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The world’s finest hotels.

Every property researched and profiled by the Browntravels editorial team. Sponsored placements are always clearly labelled.

162 hotels found

Victorian-era stone facade and arched loggias of the State Buildings housing COMO The Treasury in Perth

City Hotel

Perth, Australia

9.2

COMO The Treasury

Perth's 19th-century State Buildings reborn as a 48-room hotel of soaring ceilings, quiet luxury and serious cooking on Cathedral Square.

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Stone manor houses of La Residencia amid olive terraces below the Tramuntana mountains in Deià

Country House

Deià, Spain

9.2

La Residencia, A Belmond Hotel

Two centuries-old manor houses amid olive terraces in Deià, the Tramuntana artists' village that shaped Mallorca's bohemian legend.

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Timber-and-glass towers of Forestis on the Plose mountainside facing the Dolomites

Wellness Retreat

Bressanone, Italy

9.2

Forestis Dolomites

A minimalist high-altitude retreat at 1,800 metres on the Plose, built around forest, spring water and silence with full-frontal Dolomites views.

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Castle-like towers of Suvretta House rising above snow-covered larch forest near St. Moritz

Ski Hotel

St. Moritz, Switzerland

9.2

Suvretta House

A castle-like 1912 grand hotel in its own quiet valley outside St. Moritz, with a private ski lift onto the Corviglia slopes.

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Pine-covered Astir peninsula at Vouliagmeni with the Four Seasons buildings above private coves

Resort

Vouliagmeni, Greece

9.2

Four Seasons Astir Palace Hotel Athens

The storied Astir Palace peninsula on the Athens Riviera, revived by Four Seasons with pine-shaded bungalows, private beaches and mid-century glamour.

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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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Ski Hotel

St. Moritz, Switzerland

9.1

Kulm Hotel St. Moritz

The 1856 birthplace of Alpine winter tourism, where Switzerland's first electric light still glows over Engadin panoramas, the Cresta Run and a superb spa.

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White colonnaded facade of Amangalla on Church Street inside the ramparts of Galle Fort

City Hotel

Galle, Sri Lanka

9.1

Amangalla

Aman's serene occupation of Galle Fort's 17th-century hotel buildings, where colonial-era planters' chairs meet UNESCO ramparts.

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Cliff-hung monastery and terraced gardens of Monastero Santa Rosa above the Gulf of Salerno

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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Gothic-revival brick facade of the Conservatorium Hotel on Amsterdam's Museumplein with modern glass atrium behind

City Hotel

Amsterdam, Netherlands

9.1

Conservatorium Hotel

A former bank and music conservatory on Museumplein transformed by Piero Lissoni into Amsterdam's definitive design hotel.

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Painted alpine-mansion façade of Airelles Val d'Isère, Mademoiselle at the foot of the slopes

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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Whitewashed garden bungalows and palms at Marbella Club Hotel on the Golden Mile

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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