Lakeside Hotel
Moltrasio, Italy
9.8
Passalacqua
An 18th-century villa above Lake Como transformed by its owning family into a 24-suite masterpiece of Italian craft, gardens and joyous hospitality.
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272 hotels profiled in Europe
Beach Resort
Antibes, France
9.6
Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc
The Riviera legend at the tip of Cap d'Antibes, where pine-scented gardens, the seawater Eden-Roc pool and film-festival mythology endure.
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City Hotel
Paris, France
9.6
Ritz Paris
The original palace hotel on Place Vendôme, reborn after a four-year restoration with Bar Hemingway, a gilded pool and the ghost of Coco Chanel intact.
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City Hotel
Paris, France
9.5
Hotel de Crillon, A Rosewood Hotel
An 18th-century palace on Place de la Concorde reborn with contemporary French craft, couture suites and one of Paris's most beautiful courtyards.
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City Hotel
Venice, Italy
9.5
Aman Venice
A 16th-century palazzo on the Grand Canal, its Tiepolo ceilings and private gardens sheltering just 24 rooms of monastic-luxe calm.
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Resort
Portofino, Italy
9.5
Splendido, A Belmond Hotel
A former monastery on the hillside above Portofino's harbour, the Italian Riviera's most glamorous perch since 1901.
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Lakeside Hotel
Cernobbio, Italy
9.5
Villa d'Este
A 16th-century cardinal's villa on Lake Como with 25 acres of Renaissance gardens and a floating pool moored on the lake itself.
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Resort
Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, France
9.5
Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat, A Four Seasons Hotel
A 1908 white palace amid seven hectares of pines at the tip of Cap-Ferrat, home to the Riviera's most storied seawater pool.
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City Hotel
Monte-Carlo, Monaco
9.5
Hôtel de Paris Monte-Carlo
Monaco's founding palace hotel of 1864 on the Place du Casino, home to Alain Ducasse's Louis XV and Europe's most famous hotel cellars.
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Resort
Positano, Italy
9.5
Il San Pietro di Positano
A family-run clifftop marvel carved into the rock outside Positano, with a lift plunging to its own private beach and a Michelin-starred terrace.
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Resort
Venice, Italy
9.5
Hotel Cipriani, A Belmond Hotel
Giuseppe Cipriani's 1958 lagoon-edge legend on Giudecca island, with Venice's most famous swimming pool and a private launch to St Mark's.
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Beach Resort
Positano, Italy
9.5
Le Sirenuse
A family-run former villa stacked into Positano's cliffside, whose vine-draped terraces and Mediterranean glamour define the Amalfi Coast.
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City Hotel
Stockholm, Sweden
9.5
Ett Hem
Ilse Crawford's house-party hotel in a 1910 Arts-and-Crafts townhouse, where guests wander the kitchen and library as if the home were theirs.
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City Hotel
London, United Kingdom
9.5
The Connaught
Mayfair's most quietly assured grand hotel, where Edwardian manners meet a world-class bar and some of London's finest cooking.
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City Hotel
Paris, France
9.5
Le Bristol Paris
The Oetker Collection's flagship palace on rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, prized for its courtyard garden, rooftop pool and three-Michelin-starred Epicure.
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City Hotel
Paris, France
9.4
Cheval Blanc Paris
LVMH's Seine-front maison in the Art Deco La Samaritaine building, offering couture interiors, a 30-metre pool and river-view gastronomy.
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City Hotel
London, United Kingdom
9.4
Claridge's
Mayfair's Art Deco jewel remains London's most glamorous address, from chequerboard lobby and legendary tea to a subterranean spa retreat.
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City Hotel
Paris, France
9.4
La Réserve Paris
A 40-key Haussmannian mansion off the Champs-Élysées that feels like staying in a collector's private apartment, with two-star gastronomy below.
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City Hotel
Paris, France
9.4
Hôtel Plaza Athénée
The red-awninged palace of Avenue Montaigne since 1913, with Eiffel Tower views, a geranium-clad courtyard and haute couture on the doorstep.
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City Hotel
Budapest, Hungary
9.4
Four Seasons Hotel Gresham Palace
A 1906 Art Nouveau masterpiece facing the Chain Bridge across the Danube, restored to jewel-like glory with peacock gates and Zsolnay tiles.
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Resort
Taormina, Italy
9.4
San Domenico Palace, Taormina, A Four Seasons Hotel
A 14th-century Dominican convent turned clifftop palace above the Ionian Sea, with Mount Etna framed from its cloistered gardens.
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Country House
Adare, Ireland
9.4
Adare Manor
A neo-Gothic calendar house on 840 acres in County Limerick, exhaustively restored and set to host the 2027 Ryder Cup.
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Beach Resort
Saint-Tropez, France
9.4
Cheval Blanc St-Tropez
LVMH's intimate seafront maison amid umbrella pines on the Bay of Pampelonne's quieter side, crowned by Arnaud Donckele's three-Michelin-starred La Vague d'Or.
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Country House
Great Milton, United Kingdom
9.4
Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, A Belmond Hotel
Raymond Blanc's legendary Oxfordshire manor, where two acres of kitchen gardens feed one of Britain's most enduring gastronomic destinations.
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City Hotel
Paris, France
9.4
Four Seasons Hotel George V
A 1928 Art Deco landmark off the Champs-Élysées where extravagant floral artistry meets one of the highest concentrations of Michelin stars in any hotel.
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Country House
Montalcino, Italy
9.4
Rosewood Castiglion del Bosco
A restored medieval borgo on a vast Val d'Orcia estate, complete with its own Brunello winery and a members-style golf course.
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Resort
Fasano, Italy
9.4
Borgo Egnazia
A hand-built re-imagining of an Apulian village near Fasano, whose crafted stone lanes, Vair spa and starred dining made Puglia a luxury destination.
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Lakeside Hotel
Gargnano, Italy
9.4
Grand Hotel a Villa Feltrinelli
An 1892 lakefront villa on Garda's unspoilt western shore, restored to museum standard and run with a staff-to-guest ratio few hotels attempt.
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Wellness Retreat
Zurich, Switzerland
9.4
The Dolder Grand
A turreted 1899 curhaus above Zurich, rebuilt by Foster + Partners into a resort of serious art, spa and two-star dining.
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City Hotel
Prague, Czech Republic
9.4
Four Seasons Hotel Prague
A riverside composition of Baroque, Renaissance and neo-Classical houses facing Charles Bridge and Prague Castle across the Vltava.
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City Hotel
Venice, Italy
9.3
The Gritti Palace
A 15th-century doge's palace on the Grand Canal whose terrace, antiques and Santa Maria della Salute views embody Venetian grandeur.
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City Hotel
London, United Kingdom
9.3
The Ritz London
César Ritz's 1906 Piccadilly landmark, where Louis XVI interiors, the Palm Court and a gilded dining room keep Edwardian London gloriously alive.
