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Hotels, resorts and hideaways from around the world — chosen for their location, atmosphere and the feeling of being exactly where you should be.
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Places worth travelling for
Hotels, resorts, villas and lodges that have convinced us. Not because they appear in rankings or belong to a famous brand, but because we can recommend them in good conscience.
What matters are not stars, awards or trends, but character, atmosphere and whether a stay will still be remembered years later.
For every hotel we share our view, the best time to travel and notes on who it suits particularly well. Because the right choice does not come from a list — it comes from understanding which journey fits you.
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Find the retreat that suits your journey
The full hotel collection at a glance: the recommended houses across the major groups, the Independent Icons and the addresses we would stay in ourselves. Filter by region, hotel group or the way you travel.
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85 properties
Fifth Avenue, New York
Aman New York
An unusually quiet address on Fifth Avenue — a fireplace in every room, a spa across three floors, the city kept as a view.
- Suits
- Travellers who know New York through work and want its opposite
- Best season
- May, October, the first weeks of December
Otemachi, Tokio
Aman Tokyo
A Japanese hotel lifted to the 33rd floor: washi, stone, cedar and a lobby thirty metres high.
- Suits
- First-time and returning Japan travellers who want calm above the city
- Best season
- Late March to May, October to November
Canal Grande, Venedig
Aman Venice
A sixteenth-century palazzo on the Grand Canal, twenty-four rooms behind Tiepolo frescoes.
- Suits
- Travellers seeing Venice for more than the first time
- Best season
- April to June, October to November
Canyon Point, Utah
Amangiri
Board-formed concrete in the desert, built around a rock — landscape that stays larger than the building.
- Suits
- Couples and families after space, walking and absolute quiet
- Best season
- April to May, September to October
Marrakesch, Marokko
Amanjena
A courtyard of ochre pavilions before the Atlas — reflecting pools, olive groves, Marrakech twenty minutes away.
- Suits
- Travellers who want the city by day and distance from it by evening
- Best season
- March to May, October to November
Porto Heli, Peloponnes
Amanzoe
Pavilions of pale stone on an olive hill above the Aegean, three hours by road from Athens.
- Suits
- Families and couples who want Greece without island hopping
- Best season
- May to June, September to October
Sabi Sand, Südafrika
andBeyond Tengile River Lodge
Nine suites on the Sand River, in some of Africa's densest leopard country. The camp is built quietly — timber, mesh, few hard edges — and the drives are shared by only a handful of vehicles.
- Suits
- Couples and families who want Sabi Sand sightings without staying in a large camp.
- Best season
- May to September for dry days and game at the water.
Franschhoek, Südafrika
Babylonstoren
A Cape Dutch wine farm with a three-hectare kitchen garden that governs everything else.
- Suits
- Travellers before or after a safari, guests drawn to gardens and cooking
- Best season
- October to April
Giudecca, Venedig
Belmond Hotel Cipriani
Garden, pool and vineyard on the Giudecca — Venice sits opposite, the boat runs around the clock.
- Suits
- Travellers who want Venice with space, a pool and breakfast outdoors
- Best season
- May to June, September
Portofino, Ligurien
Belmond Splendido
A former monastery above the bay of Portofino, revisited by the same families since the thirties.
- Suits
- Couples after the quiet side of the Riviera
- Best season
- Late May to June, September
Amalfiküste
Borgo Santandrea
A 1960s retreat built into the cliff and retold in handmade Vietri tile. One of few addresses on this coast with its own beach and an unhurried terrace.
- Suits
- Travellers who know the Amalfi Coast and want it this time without the crowds.
- Best season
- May, June and all of September. In August the coast road becomes an exercise in patience.
Jumeirah Bay Island, Dubai
Bulgari Resort Dubai
A low, Italian-designed house on its own island, with a private beach and marina.
- Suits
- Couples and families combining Dubai with a beach in winter
- Best season
- November to March
Santanyí, Mallorca
Can Ferrereta
A seventeenth-century town retreat in the quiet south-east, with sandstone, cool courtyards and a walled garden. More restrained than almost anything on the island.
- Suits
- Couples who want to stay on foot in a real town rather than inside a resort.
- Best season
- May, June and September. Santanyí holds its market on Saturdays.
Mallorca
Cap Rocat
A nineteenth-century fortress on the bay of Palma, cut into rock and converted so carefully the intervention barely registers. Not a house for people who need a beach — one for people who want silence.
- Suits
- Couples who want to be twenty minutes from Palma and still entirely alone.
