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France
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Airelles Gordes, La Bastide
A 16th-century manor built into the ramparts of a hilltop village, run as one of only two dozen hotels in France to hold the official Palace title.
Gordes, Luberon, France
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Chateau Saint-Martin & Spa
A 12th-century Knights Templar commandery turned Relais & Châteaux estate, its own olive groves and vineyards spread across a Vence hillside above the Mediterranean.
Vence, above the Riviera coast, France
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Cheval Blanc Paris
A Belle Epoque department store reborn as LVMH's most architecturally ambitious Paris address, with the Seine on one side and the Louvre on the other.
1st arrondissement, Paris, France
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Four Seasons Hotel George V Paris
An Art Deco palace on the Golden Triangle where six Michelin stars, a legendary flower program and a newly reimagined set of rooms keep a century-old address at the front of Paris hospitality.
8th arrondissement, Paris, France
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Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc
A saltwater pool blasted into the clifftop rock in 1914, a documented supporting role in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night, and eight decades of Cannes Film Festival history add up to the most storied address on the French Riviera.
Cap d'Antibes, France
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Hotel Plaza Athenee
The red-awninged, geranium-lined Avenue Montaigne address that has anchored Paris's couture quarter since 1913, and one of the city's dozen officially recognised Palace hotels.
Avenue Montaigne, 8th arrondissement, France
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Le Bristol Paris
A 1925 Faubourg Saint-Honore palace built around the largest private garden of any hotel in central Paris, and a rooftop pool shaped like the deck of an ocean liner.
8th arrondissement, Paris, France
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La Reserve Paris
A single restored 1854 mansion off the Champs-Elysees, run as forty rooms rather than four hundred, and rated the world's best hotel by La Liste two years running.
8th arrondissement, Paris, France
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Les Sources de Caudalie
A hamlet of six houses built inside a working Bordeaux Grand Cru estate, where the Cathiard family invented wine-based spa treatment in the 1990s and still farms the vines outside the window.
Martillac, near Bordeaux, France
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Lily of the Valley
A Philippe Starck hillside hamlet above Gigaro beach, built less as a hotel than as a working theory of what rest and fitness can do together.
La Croix Valmer, Saint-Tropez peninsula, France
Greece
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Amanzoe
A hilltop citadel of Doric columns and marble courtyards above Porto Heli, built as a modern-day temple to the Peloponnese coastline it overlooks.
Porto Heli, Greece
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Canaves Oia Suites
Cave suites cut into Oia's caldera cliff by the family that opened the village's first hotel, rebuilt cube by cube for a new generation of guests.
Oia, Santorini, Greece
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Dexamenes Seaside Hotel
A 1920s currant-wine factory on a Peloponnese beach, its concrete fermentation tanks cut open one by one and turned into 44 suites facing the Ionian Sea.
Kourouta, Ilia, Greece
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Grace Hotel Santorini
A cliffside stack of white cubist volumes in Imerovigli, built around a cascading infinity pool and a caldera view that Santorini's own tourism writers rank among the island's best.
Imerovigli, Santorini, Greece
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Kalesma Mykonos
A whitewashed hillside village above Ornos Bay where every suite has its own heated pool and K-Studio's architecture reads less like a hotel than an extended Cycladic family home.
Ornos, Mykonos, Greece
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One&Only Aesthesis
A midcentury Athenian beach club, reborn as One&Only's first Greek address on the pine-shaded coast between Glyfada and Vouliagmeni.
Athens Riviera, Vouliagmeni, Greece
Iceland
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Deplar Farm
A turf-roofed sheep farm on Iceland's remote Troll Peninsula, rebuilt into a 13-room adventure lodge where heli-skiing, fly fishing and a geothermal pool run on the same all-inclusive rhythm.
Fljot Valley, North Iceland, Iceland
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The Retreat at Blue Lagoon
A 60-suite hotel built into an 800-year-old lava flow, with a private geothermal lagoon and Iceland's only Michelin-starred hotel restaurant.
