva, five kilometres from the city centre, its pavilions dressed by Jacques Garcia in the spirit of an African lodge.

Geneva, Switzerland
A mosque among palm trees in Marrakech under a blue sky.

La Villa des Orangers

La Villa des Orangers stands behind a heavy carved wooden door on rue Sidi Mimoun, at the edge of the Marrakech medina, with the Royal Palace, the Koutoubia and Jemaa el-Fna square as neighbours.

6 rue Sidi Mimoun, Medina, Marrakech, Morocco
A suite open to the view on one side, its plunge pool and swing looking out over the sea.

Ladera Resort

Ladera sits on the volcanic ridge between Saint Lucia's two Pitons, about 1,000 feet above the Caribbean and just round the mountain from Soufrière, and it is the only resort within the Pitons UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Soufrière, Saint Lucia
Green trees beside the water in Cambridge, Ontario.

Langdon Hall Country House Hotel & Spa

Langdon Hall is a country house hotel in Cambridge, Ontario, about an hour from Toronto, reached by a winding road through Carolinian forest.

Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
The drawing room, its doors open onto a terrace and the plains beyond.

Laragai House

Laragai House is a family home on the 32,000-acre Borana Conservancy in Laikipia, taken by one group at a time and run by a long-serving resident team.

Borana Conservancy, Laikipia, Kenya
The sun low over the islands and bays around Laucala, the sea gold beneath it.

Laucala Island

Laucala is a private island in Fiji, in the Koro Sea, covering about five square miles of rainforest, reef and coconut groves.

Laucala Island, Fiji
Clear turquoise water and white sand at Bora Bora, with hills in the distance.

Le Bora Bora

Le Bora Bora stands on Motu Tevairoa, a private coral islet just off the main island of Bora Bora, facing Mount Otemanu across the lagoon.

Motu Tevairoa, Bora Bora, French Polynesia
A dirt path across a lush green hillside on Nuku Hiva.

Le Nuku Hiva

Le Nuku Hiva, run by Pearl Resorts, is a lodge on a hillside garden above Taiohae Bay, the small seaside town that is the administrative centre of the Marquesas.

Taiohae, Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia
A row of palm trees on a small island at Taha'a.

Le Taha'a

Le Taha'a, part of Pearl Resorts, lies on the private islet of Motu Tautau off Taha'a, the island known as the Vanilla Island, looking across the lagoon to the Taha'a shore and Bora Bora.

Motu Tautau, Taha'a, French Polynesia
A tropical beach with palm trees and clear water.

Le Tikehau by Pearl Resorts

Le Tikehau by Pearl Resorts stands on Motu Tianoa, a private coral islet in the Tikehau atoll of the Tuamotu archipelago, 15 minutes by boat from the village and some 220 miles north of Tahiti, less than an hour away by air.

Motu Tianoa, Tikehau, Tuamotu, French Polynesia
A narrow inlet of turquoise water between white limestone cliffs topped with pines.

Les Roches Blanches

Les Roches Blanches is a seaside mansion built in 1887 on the white limestone rocks that give it its name, between the harbour of Cassis and the Calanques National Park, with a full view of the Cap Canaille cliff.

Cassis, Provence, France
A deep blue lake scattered with wooded islands, mountains on the horizon.

Llao Llao Resort, Golf & Spa

Llao Llao stands on a small hill in a national park in Argentine Patagonia, between lakes Nahuel Huapi and Moreno, with forest around it and the Andes beyond.

Bariloche, Patagonia, Argentina
A deck with a plunge pool on a red dune, tents scattered across the desert and Uluru on the horizon.

Longitude 131°

Longitude 131° takes its name from the line of longitude that runs through Uluṟu, and the camp is set among the red dunes of the Central Desert with the rock in full view.

Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa, Northern Territory, Australia
The Uyuni Salt Flat stretching to the horizon beneath a cloudy sky.

Luna Salada

Luna Salada stands at the edge of the Salar de Uyuni, the largest salt flat in the world, in a remote corner of south-west Bolivia, and it is built almost entirely of blocks of salt.

Edge of the Salar de Uyuni, Potosí, Bolivia
An aerial view of the white villa, its gardens and pool on a wooded hillside in Mallorca.

Luz Del Sol

Luz Del Sol is a private villa on a hillside above Port d'Andratx, in the south-west corner of Mallorca.

Port d'Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
A dry desert landscape with mountains in the distance.

MAC Royal Suites Hotel & Casino Chilecito

MAC Royal Suites Hotel & Casino is a modern hotel and casino in the centre of Chilecito, a town among rocky hills in La Rioja province, run by MAC Group, an Argentine company with a sister hotel at Zapala in Neuquén.

19 de Febrero 361, Chilecito, La Rioja, Argentina
Sea cliffs on the coast of Ibiza, framed by pines.

ME Ibiza

ME Ibiza stands on the beach at S'Argamassa, a quiet bay near Santa Eulària des Riu, with direct access by yacht, and belongs to The Leading Hotels of the World.

S'Argamassa, Santa Eulària des Riu, Ibiza, Spain
A blue iceberg floating off the Antarctic Peninsula, with a bird perched on top.

Magellan Explorer

Magellan Explorer is the expedition ship of Antarctica21, launched in 2019 and purpose-built for the company's boutique fly-and-cruise expeditions to Antarctica.

Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica (Antarctica21 air-cruises)
The spires of the Sagrada Família and cranes above Barcelona at sunset, with hills behind.

Mandarin Oriental, Barcelona

Mandarin Oriental, Barcelona occupies a former bank building of the mid-20th century on the Passeig de Gràcia, the grand avenue of the Eixample, close to Gaudí's Casa Batlló.

Passeig de Gràcia, Barcelona, Spain
The hotel's beach from the air, rows of parasols along a curved bay, a yacht at anchor and wooded hills behind.

Mandarin Oriental, Bodrum

Mandarin Oriental, Bodrum spreads over 60 acres of hillside and olive groves above Paradise Bay, on the Göltürkbükü side of the Bodrum peninsula, looking out over the Aegean.

Paradise Bay, Göltürkbükü, Bodrum, Türkiye
The Kuala Lumpur skyline under an orange sunset sky.

Mandarin Oriental, Kuala Lumpur

Mandarin Oriental, Kuala Lumpur is set between the gardens of KLCC Park and the Petronas Twin Towers, with views over both, and is linked directly to the towers and the Suria KLCC shopping centre.

Kuala Lumpur City Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
A curved swimming pool with a waterfall, white parasols and palm trees in a hotel garden.

Mandarin Oriental, Santiago

Mandarin Oriental, Santiago was the group's first hotel in South America, and it occupies the round tower in Las Condes that once housed the Grand Hyatt, now completely remade.

Las Condes, Santiago, Chile
Yachts in the harbour at Marbella at golden hour, the mountains behind.

