Hotel Semiramis - Colorful Design Explosion

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 …

A former Russian consulate on a Hokkaido hillside is an unlikely setting for a Relais & Châteaux address. Hotel Biaclyn Hakodate has taken a 1908 diplomatic outpost - the only surviving building of its kind in Japan - paired it with a newly built wellness wing, and turned the whole …

Pick up the rotary phone in the lobby and you'll hear a voicemail from decades ago - a small, strange touch that sums up what The Georgian is trying to do. This is a hotel that wants you to know it has history, but doesn't want you to take it …

In 1973, Ricardo Bofill completed a residential building on the cliffs of Calpe that was so visually arresting it would take the internet fifty years to fully lose its mind over it. Its labyrinthine staircases inspired the set designers of Squid Game. Its rooftop pool, painted in shades of cobalt …

There aren't many hotels where the Director of Culture is a real job title, or where a New York art collective has installed an oversized bed designed for the giants of the distant future. RYSE, Autograph Collection, set in the anarchic energy of Seoul's Hongdae neighborhood, operates somewhere between hotel, …