Grindavik, Iceland
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Torfhus Retreat
A hamlet of grass-roofed suites on the Golden Circle, built on the memory of a Viking longhouse buried by a volcano nine centuries ago.
Near Thingvellir National Park, Iceland
Indonesia
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Alila Villas Uluwatu
A Singapore architecture firm carved a geometric limestone resort into a Bukit Peninsula clifftop in 2009, planting grass roofs across it so the whole property reads as an extension of the savannah it replaced.
Uluwatu, Bukit Peninsula, Indonesia
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Bambu Indah
Antique Javanese bridal houses and hand-built bamboo pavilions, dismantled, relocated and rebuilt above the Ayung River gorge by the founders of Green School Bali.
Sayan, Ubud, Indonesia
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Bulgari Resort Bali
A Milanese architecture firm cut 59 villas and five mansions into a limestone clifftop above the Indian Ocean, then built one of the longest hotel funiculars in the world to reach the private beach below.
Uluwatu, Bukit Peninsula, Indonesia
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Capella Ubud
A colonial-era explorer's camp reimagined by Bill Bensley, its 23 tents strung along a jungle ridge above Ubud's Wos River valley.
Keliki, Ubud, Indonesia
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COMO Shambhala Estate
A jungle sanctuary above the Ayung River where a British jeweller's decade-long folly became the flagship of one of Asia's original destination wellness retreats.
Begawan, Ubud, Indonesia
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Mandapa, A Ritz-Carlton Reserve
A bamboo-and-stone sanctuary cut into the Ayung River gorge, where Bali's most exclusive address still moves at the pace of the rice terraces around it.
Ayung River Valley, Ubud, Indonesia
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NIHI Sumba
A former surf camp on Indonesia's wildest island, rebuilt into one of the world's most private ultra-luxury resorts, still built around a wave almost nobody gets to surf.
West Sumba, Indonesia
Italy
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Aman Venice
A 16th-century Grand Canal palazzo, frescoed by the Tiepolo family and fitted with a rare private garden, reopened in 2013 as Aman's first Italian address.
San Polo, Venice, Italy
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Borgo Santandrea
A former 1950s seaside hotel rebuilt across nine cliffside levels above Conca dei Marini, reopened in 2022 as the first new luxury address on the Amalfi Coast in over a decade.
Amalfi, Amalfi Coast, Italy
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Grand Hotel Tremezzo
A 1910 Belle Époque palace on Lake Como with a heated pool that floats on the lake itself, still run by the family that also opened Passalacqua down the shore.
Tremezzo, Tremezzina, Lake Como, Italy
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Hotel Santa Caterina
A Liberty-style villa the Gambardella family has run above the Amalfi Coast since 1904, with a cliff-carved elevator down to its own beach club and a Michelin-starred table on the terrace above.
Amalfi, Amalfi Coast, Italy
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Il Pellicano
A private house party for a British aviator and an American socialite in 1965 has spent six decades quietly becoming one of Italy's most photographed clifftop hotels, without ever losing its 50-room scale.
Porto Ercole, Monte Argentario, Italy
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JK Place Capri
A 22-key former villa on the rocks above Marina Grande, dressed by Michele Bonan in the crisp navy-and-white language of a 1950s racing yacht.
Capri, Italy
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Passalacqua
An 18th-century villa on Lake Como's western shore, restored by one family into the hotel the industry itself voted the best in the world.
Moltrasio, Lake Como, Italy
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Rosewood Castiglion del Bosco
A 900-year-old fortified borgo turned into Italy's only private golf estate and a working Brunello di Montalcino winery, hidden inside 5,000 acres of UNESCO-listed Val d'Orcia.
Montalcino, Val d'Orcia, Italy
Japan
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Aman Tokyo
Six floors of dark basalt and washi paper, stacked atop a financial-district tower, where a giant paper lantern lobby turns the Otemachi skyline into a Japanese garden.