- Best season
- May, June, September and October.
Lisciano Niccone, Umbrien
Castello di Reschio
A thousand-year-old castle on an estate of some 1,500 hectares, brought back by one family over two decades. Everything inside — lamps, handles, beds — was designed and made on site.
- Suits
- Travellers drawn to craft, architecture and long days without a schedule.
- Best season
- May, June and September to mid-October, when the evening fires begin.
1. Arrondissement, Paris
Cheval Blanc Paris
Seventy-two rooms inside the Samaritaine, nearly all facing the Seine, with a pool beneath the property.
- Suits
- Paris regulars who want the city and a retreat under one roof
- Best season
- May to June, September to October
Hua Hin, Thailand
Chiva-Som Hua Hin
A tropical garden on the Gulf of Thailand doing the same thing for more than thirty years — only better. Pavilions, old trees, a beach and very experienced therapists.
- Suits
- Guests who prefer a place with experience to the newest address.
- Best season
- November to February.
Chianti, Toskana
COMO Castello Del Nero
A 12th-century castle in Chianti, with a kitchen and spa that genuinely structure the day.
- Suits
- Couples combining Tuscany with wellness and serious cooking
- Best season
- May to June, September
Grimaud, Bucht von Saint-Tropez
COMO Le Beauvallon
A 1914 Riviera classic above the bay, brought back in COMO's hand: light, residential, without pomp.
- Suits
- Couples and families who want Saint-Tropez in view rather than at the door
- Best season
- May to June, September
Thaa-Atoll, Malediven
COMO Maalifushi
The only address in a rarely visited southern atoll, with strong diving and surf seasons and the clear, light COMO signature. Less production, more sea.
- Suits
- Divers, surfers and travellers who prefer restraint to a long list of options.
- Best season
- January to April for diving, June to September for the surf season.
Turks- und Caicosinseln
COMO Parrot Cay
A private island with a two-mile beach, yoga in the morning and very little else.
- Suits
- Travellers who want to decide nothing for a week
- Best season
- December to April
Ubud, Bali, Indonesien
COMO Shambhala Estate
A retreat in the rainforest above the Ayung river: timber, stone, water, a handful of residences in the green and paths you walk barefoot.
- Suits
- Guests who want a complete but unhurried form of recovery.
- Best season
- May to September.
Masai Mara, Kenia
Cottar's 1920s Camp
Run by the fifth generation of the same family, in a private concession on the edge of the Mara. Twenties-style tents, but real safari craft: tracking, walking, time.
- Suits
- Travellers who value history and guiding above contemporary fittings.
- Best season
- July to October for the migration, January to March for the green months.
Agios Ioannis, Mykonos
Deos Mykonos
A small house above Agios Ioannis bay, made of plaster, stone and little else.
- Suits
- Couples who want Mykonos in its quietest reading
- Best season
- May to June, September
Kourouta, Peloponnes
Dexamenes
A 1920s wine factory on the Ionian Sea whose concrete tanks became rooms. Raw, still and entirely undecorated — architecturally the most singular thing in Greece right now.
- Suits
- Travellers drawn to architecture and industrial history who do not need marble.
- Best season
- May to June and September; the coast is pleasantly empty then.
Mystras, Peloponnes
Euphoria Retreat
A retreat on the slope below the Byzantine ruins of Mystras, built around a subterranean domed pool hall. The programmes are serious rather than decorative.
- Suits
- Travellers looking for a week with real structure — movement, treatment, rest.
- Best season
- April to June and October. The valley turns hot at the height of summer.
Torres del Paine, Chile
Explora Patagonia
A house at Salto Chico facing the towers — guided walks rather than scheduled activities.
- Suits
- Travellers who walk by day and stay in by evening
- Best season
- November to March
Casares, Andalusien
Finca Cortesín
An Andalusian estate between Marbella and Sotogrande with unusually generous rooms, mature trees and one of Europe's more demanding golf courses. Quiet, despite the Costa del Sol address.
- Suits
- Families and golfing travellers who need space and still want privacy.
- Best season
- April to June and September to November.
Brixen, Dolomiten, Italien
Forestis
At 1,800 metres above Bressanone, facing the Dolomites: four spruce-clad towers, tall windows, almost no colour and a silence you register on the first evening almost as a sound.
- Suits
- Guests who prefer mountains, quiet and clear architecture to a treatment plan.
- Best season
- June to October, January to March.
