Beresheet Hotel - Hotel On The Edge Of A Crater

There are no light switches at Feynan Ecolodge. No minibar, no television, no electricity sockets in the rooms. What you get instead is candlelight flickering off stone walls, a sky so dense with stars it feels structural, and the sound of nothing in particular. Located deep inside Jordan's Dana Biosphere …

Villas carved into cliffs, pools that appear to float in midair, and a restaurant overseen by a Michelin-starred chef – Desert Rock is rewriting the rules of desert luxury in Saudi Arabia's ambitious Red Sea development. Twenty minutes from Red Sea International Airport, hidden among granite massifs where the Hejaz …

Deep in Namibia's NamibRand Nature Reserve, where the desert stretches for 200,000 hectares beneath mountains that look like they've been carved from stone, there's a place where the night sky puts on such a show that you'll wonder why you ever bothered with city lights. Kwessi Dunes is that place …

Most people fantasize about escaping to a simpler life, but Lea and Gadi Nahimov actually did it. Tucked away in the Negev Desert near Sde Boker, their working goat farm has become a refuge where the biggest decision of your day might be which artisanal cheese to try next, and …

When was the last time you soaked in a copper clawfoot tub while staring at red rock cliffs through floor-to-ceiling windows? Open Sky Zion takes the concept of outdoor hospitality and elevates it to something entirely unexpected - a complete reimagining of what it means to sleep under the stars. …

There is a photograph taken of you on arrival and placed on your nightstand by the time you reach your suite. The card alongside it reads: "We are celebrating you." This tells you almost everything you need to know about La Residence. The hotel - part of the family-owned Royal …

You cross an active airport runway to get there. The building you're sleeping in was built in Malaysia and transported across the ocean on a ship. Barbary macaque monkeys live on the limestone rock looming outside your window. And you're permanently at sea - except you're not, because the vessel …

Somewhere between your second dip in a thermal pool and watching the sun dissolve into the Tyrrhenian Sea, Ischia stops feeling like a place you're visiting and starts feeling like somewhere you might never want to leave. San Montano Resort & Spa has a way of doing that to people. …

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 …

Another Place, The Machrie does not announce itself. It accumulates - a golden eagle banking over the Atlantic, a genuine Tracey Emin hanging next to your breakfast table - until the place stops feeling like a hotel and starts feeling like a very convincing dream. Set on the Isle of …