Marbella Club Hotel

Marbella Club was founded in 1954 by Prince Alfonso von Hohenlohe on what became the Golden Mile: a low, whitewashed Andalusian village set in subtropical gardens that still sets the tone for the Costa del Sol.

Marbella, Spain
A grassy headland with pine trees above a calm bay.

Marlfield House

Marlfield House is a 19th-century Regency-style country house outside Gorey in north County Wexford, set in 36 acres of woodland, gardens and an ornamental lake.

Gorey, County Wexford, Ireland
A nurse shark exploring the reef.

Matachica Resort & Spa

Matachica is an adults-only resort on a quiet white-sand beach about five miles north of San Pedro on Ambergris Caye, with the second-largest barrier reef in the world just offshore.

North Ambergris Caye, Belize
Victoria Falls at sunrise, with water falling into the gorge between green cliffs.

Matetsi Victoria Falls

Matetsi Victoria Falls is a family-owned and family-run safari lodge in the Matetsi Private Game Reserve, a reserve of 136,000 acres, about 55,000 hectares, with close to 10 miles of frontage on the Zambezi River upstream of Victoria Falls town.

Matetsi Private Game Reserve, Kazungula Road, near Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
Melote House above its pool, terraces and green roofs set into the hillside.

Melote House

Melote House is the private house of Lepogo Lodges in the Lapalala Wilderness Reserve, a stretch of the Waterberg reclaimed from farmland and rewilded.

Lapalala Wilderness Reserve, Waterberg, Limpopo, South Africa
Terracotta roofs in the foreground and a valley of vineyards and wooded hills beyond.

Meneghetti Wine Hotel & Winery

Meneghetti is a working wine estate a few minutes inland from the Adriatic, in the countryside near Bale, near Rovinj and Pula on the Istrian peninsula.

Bale, Istria, Croatia
Green mountains under white clouds at Wonosobo in Central Java.

MesaStila Resort and Spa

MesaStila Resort and Spa is built within a coffee plantation at Losari, near Grabag in the highlands of Central Java, ringed by eight mountains, with cool highland air, tropical gardens and rice terraces around it.

Losari, Grabag, Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia
A coast road running beneath the cliffs and buildings of Lima, beside the Pacific.

Miraflores Park, A Belmond Hotel

Miraflores Park is a glass-fronted tower on the Malecón de la Reserva in Miraflores, the stylish residential district of Lima, looking straight out over the Pacific.

Miraflores, Lima, Peru
Snow on Mount Etna under a cloudy sky.

Monaci delle Terre Nere

Monaci delle Terre Nere is a wine estate on the lower slopes of Mount Etna above Zafferana Etnea, at 500 metres on the edge of Etna's national park, with views out to the Ionian Sea.

Zafferana Etnea, Sicily, Italy
Tiled rooftops of Cusco seen from above, with green hills behind.

Monasterio, A Belmond Hotel

Monasterio occupies a 16th-century baroque monastery in the historic centre of Cusco, built on the foundations of the palace of the Inca emperor Amaru Qhata.

Cusco, Peru
The Matterhorn above a ridge of snow-covered peaks under a deep blue sky.

Mont Cervin Palace

Built in 1852, Mont Cervin Palace is the second-oldest hotel in Zermatt, and its red horse-drawn carriage, which meets arriving guests and carries brides, is a familiar sight in the car-free village.

Zermatt, Switzerland
Rows of green vines on a sunny hillside below wooded ridges.

Montage Healdsburg

Montage Healdsburg sits on 258 acres of vineyard and oak woodland just north of Healdsburg, where the Dry Creek, Russian River and Alexander valleys meet.

Healdsburg, Sonoma County, California
A long, straight avenue of live oaks hung with Spanish moss, meeting overhead above a sandy road.

Montage Palmetto Bluff

Montage Palmetto Bluff lies on the May River in the South Carolina Lowcountry, between Hilton Head Island and Savannah.

Bluffton, South Carolina, United States
Waves rolling onto a beach on the west coast of Nicaragua.

Morgan's Rock Reserve & Ecolodge

Morgan's Rock was opened in 2004 by the Poncon family on a 4,000-acre estate on Nicaragua's Pacific coast, about 13 kilometres from San Juan del Sur.

San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua
Giraffes gathered at a waterhole in Madikwe.

Morukuru Family Madikwe

Morukuru Family has three houses in the Madikwe Game Reserve, a malaria-free Big Five reserve of 75,000 hectares in South Africa, and each house is taken by one party at a time.

Madikwe Game Reserve, South Africa
A fishing pier running out from a sandy point, with high-rise towers on the shore and the sea in the foreground.

Mr. C Miami Coconut Grove

Mr.

Coconut Grove, Miami, Florida
Hot air balloons floating over the rocky landscape of Cappadocia.

Museum Hotel

Museum Hotel is in Uçhisar, in the heart of Cappadocia, and calls itself the region's only member of Relais & Châteaux.

Tekeli Mahallesi, Uçhisar, Nevşehir, Cappadocia, Türkiye
Palm trees leaning over a sandy beach, with a small wooded islet in clear water.

Nayara Bocas del Toro

Nayara Bocas del Toro is an adults-only resort on its own small island in the Bocas del Toro archipelago, close to the lively harbour of Bocas Town.

Isla Frangipani, Bocas del Toro, Panama
Calm lake water stretching to the horizon.

No.5 Boutique Hotel

No.5 Boutique Hotel, also called Hotel Number 5, is a small hotel at 5 Edna Road in the leafy suburbs of Entebbe, and its size is the point: guests are welcomed and looked after in an intimate, tranquil setting.

5 Edna Road, Entebbe, Uganda
A glass-fronted hotel entrance lit up at dusk, pines behind.

Noborioji Hotel

Noborioji Hotel sits at the edge of Kōfuku-ji, one of Japan's oldest temples and a UNESCO World Heritage site, facing the greenery of Nara Park, where tame deer roam.

Nara, Nara Prefecture, Japan
The Chicago skyline across Lake Michigan at dusk.

Nobu Hotel Chicago

Nobu Hotel Chicago opened on July 1, 2020, in the West Loop above Randolph Street's Restaurant Row: an 11-storey building designed by Studio K for the brand that began as a restaurant partnership between Robert De Niro and the chef Nobu Matsuhisa.

West Loop, Chicago, Illinois
Aerial view of the island ringed by reef and turquoise water, with a larger island on the horizon.

North Island

North Island was bought in 1997 with an aim that went beyond hospitality: to return a former plantation island to something close to its natural state.

North Island, Seychelles
Timber villas around a clearing in the forest, from above.

