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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.

175 hotels found

Row of Golden Age canal palace facades of the Waldorf Astoria on Amsterdam's Herengracht

City Hotel

Amsterdam, Netherlands

9.2

Waldorf Astoria Amsterdam

Six Golden Age canal palaces on the Herengracht united into Amsterdam's most refined address, with a private garden and two-star dining.

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Neo-Renaissance facade of Mandarin Oriental, Munich on a quiet Altstadt lane near Maximilianstrasse

City Hotel

Munich, Germany

9.2

Mandarin Oriental, Munich

An intimate neo-Renaissance house behind Maximilianstrasse with a rooftop pool facing the Frauenkirche and Alps on clear days.

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City Hotel

Sydney, Australia

9.1

Park Hyatt Sydney

Australia's most coveted hotel address curves along the Rocks waterfront with full-frame Opera House views from rooms, restaurant and rooftop pool.

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Resort

Uluwatu, Indonesia

9.1

Bulgari Resort Bali

A clifftop villa estate on the Bukit Peninsula where Italian tailoring meets Balinese craft 150 metres above the Indian Ocean.

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Palacio Duhau – Park Hyatt Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires

City Hotel

Buenos Aires, Argentina

9.1

Palacio Duhau – Park Hyatt Buenos Aires

A 1930s aristocratic palace and a sleek modern tower joined by terraced gardens on Avenida Alvear, with one of the continent's great cheese cellars.

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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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Whitewashed pavilions and lotus lagoons of Four Seasons Hangzhou at West Lake in classical Jiangnan style

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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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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Stone pavilion cottages of Amanruya amid olive groves above a Bodrum cove

Resort

Bodrum, Turkey

9.1

Amanruya

Aman's Aegean retreat of stone pavilion cottages, each with a private pool, scattered through olive groves on the Bodrum peninsula's quiet north coast.

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White-plastered terraces and infinity pool of Grace Hotel overlooking the Santorini caldera at Imerovigli

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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Restored 1930s Art Deco facade of Sommerro, the former electricity headquarters in Oslo's Frogner district

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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Glass walls of Mashpi Lodge glowing amid the mist of Ecuador's Chocó cloud forest

Country House

Mashpi, Ecuador

9.1

Mashpi Lodge

A glass-walled biology station of a luxury lodge suspended in Ecuador's Chocó cloud forest, three hours from Quito and a world away.

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