Florenz, Toskana
Four Seasons Firenze
A Renaissance palazzo with eleven hectares of garden behind it — Florence on foot, silence at breakfast.
- Suits
- Families and cultural travellers who want city and garden together
- Best season
- April to June, September to October
Formentor, Mallorca
Four Seasons Mallorca at Formentor
The 1929 grand hotel on Formentor bay, carefully brought back rather than reinvented.
- Suits
- Families and couples who want the Mediterranean with history and pine forest
- Best season
- May to June, September
Mykonos
Four Seasons Mykonos
A large resort on a sheltered southern bay, built in Cycladic manner and far enough from town that the island does not reach the room at night. The most dependable address on Mykonos when children travel.
- Suits
- Families and couples who want Mykonos without living in the centre.
- Best season
- May to June and September; the meltemi is more predictable then.
Mykonos, Kykladen
Fourquet’s Mykonos
A house built around the table: few rooms and a restaurant that is the real reason.
- Suits
- Couples and friends who take evenings more seriously than beach days
- Best season
- June and September
Phobjikha-Tal, Bhutan
Gangtey Lodge
Twelve suites in a converted farmhouse above a glacial valley, facing Gangtey monastery.
- Suits
- Travellers who want Bhutan slowly and on foot
- Best season
- March to May, October to November; the black-necked cranes arrive from late October
St. Moritz, Engadin
Grace La Margna St. Moritz
A 1907 grand hotel by the lake, carefully brought back and extended with a modern wing.
- Suits
- Couples and families who like the Alps but not the etiquette of the old houses
- Best season
- January to March, July to September
Tremezzina, Comer See
Grand Hotel Tremezzo
A grand hotel of 1910, run by the same family for generations and still warm with it. The view across to the Bergamasque Alps is among the finest on the lake.
- Suits
- Families and couples who want grand-hotel atmosphere without stiffness.
- Best season
- Late April to June, September and October.
Folegandros
Gundari
A address on an undeveloped cliff, built from volcanic stone and set so deep into the slope it is barely visible from the sea. Folegandros has no airport and no scene — which is the point.
- Suits
- Travellers who know the Cyclades and want the version without an audience.
- Best season
- May, June and September. The property closes in winter.
Riviera Maya, Mexiko
Hotel Esencia
A former private estate on Xpu-Ha beach — twenty-nine rooms, a great deal of lawn, very little programme.
- Suits
- Couples and families who want the Yucatán with calm
- Best season
- November to April
Porto Ercole, Toskana
Hotel Il Pellicano
The same bay, the same pines, the same attitude since 1965: Mediterranean ease without performance. The property shaped a style it never needed to reinvent.
- Suits
- Families and couples after a summer in the sixties sense — sea, lunch, afternoon.
- Best season
- June and September. The retreat closes for winter.
Positano
Il San Pietro di Positano
Family-run since 1970 and still guided by the same idea: terraces set into the rock, bougainvillea over everything, a lift down to the sea. The staff have known returning guests by name for decades.
- Suits
- Travellers who value continuity — the same room, the same bay, every year.
- Best season
- Late April to June, then September and early October.
Raa-Atoll, Malediven
JOALI
A hotel that does not treat art as decoration: installations by international artists stand in the water, the forest and the villas. The architecture stays quiet around them.
- Suits
- Couples interested in art and design who see an island as more than a beach.
- Best season
- December to April.
Raa-Atoll, Malediven
JOALI BEING
An island given entirely to wellbeing: four pillars from nutrition to sound, a resident doctor, and still a Maldivian island.
- Suits
- Couples who do not want to separate recovery from the beach.
- Best season
- November to April.
Anacapri, Capri
Jumeirah Capri Palace
A white house in Anacapri, above the crowds, with an art collection and a serious spa.
- Suits
- Couples who want to know Capri without living on the Piazzetta in August
- Best season
- May to June, September into early October
Mykonos
Kalesma
Twenty-seven suites on a slope above Ornos Bay, built in Cycladic manner with stone walls and timber. Proof that Mykonos can be quiet without leaving the island.
- Suits
- Travellers who like Mykonos but do not want to live in the middle of it.
- Best season
- May, June and September into early October.
Koh Samui, Thailand
Kamalaya
A retreat built around a monk's cave on the south coast of Koh Samui, with programmes spanning burnout, sleep and weight.
- Suits
- Guests coming out of a long stretch of too little sleep.
- Best season
- January to April, July to September.
Hoher Atlas, Marokko
Kasbah Tamadot
A kasbah in the Atlas mountains, an hour from Marrakech and in another world entirely.
