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The world’s finest hotels.

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598 hotels found

Cliff-hung monastery and terraced gardens of Monastero Santa Rosa above the Gulf of Salerno

Resort

Conca dei Marini, Italy

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Monastero Santa Rosa

A seventeenth-century monastery suspended above the Gulf of Salerno, reborn as an intimate twenty-room retreat with a legendary infinity pool.

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Hand-plastered village-style architecture of Hotel Cala di Volpe above its Costa Smeralda bay

Beach Resort

Porto Cervo, Italy

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Hotel Cala di Volpe

Jacques Couëlle's 1963 fantasy village on the Costa Smeralda, still the social summit of Mediterranean summer by its famous saltwater pool.

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Gothic-revival brick facade of the Conservatorium Hotel on Amsterdam's Museumplein with modern glass atrium behind

City Hotel

Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Conservatorium Hotel

A former bank and music conservatory on Museumplein transformed by Piero Lissoni into Amsterdam's definitive design hotel.

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Whitewashed pavilions and lotus lagoons of Four Seasons Hangzhou at West Lake in classical Jiangnan style

Lakeside Hotel

Hangzhou, China

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Four Seasons Hotel Hangzhou at West Lake

A Jiangnan-style water garden of pavilions, lagoons and willow walks beside West Lake, built new but faithful to the region's classical grammar.

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Edwardian-style lodge of Wharekauhau Country Estate amid sheep paddocks above Palliser Bay, Wairarapa

Country House

Wairarapa, New Zealand

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Wharekauhau Country Estate

An Edwardian-style lodge on a vast working sheep station above Palliser Bay, ninety minutes from Wellington across the Remutaka Range.

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Colonnaded Renaissance cloister garden at Four Seasons Hotel Milano on Via Gesù

City Hotel

Milan, Italy

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Four Seasons Hotel Milano

A fifteenth-century convent in the heart of the Quadrilatero della Moda, where a frescoed cloister brings rare calm to Milan's fashion district.

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Painted alpine-mansion façade of Airelles Val d'Isère, Mademoiselle at the foot of the slopes

Ski Hotel

Val d'Isère, France

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Airelles Val d'Isère, Mademoiselle

Airelles' 2020-opened palace at the foot of Val d'Isère's slopes, bringing the group's theatrical service culture to one of the Alps' most serious ski resorts.

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Whitewashed garden bungalows and palms at Marbella Club Hotel on the Golden Mile

Beach Resort

Marbella, Spain

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Marbella Club Hotel

The 1954 original of the Golden Mile: Prince Alfonso von Hohenlohe's garden village by the sea that invented Marbella as a resort.

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Facade of Mont Cervin Palace on Zermatt's snowy Bahnhofstrasse with the Matterhorn behind

Ski Hotel

Zermatt, Switzerland

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Mont Cervin Palace

Zermatt's original grand hotel of 1851, run by the Seiler family dynasty on the village's main street beneath the Matterhorn.

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Private Island

Jumby Bay, Antigua and Barbuda

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Jumby Bay Island, Oetker Collection

A car-free 300-acre private island off Antigua, run by Oetker Collection as the Caribbean's most polished all-inclusive hideaway.

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Stone pavilion cottages of Amanruya amid olive groves above a Bodrum cove

Resort

Bodrum, Turkey

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Amanruya

Aman's Aegean retreat of stone pavilion cottages, each with a private pool, scattered through olive groves on the Bodrum peninsula's quiet north coast.

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White-plastered terraces and infinity pool of Grace Hotel overlooking the Santorini caldera at Imerovigli

Resort

Imerovigli, Greece

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Grace Hotel, Auberge Resorts Collection

An intimate white-on-white retreat at Imerovigli, the highest point of Santorini's caldera rim, built around one of the island's most photographed pools.

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