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The world’s finest hotels.

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175 hotels found

Resort

Agios Nikolaos, Greece

8.8

Daios Cove Luxury Resort & Villas

A contemporary amphitheatre of stone and glass terraced into a private cove near Agios Nikolaos, with a sandy beach at its heart.

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Schist and glass lodge of Kinloch Manor above fairways running down towards Lake Taupo

Country House

Taupo, New Zealand

8.8

Kinloch Manor & Villas

A hilltop lodge above Lake Taupo paired with a Jack Nicklaus Signature course, mixing links-style golf with big-lake panoramas.

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Solitaire Lodge on its forested headland above Lake Tarawera with Mount Tarawera beyond

Lakeside Hotel

Rotorua, New Zealand

8.8

Solitaire Lodge

A nine-suite lodge on a private headland in Lake Tarawera, facing the volcano across some of Rotorua's most storied waters.

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Modernist terraces of Villa Dubrovnik built into the cliff facing the Old Town across the water

Resort

Dubrovnik, Croatia

8.8

Villa Dubrovnik

A cliff-hugging modernist retreat in the quiet Sveti Jakov quarter, where every room faces the Old Town and Lokrum across the water.

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Neoclassical façade of The Dolli mansion with the Acropolis rising behind Athens rooftops

City Hotel

Athens, Greece

8.8

The Dolli at Acropolis

A restored 1920s neoclassical mansion on Mitropoleos Street whose rooftop pool stares straight at the Parthenon.

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Whitewashed buildings and infinity pools on the Oia caldera cliff at Katikies Santorini

Resort

Oia, Greece

8.8

Katikies Santorini

Whitewashed cave suites carved into Oia's caldera cliff, with tiered infinity pools suspended above the Aegean and Santorini's fabled sunsets.

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Whitewashed courtyard and pampas setting of Estancia Vik José Ignacio

Country House

José Ignacio, Uruguay

8.8

Estancia Vik José Ignacio

An art-filled contemporary estancia on rolling pampas behind José Ignacio, where Uruguayan artists shaped every suite.

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Belle Époque-styled facade of The Singular Santiago in the Lastarria quarter

City Hotel

Santiago, Chile

8.8

The Singular Santiago, Lastarria Hotel

A Belle Époque-styled boutique in the Lastarria arts quarter, pairing Chilean heritage interiors with a rooftop bar over Cerro Santa Lucía.

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Book-lined concrete atrium of Stamba Hotel in a converted Soviet publishing house in Tbilisi

City Hotel

Tbilisi, Georgia

8.8

Stamba Hotel

A Soviet publishing house transformed into Tbilisi's design landmark, with book-lined lobbies, soaring lofts and a glass-bottomed rooftop pool.

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Arcaded baroque courtyard of Hotel PACAI in Vilnius old town

City Hotel

Vilnius, Lithuania

8.8

Hotel PACAI

A seventeenth-century baroque palace on Didžioji street reborn as the Baltics' most striking design hotel, frescoes and raw stone included.

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Stone bungalows of Tiger Mountain Pokhara Lodge on a ridge facing the snow-capped Annapurna range

Country House

Pokhara, Nepal

8.8

Tiger Mountain Pokhara Lodge

A hand-built stone lodge on a ridge above Pokhara, facing the full Annapurna range from Dhaulagiri to Machhapuchhare across an unbroken horizon.

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Stone courtyards and pool of Park Hyatt St Kitts framing Nevis Peak across the water

Resort

Christophe Harbour, Saint Kitts and Nevis

8.8

Park Hyatt St Kitts

A serene architectural resort on Banana Bay at St Kitts' southern tip, gazing across The Narrows to Nevis Peak.

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