City Hotel
George Town, Malaysia
8.9
Eastern & Oriental Hotel
The Sarkies Brothers' 1885 seafront classic in George Town, an all-suite colonial grande dame on the Strait of Malacca.
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290 hotels found
City Hotel
Luxor, Egypt
8.9
Sofitel Winter Palace Luxor
The 1907 Nile-front grande dame of Egyptology, where news of Tutankhamun's tomb first electrified the world.
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Resort
Cape Town, South Africa
8.9
The Twelve Apostles Hotel and Spa
A cliff-side retreat on the Atlantic coast road beyond Camps Bay, wedged between the Twelve Apostles mountain range and the open ocean.
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City Hotel
Avignon, France
8.9
La Mirande
An antique-filled former cardinal's residence at the foot of the Palais des Papes, run with the intimacy of a grand private home.
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Beach Resort
Albufeira, Portugal
8.9
Vila Joya
A small Moorish-style villa above Galé beach that became a pilgrimage site for gastronomes, home to one of Portugal's longest-standing two-star kitchens.
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Beach Resort
Byron Bay, Australia
8.9
Raes on Wategos
A tiny whitewashed Mediterranean-style villa above Wategos Beach that has been Byron Bay's most storied address since 1994.
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Resort
Porto-Vecchio, France
8.9
Casadelmar
A sleek cedar-and-glass retreat on the Gulf of Porto-Vecchio, pairing contemporary architecture with two-Michelin-starred Mediterranean cooking.
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Beach Resort
Soufrière, St Lucia
8.9
Sugar Beach, A Viceroy Resort
White villas and a pale-sand beach set impossibly between St Lucia's twin Pitons, in the rainforested amphitheatre of Val des Pitons.
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Lakeside Hotel
Blevio, Italy
8.9
Mandarin Oriental, Lago di Como
A botanical-park retreat of nineteenth-century villas on Como's quieter eastern shore, with a floating pool and contemporary calm apart from the crowds.
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Resort
Oia, Greece
8.9
Mystique, A Luxury Collection Hotel
Cave-style suites sculpted into Oia's caldera cliff, with driftwood textures, a wine cave in the rock and front-row seats for the famous sunset.
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City Hotel
Berlin, Germany
8.9
Hotel de Rome
A former Dresdner Bank headquarters of 1889 on Bebelplatz, converted by Rocco Forte with a pool in the old jewel vault and a rooftop over Unter den Linden.
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City Hotel
Salzburg, Austria
8.9
Hotel Sacher Salzburg
The Sacher family's riverside Salzburg house, facing the old town and fortress across the Salzach with torte and tradition intact.
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