Cannes, France
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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The Directory
Every property researched and profiled by the Browntravels editorial team. Sponsored placements are always clearly labelled.
Baden-Baden, Germany
The Oetker Collection's 1872 grande dame on Baden-Baden's Lichtentaler Allee, anchored by the Villa Stéphanie medical spa.
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Taormina, Italy
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, Switzerland
The turreted, family-owned castle-hotel above Gstaad since 1913, winter court of the Alps' most discreetly glamorous village.
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Lake Louise, Canada
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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Bariloche, Argentina
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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Bora Bora, French Polynesia
Bora Bora's most extravagant villas—some of the largest overwater retreats in the world—arranged around a private lagoonarium.
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Chiang Mai, Thailand
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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Bora Bora, French Polynesia
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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Anacapri, Italy
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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