Auchterarder, United Kingdom
Gleneagles
A glamorous 1920s Perthshire estate where championship golf, gundogs and falconry meet a surprisingly stylish country-house party.
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The Directory
Every property researched and profiled by the Browntravels editorial team. Sponsored placements are always clearly labelled.
San Diego, United States
The red-turreted Victorian queen of Coronado Island, an 1888 wooden beach palace that Hollywood and holidaying families have adored for over a century.
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Muscat, Oman
Oman's ceremonial palace-hotel of 1985, set between the Hajar Mountains and its own bay, with one of the Gulf's most magnificent domed lobbies.
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Cape Town, South Africa
Cape Town's blush-pink grande dame of 1899, set in nine acres of gardens beneath Table Mountain and famous for its extravagant afternoon tea.
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Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
The Edwardian 'grand old lady of the Falls', built in 1904 with lawns aligned on the spray of Victoria Falls and its century-old railway bridge.
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Mackinac Island, United States
The 1887 summer palace of the Great Lakes, famed for the world's longest front porch on a car-free island reached by ferry.
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Wairarapa, New Zealand
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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Val d'Isère, France
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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Marbella, Spain
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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Zermatt, Switzerland
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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