Otemachi, Chiyoda, Japan
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Benesse House
A Tadao Ando concrete museum with guest rooms built into its galleries, the founding building of the Seto Inland Sea's art-island movement.
Naoshima, Seto Inland Sea, Japan
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Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Otemachi
A 190-room aerie stacked into the top six floors of a Tokyo financial-district tower, with the Imperial Palace moat on one side and a Michelin star in the kitchen.
Otemachi, Chiyoda, Japan
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Gora Kadan
A former Imperial villa in the hills above Hakone, rebuilt as a 38-room ryokan where private volcanic-spring baths and kaiseki dinners define the stay.
Gora, Hakone, Japan
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Hoshinoya Tokyo
A ryokan stacked seventeen storeys into an Otemachi tower, tatami underfoot from the lobby to the elevator to a hot-spring bath fed from 1,500 metres below the financial district.
Otemachi, Chiyoda, Japan
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Palace Hotel Tokyo
A Marunouchi institution rebuilt from the ground up in 2012, with 266 rooms and 18 suites facing the moat, the pines and the Otemon Gate of the Imperial Palace.
Marunouchi, Chiyoda, Japan
Maldives
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Cheval Blanc Randheli
Jean-Michel Gathy's private-island debut for LVMH's hotel house, forty minutes by seaplane into the Noonu Atoll.
Randheli Island, Maldives
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Gili Lankanfushi
The Maldives resort that invented barefoot luxury and has spent two decades refusing to put its shoes back on.
Lankanfushi Island, Maldives
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JOALI Maldives
An art-immersive private island in Raa Atoll where more than forty commissioned installations sit alongside 73 villas and a working coral restoration reef.
Muravandhoo Island, Maldives
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Patina Maldives
A Brazilian architect's low, canopy-height villas and a shared four-island marina make this the Maldives resort built for people who find most private-island luxury a little too private.
Fari Islands, Maldives
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The Ritz-Carlton Maldives, Fari Islands
A resort built almost entirely from circles, the last major commission of architect Kerry Hill, where geometry does the work most Maldives properties leave to thatch and timber.
Fari Islands, Maldives
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Six Senses Laamu
The only resort on its atoll, built on stilts over a lagoon and staffed, in part, by resident marine biologists.
Olhuveli, Maldives
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Soneva Fushi
The resort that invented barefoot luxury in the Maldives, and has spent three decades refusing to modernise the idea away.
Kunfunadhoo Island, Maldives
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Soneva Jani
A retractable-roofed overwater village in Noonu Atoll, built by the founders of barefoot luxury to make stargazing, not the beach, the point of the room.
Medhufaru, Maldives
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Velaa Private Island
A billionaire's private island fantasy in the Maldives' Noonu Atoll, built around a working golf academy, the Indian Ocean's largest wine cellar and a turtle colony the resort is named for.
Velaavaru, Maldives
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Waldorf Astoria Maldives Ithaafushi
A 119-villa resort built across three linked islands in South Male Atoll, scaled less like a single hotel than a small, self-contained archipelago.
Ithaafushi, Maldives
Morocco
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El Fenn
A private art collector's riad turned hotel, stitched together from more than a dozen houses behind the walls of the Marrakech medina.
Marrakech medina, Morocco
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Kasbah Tamadot
Richard Branson's former antiques-dealer's kasbah, rebuilt above the Asni Valley with Berber tents, three-bedroom riads and Mount Toubkal on the horizon.
Asni Valley, Atlas Mountains, Morocco
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La Mamounia
The 1923 Marrakech palace built around an 18th-century royal garden, where Winston Churchill painted from the balconies and Jacques Garcia's 2009 restoration still sets the city's benchmark for Moorish-Art-Deco grandeur.
Marrakech medina, Hivernage, Morocco
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Royal Mansour Marrakech
A king's private commission built by 1,200 Moroccan artisans, where every guest gets a multi-storey riad and its own rooftop rather than a room.