- Suits
- Travellers combining Marrakech with mountains and walking
- Best season
- March to May, September to November
Benguerra Island, Mosambik
Kisawa Sanctuary
Twelve free-standing residences across three hundred hectares of island, each with its own stretch of sand.
- Suits
- Travellers who prefer complete seclusion to resort facilities
- Best season
- May to October
Ramatuelle, Côte d’Azur
La Réserve Ramatuelle
A Jean-Michel Wilmotte house above the coast near Saint-Tropez, with pines instead of a promenade.
- Suits
- Couples who like the Côte d'Azur but not the crowd at the harbour
- Best season
- May to June, September
Deià, Mallorca
La Residencia
Two sixteenth-century manor hotels above the artists' village of Deià, among olive groves and citrus. The combination of art collection, Tramuntana light and long address history exists nowhere else on Mallorca.
- Suits
- Families and couples who want to move between walking, painting and doing nothing.
- Best season
- April to June and September to October; Deià is quiet in winter but much is shut.
La Croix-Valmer, Frankreich
Lily of the Valley
A Philippe Starck house above the Bay of Gigaro that feels more like a holiday hotel than a clinic — with a very serious programme behind it.
- Suits
- Couples with different ideas of what rest means.
- Best season
- May, June and September.
Chao-Phraya-Fluss, Bangkok
Mandarin Oriental Bangkok
The Authors' Wing, the river at dusk and a standard of service rehearsed for over a century.
- Suits
- Asia travellers who treat Bangkok as an opening, not a stopover
- Best season
- November to February
Blevio, Comer See
Mandarin Oriental Lago di Como
Historic villas on the quiet eastern shore, with a private jetty and terraced gardens.
- Suits
- Couples who want the lake from the water rather than the road
- Best season
- May to June, September
Costa d’en Blanes, Mallorca
Mandarin Oriental Punta Negra
A private headland between two small coves, twenty minutes west of Palma. After a long rebuild of a sixties property, one of the few addresses on the island with direct access to the water and a short run into town.
- Suits
- Travellers combining the sea, the harbour and Palma in one stay.
- Best season
- May to June and September to October.
Nosy Ankao, Madagaskar
Miavana
Fourteen villas on an island off northern Madagascar, reachable only by helicopter, with a marine conservation programme that the operation funds. The effort of arriving is part of what protects it.
- Suits
- Experienced travellers looking to pair safari with an island.
- Best season
- April to June and September to November.
Agios Nikolaos, Kreta, Griechenland
Minos Palace Resort
An adults-only peninsula in the Gulf of Mirabello: bright rooms by the water, short distances, a great deal of blue and a pace that slows by itself.
- Suits
- Couples who want a quiet week by the sea, without a programme.
- Best season
- May, June, September and October.
Okavango-Delta, Botswana
Mombo Camp
Set on Chief's Island at the heart of the Delta, in country of rare game density. The camp stands on stilts above the floodplain; animals pass beneath the walkways.
- Suits
- Travellers who want, once, the most concentrated game viewing in southern Africa.
- Best season
- June to October, when the flood is high and game gathers.
Sumba, Indonesien
NIHI Sumba
Horses on the sand, a well-known wave and an island barely developed for tourism.
- Suits
- Active travellers and families with older children
- Best season
- April to October
Seychellen
North Island
A private island of eleven villas, cleared of introduced species and replanted over decades. You share it with giant tortoises and almost no one else.
- Suits
- Couples and families for whom solitude matters more than a choice of restaurants.
- Best season
- April, May, October and November — between the trade winds.
Vulkan-Nationalpark, Ruanda
One&Only Gorilla's Nest
A eucalyptus forest at the foot of the Virunga volcanoes, an hour from the gorilla trails.
- Suits
- Travellers who want a demanding encounter with comfort afterwards
- Best season
- June to September, December to February
Nord-Malé-Atoll, Malediven
One&Only Reethi Rah
An unusually large island with twelve separate beaches — enough space to lose your bearings.
- Suits
- Families and couples who want the Maldives without confinement
- Best season
- January to April
Paros
Parīlio
White lime, local stone and concrete in a very reduced language — one of few new Cycladic retreats that reads as architecture rather than postcard.
- Suits
- Couples and friends who explore the island by day and want quiet by evening.
- Best season
- June and September. July and August fill Paros up.
Moltrasio, Comer See
Passalacqua
An eighteenth-century villa restored over years by the family who owns it: frescoes, fabrics and furniture kept rather than referenced. You stay in rooms that were living rooms first.
