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Parador de Alarcón - Sleep Like Medieval Royalty in Spain's Most Exclusive Castle Hotel
Rising from the rocky heights of Pico de los Hidalgos, the Parador de Alarcón offers something most hotels can't: the chance to sleep in a genuine 8th-century fortress. With just 14 rooms, this converted castle in Spain's Cuenca province delivers an intimate experience that feels more like staying in a …
The Crescent Hotel: America's most haunted resort where a cancer charlatan once peddled poison
This 1886 mountaintop hotel in the Ozarks offers ghost tours through a former morgue, a rooftop bar with sunset views, and the kind of dark history most hotels would rather forget. In the 1930s, a con man named Norman Baker ran a fraudulent cancer hospital here, injecting dying patients with …
Grand Park Hotel Rovinj - Cascading Luxury by the Adriatic Sea
With over 1200 beautiful islands and 40% of the world's total charter fleet located in Croatia, it's no surprise that the country's coastal towns go to great lengths to attract the wealthy and famous. The picturesque little town of Rovinj in the northern Adriatic Sea is no exception. Located at …
Atlantis The Palm, Dubai - Fairy Tale Palace Of The Lost City With The Best Waterpark
This 5-star Dubai stunner revolves around the myth of Atlantis. It was designed with Arab and Western influences and is home to one of the best waterparks in the world. It covers 113 acres and has 1,548 rooms. There is an 11-acre Dolphin bay for you to experience swimming with …
Volkshotel - The Most Creative Space In Amsterdam
Inspired perhaps by the success of Volkswagen, which sells millions of personal cars to a wide range of groups, Volkshotel is an open house for everyone. From a typical tourist looking forward to smelling colorful tulips or freshly rolled joints to local entrepreneurs sitting down for a coffee hoping to …
Grand Lisboa Macau - Macau's Golden Goliath
In a city where excess is the norm and subtlety goes to die, the Grand Lisboa casino hotel rises from Macau's skyline like a fever dream made manifest. At 261 meters (856 feet) tall, this golden behemoth doesn't just dominate the former Portuguese colony's horizon – it practically shouts its …
Kato Dool Wellness Resort - A Technicolor Refuge on the Nile
Some places whisper, and some shout. Kato Dool does something in between – it hums. Sprawled across a hillside in Aswan's Nubian village of Gharb Soheil, this wellness resort is painted in shades that could make a sunset jealous: turmeric yellows, coral pinks, sky blues. It's the kind of place …
El Fenn Hotel - How Two Friends Built Marrakech's Most Theatrical Hotel
What started as a house-hunting expedition in 2002 has morphed into one of Morocco's most photographed properties. Howell James and Vanessa Branson thought they were buying a holiday home in Marrakech's ancient medina. Instead, they accidentally acquired a string of crumbling buildings that would become El Fenn – a maximalist …
Rixos Tersane Hotel - Istanbul's forgotten shipyard becomes the city's newest floating palace
The Golden Horn has seen empires rise and fall, but its latest transformation might be the most surprising yet. Where Ottoman naval shipyards once built vessels that ruled the seas, Rixos Tersane Istanbul now floats like a modern-day galleon - complete with infinity pool and cigar lounge. This isn't your …
MOAGEM Industrial Lodge - Sleeping in a Portuguese Factory
In the sleepy Portuguese village of Viana do Alentejo, where white-washed houses bake under the Alentejo sun and time moves at the pace of a Sunday afternoon, something unexpected has emerged from the bones of an old grain mill. The Moagem Industrial Lodge isn't your typical countryside retreat - this …
Tropical Glamping - Sleeping Above the Ocean on Nusa Penida's Wildest Coast
Wake to manta rays gliding through turquoise water 150 meters below your bamboo bed. This is glamping at its most audacious – a sustainable bungalow perched on Nusa Penida's dramatic eastern cliffs, where you can shower with ocean views, lounge in a net suspended over the void, and watch nature's …
El Tovar Hotel - Roosevelt Told Them Not To Build It. They Built It Anyway
Standing a mere 20 feet from the Grand Canyon's edge, El Tovar has been perched on this precipice since 1905, when the notion of building a luxury hotel in the middle of nowhere was either visionary or mad. Theodore Roosevelt stayed here. So did Albert Einstein. The dining room still …
Outbuildings - Ten Acres of Pure Dorset Magic
Forget everything you think you know about boutique farm stays. Outbuildings in Dorset isn't your typical countryside conversion - it's what happens when a family with 36 years of hospitality experience decides to transform an old dairy farm into something genuinely special. Located just two miles north of Bridport, this …
The Landmark London - A Victorian Railway Hotel Finds Its Groove Again
The Landmark London defies every stereotype about stuffy London hotels. The Landmark London might sit on one of the capital's busiest roads, but step inside and you'll find yourself in something closer to a tropical conservatory than a traditional British establishment. With towering palm trees reaching toward an eight-story glass …
Grand Canyon Caverns Hotel - Deepest, Darkest, Oldest Room In The World
Somewhere in the high desert of northwestern Arizona, 21 stories below a stretch of cracked asphalt that used to carry half of America's westward dreams, there is a hotel room that has been around since before the dinosaurs. There is no cell signal down there, no sunlight, no sound beyond …
Parador Costa da Morte - Death, Rebirth, and Glass: Galicia's Most Daring Hotel
Spain's 98th parador took nearly two decades to build, rising from the ruins of an environmental catastrophe to become something genuinely special. Perched above a white sand beach on the Costa da Morte – the "Coast of Death," named for its countless shipwrecks – this glass and zinc structure disappears …
The Oyster Box – South Africa's Lighthouse Hotel With Unlimited Oysters
Sitting on the edge of the Indian Ocean in Umhlanga, The Oyster Box is the kind of place where you can start your morning with unlimited oysters and sparkling wine at breakfast, spend your afternoon learning to make proper Durban curry, and end your evening with a cigar in a …
Capella Lodge - Volcanic Peaks Meet Barefoot Luxury on Australia's Last Unspoiled Island
There are places that make you question why you ever settled for ordinary vacations, and Capella Lodge on Lord Howe Island is one of them. This nine-suite retreat sits at the foot of two volcanic peaks that tower over the world's southernmost coral reef, on an island so pristine that …
Fuji Speedway Hotel - The Ultimate Petrolhead Paradise at the Foot of Mount Fuji
There aren't many places where you can soak in an outdoor hot spring while gazing at Mount Fuji, then drive three laps around a world-class race circuit before dinner. The Fuji Speedway Hotel, which opened in late 2022, occupies a unique patch of Shizuoka Prefecture where Japan's highest peak looms …
Les Sources de Caudalie - Among the Vines: A Palace Hotel That Has a Soul
There's a moment, sometime between your first glass of Pessac-Léognan and your third hour of doing absolutely nothing by an indoor pool, when Les Sources de Caudalie stops feeling like a hotel and starts feeling suspiciously like someone's very beautiful home that you've been allowed to borrow for a few …