Marrakech medina, Morocco
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Selman Marrakech
A Jacques Garcia palace at the foot of the Atlas Mountains where a private Arabian stud, a Jean-Francois Piege kitchen and one of only six Chenot spas on earth share a single walled garden.
Route Amizmiz, near Marrakech, Morocco
Philippines
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Discovery Coron
A nineteen-hectare private island off northern Busuanga, diving Coron's Japanese wrecks by day and disconnecting from everything else after dark.
Dimakya Island, Busuanga, Coron, Philippines
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Amanpulo
A private island in the Cuyo archipelago, reachable only by Aman's own aircraft, built around bahay kubo-inspired casitas set beneath forty-year-old coconut palms.
Pamalican Island, Cuyo Islands, Philippines
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Cauayan Island Resort
A privately owned island in Bacuit Bay, thirty stilt-raised villas set between limestone cliffs and open water, reachable only by boat.
Cauayan Island, Bacuit Bay, El Nido, Philippines
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Lagen Island Resort
A four-hectare forest reserve wrapped around a lagoon, where the densest limestone forest in the Bacuit archipelago is the amenity, not the backdrop.
Lagen Island, Bacuit Bay, El Nido, Philippines
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Miniloc Island Resort
A cluster of thatched cottages on stilts beneath limestone cliffs, with El Nido's most famous lagoons reachable by kayak, not by tour boat.
Miniloc Island, Bacuit Bay, El Nido, Philippines
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Nay Palad Hideaway
Ten thatched villas between an ancient mangrove forest and the Pacific, rebuilt from a typhoon into Siargao's most deliberate barefoot-luxury address.
General Luna, Siargao Island, Philippines
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Pangulasian Island Resort
A single private island in Bacuit Bay's karst-ringed waters, built to forty-two Filipino-designed villas and positioned as El Nido Resorts' most exclusive address.
Pangulasian Island, Bacuit Bay, El Nido, Philippines
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Shangri-La Boracay Resort & Spa
A twelve-hectare hillside and beachfront resort on Boracay's quieter northern tip, built around two private coves and a nature reserve most of the island paved over decades ago.
Punta Bunga, Boracay Island, Philippines
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The Funny Lion
A brutalist, bamboo-clad courtyard hotel in the middle of El Nido town, built for travellers who want the Bacuit archipelago without a private-island price tag.
El Nido town, Philippines
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Two Seasons Coron Island Resort & Spa
A self-sustaining private peninsula between two beaches, built as Coron's first eco-luxury address and still run on its own power and water.
Malaroyroy Peninsula, Bulalacao Island, Coron, Philippines
Sri Lanka
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Haritha Villas + Spa
Nine keys on a forested hilltop above Thiranagama, built around private saltwater plunge pools rather than a stretch of sand.
Thiranagama, Sri Lanka
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Kayaam House
Nine keys, a resident Ayurvedic doctor and a private stretch of turtle-nesting coastline near Tangalle.
Tangalle, Sri Lanka
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Cape Weligama
A Thai-designed clifftop village of suites and villas on Sri Lanka's south coast, built around a sixty-metre pool that seems to hang above the Indian Ocean.
Weligama, Sri Lanka
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Ceylon Tea Trails
Five planters' bungalows scattered across a working tea estate, where the mist, the butlers and the brew all arrive on schedule.
Bogawantalawa, Sri Lanka
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Jetwing Vil Uyana
A paddy field turned wetland, and thirty-six dwellings raised on stilts above the water it restored.
Sigiriya, Sri Lanka
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Santani Wellness Kandy
A hillside retreat above Kandy built on the conviction that silence is a design material.
Kandy, Sri Lanka
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Tri
A Fibonacci spiral in cinnamon wood and concrete, spun around a lake tower on Sri Lanka's south coast.