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City Hotel
Nice, France
9.3
Le Negresco
The pink-domed grande dame of the Promenade des Anglais, a 1913 palace hotel that doubles as a private museum of French art.
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Lakeside Hotel
Tremezzo, Italy
9.3
Grand Hotel Tremezzo
A 1910 Art Nouveau palace on Lake Como's western shore, famous for its floating lake pool and views across to Bellagio.
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Lakeside Hotel
Lausanne, Switzerland
9.3
Beau-Rivage Palace
A Belle Époque palace in four hectares of gardens on Lake Geneva's Ouchy shore, home to Anne-Sophie Pic's celebrated Lausanne outpost.
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Ski Hotel
Courchevel, France
9.3
Cheval Blanc Courchevel
LVMH's original alpine maison in Courchevel 1850's Jardin Alpin, pairing ski-in access with Yannick Alléno's three-Michelin-starred Le 1947.
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City Hotel
Rome, Italy
9.3
Bulgari Hotel Roma
The Roman jeweller's 2023 homecoming: a rationalist landmark on Piazza Augusto Imperatore turned into a temple of marble, mosaic and Niko Romito cooking.
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City Hotel
Madrid, Spain
9.3
Four Seasons Hotel Madrid
Seven restored heritage buildings at Centro Canalejas, steps from Puerta del Sol, turned into Madrid's most ambitious contemporary grand hotel.
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City Hotel
Zurich, Switzerland
9.3
Baur au Lac
Zurich's family-owned grande dame since 1844, set in its own private park between the Bahnhofstrasse and the lake.
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City Hotel
Istanbul, Turkey
9.3
The Peninsula Istanbul
Four buildings on the Galataport waterfront—including a restored 1930s ferry terminal—giving Peninsula's Istanbul debut a front-row Bosphorus stage.
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City Hotel
Hamburg, Germany
9.3
The Fontenay
A sculptural 2018 lakeside build on the Outer Alster with curving white architecture, a rooftop pool and two-Michelin-star dining.
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City Hotel
London, United Kingdom
9.3
The Peninsula London
Peninsula's long-awaited London flagship at Hyde Park Corner, a purpose-built palace of craftsmanship, rooftop dining and a superb subterranean spa.
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City Hotel
Paris, France
9.2
Le Meurice
The artists' palace opposite the Tuileries, where Dali-era eccentricity meets Louis XVI elegance and Alain Ducasse-led dining.
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Ski Hotel
St. Moritz, Switzerland
9.2
Badrutt's Palace
The turreted 1896 landmark of Alpine society hotel-keeping, where St. Moritz glamour, lake views and ski-season theatre converge.
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Country House
Cong, Ireland
9.2
Ashford Castle
An 800-year-old castle estate on Lough Corrib where falconry, wood-panelled halls and Irish warmth make fairy-tale luxury feel real.
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City Hotel
Venice, Italy
9.2
Hotel Danieli
A 14th-century doge's palace on the Riva degli Schiavoni, whose gilded Gothic atrium and lagoon-view rooftop define Venetian grand-hotel romance.
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City Hotel
Berlin, Germany
9.2
Hotel Adlon Kempinski
Berlin's legendary address beside the Brandenburg Gate, rebuilt in 1997 to the spirit of the 1907 original that hosted kaisers, kings and Garbo.
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City Hotel
Stockholm, Sweden
9.2
Grand Hôtel Stockholm
Sweden's waterfront flagship since 1874, facing the Royal Palace across the harbour and hosting Nobel laureates for more than a century.
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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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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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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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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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Ski Hotel
Courchevel, France
9.2
Les Airelles Courchevel
A fairytale Austro-Hungarian palace in the Jardin Alpin, famed for lavish family programming and some of the most theatrical service in the Alps.
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City Hotel
London, United Kingdom
9.2
The Berkeley
A fashion-fluent Knightsbridge grande dame with a rooftop pool above Hyde Park and one of London's most stylish bar scenes.
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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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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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Country House
Aix-en-Provence, France
9.2
Villa La Coste
An all-suite pavilion hotel set within the Château La Coste estate, where working vineyards double as an open-air museum of contemporary art and architecture.
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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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City Hotel
Rome, Italy
9.2
Hotel Eden
A Dorchester Collection grande dame above the Spanish Steps whose rooftop dining room frames one of the finest skyline views in Rome.
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Country House
Deià, Spain
9.2
La Residencia, A Belmond Hotel
Two centuries-old manor houses amid olive terraces in Deià, the Tramuntana artists' village that shaped Mallorca's bohemian legend.
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Wellness Retreat
Bressanone, Italy
9.2
Forestis Dolomites
A minimalist high-altitude retreat at 1,800 metres on the Plose, built around forest, spring water and silence with full-frontal Dolomites views.
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Ski Hotel
St. Moritz, Switzerland
9.2
Suvretta House
A castle-like 1912 grand hotel in its own quiet valley outside St. Moritz, with a private ski lift onto the Corviglia slopes.
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Resort
Vouliagmeni, Greece
9.2
Four Seasons Astir Palace Hotel Athens
The storied Astir Palace peninsula on the Athens Riviera, revived by Four Seasons with pine-shaded bungalows, private beaches and mid-century glamour.
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City Hotel
Amsterdam, Netherlands
9.2
Waldorf Astoria Amsterdam
Six Golden Age canal palaces on the Herengracht united into Amsterdam's most refined address, with a private garden and two-star dining.
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City Hotel
Munich, Germany
9.2
Mandarin Oriental, Munich
An intimate neo-Renaissance house behind Maximilianstrasse with a rooftop pool facing the Frauenkirche and Alps on clear days.
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City Hotel
Dublin, Ireland
9.2
The Merrion
Four Georgian townhouses opposite Government Buildings, holding Dublin's finest art collection, gardens and its most celebrated restaurant.
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Country House
Auchterarder, United Kingdom
9.1
Gleneagles
A glamorous 1920s Perthshire estate where championship golf, gundogs and falconry meet a surprisingly stylish country-house party.
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City Hotel
London, United Kingdom
9.1
The Dorchester
A 1931 Park Lane institution overlooking Hyde Park, mixing Art Deco glamour, deep English tradition and one of Mayfair's liveliest dining line-ups.
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Ski Hotel
St. Moritz, Switzerland
9.1
Kulm Hotel St. Moritz
The 1856 birthplace of Alpine winter tourism, where Switzerland's first electric light still glows over Engadin panoramas, the Cresta Run and a superb spa.
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City Hotel
Copenhagen, Denmark
9.1
Hotel d'Angleterre
Copenhagen's white palace on Kongens Nytorv since 1755, famous for its Michelin-starred Marchal, champagne bar and spectacular Christmas facade.
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City Hotel
Hamburg, Germany
9.1
Fairmont Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten
Hamburg's lakefront institution since 1897, regularly counted among Germany's finest hotels for its Alster views and Haerlin dining.