Nyungwe Tea Forest Resort by Rare Finds

Nyungwe Tea Forest Resort by Rare Finds, formerly One&Only Nyungwe House, rises from its own working tea plantation at Gisakura, on the edge of Nyungwe National Park, one of Africa's oldest montane rainforests.

Gisakura, Nyungwe National Park, Rwanda
A cobbled path through cypresses and gardens to the white main house.

Octant Vila Monte

Octant Vila Monte is a farmhouse hotel at Moncarapacho, in the quieter eastern Algarve, set between the hills and the Ria Formosa lagoon near Olhão.

Moncarapacho, eastern Algarve, Portugal
Table Mountain above the city of Cape Town.

One&Only Cape Town

One&Only Cape Town stands at the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront, with Table Mountain filling the view from much of the resort.

V&A Waterfront, Cape Town, South Africa
The lagoon and reef of Mauritius seen from a mountain top.

One&Only Le Saint Géran

One&Only Le Saint Géran takes up its own peninsula at Belle Mare on the east coast of Mauritius, with the Indian Ocean on one side and a calm lagoon on the other.

Belle Mare, Mauritius
A steaming hot spring in bands of orange and turquoise below a forested ridge.

One&Only Moonlight Basin

One&Only Moonlight Basin sits on the north-west side of Lone Mountain in Big Sky, Montana, within an 8,100-acre landscape bordered by wild country towards Yellowstone National Park.

Big Sky, Montana
Two small islands with churches in the still water of a bay enclosed by steep mountains.

One&Only Portonovi

One&Only Portonovi stands at the entrance to Boka Bay, the UNESCO-listed Bay of Kotor, on Montenegro's Adriatic coast about an hour from Dubrovnik.

Portonovi, Bay of Kotor, Montenegro
Hvar town and its harbour full of boats, with the wooded Pakleni islets offshore.

Palace Elisabeth, Hvar Heritage Hotel

Palace Elisabeth stands on St Stephen's Square in Hvar town, above the harbour.

Hvar, Croatia
The palace's lit façade on Avenida Alvear at night.

Palacio Duhau - Park Hyatt Buenos Aires

Palacio Duhau stands on Avenida Alvear in Recoleta, the city's most elegant residential and shopping street.

Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina
The ruins of Machu Picchu among misty mountains.

Palacio Nazarenas, A Belmond Hotel

Palacio Nazarenas stands on a quiet plaza just behind Cusco's main square, on foundations laid by the Incas.

Cusco, Peru
Water winding between steep green islands at El Nido, seen from above.

Pangulasian Island

Pangulasian Island is one of the El Nido Resorts in Palawan, set on its own island with forest behind it and a marine sanctuary at its doorstep.

Pangulasian Island, El Nido, Palawan, Philippines
A red building topped by a clock in Colombo.

Paradise Road Tintagel

Paradise Road Tintagel is a 1930s colonial-era mansion at 65 Rosmead Place in Colombo 7, named after the Cornish castle linked with the birth of King Arthur.

Rosmead Place, Colombo 7, Sri Lanka
The tall white central tower of Wat Arun above the river bank on a cloudy day.

Park Hyatt Bangkok

Park Hyatt Bangkok opened on May 12, 2017, on the site where British ambassadors once held their garden parties.

Bangkok, Thailand
A river running through Melbourne beneath a blue sky.

Park Hyatt Melbourne

Park Hyatt Melbourne stands at the top of Collins Street in East Melbourne, on the edge of the central business district, looking over St Patrick's Cathedral and the Victorian rooftops around it, two minutes from the Fitzroy Gardens.

East Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
The Saigon skyline seen across a wide river under a blue sky.

Park Hyatt Saigon

Park Hyatt Saigon faces Lam Son Square in the centre of District 1, beside the Opera House and within walking distance of the old colonial quarter.

Lam Son Square, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Sydney Opera House and the city skyline, with sailing boats on the water.

Park Hyatt Sydney

Park Hyatt Sydney sits on the edge of Sydney Harbour in The Rocks, the city's historic district, looking across Sydney Cove to the Opera House, with the Harbour Bridge close by and Circular Quay and The Wharf a short walk away.

7 Hickson Road, The Rocks, Sydney, Australia
A desert landscape with mountains in the distance at Cafayate.

Patios de Cafayate Wine Hotel

Patios de Cafayate Wine Hotel stands in the historic estate of a winery founded in 1892, now Bodega El Esteco, where National Route 40 meets Route 68, about two kilometres from the main square of Cafayate in the Calchaquí Valleys.

Junction of National Routes 40 and 68, Cafayate, Salta, Argentina
Prayer flags above Thimphu and its green mountains.

Pemako Thimphu

Pemako Thimphu stands in the heart of Bhutan's capital, within easy reach of the town's main sights.

Thimphu, Bhutan
The low stone buildings and pools of Phāea Blue on the hillside above the Gulf of Mirabello.

Phāea Blue

Phāea Blue, a member of Small Luxury Hotels of the World, is a private Cretan estate between Plaka and Elounda, looking across to the historic island of Spinalonga.

Elounda, Crete, Greece
The pool running down towards the beach between thatched shades, the sea beyond.

Pine Cay

Pine Cay is a car-free island of about 800 acres in the Turks and Caicos, less than a mile wide and about two miles long, on the edge of a barrier reef.

Pine Cay, Turks and Caicos
Palm trees against the sky in Belize.

Prana Maya Island Resort

Prana Maya Island Resort is on Placencia Caye, a small Caribbean island just off Placencia Village, between centuries-old mangroves, the open sea and the Belize Barrier Reef, the second-largest reef system in the world and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Placencia Caye, Placencia, Belize
A twin-towered baroque church and former convent above a garden plaza, with mountains behind the city.

Pug Seal Oaxaca

Pug Seal Oaxaca is a 20-suite hotel in a 19th-century colonial house on Porfirio Díaz, in the historic centre of Oaxaca City.

Oaxaca City, Mexico
Boats on a blue sea under a sky of white clouds.

Quintessence Hotel

Quintessence Hotel stands directly above the white sand of Long Bay Beach on Anguilla, the island five miles from St Maarten and 18 miles from St Barths.

Long Bay, West End, Anguilla
Amber Fort above its lake near Jaipur, with birds wheeling overhead.

Raffles Jaipur

Raffles Jaipur stands at Kukas, between the old Pink City, UNESCO-listed, and the Aravalli Hills.

Kukas, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
Buildings and boats along the water in Manila.

Raffles Makati

Raffles Makati stands at 1 Raffles Drive on Makati Avenue in the city's financial district, near the Legazpi and Salcedo neighbourhoods, and shares its building with the Fairmont Makati.

Makati Avenue, Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines
Birds flying over the lake at Jal Mahal in Jaipur.

Rambagh Palace

Rambagh Palace was built in 1835 and served first as a royal guest house and hunting lodge; Virtuoso describes it as home to generations of royals for more than 185 years, and some of its rooms are the former chambers of the Maharaja.

Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
The lodge from the air, a long timber building on a green headland above the bay.

Refugia Chiloé

Refugia Chiloé stands above Pullao Bay on Chiloé, the largest island of an archipelago where Chile's Lake District ends and Patagonia begins.

Chiloé, Chile
Rows of round stone dye vats in a tannery, surrounded by the pale buildings of Fez.

Riad Fès

Riad Fès stands inside the medina of Fez, in a 14th-century house that once belonged to one of the city's leading families.

Fez, Morocco
The pillared Georgian entrance of Rocpool Reserve, lit at dusk.

Rocpool Reserve

Rocpool Reserve is a restored Georgian mansion in the centre of Inverness, above the River Ness and a few minutes on foot from the castle and the high street.

Inverness, Scottish Highlands
Golden grass and a wooden fence in front of rolling farmland and trees.

Rosewood Cape Kidnappers

Rosewood Cape Kidnappers sits on the headland at the southern end of Hawke's Bay on the North Island, on a 6,000-acre working sheep and beef farm where the cliffs drop about 800 feet to the Pacific.

Cape Kidnappers, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand
Vancouver's towers and a marina reflected in still water under white clouds.

Rosewood Hotel Georgia

The Hotel Georgia opened in 1927 and became Vancouver's glamorous address, with guests from Laurence Olivier and Katharine Hepburn to Elvis and the Rolling Stones.

Downtown Vancouver, British Columbia
A small waterfront town of white houses and green trees across turquoise water.

Rosewood Kauri Cliffs

Rosewood Kauri Cliffs sits high on the cliffs near Matauri Bay, at the top of the North Island of New Zealand, on a 6,000-acre coastal estate of rolling farmland and native forest.

Matauri Bay, Bay of Islands, New Zealand
A long blue lake between steep mountains, one capped with snow.

Rosewood Matakauri

Rosewood Matakauri sits on the shore of Lake Wakatipu, on the Glenorchy road a few minutes' drive from Queenstown, with an open view of The Remarkables and of Cecil and Walter peaks.

Lake Wakatipu, Queenstown, New Zealand
The twin domed towers of the Frauenkirche above red roofs, with the town hall spire beside them.

Rosewood Munich

Rosewood Munich opened in October 2023 in two landmark buildings in the old town: the former headquarters of the Bavarian State Bank and the neighbouring Palais Neuhaus-Preysing, once an aristocratic residence.

Munich, Germany
The Independence Monument in Phnom Penh lit at dusk, with trails of traffic.

Rosewood Phnom Penh

Rosewood Phnom Penh is set at the top of what the hotel calls Cambodia's tallest skyscraper, a tower of 39 floors on Monivong Boulevard in the centre of the city.

66 Monivong Boulevard, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
The pink stone spires of a Gothic-style church between two palm trees under a pale sky.

Rosewood San Miguel de Allende

Rosewood San Miguel de Allende is built in the manner of a grand colonial residence around a central courtyard, in the UNESCO-listed old town of San Miguel de Allende in the central highlands of Mexico.

San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico
The pale stone façade of the Royal Palace of Madrid across a wide paved square.

Rosewood Villa Magna

Rosewood Villa Magna stands on Paseo de la Castellana, on the site of the 19th-century Anglada Palace, where Hotel Villa Magna first opened in 1972.

Madrid, Spain
The infinity pool and timber deck below the villa, with the sea and offshore islets beyond, in St. Barthélemy.

Roxane

Roxane is a six-bedroom villa on the hillside at Gustavia, on St Barthélemy, built across two buildings with wide views of the ocean and the islets offshore.

Gustavia, St Barthélemy
Sunset over the Zambezi River.

Royal Chundu

Royal Chundu lies on a secluded 15-kilometre stretch of the Upper Zambezi, a private waterway shared with local fishermen, between Victoria Falls downstream and the Katombora Rapids upstream.

Katombora, Upper Zambezi, near Livingstone, Zambia
The old town of Sanremo climbing its hill.

Royal Hotel Sanremo

Lorenzo Bertolini opened the Royal Hotel Sanremo in 1872 to a design by Alessandro Cantù, and after wartime bombing it reopened on Christmas Day 1946.

Sanremo, Liguria, Italy
Rugged desert mountains and green trees under a partly cloudy sky.

Royal Palms Resort and Spa

Royal Palms began in 1929 as the winter house of a New York family, a Spanish Colonial Revival mansion at the foot of Camelback Mountain, between Scottsdale and Phoenix.

Camelback Mountain, Phoenix, Arizona
A sandy beach with palm trees beside the water on Rarotonga.

Rumours Rarotonga

Rumours is a small collection of private villas on Muri Lagoon, on the south-east side of Rarotonga, and it has been taking guests since 2005.

Muri Lagoon, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
A leopard walking over rocky ground in the hills of Jawai.

SUJÁN Jawai

SUJÁN Jawai is a tented camp of 10 suites set against the Aravalli Mountains in the leopard country of the Rajasthan steppe at Jawai, where Rabari herdsmen still graze their animals on the open land.

Bisalpur, Jawai, Rajasthan, India
A tiger walking through brush near water in Ranthambore National Park.

SUJÁN Sher Bagh

SUJÁN Sher Bagh was the first SUJÁN tented camp, built in 2000 by a family of wildlife filmmakers on the edge of Ranthambhore National Park, and it keeps an old-world safari style drawn from the 1920s.

Sherpur Khiljipur, Sawai Madhopur, Rajasthan, India
Jaisalmer seen from a high viewpoint.

SUJÁN The Serai

SUJÁN The Serai is a desert camp on 100 acres of private land and native desert scrub in the Thar, about 40 kilometres, or 40 minutes by road, from Jaisalmer.

Near Jaisalmer, Thar Desert, Rajasthan, India
A village of tiled roofs and a bell tower below green hills, vineyards and woodland.

San Canzian Hotel & Residences

San Canzian stands in Mužolini Donji, a hillside village near Buje in northern Istria, a few miles inland from the Adriatic and about an hour's drive from Trieste.

Mužolini Donji, Buje, Istria, Croatia
The infinity pool at dusk, a parasol and loungers on a deck among the trees.

Saxon Hotel, Villas & Spa

The Saxon stands behind a high wall in Sandhurst, a leafy suburb of Johannesburg, on ten acres of indigenous gardens.

Sandhurst, Johannesburg, South Africa
Villas among the trees on clifftops above a beach and clear water, with green hills behind.

Secret Bay

Secret Bay stands on a clifftop promontory near Portsmouth, on Dominica's north-west coast, where the rainforest runs down to the Caribbean.

Portsmouth, Dominica
Black lava sea cliffs and surf on the coast of Lanai.

