City Hotel
Jodhpur, India
9.5
Umaid Bhawan Palace
A vast art-deco palace above the Blue City, still home to Jodhpur's royal family and run in part as one of the world's most extraordinary hotels.
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The world’s finest hotels.
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598 hotels found
City Hotel
Bangkok, Thailand
9.5
Capella Bangkok
A riverfront urban resort on the Chao Phraya where every room faces the water, service is near-telepathic and the dining is Michelin-level.
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Resort
Positano, Italy
9.5
Il San Pietro di Positano
A family-run clifftop marvel carved into the rock outside Positano, with a lift plunging to its own private beach and a Michelin-starred terrace.
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Resort
Venice, Italy
9.5
Hotel Cipriani, A Belmond Hotel
Giuseppe Cipriani's 1958 lagoon-edge legend on Giudecca island, with Venice's most famous swimming pool and a private launch to St Mark's.
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Private Island
Laucala Island, Fiji
9.5
Laucala Island Resort
A 25-villa private island in Fiji's remote northeast where a working farm, championship golf and near-limitless inclusions set the world standard.
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Beach Resort
Positano, Italy
9.5
Le Sirenuse
A family-run former villa stacked into Positano's cliffside, whose vine-draped terraces and Mediterranean glamour define the Amalfi Coast.
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Resort
Ubud, Indonesia
9.5
Four Seasons Resort Bali at Sayan
A jungle-valley icon above the Ayung River where a lotus-pond rooftop arrival gives way to villas folded into Ubud's rice terraces.
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City Hotel
Stockholm, Sweden
9.5
Ett Hem
Ilse Crawford's house-party hotel in a 1910 Arts-and-Crafts townhouse, where guests wander the kitchen and library as if the home were theirs.
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City Hotel
London, United Kingdom
9.5
The Connaught
Mayfair's most quietly assured grand hotel, where Edwardian manners meet a world-class bar and some of London's finest cooking.
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City Hotel
Paris, France
9.5
Le Bristol Paris
The Oetker Collection's flagship palace on rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, prized for its courtyard garden, rooftop pool and three-Michelin-starred Epicure.
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City Hotel
Bangkok, Thailand
9.4
Mandarin Oriental Bangkok
Bangkok's storied riverside original, welcoming travellers and writers since 1876 with legendary Thai service and a beloved Chao Phraya setting.
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City Hotel
Paris, France
9.4
Cheval Blanc Paris
LVMH's Seine-front maison in the Art Deco La Samaritaine building, offering couture interiors, a 30-metre pool and river-view gastronomy.
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