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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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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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City Hotel
London, United Kingdom
9.1
Raffles London at The OWO
Whitehall's Old War Office reborn as Raffles' first British address—Churchillian history, Mauro Colagreco dining and a Guerlain spa deep below.
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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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Beach Resort
Porto Cervo, Italy
9.1
Hotel Cala di Volpe
Jacques Couëlle's 1963 fantasy village on the Costa Smeralda, still the social summit of Mediterranean summer by its famous saltwater pool.
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City Hotel
Amsterdam, Netherlands
9.1
Conservatorium Hotel
A former bank and music conservatory on Museumplein transformed by Piero Lissoni into Amsterdam's definitive design hotel.
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City Hotel
Milan, Italy
9.1
Four Seasons Hotel Milano
A fifteenth-century convent in the heart of the Quadrilatero della Moda, where a frescoed cloister brings rare calm to Milan's fashion district.
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Ski Hotel
Val d'Isère, France
9.1
Airelles Val d'Isère, Mademoiselle
Airelles' 2020-opened palace at the foot of Val d'Isère's slopes, bringing the group's theatrical service culture to one of the Alps' most serious ski resorts.
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Beach Resort
Marbella, Spain
9.1
Marbella Club Hotel
The 1954 original of the Golden Mile: Prince Alfonso von Hohenlohe's garden village by the sea that invented Marbella as a resort.
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Ski Hotel
Zermatt, Switzerland
9.1
Mont Cervin Palace
Zermatt's original grand hotel of 1851, run by the Seiler family dynasty on the village's main street beneath the Matterhorn.
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Resort
Bodrum, Turkey
9.1
Amanruya
Aman's Aegean retreat of stone pavilion cottages, each with a private pool, scattered through olive groves on the Bodrum peninsula's quiet north coast.
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Resort
Imerovigli, Greece
9.1
Grace Hotel, Auberge Resorts Collection
An intimate white-on-white retreat at Imerovigli, the highest point of Santorini's caldera rim, built around one of the island's most photographed pools.
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Resort
Halkidiki, Greece
9.1
Sani Resort
Europe's most decorated family resort — a private 1,000-acre ecological reserve on Halkidiki's Kassandra peninsula with five hotels, seven kilometres of white-sand beach and childcare that sets the world standard.
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City Hotel
Oslo, Norway
9.1
Sommerro
A 1930s Art Deco power company headquarters in Frogner reborn in 2022 with restored public baths, a rooftop pool and neighbourhood soul.
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Lakeside Hotel
Windermere, United Kingdom
9.1
Gilpin Hotel & Lake House
A family-run Lakeland original near Windermere, mixing spa suites with private hot tubs, standout cooking and a lake house of its own.
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Country House
Gordes, France
9.1
Airelles Gordes, La Bastide
A 16th-century bastide woven into the ramparts of Gordes, with terraced gardens and Luberon views that define hilltop Provence.
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City Hotel
London, United Kingdom
9.0
The Savoy
London's original grand hotel on the Strand still delivers Thames-view suites, Art Deco glamour and the theatrical service it invented in 1889.
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City Hotel
Rome, Italy
9.0
Hotel de Russie
A Rocco Forte classic between Piazza del Popolo and the Spanish Steps, beloved for its terraced secret garden and understated Roman elegance.
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City Hotel
Istanbul, Turkey
9.0
Çırağan Palace Kempinski
A restored Ottoman palace on the Bosphorus shore whose waterfront infinity pool and sultan-era suites remain Istanbul's grandest stage.
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City Hotel
London, United Kingdom
9.0
Rosewood London
An Edwardian banking headquarters on High Holborn reborn as a manor-house-in-the-city, entered through a grand carriage courtyard.
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City Hotel
Rome, Italy
9.0
Hassler Roma
A family-run grande dame crowning the Spanish Steps, with rooftop Michelin-starred dining and the whole of Rome unrolled below.
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Resort
Capri, Italy
9.0
Grand Hotel Quisisana
Capri's grande dame since 1845 on Via Camerelle, steps from the Piazzetta, with gardens, twin pools and the island's most storied terrace.
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City Hotel
Vienna, Austria
9.0
Hotel Imperial
A Ringstrasse palace built for a prince and converted for the 1873 World's Fair, where butlers, marble staircases and the Imperial Torte keep Habsburg Vienna alive.
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City Hotel
Geneva, Switzerland
9.0
Four Seasons Hotel des Bergues
Geneva's oldest grand hotel, an 1834 landmark on the Rhône where lake, Jet d'Eau and Mont Blanc views meet rooftop Japanese-Peruvian dining.
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Wellness Retreat
Évian-les-Bains, France
9.0
Hôtel Royal
A 1909 palace above Lake Geneva at the heart of the Evian Resort, pairing Belle Époque frescoes with serious spa and golf.
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City Hotel
Monte-Carlo, Monaco
9.0
Hôtel Hermitage Monte-Carlo
Monte-Carlo's quieter Belle Époque palace, prized for its Gustave Eiffel-attributed winter garden dome and harbour-view terraces.
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City Hotel
Seville, Spain
9.0
Hotel Alfonso XIII
Seville's 1929 Mudéjar-revival palace, commissioned by royal decree for the Ibero-American Exposition and still the city's ceremonial address.
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Resort
Palermo, Italy
9.0
Villa Igiea, a Rocco Forte Hotel
The Florio dynasty's Art Nouveau palazzo on Palermo's bay, restored by Rocco Forte as Sicily's great city-edge grande dame.
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Lakeside Hotel
Bellagio, Italy
9.0
Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni
Bellagio's family-run grande dame since 1873, commanding the promontory where Lake Como's two arms divide.
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Wellness Retreat
Interlaken, Switzerland
9.0
Victoria-Jungfrau Grand Hotel & Spa
Interlaken's 1865 grande dame facing the Jungfrau across the Höhematte meadow, with one of Switzerland's largest hotel spas.
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Ski Hotel
Megève, France
9.0
Four Seasons Hotel Megève
A year-round alpine estate on the Mont d'Arbois plateau, heir to the Rothschild family's century-long shaping of Megève as a resort.
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Country House
Vence, France
9.0
Château Saint-Martin & Spa
An Oetker Collection hilltop retreat above Vence, built on a former Templar commandery amid olive groves with views rolling down to the Mediterranean.
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Resort
Ravello, Italy
9.0
Palazzo Avino
Ravello's 'pink palace': a twelfth-century patrician villa high above the Amalfi Coast with two celebrated restaurants and a seafront clubhouse below.
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Wellness Retreat
Bordeaux, France
9.0
Les Sources de Caudalie
The birthplace of vinothérapie, a wine-country retreat amid the vines of Château Smith Haut Lafitte with a two-Michelin-starred restaurant.
