Beach Resort
Èze, France
9.1
Cap Estel
A private peninsula estate at Èze-Bord-de-Mer with two hectares of gardens, a seawater infinity pool and only a few dozen keys.
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Beach Resort
Phuket, Thailand
9.1
Trisara Phuket
A private-bay villa estate on Phuket's quiet north-west coast whose name means 'the garden in the third heaven', crowned by tasting-menu dining at PRU.
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Resort
Conca dei Marini, Italy
9.1
Monastero Santa Rosa
A seventeenth-century monastery suspended above the Gulf of Salerno, reborn as an intimate twenty-room retreat with a legendary infinity pool.
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Beach Resort
Porto Cervo, Italy
9.1
Hotel Cala di Volpe
Jacques Couëlle's 1963 fantasy village on the Costa Smeralda, still the social summit of Mediterranean summer by its famous saltwater pool.
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Lakeside Hotel
Hangzhou, China
9.1
Four Seasons Hotel Hangzhou at West Lake
A Jiangnan-style water garden of pavilions, lagoons and willow walks beside West Lake, built new but faithful to the region's classical grammar.
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Resort
Imerovigli, Greece
9.1
Grace Hotel, Auberge Resorts Collection
An intimate white-on-white retreat at Imerovigli, the highest point of Santorini's caldera rim, built around one of the island's most photographed pools.
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Beach Resort
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
9.1
One&Only The Palm
A low-rise, Moorish-inspired beach estate at the tip of the Palm that trades Dubai's usual scale for gardens, quiet and skyline views across the water.
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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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City Hotel
Oslo, Norway
9.1
Sommerro
A 1930s Art Deco power company headquarters in Frogner reborn in 2022 with restored public baths, a rooftop pool and neighbourhood soul.
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Beach Resort
Muscat, Oman
9.0
The Chedi Muscat
A serene study in Omani-Zen minimalism, where black reflecting pools, white arches and lantern-lit gardens meet a long private beach outside Muscat.
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Resort
Los Angeles, United States
9.0
The Beverly Hills Hotel
The 'Pink Palace' on Sunset Boulevard, serving banana-leaf wallpaper, bungalow legend and old-Hollywood poolside ritual since 1912.
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City Hotel
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
9.0
Copacabana Palace, A Belmond Hotel
Rio's white Art Deco monument on Copacabana beach, hosting a century of carnival glamour around South America's most famous hotel pool.
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