Sensei Lānaʻi, A Four Seasons Resort

Sensei Lānaʻi stands in the cool, pine-covered uplands of Lānaʻi, far from the island's beaches, on the site of The Lodge at Koele.

Lānaʻi City, Lānaʻi, Hawaii
Angkor Wat at sunrise, reflected in the water in front of it.

Shinta Mani Angkor

Shinta Mani Angkor began as a not-for-profit school giving free hospitality training to disadvantaged Cambodians, and the hotel that grew from it still helps fund the Shinta Mani Foundation from its room revenue.

Royal District, Siem Reap, Cambodia
A wide river valley with terraced fields below bare brown slopes and snow peaks.

Shinta Mani Mustang

Shinta Mani Mustang stands on a hillside above Jomsom in Nepal's Mustang district, in the Kali Gandaki valley near the Tibetan border, facing the snow peaks of Nilgiri at about 7,000 metres.

Jomsom, Mustang, Nepal
A tented suite above a jungle river, its deck lit at dusk among the rocks.

Shinta Mani Wild

Shinta Mani Wild occupies a private stretch of jungle in Cambodia's Cardamom Mountains, on a wildlife corridor between Bokor and Kirirom national parks, and Bill Bensley created it as much to safeguard that land as to welcome guests to it.

Cardamom Mountains, Cambodia
Tables laid for dinner on the rooftop terrace of Le Terrazze, with the domes of Rome beyond.

Singer Palace Hotel Roma

Singer Palace Hotel Roma occupies the Art Deco palazzo that Mario Loreti designed in 1930 as the Rome headquarters of the Singer sewing-machine company, and the Visocchi family opened it as a small hotel in 2018.

Rome, Italy
A small town with green roofs below snow-capped mountains at Manali.

Sitara Himalaya

Sitara Himalaya is a private sanctuary of just ten guest rooms on a hill above Manali, ringed by high Himalayan peaks.

Manali, Himachal Pradesh, India
A timber villa on a slope among tall pine trees in sunlight.

Six Senses Bhutan

Six Senses Bhutan runs its own circuit of five lodges through Thimphu, Punakha, Gangtey, Bumthang and Paro, 82 keys in all, from 25 suites and villas at Thimphu to just nine each at Gangtey and Bumthang.

Bhutan, five lodges
The Douro river flowing between terraced vineyard hills under a cloudy sky.

Six Senses Douro Valley

Six Senses Douro Valley is a restored 19th-century manor house on the Quinta de Vale Abraão at Samodães, near Lamego, set high on a hill above terraced vineyards.

Lamego, Douro Valley, Portugal
Palms and a pale beach on clear turquoise water off the Cambodian coast.

Six Senses Krabey Island

Six Senses Krabey Island opened in March 2019 on a private island of 30 acres in the Gulf of Thailand, about five kilometres off Ream National Park on Cambodia's south coast.

Koh Krabey, Ream, Preah Sihanouk Province, Cambodia
Large smooth granite boulders on a sandy cove, with clear water and a green headland.

Six Senses Samui

Six Senses Samui is set on a raised headland at the northern tip of Koh Samui, with 67 villas spread through 20 acres of native planting and views out over the Gulf of Thailand.

Koh Samui, Thailand
Clear turquoise shallows lapping a sandy shore, with a small palm-covered island offshore.

Sofitel Barú Cartagena Beach Resort

Sofitel Barú Cartagena sits on a quiet cove of Isla Barú, about 40 minutes by boat from the walled city of Cartagena, and gives the area something it has long lacked: a proper beach resort.

Isla Barú, Cartagena, Colombia
The hotel at sunset on the water's edge of Casco Viejo, its white wings lit against a fiery sky.

Sofitel Legend Casco Viejo

The hotel occupies the former Club Unión, a landmark building dating to 1917 and designed by James C.

Casco Viejo, Panama City, Panama
A colonial street of yellow and blue houses with balconies covered in pink bougainvillea.

Sofitel Legend Santa Clara Cartagena

Sofitel Legend Santa Clara occupies a 17th-century convent in the San Diego quarter of Cartagena's walled city.

Walled City, Cartagena, Colombia
The hotel's brick facade in evening light, seen from the courtyard.

Sofitel Legend The Grand Amsterdam

Sofitel Legend The Grand Amsterdam has had many lives: a fifteenth-century convent, royal lodgings, the headquarters of the Admiralty and, until 1988, Amsterdam's City Hall, whose Wedding Chamber, created in 1925 by Chris Lebeau, keeps its Amsterdam School stained glass.

Oudezijds Voorburgwal, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
A city waterfront curving around a bay, with a beach in front and a band of rainbow cloud overhead.

Sofitel Montevideo Casino Carrasco and Spa

Sofitel Montevideo Casino Carrasco and Spa occupies a Belle Époque landmark from the 1920s on the Rambla in Carrasco, the leafy, well-to-do district on the eastern side of Montevideo, a few steps from the beach and the Río de la Plata.

Carrasco, Montevideo, Uruguay
Concentric circular stone terraces sunk into a hillside, in warm afternoon light.

Sol y Luna

Sol y Luna was founded in 1996 by Franz and Petit, who settled in the Sacred Valley near Urubamba, about an hour from Cusco, at roughly 2,700 metres.

Urubamba, Sacred Valley, Peru
The white sloping roof of the Oslo Opera House and modern waterfront buildings across calm harbour water.

Sommerro

Sommerro occupies a 1930s landmark in central Oslo that was once the headquarters of the city's electricity company, now restored as a hotel that mixes original Art Deco detail with newer work.

Oslo, Norway
An overwater villa's water slide curving down into the lagoon, seen from above.

Soneva Jani

Soneva Jani occupies Medhufaru, an island in the Noonu Atoll, and most of the resort stands out over its wide, shallow lagoon.

Medhufaru Island, Noonu Atoll, Maldives
An aerial view of a wooded island with thatched villas over the water and a footbridge.

Song Saa Private Island

Song Saa occupies two small islands in Cambodia's Koh Rong Archipelago, joined by a footbridge over the sea and reached by a 45-minute speedboat transfer from Sihanoukville.

Koh Rong Archipelago, Cambodia
Ålesund's rooftops spread across islands in a blue sea, with mountains on the horizon.

Storfjord Hotel

Storfjord Hotel sits on a hillside above the Storfjord near Ålesund, on Norway's west coast, with the Sunnmøre Alps across the water and thousands of acres of woodland around it.

Skodje, near Ålesund, Norway
A temple beside a tank of water in Thiruvananthapuram at night.

Taj Green Cove Resort & Spa

Taj Green Cove Resort & Spa stands on 16 acres of tropical gardens on a green hillside at Kovalam, near Thiruvananthapuram, with lawns running down towards the Arabian Sea.