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City Hotel
Valletta, Malta
9.0
Iniala Harbour House
Four townhouses on Valletta's St Barbara Bastion turned into Malta's boldest design hotel, crowned by Simon Rogan's Michelin-starred ION Harbour.
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Resort
Porches, Portugal
9.0
Vila Vita Parc
A clifftop garden estate on the central Algarve whose restaurant collection—crowned by the two-Michelin-starred Ocean—leads southern Portugal.
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Resort
Aleomandra, Greece
9.0
Kalesma Mykonos
A hilltop hamlet of suites and villas above Aleomandra, whose earthy Cycladic design and sunset terraces reset expectations for Mykonos hotels.
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Beach Resort
Bodrum, Turkey
9.0
Mandarin Oriental, Bodrum
A sprawling hillside estate above two private beaches at Paradise Bay, bringing Mandarin Oriental's full resort machinery to the Turkish Riviera.
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City Hotel
Geneva, Switzerland
9.0
Beau-Rivage Genève
A family-run lakefront landmark of 1865 on the Quai du Mont-Blanc, woven into Geneva's diplomatic and imperial history.
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City Hotel
Florence, Italy
9.0
Portrait Firenze
The Ferragamo family's all-suite riverside address, gazing straight at the Ponte Vecchio with the feel of a private Florentine apartment.
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City Hotel
Milan, Italy
9.0
Mandarin Oriental, Milan
Four linked eighteenth-century buildings near La Scala housing Milan's sleekest interiors and Antonio Guida's celebrated two-star kitchen.
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Resort
Marbella, Spain
9.0
Puente Romano Beach Resort
An Andalusian pueblo-style resort on the Golden Mile built around gardens, a Roman bridge and one of Europe's densest luxury dining line-ups.
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Resort
Cala Blava, Spain
9.0
Cap Rocat
A nineteenth-century military fortress on the Bay of Palma converted into one of Europe's most singular hotels, its suites carved into golden rock.
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City Hotel
Madrid, Spain
9.0
Rosewood Villa Magna
A Madrid institution on Paseo de la Castellana, reborn under Rosewood with residential interiors and a quietly clubbable Salamanca address.
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City Hotel
Copenhagen, Denmark
9.0
Nimb Hotel
A Moorish-style 1909 palace inside Tivoli Gardens with a handful of lavish rooms, a rooftop pool and the amusement park as its garden.
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City Hotel
Vienna, Austria
9.0
Rosewood Vienna
Rosewood's 2022 Vienna debut in a former bank headquarters on Petersplatz, pairing residential calm with a rooftop over the old town.
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Country House
Witney, United Kingdom
9.0
Estelle Manor
A Jacobethan Oxfordshire mansion reborn as a country club-hotel, with lavish interiors and vast Roman-inspired baths in the woods.
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Country House
Colerne, United Kingdom
9.0
Lucknam Park Hotel & Spa
A Palladian mansion at the end of a mile-long beech avenue near Bath, with 500 acres, serious cooking and one of England's best country spas.
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City Hotel
Bath, United Kingdom
9.0
The Royal Crescent Hotel & Spa
Two Georgian townhouses at the centre of Bath's Royal Crescent, with secret gardens and a spa hidden behind the world-famous facade.
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City Hotel
Paris, France
9.0
Hôtel Lutetia
The Left Bank's only palace hotel, a 1910 Art Nouveau landmark on Boulevard Raspail reborn through a meticulous Jean-Michel Wilmotte renovation.
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Beach Resort
Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France
9.0
La Réserve de Beaulieu
A rose-pink Belle Époque palazzo on the Beaulieu waterfront, cherished for its intimate scale, seawater pool and grand dining room facing the Mediterranean.
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Les Baux-de-Provence, France
9.0
Oustau de Baumanière
A legendary Relais & Châteaux estate beneath the white crags of Les Baux, home to one of Provence's great three-Michelin-starred tables.
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Vienna, Austria
8.9
Hotel Sacher Wien
Vienna's velvet-and-chandelier institution opposite the Opera House, family-owned since 1876 and home of the original Sachertorte.
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Edinburgh, United Kingdom
8.9
The Balmoral
Edinburgh's 1902 railway palace on Princes Street, whose famous clock tower anchors the city skyline between the Castle and Calton Hill.
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Barcelona, Spain
8.9
Hotel Arts Barcelona
A 44-storey steel tower over Port Olímpic beside Frank Gehry's golden fish, pairing beachfront Barcelona with two-Michelin-star dining high above the Mediterranean.
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Ski Hotel
Zermatt, Switzerland
8.9
Grand Hotel Zermatterhof
Zermatt's 1879 grande dame, owned by the village's own burghers, with horse-drawn carriage arrivals and the Matterhorn filling the windows.
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City Hotel
San Sebastián, Spain
8.9
Hotel Maria Cristina
The Belle Époque queen of San Sebastián since 1912, riverside home of the film festival in Europe's greatest eating city.
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Lakeside Hotel
Montreux, Switzerland
8.9
Fairmont Le Montreux Palace
Montreux's 1906 Belle Époque landmark on the Lake Geneva riviera, where Nabokov lived for sixteen years and the jazz festival comes home.
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Øye, Norway
8.9
Hotel Union Øye
An 1891 wooden hotel deep in the Sunnmøre Alps at the head of the Norangsfjord, restored as Norway's most romantic hideaway.
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City Hotel
Avignon, France
8.9
La Mirande
An antique-filled former cardinal's residence at the foot of the Palais des Papes, run with the intimacy of a grand private home.
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Wellness Retreat
Ibiza, Spain
8.9
Six Senses Ibiza
A wellness-led resort wrapped around Cala Xarraca on Ibiza's wild northern tip, trading club culture for longevity science and sunset rituals.
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Beach Resort
Albufeira, Portugal
8.9
Vila Joya
A small Moorish-style villa above Galé beach that became a pilgrimage site for gastronomes, home to one of Portugal's longest-standing two-star kitchens.
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Resort
Porto-Vecchio, France
8.9
Casadelmar
A sleek cedar-and-glass retreat on the Gulf of Porto-Vecchio, pairing contemporary architecture with two-Michelin-starred Mediterranean cooking.
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Lakeside Hotel
Blevio, Italy
8.9
Mandarin Oriental, Lago di Como
A botanical-park retreat of nineteenth-century villas on Como's quieter eastern shore, with a floating pool and contemporary calm apart from the crowds.
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Resort
Oia, Greece
8.9
Mystique, A Luxury Collection Hotel
Cave-style suites sculpted into Oia's caldera cliff, with driftwood textures, a wine cave in the rock and front-row seats for the famous sunset.
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City Hotel
Berlin, Germany
8.9
Hotel de Rome
A former Dresdner Bank headquarters of 1889 on Bebelplatz, converted by Rocco Forte with a pool in the old jewel vault and a rooftop over Unter den Linden.
