Resort
Udaipur, India
9.6
The Oberoi Udaivilas
A palatial dreamscape of domes, courtyards and semi-private pools on Lake Pichola, delivering Rajasthan's most celebrated hotel service.
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69 hotels profiled in Asia
City Hotel
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
9.5
Rosewood Hong Kong
A vertical estate on the Kowloon waterfront whose art-filled interiors, harbour-view rooms and formidable dining set Hong Kong's current standard.
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Jodhpur, India
9.5
Umaid Bhawan Palace
A vast art-deco palace above the Blue City, still home to Jodhpur's royal family and run in part as one of the world's most extraordinary hotels.
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Kyoto, Japan
9.4
Four Seasons Hotel Kyoto
A serene contemporary retreat wrapped around an 800-year-old pond garden in Kyoto's temple-rich Higashiyama district.
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Shanghai, China
9.4
The Peninsula Shanghai
The first new building on the Bund in generations, channelling 1920s Shanghai glamour behind a stone facade facing the Huangpu River and Pudong skyline.
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Jaipur, India
9.4
Rambagh Palace
The former residence of the Maharaja of Jaipur, a sandstone palace of marble corridors, peacock-filled gardens and princely suites run by Taj since the 1970s.
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Hong Kong, Hong Kong
9.3
The Peninsula Hong Kong
The 'Grande Dame of the Far East' pairs 1928 colonnaded elegance with Rolls-Royce arrivals, rooftop dining and impeccable Kowloon service.
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Tokyo, Japan
9.3
The Peninsula Tokyo
A purpose-built Marunouchi tower facing the Imperial Palace gardens, where Peninsula polish meets Japanese craft in one of Tokyo's most privileged positions.
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Tokyo, Japan
9.3
The Okura Tokyo
Tokyo's modernist grande dame, rebuilt in 2019 with its celebrated 1962 lobby faithfully recreated lantern by lantern.
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Hong Kong, Hong Kong
9.3
The Upper House
André Fu's serene tower above Pacific Place distils Hong Kong luxury to bamboo, limestone and harbour views, with no ballroom and no pretence.
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Resort
Kyoto, Japan
9.2
Hoshinoya Kyoto
A riverside ryokan reached by private boat through the Arashiyama gorge, occupying a century-old villa on the wooded banks of the Oi River.
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Hong Kong, Hong Kong
9.2
The Murray, Hong Kong
A celebrated Foster + Partners conversion of a 1969 government tower in Central, where deep arched windows and a rooftop bar reframe Hong Kong luxury.
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Mumbai, India
9.2
The Taj Mahal Palace
India's defining grand hotel since 1903, its Indo-Saracenic dome rising beside the Gateway of India as the emblem of Mumbai hospitality.
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Hong Kong, Hong Kong
9.2
Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong
The 1963 original of the Mandarin Oriental group still holds Central's waterfront with clubby bars, storied restaurants and service polished over six decades.
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Resort
Udaipur, India
9.1
Taj Lake Palace
An 18th-century white marble palace floating on Lake Pichola, reached by boat and still one of the most romantic arrivals in world travel.
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Beijing, China
9.1
The Peninsula Beijing
An all-suite Peninsula in the Wangfujing quarter, a short walk from the Forbidden City, rebuilt from the inside out into Beijing's most residential luxury stay.
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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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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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Tokyo, Japan
9.0
Imperial Hotel Tokyo
Japan's original grand hotel, welcoming guests beside Hibiya Park since 1890 and forever linked to Frank Lloyd Wright's legendary earlier building.
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Shanghai, China
9.0
Fairmont Peace Hotel
Victor Sassoon's 1929 Art Deco masterpiece beneath the green pyramid roof on the Bund, still home to Shanghai's fabled Old Jazz Band.
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New Delhi, India
9.0
The Imperial New Delhi
A 1936 landmark of Lutyens' Delhi on Janpath, where colonial and Art Deco styles meet one of the world's great hotel art collections beneath king palms.
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Macau, Macau
9.0
Morpheus
Zaha Hadid's free-form exoskeleton tower at City of Dreams is the most audacious hotel building in Asia, with Alain Ducasse cooking inside it.
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Macau, Macau
9.0
Raffles at Galaxy Macau
An all-suite Raffles tower within the Galaxy Macau resort city, pairing the brand's butler tradition with Cotai's biggest stage.
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Seoul, South Korea
8.9
The Shilla Seoul
Seoul's establishment grande dame on the wooded slopes of Namsan, pairing a sculpture-filled Korean garden with the city's most decorated Korean restaurant.