Koggala, Sri Lanka
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Uga Chena Huts
Eighteen thatched pavilions with private plunge pools, pitched on the scrubland edge of Yala, where the leopard density is the highest recorded on earth.
Yala, Sri Lanka
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Wild Coast Tented Lodge
Twenty eight cocoon-shaped tents pitched between a wild ocean and a wilder national park.
Yala, Sri Lanka
Tanzania
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Chem Chem Lodge
Seven tented suites and a family unit set in a palm-fringed private concession where a conservation project, not a marketing brief, first drew the wildlife back between Lake Manyara and Tarangire.
Chem Chem concession, between Lake Manyara and Tarangire, Tanzania
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Jabali Ridge
Eight suites threaded through a kopje of house-sized granite boulders in Ruaha, Tanzania's largest and least-visited major national park.
Ruaha National Park, Tanzania
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Mwiba Lodge
Ten stone-and-canvas suites built into a granite outcrop above a river gorge in a private reserve that buys the Serengeti's southern migration corridor breathing room.
Mwiba Wildlife Reserve, Tanzania
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Singita Sasakwa Lodge
An Edwardian manor house on a Serengeti hilltop, built where a colonial-era settler once farmed, now run as the flagship of a 350,000-acre private reserve and its own rhino-recovery program.
Grumeti Reserves, Serengeti, Tanzania
Thailand
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Amanpuri
Opened in 1988 on a former coconut plantation on Phuket's Pansea Beach, Amanpuri is the founding property of the entire Aman brand, a village of temple-inspired teak pavilions that set the template every Aman since has followed.
Pansea Beach, Phuket, Thailand
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Capella Bangkok
A low-rise riverside sanctuary on the Chao Phraya, where Thai pavilion architecture, a two-Michelin-starred Riviera table and only 101 keys have made a decade-old promenade site into the hotel the rest of Bangkok is measured against.
Charoen Krung, Chao Phraya riverside, Bangkok, Thailand
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Four Seasons Resort Chiang Mai
A working rice valley reimagined as a resort, where teak pavilions and a Michelin-starred kitchen sit inside paddies still farmed by hand.
Mae Rim Valley, Chiang Mai, Thailand
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Phulay Bay, A Ritz-Carlton Reserve
The resort that launched the Ritz-Carlton Reserve brand in 2009, a cluster of Thai-pavilion villas set against Krabi's limestone karsts on the Andaman Sea.
Tab Kaek Beach, Krabi, Thailand
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Rosewood Phuket
A tiered village of 71 pavilions, villas and houses cascading down a forested hillside to a private stretch of Emerald Bay, built as Rosewood's first foothold in Southeast Asia.
Emerald Bay, Phuket, Thailand
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Six Senses Yao Noi
Fifty-six hillside pool villas built to disappear into the jungle above Phang Nga Bay's limestone karsts.
Koh Yao Noi, Phang Nga Bay, Thailand
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The Siam
A 39-key riverside retreat in royal Dusit, built by a rock-star hotelier to look, deliberately, a century older than it actually is.
Dusit, Chao Phraya riverside, Bangkok, Thailand
United Arab Emirates
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Al Maha, A Luxury Collection Desert Resort & Spa
A fenced private reserve of freestanding, sand-colored tented suites where the return of the Arabian oryx to the wild is the whole point of the stay, not a footnote to it.
Dubai Desert Conservation Reserve, United Arab Emirates
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Atlantis The Royal
Six stacked towers, a 90-metre sky pool bridging them at height, and 795 rooms and suites arranged like a deliberately imperfect skyline on Palm Jumeirah.
Palm Jumeirah, United Arab Emirates
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Bulgari Resort Dubai
An Italian jeweller's idea of the Arabian Gulf, built on a seahorse-shaped island with its own marina, a two-Michelin-starred dining room, and 101 rooms that all face water.