Kovalam, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
Boats on the Ganges below the ghats and temples of Varanasi.

Taj Nadesar Palace

Nadesar Palace was built in 1782 and later became a residence of the Maharaja of Benares, which explains the art and furniture from his collection that still fill the rooms.

Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
The White Temple of Wat Rong Khun reflected in its pool, near Chiang Rai.

Tatvani

Tatvani is a private estate of 29 acres outside Chiang Rai in northern Thailand, laid out among rice fields, gardens, koi ponds and lotus pools near the Mae Kok River.

Chiang Rai, Thailand
A tall rock formation standing on brown desert sand.

Tayka del Desierto Hotel

Tayka del Desierto Hotel stands in the heart of the Siloli Desert in south-western Bolivia, in a landscape the hotel describes as painted in a range of colours by nature.

Ojo de Perdiz, Siloli Desert, Potosí, Bolivia
The resort on its clifftop above the Pacific at sunset, the coast curving away.

Terranea Resort

Terranea opened in 2009 on 102 oceanfront acres of the Palos Verdes Peninsula, on the site of the old Marineland of the Pacific, with the Pacific in front and Catalina Island on the horizon.

Rancho Palos Verdes, California
A stone castle on a dark volcanic rock under a blue sky.

The Balmoral, a Rocco Forte Hotel

The Balmoral opened in 1902 as the North British Hotel, the railway hotel beside Waverley Station, and its clock tower has marked the east end of Princes Street ever since.

Edinburgh, Scotland
The beach at Boca Raton running along the Atlantic, from above.

The Beach Club at The Boca Raton

The Boca Raton began on February 6, 1926, as Addison Mizner's Ritz-Carlton Cloister Inn.

Boca Raton, Florida
A wide sandy beach at low tide with gentle waves, palm trees along the shore and soft clouds overhead.

The Breakers Palm Beach

The Breakers fills 140 oceanfront acres in the heart of Palm Beach, a hotel that has shaped the town for more than a century.

Palm Beach, Florida
Rugged desert mountains and green trees under a partly cloudy sky.

The Canyon Suites at The Phoenician

The Canyon Suites is the resort within a resort at The Phoenician, at the foot of Camelback Mountain, created during a renovation completed around 2012; the parent resort opened in 1988.

Scottsdale, Arizona
Red panoramic carriages curving through deep snow below white mountains.

The Chedi Andermatt

The Chedi Andermatt was the first European hotel from a brand that made its name in Asia, and it sits at 1,447 metres in a Swiss village that was a military garrison for a century before its revival.

Andermatt, Uri, Switzerland
Clear blue water off Eleuthera.

The Cove Eleuthera

The Cove sits between two sandy coves near Gregory Town, on the inner arc of northern Eleuthera, an island about one mile wide and 110 miles long that lies some 50 miles east of Nassau.

Queen's Highway, Gregory Town, Eleuthera, Bahamas
Paradise Island Lighthouse at the entrance to Nassau Harbour.

The Cove at Atlantis

The Cove opened on March 28, 2007, as the all-suite hotel within Atlantis in the Bahamas, with interiors by Jeffrey Beers International and Hirsch Bedner Associates.

Paradise Island, Bahamas
Aerial view of tidal creeks winding through green and gold salt marsh under a wide, streaked sky.

The Dunlin, Auberge Collection

The Dunlin is an Auberge resort on the Kiawah River at Johns Island, about 20 miles from Charleston, set within 2,000 acres of Lowcountry marsh and riverbank.

Johns Island, Kiawah River, South Carolina, United States
The white dome of Boudhanath stupa in Kathmandu, with prayer flags.

The Dwarika's

The Dwarika's is a heritage hotel in Kathmandu's Battisputali district, created by its late founder to keep the arts and crafts of the Kathmandu Valley alive and in use.

Battisputali, Kathmandu, Nepal
Autumn trees on a slope above a still loch between mountains.

The Fife Arms

The Fife Arms is a Victorian coaching inn in the village of Braemar, inside the Cairngorms National Park and close to Balmoral and the River Dee.

Braemar, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
The fluted sandstone tower of the Qutb Minar rising above green lawns under a cloud-streaked sky.

The Imperial New Delhi

The Imperial opened in 1936 on Janpath, a few minutes from Connaught Place, and it still feels like the New Delhi its architects imagined.

Janpath, New Delhi, India
A wooden dock running into the fog on Cayuga Lake, near Ithaca.

The Inns of Aurora

The Inns of Aurora occupy seven historic houses in the village of Aurora, founded in 1789 and now a National Historic District, above Cayuga Lake in the Finger Lakes.

Aurora, Finger Lakes, New York
Fishing boats moored in a harbour in front of low city buildings.

The Islington Hotel

The Islington is an 11-room hotel in a Regency house built in 1847 on Davey Street in South Hobart, between the city and Mount Wellington, a six-minute drive from the centre and close to Battery Point and Salamanca Place.

South Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
The pink sandstone façade of the Hawa Mahal in Jaipur, with its many small windows.

The Leela Palace Jaipur

The Leela Palace Jaipur stands on a nine-acre estate on the Delhi road, well away from the traffic of the Pink City, with the Aravalli hills on the horizon.

Kukas, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
Humayun's Tomb in red sandstone and white marble, framed by tall palms under a blue sky.

The Leela Palace New Delhi

The Leela Palace sits in Chanakyapuri, the diplomatic enclave of New Delhi, among the embassies.

Chanakyapuri, New Delhi, India
Green high-country pasture with grazing cattle below a range of brown mountains.

The Lindis

The Lindis is a lodge in the Ahuriri Valley near Omarama, in the high country of New Zealand's South Island.

Ahuriri Valley, Omarama, New Zealand
A long restaurant with windows onto the vineyards.

The Louise

The Louise stands among the vineyards of Marananga, on Seppeltsfield Road in the heart of the Barossa, a small estate of villa-style suites in a style that looks to southern Europe.

Marananga, Barossa Valley, South Australia
A river running through Melaka between tall buildings.

The Majestic Malacca

The Majestic Malacca is a restored Straits Settlement mansion of the 1920s on the waterfront of the Malacca River, within the town's UNESCO World Heritage area, and it is one of YTL's classic hotels.

188 Jalan Bunga Raya, Malacca, Malaysia
A Chinese fishing net on the shore at Fort Kochi.

The Malabar House

The Malabar House is a documented part of the history of Fort Cochin, the old harbour quarter of Kochi.

1/268 Parade Road, Fort Cochin, Kochi, Kerala, India
A white cast-iron footbridge arching over a river below red-brick buildings.

The Merrion

The Merrion fills four Georgian townhouses on Upper Merrion Street, opposite Government Buildings, with a contemporary Garden Wing behind.