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Wellness Retreat
Hakone, Japan
8.9
Fujiya Hotel
Japan's pioneering Western-style resort hotel, welcoming guests to the hot-spring hills of Miyanoshita since 1878.
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Seoul, South Korea
8.9
Four Seasons Hotel Seoul
A sleek Gwanghwamun tower blending Korean craft with big-city polish, crowned by one of Asia's most celebrated hotel bars.
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Baku, Azerbaijan
8.9
Four Seasons Hotel Baku
A Beaux-Arts-style palace on Baku's Caspian seafront boulevard, steps from the walled Old City and the caravanserais of Icherisheher.
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Colombo, Sri Lanka
8.8
Galle Face Hotel
One of Asia's oldest hotels, an oceanfront Victorian grande dame on Galle Face Green since 1864, famous for chequered verandas and Indian Ocean sunsets.
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Nara, Japan
8.8
Nara Hotel
A 1909 Meiji-era classic above Nara Park, where temple-roofed architecture and deer-filled lawns meet old-school Japanese hospitality.
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Resort
Macau, Macau
8.8
Wynn Palace
Cotai's most opulent integrated resort surrounds a performance lake crossed by cable cars, with floral sculpture, museum-grade art and Michelin-decorated dining.
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City Hotel
Tbilisi, Georgia
8.8
Stamba Hotel
A Soviet publishing house transformed into Tbilisi's design landmark, with book-lined lobbies, soaring lofts and a glass-bottomed rooftop pool.
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Country House
Pokhara, Nepal
8.8
Tiger Mountain Pokhara Lodge
A hand-built stone lodge on a ridge above Pokhara, facing the full Annapurna range from Dhaulagiri to Machhapuchhare across an unbroken horizon.
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Taipei, Taiwan
8.7
The Grand Hotel Taipei
A colossal vermilion palace on Yuanshan hill, one of the world's great examples of classical Chinese revival architecture and Taipei's most photographed hotel.
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Macau, Macau
8.7
The Venetian Macao
The largest casino resort on earth — Macau's all-suite Venetian recreation whose gaming floor, canal-laced shopping city and 15,000-seat arena redefined the scale of integrated resorts.
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Almaty, Kazakhstan
8.7
The Ritz-Carlton, Almaty
High floors of the Esentai Tower with the snow-capped Tian Shan filling the windows—Central Asia's most polished city hotel.
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Wellness Retreat
Paro, Bhutan
8.7
COMO Uma Paro
COMO's serene hillside retreat above the Paro valley, pairing Bhutanese architecture with Shambhala wellness and expert-led Himalayan adventure.
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Tbilisi, Georgia
8.6
Rooms Hotel Tbilisi
The industrial-chic pioneer that started Tbilisi's design-hotel wave, warm with leather, timber and the city's best-loved hotel restaurant scene.
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Yerevan, Armenia
8.6
The Alexander, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Yerevan
Armenia's first true luxury hotel, a marble-clad Luxury Collection address steps from Republic Square in the heart of Yerevan.
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Astana, Kazakhstan
8.5
The Ritz-Carlton, Astana
Sculptural luxury in the Talan Towers, looking across Astana's futuristic skyline of golden orbs and presidential domes.
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Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
8.5
Shangri-La Ulaanbaatar
Mongolia's flagship hotel, a glass tower beside Sükhbaatar Square whose warmth and facilities anchor every serious Ulaanbaatar itinerary.
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Baku, Azerbaijan
8.5
Fairmont Baku, Flame Towers
A hotel inside Baku's most famous landmark: one of the three Flame Towers that blaze in LED above the city each night.
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Astana, Kazakhstan
8.4
The St. Regis Astana
Butler-serviced calm on the Ishim riverbank, a low-slung counterpoint to Astana's tower-dominated skyline.
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Tashkent, Uzbekistan
8.4
Hyatt Regency Tashkent
The polished heart of new Tashkent, opposite the Minor Mosque's white marble domes and long the city's most reliable luxury base.
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Islamabad, Pakistan
8.4
Islamabad Serena Hotel
The capital's finest address: a low-rise Mughal-inspired estate of gardens, courtyards and craft set against the Margalla Hills.
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Tbilisi, Georgia
8.3
The Biltmore Hotel Tbilisi
The Caucasus's tallest hotel tower, rising behind a preserved 1930s facade on Rustaveli Avenue with sweeping views over old Tbilisi.
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Resort
Samarkand, Uzbekistan
8.3
Silk Road by Minyoun, Samarkand
The flagship palace hotel of the vast Silk Road Samarkand resort city, built along a rowing canal on the edge of Timur's capital.
