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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.

290 hotels found

White Belle Époque façade and twin cupolas of the Carlton Cannes on La Croisette
Beach Resort

Cannes, France

9.2

Carlton Cannes, a Regent Hotel

The twin-cupola Belle Époque queen of La Croisette, freshly restored and forever entwined with the Cannes Film Festival.

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Brenners Park-Hotel & Spa, Baden-Baden
Wellness Retreat

Baden-Baden, Germany

9.2

Brenners Park-Hotel & Spa

The Oetker Collection's 1872 grande dame on Baden-Baden's Lichtentaler Allee, anchored by the Villa Stéphanie medical spa.

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Grand Hotel Timeo, A Belmond Hotel, Taormina
Resort

Taormina, Italy

9.2

Grand Hotel Timeo, A Belmond Hotel

Taormina's original hotel of 1873, beside the ancient Greek theatre with a terrace many call the finest view in Sicily.

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Gstaad Palace, Gstaad
Ski Hotel

Gstaad, Switzerland

9.2

Gstaad Palace

The turreted, family-owned castle-hotel above Gstaad since 1913, winter court of the Alps' most discreetly glamorous village.

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Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise, Lake Louise
Lakeside Hotel

Lake Louise, Canada

9.2

Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise

The century-old railway chateau on the shore of Lake Louise, facing turquoise water and the Victoria Glacier in the heart of Banff National Park.

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Llao Llao Resort, Golf & Spa, Bariloche
Lakeside Hotel

Bariloche, Argentina

9.2

Llao Llao Resort, Golf & Spa

Argentina's alpine icon of 1940, a log-and-stone grand hotel on a rise between two Patagonian lakes in Nahuel Huapi National Park.

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Aerial view of a reef islet and blue lagoon at The St. Regis Bora Bora Resort
Resort

Bora Bora, French Polynesia

9.2

The St. Regis Bora Bora Resort

Bora Bora's most extravagant villas—some of the largest overwater retreats in the world—arranged around a private lagoonarium.

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Aerial view of pavilions and greenery evoking Four Seasons Resort Chiang Mai in the Mae Rim valley
Resort

Chiang Mai, Thailand

9.2

Four Seasons Resort Chiang Mai

Lanna-style pavilions and pool villas arranged around working rice terraces in the Mae Rim valley, with water buffalo and mountain mist as neighbours.

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intercontinental bora bora thalasso
Beach Resort

Bora Bora, French Polynesia

9.2

InterContinental Bora Bora Resort & Thalasso Spa

An all-overwater-villa resort on a motu facing Mount Otemanu, pioneering deep-seawater cooling and a lagoon-side thalassotherapy spa.

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Whitewashed arcades and pool terrace of Capri Palace Jumeirah in Anacapri
Resort

Anacapri, Italy

9.2

Capri Palace Jumeirah

Anacapri's art-filled palace above the crowds, pairing two-Michelin-star dining at L'Olivo with the island's most famous seafront lunch at Il Riccio.

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Historic mansion façade of Shangri-La Paris on the Chaillot hill facing the Eiffel Tower
City Hotel

Paris, France

9.2

Shangri-La Paris

The former mansion of Prince Roland Bonaparte in the 16th arrondissement, now an Asian-accented palace with some of the best Eiffel Tower views in Paris.

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Ivy-clad medieval villa and formal gardens of Borgo Santo Pietro near Chiusdino
Country House

Chiusdino, Italy

9.2

Borgo Santo Pietro

A thirteenth-century Tuscan villa turned self-sufficient country estate, where farm, garden and spa feed one of the region's most personal luxury stays.

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