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Salzburg, Austria
8.9
Hotel Sacher Salzburg
The Sacher family's riverside Salzburg house, facing the old town and fortress across the Salzach with torte and tradition intact.
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City Hotel
Prague, Czech Republic
8.9
Augustine, a Luxury Collection Hotel
A thirteenth-century Augustinian monastery in Malá Strana below the castle, where monks still brew and Cubist design meets cloister calm.
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City Hotel
Copenhagen, Denmark
8.9
Hotel Sanders
A former ballet dancer's intimate townhouse hotel beside the Royal Danish Theatre, widely counted among Europe's best boutiques.
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Beach Resort
St Mawes, United Kingdom
8.9
Hotel Tresanton
Olga Polizzi's chic cluster of houses above St Mawes harbour, the hotel that taught Cornwall how to do relaxed Mediterranean-style glamour.
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Edinburgh, United Kingdom
8.9
Gleneagles Townhouse
The famous Perthshire estate's city sibling: a former banking hall on St Andrew Square turned intimate, clubby Edinburgh bolthole.
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Country House
Kenmare, Ireland
8.9
Park Hotel Kenmare
A Victorian railway hotel above Kenmare Bay, famed for the Brennan brothers' hospitality and the destination Sámas spa.
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City Hotel
Monte Carlo, Monaco
8.9
Hôtel Métropole Monte-Carlo
The connoisseur's Monte Carlo palace: a Belle Époque house steps from the Casino, with Jacques Garcia interiors and a celebrated dining heritage.
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City Hotel
Istanbul, Turkey
8.8
Four Seasons Hotel Istanbul at Sultanahmet
A converted neoclassical building in the heart of the old city, steps from Hagia Sophia, the Blue Mosque and Topkapı Palace.
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Milan, Italy
8.8
Hotel Principe di Savoia
Milan's neoclassical grande dame on Piazza della Repubblica since the 1920s, with a rooftop pool club surveying the city and the Alps beyond.
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Munich, Germany
8.8
Hotel Bayerischer Hof
Munich's family-owned institution since 1841 on Promenadeplatz, spanning a mirrored 19th-century bar, a jazz club and a rooftop spa by Andrée Putman.
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City Hotel
Istanbul, Türkiye
8.8
Pera Palace Hotel
Built in 1892 for Orient Express passengers, the Pera Palace preserves Agatha Christie's room, Atatürk's museum suite and Istanbul's grandest afternoon tea.
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Wellness Retreat
Karlovy Vary, Czechia
8.8
Grandhotel Pupp
Karlovy Vary's neo-baroque colossus with roots in 1701, spa-town host to composers, emperors and the town's famous film festival.
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Country House
Fort William, United Kingdom
8.8
Inverlochy Castle Hotel
A Victorian baronial castle in the shadow of Ben Nevis, praised by Queen Victoria and long the Highlands' most refined retreat.
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Beach Resort
Dubrovnik, Croatia
8.8
Hotel Excelsior Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik's seafront classic since 1913, gazing across the Adriatic to the old town walls and Lokrum island.
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City Hotel
Belfast, United Kingdom
8.8
The Merchant Hotel
A gilded Victorian bank headquarters in Belfast's Cathedral Quarter, home to the city's most opulent dining room and cocktail culture.
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Country House
Grasmere, United Kingdom
8.8
Forest Side
A Victorian Gothic mansion above Grasmere where a Michelin-starred, garden-fed kitchen defines the modern Cumbrian table.
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Resort
Saint-Tropez, France
8.8
Hôtel Byblos
The 1967 village-within-a-village above the Place des Lices, whose pool courtyard and Les Caves du Roy nightclub wrote much of the St-Tropez legend.
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Venice, Italy
8.8
The St. Regis Venice
A Grand Canal address beside St Mark's where five historic palazzi meet crisp contemporary interiors and rare private gardens on the water.
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Barcelona, Spain
8.8
El Palace Barcelona
Barcelona's original grand hotel, opened in 1919 as the Ritz, still holding court on Gran Vía with chandeliers, a rooftop garden and old-world manners.
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Lisbon, Portugal
8.8
Bairro Alto Hotel
Lisbon's original boutique hotel, on the corner of Chiado and Bairro Alto, reimagined by Pritzker laureate Eduardo Souto de Moura with a celebrated Tagus-view rooftop.
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Resort
Agios Nikolaos, Greece
8.8
Daios Cove Luxury Resort & Villas
A contemporary amphitheatre of stone and glass terraced into a private cove near Agios Nikolaos, with a sandy beach at its heart.
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City Hotel
Brussels, Belgium
8.8
Hotel Amigo
Rocco Forte's Brussels house a few steps behind the Grand Place, trading Flemish stone heritage for playful Magritte-and-Tintin interiors.
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City Hotel
Moscow, Russia
8.8
Hotel Metropol Moscow
Moscow's Art Nouveau landmark opposite the Bolshoi, its stained-glass breakfast hall and mosaic façades unchanged through more than a century of history.
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Resort
Dubrovnik, Croatia
8.8
Villa Dubrovnik
A cliff-hugging modernist retreat in the quiet Sveti Jakov quarter, where every room faces the Old Town and Lokrum across the water.
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Beach Resort
Ornos, Greece
8.8
Santa Marina, A Luxury Collection Resort
The only resort on Mykonos with its own private sandy beach, spread over a peninsula at Ornos Bay with Buddha-Bar Beach glamour on tap.
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City Hotel
Athens, Greece
8.8
The Dolli at Acropolis
A restored 1920s neoclassical mansion on Mitropoleos Street whose rooftop pool stares straight at the Parthenon.
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Resort
Oia, Greece
8.8
Katikies Santorini
Whitewashed cave suites carved into Oia's caldera cliff, with tiered infinity pools suspended above the Aegean and Santorini's fabled sunsets.
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City Hotel
Helsinki, Finland
8.8
Hotel Kämp
Finland's grande dame since 1887 on the Esplanadi, where Sibelius and the nation's founding generation held court.
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City Hotel
Munich, Germany
8.8
The Charles Hotel
Rocco Forte's contemporary Munich house beside the Old Botanical Garden, with the city's longest hotel pool and Italian ease.
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Wellness Retreat
Bath, United Kingdom
8.8
The Gainsborough Bath Spa
The only hotel where guests can bathe in Bath's natural thermal waters, in a pair of listed Georgian buildings beside the Roman Baths.
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Tallinn, Estonia
8.8
Hotel Schlössle
Tallinn's most atmospheric address: a medieval merchant's ensemble in the heart of the old town, all beams, stone vaults and open fires.
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Vilnius, Lithuania
8.8
Hotel PACAI
A seventeenth-century baroque palace on Didžioji street reborn as the Baltics' most striking design hotel, frescoes and raw stone included.
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City Hotel
Cannes, France
8.8
Hôtel Martinez
Cannes' great Art Deco palace on La Croisette, home to the two-Michelin-starred La Palme d'Or and one of the coast's liveliest private beaches.
