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The world’s finest hotels.

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598 hotels found

Victorian-era stone facade and arched loggias of the State Buildings housing COMO The Treasury in Perth

City Hotel

Perth, Australia

9.2

COMO The Treasury

Perth's 19th-century State Buildings reborn as a 48-room hotel of soaring ceilings, quiet luxury and serious cooking on Cathedral Square.

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Elegant nineteenth-century facade of Hotel Eden above the rooftops near Rome's Spanish Steps

City Hotel

Rome, Italy

9.2

Hotel Eden

A Dorchester Collection grande dame above the Spanish Steps whose rooftop dining room frames one of the finest skyline views in Rome.

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Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong's facade on Connaught Road Central facing the Star Ferry and harbour

City Hotel

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

9.2

Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong

The 1963 original of the Mandarin Oriental group still holds Central's waterfront with clubby bars, storied restaurants and service polished over six decades.

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White-sand beach and turquoise fringing reef at Lizard Island Resort on the northern Great Barrier Reef

Private Island

Cairns, Australia

9.2

Lizard Island Resort

Australia's northernmost island resort, alone on a national-park island with 24 private beaches and fringing reef right on the Great Barrier Reef.

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Stone manor houses of La Residencia amid olive terraces below the Tramuntana mountains in Deià

Country House

Deià, Spain

9.2

La Residencia, A Belmond Hotel

Two centuries-old manor houses amid olive terraces in Deià, the Tramuntana artists' village that shaped Mallorca's bohemian legend.

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Timber-and-glass towers of Forestis on the Plose mountainside facing the Dolomites

Wellness Retreat

Bressanone, Italy

9.2

Forestis Dolomites

A minimalist high-altitude retreat at 1,800 metres on the Plose, built around forest, spring water and silence with full-frontal Dolomites views.

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Castle-like towers of Suvretta House rising above snow-covered larch forest near St. Moritz

Ski Hotel

St. Moritz, Switzerland

9.2

Suvretta House

A castle-like 1912 grand hotel in its own quiet valley outside St. Moritz, with a private ski lift onto the Corviglia slopes.

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Pine-covered Astir peninsula at Vouliagmeni with the Four Seasons buildings above private coves

Resort

Vouliagmeni, Greece

9.2

Four Seasons Astir Palace Hotel Athens

The storied Astir Palace peninsula on the Athens Riviera, revived by Four Seasons with pine-shaded bungalows, private beaches and mid-century glamour.

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Calm lagoon and stilted suites at Constance Prince Maurice, Mauritius

Beach Resort

Poste de Flacq, Mauritius

9.2

Constance Prince Maurice

A refined all-suite hideaway on Mauritius's quiet north-east coast, famed for its stilted floating restaurant and access to championship golf.

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Turquoise water and pale sand fronting Sandy Lane's coral-stone resort in Barbados

Beach Resort

St James, Barbados

9.2

Sandy Lane

Barbados' Palladian coral-stone legend on the platinum west coast, with three golf courses including the Tom Fazio-designed Green Monkey.

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Row of Golden Age canal palace facades of the Waldorf Astoria on Amsterdam's Herengracht

City Hotel

Amsterdam, Netherlands

9.2

Waldorf Astoria Amsterdam

Six Golden Age canal palaces on the Herengracht united into Amsterdam's most refined address, with a private garden and two-star dining.

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Neo-Renaissance facade of Mandarin Oriental, Munich on a quiet Altstadt lane near Maximilianstrasse

City Hotel

Munich, Germany

9.2

Mandarin Oriental, Munich

An intimate neo-Renaissance house behind Maximilianstrasse with a rooftop pool facing the Frauenkirche and Alps on clear days.

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