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The world’s finest hotels.

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290 hotels found

Gilded coffered ceiling of the restored banking hall at The Marmorosch Bucharest
City Hotel

Bucharest, Romania

8.5

The Marmorosch Bucharest, Autograph Collection

The gilded Marmorosch Blank bank in the old town reborn as Bucharest's most theatrical hotel, vault bar included.

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Restored banking hall restaurant of Bankhotel Lviv beneath its original glass ceiling
City Hotel

Lviv, Ukraine

8.5

Bankhotel

A 1912 bank in Lviv's UNESCO-listed centre reborn as western Ukraine's most stylish hotel, vault doors and marble halls included.

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Stone sugar mill and gardens of Montpelier Plantation on the slopes of Nevis Peak
Country House

Montpelier Estate, Saint Kitts and Nevis

8.5

Montpelier Plantation & Beach

An eighteenth-century sugar estate on Nevis's cool upper slopes, reborn as a Relais & Châteaux inn with dinners inside its old mill.

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Palm-fringed terraced gardens and palace façade of Olissippo Lapa Palace above the Tagus
City Hotel

Lisbon, Portugal

8.5

Olissippo Lapa Palace

A nineteenth-century count's palace in Lisbon's embassy quarter, with terraced gardens, a palm-fringed pool and Tagus views from the Lapa hilltop.

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Neoclassical 1917 facade of the American Trade Hotel on Plaza Herrera in Casco Viejo
City Hotel

Panama City, Panama

8.5

American Trade Hotel

A 1917 landmark on Casco Viejo's Plaza Herrera revived as the old quarter's design flagship, jazz club included.

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Hardwood casitas of Jicaro Island Lodge among trees on a private isleta in Lake Nicaragua
Lakeside Hotel

Granada, Nicaragua

8.5

Jicaro Island Lodge

A private-island eco-lodge in Lake Nicaragua's isletas, ten minutes by boat from Granada with volcano views from every casita.

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Coral-stone courtyard and plunge pool of a restored colonial house at Casas del XVI in Santo Domingo
City Hotel

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

8.5

Casas del XVI

A cluster of restored sixteenth-century houses in Santo Domingo's Zona Colonial, run as one intimate hotel with butlers and courtyard pools.

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Townhouse facades of Hôtel Le Place d'Armes on Luxembourg City's central square
City Hotel

Luxembourg City, Luxembourg

8.5

Hôtel Le Place d'Armes

A Relais & Châteaux warren of 18th-century townhouses on the old town's main square, hiding courtyards, beams and refined dining.

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White suite wings of Spice Island Beach Resort along the sand of Grand Anse, Grenada
Beach Resort

Grand Anse, Grenada

8.5

Spice Island Beach Resort

A Grenadian family's all-suite, all-inclusive pride on Grand Anse beach, polished over half a century of single-family stewardship.

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Victorian sandstone townhouse terrace of One Devonshire Gardens in Glasgow's West End
City Hotel

Glasgow, United Kingdom

8.4

One Devonshire Gardens by Hotel du Vin

A run of five Victorian townhouses in Glasgow's leafy West End, long the city's most storied boutique address.

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Riverside facade of The St. Regis Astana on the Ishim embankment
City Hotel

Astana, Kazakhstan

8.4

The St. Regis Astana

Butler-serviced calm on the Ishim riverbank, a low-slung counterpoint to Astana's tower-dominated skyline.

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Antique-filled salon and terrace of Hotel Albergo in Beirut's Achrafieh quarter
City Hotel

Beirut, Lebanon

8.4

Hotel Albergo

An antique-filled Relais & Châteaux hideaway in a 1930s Achrafieh townhouse, the most romantic small hotel in the Levant.

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