Upper Merrion Street, Dublin, Ireland
The Taj Mahal reflected in the long water channel of its garden, lined with cypress trees.

The Oberoi Amarvilas

The Oberoi Amarvilas stands about 600 metres from the Taj Mahal in Agra, and every one of its rooms and suites has a view of the monument.

Agra, India
Two tigers, one lying and one standing, on a grassy forest track.

The Oberoi Vindhyavilas Wildlife Resort, Bandhavgarh

The Oberoi Vindhyavilas sits just outside the gates of Bandhavgarh National Park in Madhya Pradesh, a landscape of forest and grassland in the Vindhya Hills known for its tigers.

Bandhavgarh, Madhya Pradesh, India
Humayun's Tomb in New Delhi at sunrise.

The Oberoi, New Delhi

The Oberoi, New Delhi opened in 1965 on Dr Zakir Hussain Marg and reopened in January 2018 after a complete renovation.

Dr Zakir Hussain Marg, New Delhi, India
Paradise Island Lighthouse at the entrance to Nassau Harbour.

The Reef at Atlantis

The Reef opened in 2007 as part of the third phase of Atlantis, alongside The Cove and Dolphin Cay, and was renovated by Hirsch Bedner Associates in 2019.

Paradise Island, Bahamas
Undulating lava rocks covered in thick green moss.

The Retreat at Blue Lagoon

The Retreat stands in the lava fields of the Reykjanes Peninsula, built into the landscape beside Iceland's Blue Lagoon.

Grindavík, Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland
A glass-fronted concert hall beside the harbour under a bright blue sky.

The Reykjavik EDITION

The Reykjavik EDITION stands on the Old Harbour at Austurbakki, next to the Harpa concert hall and a few steps from the shops of Laugavegur.

Reykjavík, Iceland
The rocky point between Kapalua Bay and Namalu Bay on Maui, looking across to Molokaʻi.

The Ritz-Carlton Maui, Kapalua

The Ritz-Carlton Maui, Kapalua opened in 1992 on 54 acres at the north-western tip of Maui, and its story begins with respect.

Kapalua, Maui, Hawaii
Naples Pier at sunset over the Gulf of Mexico.

The Ritz-Carlton Naples, Tiburón

The Ritz-Carlton Naples, Tiburón has welcomed guests for more than two decades and took its present name on December 1, 2022.

Naples, Florida
A wooden pier and gazebo in silhouette on a still lake at dusk, with palm trees and a pink and blue sky.

The Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes

The Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes sits within more than 500 acres of lakes and farmland at the headwaters of the Florida Everglades, a Mediterranean-style palazzo where every room has a balcony.

Orlando, Florida
Surf breaking over black lava rock on the North Shore of Oʻahu.

The Ritz-Carlton Oʻahu, Turtle Bay

The Ritz-Carlton Oʻahu, Turtle Bay opened in May 1972 as Del Webb's Kuilima Resort and joined Ritz-Carlton on July 31, 2024, after renovations finished in 2023.

North Shore, Oʻahu, Hawaii
Wind-bent palms on the sand at Eagle Beach, Aruba.

The Ritz-Carlton, Aruba

The Ritz-Carlton, Aruba opened on November 22, 2013, on Palm Beach, and the island itself is its first advantage.

Palm Beach, Aruba
Melbourne's towers and a cathedral spire above a river bridge, with a rowing crew on the water.

The Ritz-Carlton, Melbourne

The Ritz-Carlton, Melbourne occupies the upper floors of a tower on Lonsdale Street in the city centre, with breakfast served on level 80 and views across the city to the Dandenong Ranges, Victoria Harbour and Port Phillip Bay.

Melbourne, Australia
Paradise Island Lighthouse at the entrance to Nassau Harbour.

The Royal at Atlantis

The Royal opened on December 11, 1998, the twin towers at the heart of Atlantis, joined by the 10-room Bridge Suite with its grand piano and 22-carat gold chandelier.

Paradise Island, Bahamas
The V&A Waterfront and its harbour, with Table Mountain behind.

The Silo Hotel

The Silo Hotel occupies six floors of a converted grain silo above the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, which holds Africa's largest collection of contemporary African art, at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town.

V&A Waterfront, Cape Town, South Africa
Aerial view of a sandy shore meeting shallow turquoise water and darker reef.

The St. Regis Red Sea Resort

The St.

Red Sea islands, Tabuk Province, Saudi Arabia
The Victorian Gothic domes and spires of a Mumbai railway terminus, framed by trees.

The Taj Mahal Palace, Mumbai

The Taj Mahal Palace opened in 1903 on Apollo Bunder in Colaba, facing the Gateway of India and the Arabian Sea, and it remains the grand old hotel of Mumbai.

Colaba, Mumbai, India
Limestone cliffs and rocks meeting the surf on the Uluwatu coast of Bali.

The Ungasan Clifftop Resort

The Ungasan sits on the limestone cliffs of Uluwatu at the southern tip of Bali, high above the Indian Ocean.

Ungasan, Uluwatu, Bali, Indonesia
Rows of green vines across a flat valley floor, with snow-capped Andes behind.

The Vines Resort & Spa

The Vines Resort & Spa sits at the foot of the Andes in Los Chacayes, near Tunuyán, in the heart of the Uco Valley, Argentina's most celebrated wine region.

Los Chacayes, Uco Valley, Mendoza, Argentina
Mdina seen from the air.

The Xara Palace

The Xara Palace is a converted 17th-century palazzo and the only hotel within the walls of Mdina, the fortified Silent City in the interior of Malta.

Misrah il-Kunsill, Mdina, Malta
A terrace with an infinity pool and stone walls, the sun setting beside a volcano.

Tierra Atacama

Tierra Atacama lies on the edge of San Pedro de Atacama, a small village in Chile's northern desert, with the Andes and the cone of Licancabur volcano filling the view.

San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
The castle at Matsumoto in winter, beside the water.

Tobira Onsen Myojinkan

Tobira Onsen Myojinkan was opened in June 1931 by Saito Takeshige as a small family inn that served what came from the mountains and its own fields, and writers and scholars soon came to stay for long spells to work.

8967 Iriyamabe, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan
The house among palms on a rocky point above a clear cove, on Maui, Hawaii.

Turtle Cove

Turtle Cove is a three-bedroom house right on the shore at Napili on the west coast of Maui, a few steps from the sand.

Napili, Maui, Hawaii
Aerial view of turquoise water and white surf breaking over a dark reef.

Turtle Inn

Turtle Inn sits directly on the Caribbean shore just north of Placencia, a fishing village at the tip of a long, narrow peninsula in southern Belize.

Placencia, Belize
A tall red sandstone arch on bare rock, with snow-capped mountains far behind.

ULUM Moab

ULUM Moab is a tented resort in the desert at La Sal, outside Moab in Utah, and it offers a good deal more than camping.