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Tashkent, Uzbekistan
8.2
InterContinental Tashkent
A glass tower over Tashkent City Park bringing high-floor glamour, club-lounge polish and skyline dining to the Uzbek capital.
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Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
8.2
Hyatt Regency Bishkek
The Kyrgyz capital's long-standing address of record, a mansion-scaled hotel by the opera house with a garden pool and the city's best tables.
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Kathmandu, Nepal
8.2
Hotel Yak & Yeti
Kathmandu's legendary five-star, grown around the nineteenth-century Lal Durbar palace off Durbar Marg, where mountaineering history and Rana grandeur meet.
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Dhaka, Bangladesh
8.2
InterContinental Dhaka
Dhaka's storied Minto Road landmark—witness to the nation's birth—returned to the InterContinental flag after a top-to-bottom rebuild.
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Baku, Azerbaijan
8.2
JW Marriott Absheron Baku
A confident glass-fronted grand hotel on Azadliq Square, pairing big-city polish with Caspian views and one of Baku's best hotel pools.
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Yerevan, Armenia
8.2
Grand Hotel Yerevan
A 1928 grande dame on Abovyan Street reborn as a boutique classic, with a courtyard pool rare in central Yerevan.
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Lakeside Hotel
Dushanbe, Tajikistan
8.1
Hyatt Regency Dushanbe
A resort-feeling city hotel on the shore of Komsomol Lake, with mountain reflections, lawns and Dushanbe's best outdoor pool scene.
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Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
8.1
Kempinski Hotel Khan Palace
European five-star tradition on Peace Avenue's embassy end, long the trusted choice for Ulaanbaatar's diplomatic and expedition circuit.
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Lahore, Pakistan
8.1
Pearl-Continental Hotel Lahore
Lahore's long-serving grande dame on Shahrah-e-Quaid-e-Azam, where Pakistan's home-grown luxury flag pairs marble-lobby ceremony with the city's best hotel dining.
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Dushanbe, Tajikistan
8.0
Hilton Dushanbe
Dushanbe's first global-brand tower, bringing high-floor mountain views, an executive lounge and international consistency to the Tajik capital.
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Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
8.0
Sheraton Bishkek
Bishkek's modern flagship tower, opened in 2021 with the city's largest rooms, an indoor pool and views towards the Ala-Too range.
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Dhaka, Bangladesh
8.0
The Westin Dhaka
Gulshan's polished high-rise stalwart, placing Westin's wellness-minded comforts in the middle of Dhaka's diplomatic and dining district.
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Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
7.9
Oguzkent Hotel
Ashgabat's most capable luxury hotel, a vast white-marble landmark built to French designs on the capital's showpiece Bitarap Turkmenistan Avenue.
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Dhaka, Bangladesh
7.9
Pan Pacific Sonargaon Dhaka
A Dhaka institution since 1981, spreading low across gardens and lawns in Karwan Bazar with the city's most generous resort-style grounds.
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Yerevan, Armenia
7.9
Armenia Marriott Hotel Yerevan
The pink-tuff landmark that forms one side of Republic Square itself, with front rows seats for Yerevan's singing fountains.
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Kabul, Afghanistan
7.9
Kabul Serena Hotel
Kabul's established international-standard hotel, an Aga Khan-built haven of Afghan craft and gardens in the central Shahr-e-Naw district.
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Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
7.8
Yyldyz Hotel
A teardrop of blue glass in the foothills above Ashgabat—the marble city's most photographed building and its most striking place to sleep.
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Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
7.8
Orion Hotel Bishkek
A locally owned five-star on Erkindik Boulevard mixing generous suites, an ambitious kitchen and Kyrgyz hospitality at its most personal.
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Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
7.8
The Blue Sky Hotel and Tower
The sail-shaped blue glass landmark on Sükhbaatar Square itself, with front-row views of Government Palace and the city's mountain bowl.
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Karachi, Pakistan
7.8
Mövenpick Hotel Karachi
A dependable Swiss-branded tower on Club Road in Karachi's business heart, with gardens, a large pool and some of the city's most consistent hotel dining.
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Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
7.6
Arkadag Hotel
Ashgabat's newest marble showpiece, a crescent-shaped state hotel in parkland beneath the Kopet Dag with capital views and generous suites.
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Kabul, Afghanistan
7.6
Hotel Inter-Continental Kabul
The hilltop grande dame of Afghan hospitality since 1969, an independent state-run institution with panoramic views over the Kabul valley.
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Kabul, Afghanistan
7.6
Safi Landmark Hotel & Suites
A glass tower above the Kabul City Centre mall in Shahr-e-Naw, offering apartment-style suites and city views in the capital's commercial heart.
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