Dogs in the room, a boat at the jetty, a kids club that parents envy, a bay with no road. We list the world’s better hotels by their real advantages and add what regulars know.
Every tag is an advantage we verified. The number counts the hotels that carry it.
What the great hotel groups are opening, building and planning, told by our editors.
Marriott International brings more than 300 ice artisans from Harbin to Gaylord Hotels and JW Marriott resorts. From November, ice! opens at eight US resorts, with two new venues and three new themes.
Mandarin Oriental has renovated and reimagined the serviced apartments of its Kuala Lumpur hotel: 51 units on levels four to eight, from 75 to 190 square metres, for short and extended stays in the KLCC precinct.
Rocco Forte Hotels celebrates the Belgian roots of jazz: at Hotel Amigo, a few steps from the Grand Place, a new season of Mix & Melody brings live music to Bar Magritte every Friday and Saturday.
Houses we would send a friend to this season.
9.4
Two glass-fronted camps on the escarpment above the Mara Triangle
9.4
A cliff pool reached by glass funicular, a private park on the cape and a real kids club
9.4
A seventeenth-century clifftop monastery, twenty sea-view rooms and a heated pool
9.3
A Walser farmhouse inn with a two star kitchen in a quiet hamlet up the valley from Lech
9.3
A 1924 railway palace in Perthshire with three championship courses and two Michelin stars
9.3
Fifteen villas in a Hokkaido birch wood, each with two private hot spring baths
A label on hotelris means someone checked the policy, the map and the small print. Every advantage has its own overview.
Your dog sleeps in the room with you, not in a kennel out back
The hotel collects you itself, by car, boat, seaplane or helicopter
Kids club, family suites and childcare, not just a cot on request
Directly on the sand, with the beach reached from the hotel itself
Set back from roads and crowds, with real silence at night
Walk to the centre of a major city from the front door
No guests under 16 or 18 anywhere in the house, all year round
A full spa floor with pools, saunas and a real treatment concept
Piste to the door in both directions, or a lift right outside
A course on the estate or one reached on foot from the house
Architecture or interiors by a named architect or studio
Grand hotel or historic building, opened before 1950 or listed
Certified, with its own energy or water systems or a foundation
Real desks, fast tested Wi-Fi and quiet spaces for long stays
Your own pool at the villa or suite, not shared with anyone
The famous panorama is yours: cliff, rooftop, lagoon or mountain
A restaurant in the house with a Michelin star or equivalent rating
Forty rooms or fewer, a house where staff know your name by day two
Every pin is a hotel in the magazine. Hover for the tag, click for the page.
Regions where the hotel landscape is worth a detour.
Longer reads on rooms, timing and the questions worth asking before you book.
An age limit keeps children out, not music, day guests or a lively pool. How to judge quiet from the map, the room plan, the restaurant and the calendar.
A road, a public beach, a steep path or a season of seaweed can all hide behind one word. What to check on the map, in the photos and with the hotel.
Two words on a hotel website can mean a meadow outside the door or one room by the service entrance. The questions that tell the two apart before you book.
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