Country House
Auchterarder, United Kingdom
9.1
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
The world’s finest hotels.
Every property researched and profiled by the Browntravels editorial team. Sponsored placements are always clearly labelled.
135 hotels found
Beach Resort
San Diego, United States
9.1
Hotel del Coronado
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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Resort
Muscat, Oman
9.1
Al Bustan Palace, a Ritz-Carlton Hotel
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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City Hotel
Cape Town, South Africa
9.1
Mount Nelson, A Belmond Hotel
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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Resort
Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
9.1
The Victoria Falls Hotel
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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Resort
Mackinac Island, United States
9.1
Grand Hotel
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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Country House
Wairarapa, New Zealand
9.1
Wharekauhau Country Estate
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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Ski Hotel
Val d'Isère, France
9.1
Airelles Val d'Isère, Mademoiselle
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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Beach Resort
Marbella, Spain
9.1
Marbella Club Hotel
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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Ski Hotel
Zermatt, Switzerland
9.1
Mont Cervin Palace
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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Private Island
Jumby Bay, Antigua and Barbuda
9.1
Jumby Bay Island, Oetker Collection
A car-free 300-acre private island off Antigua, run by Oetker Collection as the Caribbean's most polished all-inclusive hideaway.
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Resort
Halkidiki, Greece
9.1
Sani Resort
Europe's most decorated family resort — a private 1,000-acre ecological reserve on Halkidiki's Kassandra peninsula with five hotels, seven kilometres of white-sand beach and childcare that sets the world standard.
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