- Suits
- Couples and small parties who would rather inhabit a house than use a hotel.
- Best season
- May and June for the wisteria, or September when the lake settles again.
Comporta
Quinta da Comporta
A property among rice fields, built from wood, lime and thatch in the local language. Comporta kept its character because nothing was built here for a long time — this house shows it.
- Suits
- Couples and families who want beach, bicycles and long afternoons.
- Best season
- May, June and September. The Atlantic stays cool and the wind comes with it.
Val d'Orcia, Toskana
Rosewood Castiglion del Bosco
A medieval borgo on 1,100 hectares of the Val d'Orcia, with its own Brunello and suites in the old farmhouses.
- Suits
- Families and couples who want one place for a whole week
- Best season
- May to June, September to October for the harvest
Tsim Sha Tsui, Hongkong
Rosewood Hong Kong
A family address in tower form: an art collection, a library, and rooms that frame the harbour like a picture.
- Suits
- City travellers with an eye for design and Asian cooking
- Best season
- October to December, March
Thornybush, Südafrika
Royal Malewane
Known for its guiding: the lodge employs some of the few highest-qualified trackers and guides in South Africa. If you want to understand what you are looking at, this is the place.
- Suits
- Travellers with some experience who take game viewing seriously.
- Best season
- May to September.
Marrakesch, Marokko
Royal Mansour Marrakech
Fifty-three private riads inside the city walls, each with courtyard, roof terrace and its own door.
- Suits
- Travellers who want Marrakech with quiet and a great deal of privacy
- Best season
- October to April; high summer gets very hot
Kandy, Sri Lanka
Santani
A restrained house in the hills near Kandy, built on a former tea estate, with Ayurveda as its foundation rather than its decoration.
- Suits
- Guests who want to try Ayurveda seriously without going to a large resort.
- Best season
- January to April, July to September.
Monsaraz, Alentejo
São Lourenço do Barrocal
An estate held by the same family for two hundred years and reopened with care: stables became rooms, the village stayed a village. The Alentejo here is as empty as Europe rarely is.
- Suits
- Families and couples who want space, a working vineyard and country life at once.
- Best season
- March to June and September to October; July and August turn very hot.
Sabi Sand, Südafrika
Singita Boulders Lodge
The same land as Ebony, a different retreat: built among granite boulders, more open, quieter, with very large suites. Those who know both choose Boulders the second time.
- Suits
- Couples and returning guests who want more space and less movement.
- Best season
- May to September; February brings thick bush but the best birding.
Sabi Sand, Südafrika
Singita Ebony Lodge
Singita's first lodge, opened on the Sand River in 1993 and carefully renewed since. The Sabi Sand is among Africa's most reliable leopard country; the animals are used to vehicles, not to people.
- Suits
- A first safari, families, and photographers who want to be close.
- Best season
- May to September: dry, cool mornings, game at the water.
Krüger-Nationalpark, Südafrika
Singita Lebombo Lodge
Glass suites above the N'wanetsi river, game viewing across 130,000 hectares of private concession.
- Suits
- First safaris and experienced bush travellers alike
- Best season
- May to September, the dry season
Grumeti, Serengeti
Singita Sasakwa Lodge
An Edwardian manor on a hill above the Grumeti concession, looking across thirty kilometres of plain. The land is private, and the migration passes through between June and July.
- Suits
- Families and travellers who want the migration without convoys of vehicles.
- Best season
- June and July for the migration; December to March for calving further south.
Lamego, Douro
Six Senses Douro Valley
A nineteenth-century quinta above the Douro terraces, with one of Portugal's best spas and access to estates that otherwise stay closed.
- Suits
- Couples and wine travellers who want landscape and tastings together.
- Best season
- April to June and September to October — the autumn harvest is the finest time.
Cala Xarraca, Ibiza
Six Senses Ibiza
The quiet north of the island: one bay, a longevity programme and dinner without a door policy.
- Suits
- Travellers who like Ibiza, but not the Ibiza of clubs
- Best season
- May to June, September to October
Dehradun, Indien
Six Senses Vana
A quiet estate at the foot of the Himalaya, surrounded by sal forest. White courtyards, few furnishings, plenty of daylight — a house that accompanies its guests rather than instructing them.
- Suits
- Travellers with time who want a personal, quiet form of recovery.
- Best season
- October to April.
Musandam, Oman
Six Senses Zighy Bay
A bay between the Hajar mountains and the sea, reached by the mountain road — or by paraglider.