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City Hotel
Helsinki, Finland
8.8
Hotel Maria
Helsinki's new standard-bearer in Kruununhaka: four restored 19th-century buildings, butler-serviced suites and a lavish spa near the harbour.
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Kenmare, Ireland
8.8
Sheen Falls Lodge
A former marquess's fishing lodge on a 300-acre estate where the Sheen river cascades into Kenmare Bay, floodlit falls and all.
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Barcelona, Spain
8.7
Mandarin Oriental Barcelona
A former bank on Passeig de Gràcia turned white-on-white design statement, with destination gastronomy and a rooftop dipping pool.
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Athens, Greece
8.7
Hotel Grande Bretagne
Athens' 19th-century grande dame on Syntagma Square, with Acropolis views from its rooftop and marble grandeur throughout.
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Athens, Greece
8.7
King George, Athens
A 1930s landmark on Syntagma Square whose rooftop restaurant and penthouse pool look straight onto the floodlit Acropolis.
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City Hotel
Amsterdam, Netherlands
8.7
De L'Europe Amsterdam
An 1896 grande dame at the meeting of the Amstel and the canal ring, with Dutch Masters on the walls and terraces hanging over the water.
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Lisbon, Portugal
8.7
Pestana Palace Lisboa
A late-19th-century aristocratic palace and national monument in Lisbon's Alcântara district, set in botanical gardens with a garden pool.
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Reykjavík, Iceland
8.7
Hotel Borg
Iceland's original grand hotel, a 1930 Art Deco landmark on Austurvöllur square opposite the national parliament.
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Country House
Bala, United Kingdom
8.7
Palé Hall
A grand Victorian mansion on the edge of Eryri (Snowdonia), running partly on its own hydroelectricity and cooking to Relais & Châteaux standards.
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City Hotel
Belgrade, Serbia
8.7
Square Nine Hotel Belgrade
Belgrade's design flagship on Studentski Trg, an Isay Weinfeld-designed Leading Hotel with mid-century warmth and a serious pool.
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Lakeside Hotel
Killarney, Ireland
8.7
The Europe Hotel & Resort
A lakeshore resort on Lough Léin facing the MacGillycuddy's Reeks, with one of Ireland's largest and best-regarded spas.
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Ski Hotel
Kitzbühel, Austria
8.7
Kempinski Hotel Das Tirol
A contemporary Alpine flagship in Jochberg outside Kitzbühel, built around one of the Tyrol's largest hotel spas and direct lift access.
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City Hotel
Oslo, Norway
8.7
The Thief
Oslo's art-filled waterfront hotel on Tjuvholmen, beside the Renzo Piano-designed Astrup Fearnley Museum and the fjord's swimming decks.
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City Hotel
Florence, Italy
8.7
Hotel Savoy
Rocco Forte's cheerful Florentine flagship on Piazza della Repubblica, minutes on foot from the Duomo, Uffizi and the best of the centro storico.
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Resort
Costa Adeje, Spain
8.7
Bahía del Duque
A grand Canarian village of pastel houses, plazas and gardens above Playa del Duque, long the benchmark resort of Tenerife's Costa Adeje.
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Resort
Savelletri di Fasano, Italy
8.7
Masseria San Domenico
A fifteenth-century fortified farmhouse amid centuries-old olive groves, pioneering Puglia's masseria luxury with a celebrated thalassotherapy spa.
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Beach Resort
Elounda, Greece
8.7
Elounda Beach Hotel & Villas
The 1971 pioneer of Greek resort luxury, spread along its own peninsula of gardens and private beaches on Crete's Mirabello Bay.
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Malmesbury, United Kingdom
8.7
Whatley Manor
A Cotswold-stone manor outside Malmesbury pairing ambitious tasting-menu dining with twelve acres of gardens and a soothing spa.
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Edinburgh, United Kingdom
8.7
Prestonfield House
A theatrical 17th-century mansion below Arthur's Seat, all velvet, candlelight and roaming peacocks, minutes from the Royal Mile.
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Ski Hotel
Soldeu, Andorra
8.7
Sport Hotel Hermitage & Spa
Andorra's flagship five-star, ski-in at Soldeu on the Grandvalira slopes, with a vast Sport Wellness spa and the principality's top dining.
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City Hotel
Helsinki, Finland
8.7
Hotel St. George
An art-filled sanctuary facing Old Church Park, where Nordic design, serious wellness and a poetry-lined past meet in a former printing house.
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Riga, Latvia
8.7
Grand Hotel Kempinski Riga
The Baltic capital's grandest full-service hotel, a restored landmark facing the Opera House on Aspazijas boulevard with rooftop dining and a serious spa.
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City Hotel
Dublin, Ireland
8.6
The Shelbourne
Dublin's 1824 grande dame on St Stephen's Green, where the Irish Constitution was drafted and the Horseshoe Bar still sets the city's social clock.
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Zagreb, Croatia
8.6
Esplanade Zagreb Hotel
Zagreb's 1925 Art Deco monument, built to pamper Orient Express passengers and still the city's great social institution.
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Lakeside Hotel
Balestrand, Norway
8.6
Kviknes Hotel
A family-run wooden grand hotel on the Sognefjord since 1877, painted by artists and patronised by emperors.
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Narberth, United Kingdom
8.6
The Grove of Narberth
Pembrokeshire's standard-bearer for Welsh luxury: an 18th-century house in 26 acres with craft-filled interiors and the Fernery restaurant.
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City Hotel
Dublin, Ireland
8.6
The Westbury
The Doyle Collection's polished flagship off Grafton Street, Dublin's social hub for afternoon tea, aperitifs and shopping-district stays.
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Megève, France
8.6
Les Fermes de Marie
A hamlet of rescued centuries-old alpine farmhouses reassembled above Megève, birthplace of the Sibuet family's rustic-chic style and Pure Altitude spa.
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Resort
Sciacca, Italy
8.6
Verdura Resort
Rocco Forte's vast south-Sicilian estate near Sciacca, built around championship golf, a serious spa and nearly two kilometres of private coastline.
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City Hotel
Frankfurt, Germany
8.6
Steigenberger Icon Frankfurter Hof
Frankfurt's grand hotel since 1876, a courtyard palace in the banking district that remains the city's ceremonial address.
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Reykjavik, Iceland
8.6
The Reykjavik EDITION
Ian Schrager's harbourfront EDITION beside Harpa concert hall, bringing polished nightlife-literate luxury to Iceland's capital.
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Country House
Cheverny, France
8.6
Les Sources de Cheverny
A forest-and-vineyard estate near the Château de Cheverny, bringing the Caudalie family's wellness philosophy to the heart of Loire château country.
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City Hotel
Bucharest, Romania
8.6
InterContinental Athénée Palace Bucharest
The legendary 1914 palace of spies and diplomats on Revolution Square, restored under InterContinental beside the Romanian Athenaeum.
