The Directory
Every property researched and profiled by the Browntravels editorial team. Sponsored placements are always clearly labelled.
Muscat, Oman
Oman's ceremonial palace-hotel of 1985, set between the Hajar Mountains and its own bay, with one of the Gulf's most magnificent domed lobbies.
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Cape Town, South Africa
Cape Town's blush-pink grande dame of 1899, set in nine acres of gardens beneath Table Mountain and famous for its extravagant afternoon tea.
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Hamburg, Germany
Hamburg's lakefront institution since 1897, regularly counted among Germany's finest hotels for its Alster views and Haerlin dining.
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Funchal, Portugal
Madeira's clifftop institution since 1891, famous for subtropical gardens, saltwater pools and afternoon tea above the Atlantic.
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Taplow, United Kingdom
A Grade I-listed stately home above the Thames, seat of the Astors and stage of the Profumo affair, now England's most storied country-house hotel.
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Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
The Edwardian 'grand old lady of the Falls', built in 1904 with lawns aligned on the spray of Victoria Falls and its century-old railway bridge.
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Mackinac Island, United States
The 1887 summer palace of the Great Lakes, famed for the world's longest front porch on a car-free island reached by ferry.
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Èze, France
A private peninsula estate at Èze-Bord-de-Mer with two hectares of gardens, a seawater infinity pool and only a few dozen keys.
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Phuket, Thailand
A private-bay villa estate on Phuket's quiet north-west coast whose name means 'the garden in the third heaven', crowned by tasting-menu dining at PRU.
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