Jumeirah Bay Island, United Arab Emirates
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One&Only The Palm
A Moorish-Andalusian manor on the tip of Palm Jumeirah's West Crescent, built around a two-Michelin-star French dining room and four of Dubai's only private-pool beach villas.
Palm Jumeirah, United Arab Emirates
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Qasr Al Sarab Desert Resort by Anantara
A fortress that appears to rise out of the dunes of the Empty Quarter, built so that the world's largest sand desert, not the hotel, remains the point of the stay.
Liwa Desert, Empty Quarter, United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
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Beaverbrook
A press baron's Surrey estate, once Churchill's wartime refuge, run today as one of England's most quietly assured country house hotels.
near Leatherhead, United Kingdom
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Claridge's
A 1930s Art Deco time capsule on a Mayfair corner, still the most self-assured address in London.
Mayfair, United Kingdom
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Estelle Manor
A Jacobethan manor turned country club, where a Roman-style bathhouse now sits where a police training centre once stood.
near Witney, United Kingdom
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Gleneagles
A 1924 railway hotel turned golf pilgrimage site, still run on the scale that once hosted a G8 summit and a Ryder Cup.
Auchterarder, United Kingdom
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Heckfield Place
A Georgian house handed back its own farm, where the kitchen answers to the seasons and the spa answers to the trees.
near Hook, United Kingdom
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The Berkeley
A Knightsbridge institution that traded its Michelin-starred kitchen and covered rooftop for a French Riviera dining room and an open sky, betting on reinvention over nostalgia.
Knightsbridge, United Kingdom
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The Connaught
A Mayfair institution since 1897, run with the kind of consistency that makes reinvention beside the point.
Mayfair, United Kingdom
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The Fife Arms
A Victorian coaching inn on the road to Balmoral, rebuilt by two of the art world's most consequential gallerists into 46 rooms of unrepentant Highland maximalism.
Braemar, United Kingdom
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The Newt in Somerset
A 3,000-acre working Somerset farm with a hotel folded into it, where the garden, the cyder press and the kitchen all answer to the same clock.
near Bruton, United Kingdom
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The Savoy
London's original luxury hotel, opened on the Strand in 1889 and returned to that standard by a meticulous 2010 restoration rather than a reinvention.
Strand, United Kingdom
United States
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Aman New York
Eighty-three suites folded into a landmarked 1921 Beaux-Arts tower on Fifth Avenue, with a three-floor spa larger than any other Aman on earth.
Midtown Manhattan, New York City, United States
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Auberge du Soleil
The Provence-inspired hillside inn that gave an entire hotel group its name, its philosophy, and one of Napa Valley's longest-running Michelin stars.
Rutherford, Napa Valley, United States
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Blackberry Farm
A 4,200-acre working farm at the foot of the Great Smoky Mountains where the Beall family built an entire school of American cooking around cheese, garden and pasture.
Walland, Great Smoky Mountains foothills, United States
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Hotel Bel-Air
Twelve acres of Mission-style bungalows and a private swan lake have kept Hollywood's most discreet address quietly out of sight since 1946.
Bel Air, Los Angeles, United States
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Kona Village, A Rosewood Resort
A 1960s Hawaiian hideaway erased by the 2011 tsunami and rebuilt over a decade, reopened as 150 freestanding hale on the same lava-lined bay, with no televisions by design.
Kona-Kohala Coast, Big Island, United States
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Little Palm Island Resort & Spa
America's only private island resort, reachable solely by boat or seaplane, where thirty thatched-roof bungalows keep televisions and telephones deliberately out of reach.
Little Torch Key, Florida Keys, United States
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Post Ranch Inn
Forty organic structures balanced on a Big Sur ridgeline, 1,200 feet above the Pacific, with almost nothing between the guest and the drop.
Big Sur, United States
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Twin Farms
A Nobel laureate's wedding-gift farm turned into New England's most complete all-inclusive estate, 28 individually designed cottages scattered across 300 private acres.
Barnard, United States