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Barcelona, Spain
8.6
W Barcelona
Ricardo Bofill's sail-shaped glass tower at the tip of Barceloneta, with beachfront pools and some of the best sea-and-city views in Barcelona.
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Ski Hotel
Alpe di Siusi, Italy
8.6
COMO Alpina Dolomites
COMO's alpine outpost on Europe's largest high-altitude meadow, pairing ski-in access with the group's Shambhala wellness on the Alpe di Siusi plateau.
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Resort
Maspalomas, Spain
8.6
Seaside Grand Hotel Residencia
An intimate colonial-style enclave beside the Maspalomas palm oasis and dunes, quietly regarded as Gran Canaria's finest address.
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Beach Resort
Veryan-in-Roseland, United Kingdom
8.6
The Nare
Cornwall's grand traditional seaside hotel above Carne Beach on the Roseland, where afternoon tea and sea views proceed at a civilised pace.
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City Hotel
Glasgow, United Kingdom
8.6
Kimpton Blythswood Square Hotel
Glasgow's flagship luxury address: a Georgian former automobile club on a garden square with the city's best-known spa.
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Tallinn, Estonia
8.6
Hotel Telegraaf, Autograph Collection
A former telegraph exchange on Vene street turned polished old-town hotel, with the rare Tallinn luxury of a proper spa and pool.
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St Petersburg, Russia
8.6
Astoria Hotel
St Petersburg's 1912 icon on St Isaac's Square, facing the cathedral's golden dome with the Hermitage and Mariinsky minutes away.
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Riga, Latvia
8.6
Grand Palace Hotel
Riga's discreet old-town classic in a former central-bank building beside the Dome Cathedral, long the city's most personal luxury address.
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Vaduz, Liechtenstein
8.6
Park Hotel Sonnenhof
Liechtenstein's Relais & Châteaux flagship on a garden hillside above Vaduz, facing the princely castle across the Rhine valley.
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Country House
Llandudno, United Kingdom
8.5
Bodysgallen Hall & Spa
A 17th-century hall owned by the National Trust, with formal parterre gardens, parkland views to Conwy Castle and a discreet spa.
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Holywood, United Kingdom
8.5
Culloden Estate & Spa
A baronial former bishop's palace in twelve acres above Belfast Lough, the grande dame of Northern Irish country hotels.
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Beach Resort
Santa Margherita di Pula, Italy
8.5
Forte Village Resort
A garden city of hotels on Sardinia's southern coast, with sport academies, a thalasso spa and family programming unmatched in the Mediterranean.
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Bordeaux, France
8.5
InterContinental Bordeaux — Le Grand Hôtel
Bordeaux's grandest address, an eighteenth-century landmark facing the Grand Théâtre with Gordon Ramsay's two-Michelin-starred Le Pressoir d'Argent.
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Resort
Calvi, France
8.5
La Villa Calvi
A Relais & Châteaux hilltop retreat above Calvi's citadel and bay, built around cloister-like courtyards, terraced pools and wide Mediterranean views.
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City Hotel
Moscow, Russia
8.5
Hotel National Moscow
A 1903 grande dame at the foot of Tverskaya Street whose best rooms look straight onto the Kremlin towers and Red Square.
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Bucharest, Romania
8.5
The Marmorosch Bucharest, Autograph Collection
The gilded Marmorosch Blank bank in the old town reborn as Bucharest's most theatrical hotel, vault bar included.
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City Hotel
Lviv, Ukraine
8.5
Bankhotel
A 1912 bank in Lviv's UNESCO-listed centre reborn as western Ukraine's most stylish hotel, vault doors and marble halls included.
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Lisbon, Portugal
8.5
Olissippo Lapa Palace
A nineteenth-century count's palace in Lisbon's embassy quarter, with terraced gardens, a palm-fringed pool and Tagus views from the Lapa hilltop.
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Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
8.5
Hôtel Le Place d'Armes
A Relais & Châteaux warren of 18th-century townhouses on the old town's main square, hiding courtyards, beams and refined dining.
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Bratislava, Slovakia
8.5
Grand Hotel River Park, a Luxury Collection Hotel
Bratislava's flagship luxury address on the Danube embankment, pairing contemporary river-view rooms with the city's most polished service.
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Beach Resort
Paphos, Cyprus
8.5
Almyra
Paphos's design-led seafront resort beside the harbour castle, famed for rooftop Kyma Suites and one of the Mediterranean's smartest family setups.
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City Hotel
Glasgow, United Kingdom
8.4
One Devonshire Gardens by Hotel du Vin
A run of five Victorian townhouses in Glasgow's leafy West End, long the city's most storied boutique address.
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Resort
Deauville, France
8.4
Hôtel Barrière Le Normandy
Deauville's half-timbered 1912 grande dame beside the casino and boardwalk, the enduring symbol of the Normandy coast's belle-époque resort life.
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City Hotel
Valletta, Malta
8.4
The Phoenicia Malta
Malta's 1947 grande dame at Valletta's city gate, with seven acres of gardens running down the bastions to a harbour-view infinity pool.
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Beach Resort
Newquay, United Kingdom
8.4
The Headland Hotel & Spa
A Victorian red-brick landmark on its own headland above Fistral Beach, famed for film history and a standout Atlantic-view spa.
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Spodnja Idrija, Slovenia
8.4
Kendov Dvorec
A 14th-century manor in the green Idrijca valley, restored as Slovenia's most romantic country house, laced with the local art of bobbin lace.
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Ballina, Ireland
8.4
Mount Falcon Estate
A Victorian baronial manor on 100 acres between Lough Conn and the River Moy, Mayo's home of falconry and salmon fishing.
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City Hotel
Kyiv, Ukraine
8.4
InterContinental Kyiv
Kyiv's established five-star beside St Michael's golden-domed monastery, continuing to operate with resilience through wartime conditions.
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Belgrade, Serbia
8.4
Saint Ten Hotel
A 1929 academy building in leafy Vračar turned intimate Small Luxury Hotel, near the great dome of the Saint Sava Temple.
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Vilnius, Lithuania
8.4
Stikliai Hotel
The grande dame of the old town's former glassmakers' quarter, a Relais & Châteaux house of antiques and old-Vilnius manners.
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Hella, Iceland
8.4
Hotel Rangá
South Iceland's log-built countryside resort on the Rangá river, famous for aurora wake-up calls, riverside hot tubs and its own observatory.
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City Hotel
Stockholm, Sweden
8.4
Hotel Diplomat
A family-owned art-nouveau house on Strandvägen's waterfront parade, balancing patrician Stockholm heritage with crisp Scandinavian rooms.
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City Hotel
Chișinău, Moldova
8.3
Berd's Chisinau, MGallery Hotel Collection
Moldova's first true design hotel, a glass-and-travertine boutique in central Chișinău with a wine cellar worthy of the country.
