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The trip starts with a 25-minute flight from Glasgow on a 19-seat propeller plane with tartan headrests and a free Tunnock’s Caramel Wafer. It ends in Port Ellen, on Islay’s south coast, at a former hotel that now has a fishing boat hanging above its bar, barstools made from old …

The windows in the old sanctuary carry the names of the twelve apostles, Judas Iscariot included. Builders working on the renovation found a honeybee hive in the structure, and a local print series now commemorates it. The dining room is a former chapel where 7.6-meter (25-foot) curtains can be drawn …

Hotel Sevilla in Mérida took eight years to build, and much of that effort went into leaving things alone. The 16th-century manor was close to a ruin when architects Ingrid Moye and Christoph Zeller first saw it, and they chose to keep the peeling frescoes, the chipped courtyard columns and …

On the inland slopes above Lanzarote's south coast, in the small village of La Asomada, a farmhouse that once belonged to the family of artist César Manrique has become one of the island's more interesting places to stay. Hotel César Lanzarote opened in 2023 with just 20 rooms, a restored …

Le Moulin Camoula is a 15th-century flour mill in the hills north of Nice, with a river running along it, a waterfall you can sit under and two peacocks called Baron and Baronne. It has four places to sleep, a garden of 1,000 square meters (10,764 sq ft) planted on …

No walls. No doors. Just a curtain between the bed and the jungle. That's the premise behind Buahan, a cluster of 16 open-air villas scattered across a hillside above the Ayung River in Bali's highlands, each one facing out toward rice terraces, waterfalls, or the island's seven sacred peaks. It …

About 50 miles northwest of Phoenix, at the end of a rutted dirt road, sits a resort that's been pulling people out of their routines since 1896. Castle Hot Springs was Arizona's first wellness retreat, and its early guest book reads like a Gilded Age roll call – the Vanderbilts, …

A couple of hours by boat from Greenland's capital, past waterfalls and drifting icebergs, sits a small cluster of heated tents where the only sounds at night are ice cracking in the water and wind against canvas. There's no phone signal, no wifi, and – depending on the season – …