- Suits
- Travellers short on time who need a genuine change of place
- Best season
- October to April
Puigpunyent, Mallorca
Son Net
A 1672 country estate in the Tramuntana, run after long restoration as a address rather than a resort. Art on the walls, terraces under old trees, almost no noise.
- Suits
- Travellers who want the island inland, with occasional runs to the sea.
- Best season
- April to June and September to October.
Baa-Atoll, Malediven
Soneva Fushi
The island that founded the idea of barefoot luxury in 1995 and still takes it seriously: dense jungle, no shoes, its own recycling and glass studios. Larger than our other recommendations — but so overgrown you never notice.
- Suits
- Families placing several generations together, with children free to roam.
- Best season
- January to April. June and July bring rain and wind.
Noonu-Atoll, Malediven
Soneva Jani
Overwater villas in an enclosed lagoon whose colour is unusual even by Maldivian standards. The slide and the retractable bedroom roof are play — the lagoon is the reason.
- Suits
- Couples and families who want overwater without giving up quiet.
- Best season
- January to April.
Tetiaroa, Französisch-Polynesien
The Brando
A largely self-sufficient private atoll — thirty-three villas, and otherwise bird islands.
- Suits
- Couples and families, for the quiet part of a longer journey
- Best season
- May to October
Langkawi, Malaysia
The Datai Langkawi
A ten-million-year-old rainforest at the door, a quiet Andaman beach in front of it.
- Suits
- Nature-minded families and couples combining beach and forest
- Best season
- December to March
Melides
Vermelho
Thirteen rooms in the centre of Melides, furnished over years by Christian Louboutin with Portuguese craftsmen — azulejos, ironwork, regional furniture. A address with a signature that stands by it.
- Suits
- Travellers who enjoy colour, craft and conviction; not for everyone who wants minimalism.
- Best season
- May to June and September. Melides is nearly empty in winter.
Cernobbio, Comer See
Villa d'Este
A Renaissance villa of 1568, a hotel since 1873 and run without interruption ever since. The floating pool on the lake, the mosaic in the park, the height of the rooms — much of it exists only here.
- Suits
- Travellers who want European hotel history in working order, not under glass.
- Best season
- May to July and September. The property closes for winter.
Selinda, Botswana
Zarafa Camp
Four tents in a concession of some 130,000 hectares — you share an area the size of a city with seven other guests. The Selinda Spillway draws elephant in numbers.
- Suits
- Couples and small groups seeking maximum seclusion.
- Best season
- May to October; in July and August game concentrates at the water.
Chapter One
Discover by hotel group
Those who value a particular signature like to follow it. Each group holds its own idea of hospitality — the collections at a glance.
Aman
COMO
Light, linen and sea air, arranged with the discipline of a well-kept notebook.
Rosewood
Addresses that belong to their cities, and keep something of the neighbourhood indoors.
Belmond
Old romance, kept alive without nostalgia — terraces, lakes and slow arrivals.
Six Senses
Barefoot rigour: wellness without ceremony, landscape treated as the main room.
One&Only
Wide horizons and generous shade, for the journeys that are meant to be long.
Cheval Blanc
French precision at altitude — couture rooms, warm as a private apartment.
Mandarin Oriental
Asian hospitality at its own pace — anticipated rather than announced.
Chapter Two
Independent Icons
Some of the world's most remarkable hotels belong to no collection at all. What connects them is individuality, character, craftsmanship and a strong sense of place.
We do not present them as an alternative to the large groups but as their equals — from Passalacqua on Lake Como to Cap Rocat in Mallorca and Kisawa in the Indian Ocean.
Chapter Three
The portfolio by region
People planning a journey rarely think in hotel groups; they think in landscapes: Lake Como or Amalfi, the Cyclades or the Peloponnese, Sabi Sand or the Okavango. So the collection is ordered by region as well.
Six chapters — Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal, the Indian Ocean and safari country — holding thirty-four addresses. For each we say why we chose it, who it suits, which room we would take and when to go.
Chapter Four
And when the passage itself becomes the place.
Some journeys do not end at an address. They run by rail across Europe and Asia, by sea to anchorages no road can reach — and the arriving happens along the way rather than at the end.
Those journeys are gathered in a chapter of their own: Journeys.
An Invitation
Once a month: hotels, new openings and travel ideas
One hotel that convinced us. One new opening we are watching. And one travel idea for the right season. Carefully selected and reduced to the essentials.