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Resort
Luštica Bay, Montenegro
8.3
The Chedi Luštica Bay
A stone-village marina resort on the open-sea side of the Luštica peninsula, anchoring Montenegro's newest coastal town.
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Tallinn, Estonia
8.3
Hotel St. Petersbourg
Estonia's oldest continuously operating hotel, a jewel-box old-town address with plush interiors and a celebrated Russian-Baltic restaurant heritage.
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Sofia, Bulgaria
8.3
InterContinental Sofia
Sofia's sharpest five-star, facing Alexander Nevsky Cathedral's golden domes across the yellow-brick heart of the capital.
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Bratislava, Slovakia
8.3
Marrol's Boutique Hotel
A warmly theatrical small hotel near the old town, long rated among Central Europe's best boutiques for its service and 1920s-inflected style.
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Vilnius, Lithuania
8.3
Grand Hotel Vilnius, Curio Collection by Hilton
A polished full-service hotel beside Cathedral Square, pairing historic-facade grandeur with a rooftop view over the old town.
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City Hotel
Kyiv, Ukraine
8.2
11 Mirrors Design Hotel
Kyiv's pioneering design boutique near the Golden Gate, with a rooftop restaurant terrace above the city and intimate, monochrome rooms.
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Bucharest, Romania
8.2
Epoque Hotel
A Relais & Châteaux hideaway on a quiet lane by Cișmigiu Gardens, with an all-suite feel, serious kitchen and calm spa pool.
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Ljubljana, Slovenia
8.2
InterContinental Ljubljana
The Slovenian capital's tallest hotel, a glass slab with castle-view rooms, a 20th-floor restaurant and a top-floor pool over the Alps.
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Riga, Latvia
8.2
Neiburgs Hotel
A family-owned art-nouveau house in the old town turned light-filled apartment-style boutique, with one of Riga's most liked modern Latvian restaurants.
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Ski Hotel
Grau Roig, Andorra
8.2
Grau Roig Andorra Boutique Hotel & Spa
A chalet-style hideaway alone at the foot of the Grau Roig bowl, the most romantic and secluded way to ski Grandvalira.
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Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
8.1
Hotel Europe
Sarajevo's grande dame since 1882, standing exactly where the Ottoman bazaar meets the Austro-Hungarian boulevard.
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Sofia, Bulgaria
8.1
Hyatt Regency Sofia
A confident contemporary five-star on leafy Vasil Levski Square, minutes from the cathedral with a rooftop bar over the rooftops.
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Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
8.1
Sofitel Luxembourg Le Grand Ducal
A glass tower above the Pétrusse valley whose top-floor restaurant and bar own the finest panorama of Luxembourg's old town and viaducts.
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Skopje, North Macedonia
8.0
Skopje Marriott Hotel
North Macedonia's flagship international hotel on Macedonia Square, steps from the Stone Bridge and the Old Bazaar beyond.
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Tirana, Albania
8.0
Tirana Marriott Hotel
Albania's first Marriott, a polished contemporary tower near Skanderbeg Square marking the capital's arrival on the international circuit.
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Andorra la Vella, Andorra
8.0
Andorra Park Hotel
The capital's garden retreat above the shopping avenues, famous for its rock-carved outdoor pool and leafy grounds rare in dense Andorra la Vella.
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Vaduz, Liechtenstein
8.0
Hotel Gasthof Löwen
A wine-country inn dating to 1380 on the edge of Vaduz, with antique-furnished rooms overlooking the Prince's own vineyards.
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Minsk, Belarus
8.0
Hotel Europe
Minsk's Art Nouveau-revival five-star in the Upper Town, rebuilt on the site of the city's storied pre-war grand hotel.
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Bratislava, Slovakia
8.0
Radisson Blu Carlton Hotel, Bratislava
The capital's grande dame on Hviezdoslav Square, a storied address facing the opera house at the very edge of the old town.
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San Marino, San Marino
8.0
Grand Hotel San Marino
The republic's leading hotel, perched just below the old town gates with sweeping views from Monte Titano to the Adriatic coast.
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Sofia, Bulgaria
7.9
Sense Hotel Sofia
A sleek design boutique on Tsar Osvoboditel Boulevard whose rooftop bar owns the head-on view of Alexander Nevsky Cathedral.
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Belgrade, Serbia
7.9
Hyatt Regency Belgrade
New Belgrade's long-serving international anchor, with a full pool and spa floor and quick access to both the old town and the Sava riverfront.
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Tirana, Albania
7.9
Xheko Imperial Luxury Hotel & SPA
Tirana's flamboyant family-run boutique in the leafy Blloku quarter, all baroque flourish, garden bar and generous suites.
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Minsk, Belarus
7.9
DoubleTree by Hilton Minsk
A glass tower above Pobediteley Avenue with the best high-floor views in Minsk and dependable international standards.
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San Marino, San Marino
7.9
Hotel Titano
San Marino's historic house of 1894, inside the old walls on Contrada del Collegio, with a beloved panoramic terrace restaurant.
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San Marino, San Marino
7.9
Hotel Cesare
A contemporary boutique just inside the Porta San Francesco gate, the republic's most modern rooms with a well-regarded kitchen.
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Chișinău, Moldova
7.9
Radisson Blu Leogrand Hotel
Chișinău's established international full-service hotel, a block from the cathedral park with dependable standards and a proper spa floor.
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Tirana, Albania
7.9
Maritim Hotel Plaza Tirana
A glass tower steps from Skanderbeg Square whose upper floors serve the best hotel views in Albania's fast-changing capital.
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Malbun, Liechtenstein
7.9
Gorfion - Das Familienhotel
Liechtenstein's dedicated family hotel in the mountain village of Malbun, with childcare, pools and the principality's little ski area at the door.
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Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
7.8
Swissôtel Sarajevo
A crisp international high-rise above the Sarajevo City Center mall, with valley views to the surrounding hills and a full spa.
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Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
7.8
Isa Begov Hamam Hotel
A restored 16th-century Ottoman bathhouse by the Miljacka, where guests sleep beside Sarajevo's oldest working hamam.
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Skopje, North Macedonia
7.8
Bushi Resort & Spa
A plush family-run spa hotel at the foot of the Old Bazaar, an unexpected pocket of marble, pools and quiet beside Ottoman Skopje.
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Minsk, Belarus
7.8
Renaissance Minsk Hotel
A polished contemporary five-star on Independence Avenue's eastern reach, with one of Minsk's better hotel pools and spas.
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Chișinău, Moldova
7.8
Nobil Luxury Boutique Hotel
A plush, privately run boutique on Mihai Eminescu Street where oversized rooms and attentive service come at Chișinău's gentle prices.
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Skopje, North Macedonia
7.8
DoubleTree by Hilton Skopje
A reliable international full-service hotel by Skopje's City Park, pairing generous rooms with one of the capital's better pools.
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