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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The Directory
Every property researched and profiled by the Browntravels editorial team. Sponsored placements are always clearly labelled.
Funchal, Portugal
Madeira's clifftop institution since 1891, famous for subtropical gardens, saltwater pools and afternoon tea above the Atlantic.
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Taplow, United Kingdom
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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Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
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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Mackinac Island, United States
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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Èze, France
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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Phuket, Thailand
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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Galle, Sri Lanka
Aman's serene occupation of Galle Fort's 17th-century hotel buildings, where colonial-era planters' chairs meet UNESCO ramparts.
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Conca dei Marini, Italy
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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Hangzhou, China
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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