City Hotel
Paris, France
9.6
Ritz Paris
The original palace hotel on Place Vendôme, reborn after a four-year restoration with Bar Hemingway, a gilded pool and the ghost of Coco Chanel intact.
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Tetiaroa, French Polynesia
Marlon Brando's private atoll turned pioneering all-villa eco-resort, twenty minutes by plane from Tahiti and a world beyond it.
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North Malé Atoll, Maldives
The barefoot-luxury original of the Maldives: hand-built overwater villas, a 'no news, no shoes' creed and some of the largest stilted suites on earth.
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Hong Kong, Hong Kong
A vertical estate on the Kowloon waterfront whose art-filled interiors, harbour-view rooms and formidable dining set Hong Kong's current standard.
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Venice, Italy
A 16th-century palazzo on the Grand Canal, its Tiepolo ceilings and private gardens sheltering just 24 rooms of monastic-luxe calm.
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North Island, Seychelles
A rewilded private granite island of just eleven villas, where barefoot 'castaway luxury' meets one of conservation's great success stories.
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Portofino, Italy
A former monastery on the hillside above Portofino's harbour, the Italian Riviera's most glamorous perch since 1901.
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Cernobbio, Italy
A 16th-century cardinal's villa on Lake Como with 25 acres of Renaissance gardens and a floating pool moored on the lake itself.
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Soufrière, St Lucia
An architectural fantasy above St Lucia's Pitons where every open-walled sanctuary has its own infinity pool and no fourth wall at all.
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Nairobi, Kenya
The 1930s ivy-clad manor in Nairobi's Langata suburb where endangered Rothschild's giraffes join guests for breakfast through the windows.
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