La Sal, near Moab, Utah
Mehrangarh Fort on its rock above the rooftops of Jodhpur at dawn.

Umaid Bhawan Palace

Umaid Bhawan Palace is a vast building of golden desert sandstone set in 26 acres of gardens in Jodhpur, and it remains one of the largest private homes in the world.

Jodhpur, India
The island ringed by reef in open ocean, overwater villas off one side.

Velaa Private Island

Velaa is a privately owned island resort in Noonu Atoll, ringed by a 360-degree walkable beach and planted with more than 350 species of plants and trees.

Noonu Atoll, Maldives
A Doric Greek temple of golden stone standing against a deep blue sky.

Verdura Resort, a Rocco Forte Hotel

Verdura Resort stretches across 230 hectares of coast and countryside on Sicily's south-west shore, between the fishing town of Sciacca and Agrigento, with nearly two kilometres of private beach.

Sciacca, Sicily, Italy
A stone mansion with a red tiled roof on a green lawn, under a glowing sunset sky.

Vermejo, a Ted Turner Reserve

Vermejo spans more than 550,000 acres of northern New Mexico, reaching up into the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.

Sangre de Cristo Mountains, New Mexico
Interlaken between its two lakes, with the Bernese Alps behind, from above.

Victoria-Jungfrau Grand Hotel & Spa

Victoria-Jungfrau was founded in 1865 by Eduard Ruchti and stands between Lake Thun and Lake Brienz, facing the Jungfrau.

Interlaken, Switzerland
Small green vineyards in a dry valley at the foot of bare mountains.

Vik Chile

Alexander and Carrie Vik set out in 2004 to make a great wine in the Millahue valley, across more than 4,000 hectares with 327 hectares of vines in 12 microclimates, and in November 2025 Viña Vik topped the World's 50 Best Vineyards ranking, having placed second the year before.

Millahue Valley, San Vicente de Tagua Tagua, Chile
The main house lit at dusk, reflected in the pond among tall cypresses.

Villa Bokéh

Villa Bokéh is a hacienda-style estate on six acres of parkland, about three kilometres from the centre of Antigua and ringed by the volcanoes that watch over the valley.

Antigua, Guatemala
The Mediterranean style villa with tall cypresses, terraced lawns and vines, near Fairfield, California.

Villa Capricho

Villa Capricho is a Tuscan-style house on a 25-acre private vineyard estate in Suisun Valley, about 15 miles east of Napa.

Fairfield, Suisun Valley, California
The villa's long reflecting pool and timber pergola at dusk, on Mykonos.

Villa Dolmen

Villa Dolmen is a seven-bedroom house on Mykonos with long views over the sea and the sunset, and a characterful architecture and interior all its own.

Mykonos, Greece
Loungers on a timber sun deck above the Adriatic, potted palms at the glass rail.

Villa Dubrovnik

Villa Dubrovnik sits on a cliff in the Sveti Jakov area of Dubrovnik, looking across the Adriatic to the island of Lokrum and the Old Town.

Dubrovnik, Croatia
The villa lit at dusk, seen across the garden under tall cedars.

Villa Eden The Private Retreat

Villa Eden places longevity and preventive health at the heart of an intimate, medically guided retreat in Merano, South Tyrol.

Merano, South Tyrol, Italy
The Norman towers and dome of Palermo Cathedral in sunshine, framed by palms.

Villa Igiea, a Rocco Forte Hotel

Villa Igiea stands at the foot of Monte Pellegrino on the edge of Palermo, its terraced gardens running down to the water of the Gulf.

Palermo, Sicily, Italy
The walled town of Korčula on its peninsula, with the mountains of Pelješac across the channel.

Villa Korta Katarina & Winery

Villa Korta Katarina is a restored 1930s estate above the sea in Orebić, a seaside town on the Pelješac Peninsula in Dalmatia, with views across the Adriatic to the nearby islands.

Orebić, Pelješac Peninsula, Croatia
The villa's long pool and modern facade under umbrella pines, in the Algarve.

Villa Singa

Villa Singa stands above the sea at Olhos de Água on the Algarve coast, with a path from the gardens down to the beach and long views over the water at sunset.

Olhos de Água, Algarve, Portugal
Porto's hillside of colourful houses above the Douro, with an iron arch bridge on the right.

Vinha Boutique Hotel

Vinha Boutique Hotel is a salmon-pink 16th-century manor house on the banks of the Douro in Vila Nova de Gaia, a short drive upriver from central Porto, set in more than three hectares of formal gardens.

Vila Nova de Gaia, Porto, Portugal
The Temple of the Tooth and its pavilion beside Kandy Lake, below wooded hills.

W15 Hanthana Estate

W15 Hanthana Estate is a restored tea-estate bungalow in the Hanthana hills, just south-west of Kandy and about 15 minutes from the city.

Hanthana, Kandy, Sri Lanka
Rounded sleeping pods on the ice with the low sun and distant peaks behind.

White Desert, Echo

Echo is one of White Desert's camps in the interior of Antarctica, perched on a glacier and reached by private aircraft from Cape Town.

Antarctica (Echo Base, inland glacier camp)
Clear turquoise water over the reef off the coast of Zanzibar, with a few small boats at anchor.

Xanadu Villas & Retreat

Xanadu is nine private villas on a stretch of white sand at Dongwe, on the east coast of Zanzibar near the Michamvi peninsula.

Dongwe, Michamvi, Zanzibar
A long pool beside a deck of loungers, with thatched huts and distant mountains.

Zannier Omaanda

Zannier Omaanda lies about 30 minutes' drive from Windhoek, inside a private reserve of 22,000 acres of bushveld, open plains and acacia.

Near Windhoek, Namibia
Elephants and impala at the edge of the Chobe River.

andBeyond Chobe Under Canvas

andBeyond Chobe Under Canvas is a semi-permanent camp in the north of Chobe National Park, Botswana's first national park, near the Chobe River and home to some of the largest elephant herds in Africa.

Chobe National Park, Botswana
The bow of a wooden mokoro in a narrow channel lined with reeds and water lilies.

andBeyond Sandibe & Nxabega Under Canvas

Opened in March 2026, andBeyond Sandibe Under Canvas and andBeyond Nxabega Under Canvas bring the closeness of a small canvas camp to two of the company's private Okavango concessions: Sandibe, at 22,500 hectares, and Nxabega, at 25,000 hectares, both bordering the Moremi Game Reserve.

Okavango Delta, Botswana
Aerial view of swirling white sand and turquoise shallows at the edge of a forested island.

qualia

qualia occupies the northernmost tip of Hamilton Island in the Whitsundays, on its own peninsula with water on three sides and views across the Coral Sea.

Hamilton Island, Whitsundays, Queensland, Australia

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