Beach Resort
San Diego, United States
9.1
Hotel del Coronado
The red-turreted Victorian queen of Coronado Island, an 1888 wooden beach palace that Hollywood and holidaying families have adored for over a century.
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290 hotels found
Resort
Funchal, Portugal
9.1
Belmond Reid's Palace
Madeira's clifftop institution since 1891, famous for subtropical gardens, saltwater pools and afternoon tea above the Atlantic.
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Country House
Taplow, United Kingdom
9.1
Cliveden House
A Grade I-listed stately home above the Thames, seat of the Astors and stage of the Profumo affair, now England's most storied country-house hotel.
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Resort
Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
9.1
The Victoria Falls Hotel
The Edwardian 'grand old lady of the Falls', built in 1904 with lawns aligned on the spray of Victoria Falls and its century-old railway bridge.
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Resort
Mackinac Island, United States
9.1
Grand Hotel
The 1887 summer palace of the Great Lakes, famed for the world's longest front porch on a car-free island reached by ferry.
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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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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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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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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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Country House
Wairarapa, New Zealand
9.1
Wharekauhau Country Estate
An Edwardian-style lodge on a vast working sheep station above Palliser Bay, ninety minutes from Wellington across the Remutaka Range.
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Private Island
Jumby Bay, Antigua and Barbuda
9.1
Jumby Bay Island, Oetker Collection
A car-free 300-acre private island off Antigua, run by Oetker Collection as the Caribbean's most polished all-inclusive hideaway.
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