Hotels

Imagine waking up to Mount Fuji framed in floor-to-ceiling windows, then stepping onto your private terrace to toast marshmallows by a built-in fireplace – all while someone else handles the cleanup. Welcome to HOSHINOYA Fuji, where camping meets five-star comfort in the most unexpected ways. Japan's first glamping resort takes …

This isn't one of those hotels that calls itself a castle because it has turrets painted on the wallpaper. Peckforton Castle is the real deal – or at least as real as a Victorian landowner's fantasy of medieval life could get. Built between 1844 and 1850, it comes complete with …

Towering over Lucerne from its hilltop position like something plucked from a Bavarian fantasy, Hotel Château Gütsch is the sort of place that makes you stop and stare from street level. This 19th-century folly castle, modeled after Neuschwanstein, offers what every Swiss hotel promises but few truly deliver: genuinely spectacular …

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 …

Picture this: a 17th-century manor house with secret tunnels in the cellar, a stash of gold coins hidden under the floorboards, and a king on the run from parliament once sleeping in your bed. Boys Hall, just outside Ashford, isn't your average countryside hotel. Brad and Kristie Lomas spent three …

You won't see The Lindis until you're practically standing on it. That's exactly the point. This eight-room lodge sits so low and still in New Zealand's Ahuriri Valley that it might as well be part of the moraine itself – the geological rubble left behind when glaciers retreated 10,000 years …

On Savannah's historic riverfront, where cobblestones meet the water and tourists queue for trolley tours, sits something entirely unexpected: a chrome-dipped dinosaur skeleton stretching 135 feet across a hotel lobby. The JW Marriott Savannah Plant Riverside District isn't your typical riverfront accommodation. It's part hotel, part museum, part entertainment complex, …

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 …

In the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains near Walland, Tennessee, Blackberry Farm occupies 4,200 acres of wilderness where exceptional hospitality, serious food, and genuine Southern warmth converge. This isn't your typical resort where you're shuffled through generic experiences. Here, you'll find 68 accommodations ranging from cozy historic rooms to …

When most people think of Brazil, São Paulo doesn't immediately spring to mind. The financial powerhouse, sprawling and intense, gets overshadowed by visions of Rio's beaches and the Amazon's wild expanses. But the city itself is a revelation. Its world-class dining scene, bold architecture, and vibrant yet somehow relaxed atmosphere …

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 …

There's a certain magic to staying somewhere without electricity or running water, somewhere a five-minute hike takes you to views of the Colorado River and Lake Powell, and where the night sky is so unmarred by light pollution that the stars seem to multiply the longer you stare at them. …

From the street, El Palacito Secreto looks unassuming, just another modest colonial facade tucked into the historic heart of Merida. You would never guess what awaits inside. But the moment you step through the entrance, the ordinary world dissolves. What emerges is something far more extravagant: a sprawling, meticulously designed …

Fancy spending the night dangling off a cliff face in Argentine Patagonia? OVO Patagonia has opened four transparent capsules bolted to a rock wall, offering what might be the most vertigo-inducing accommodation experience on the planet. This isn't glamping – it's something altogether more unhinged. The concept is simple, if …

Many Glacier Hotel sits on the shores of Swiftcurrent Lake in Glacier National Park's northeastern corner, a five-story structure with brown wood siding and Swiss chalet flourishes that has been welcoming visitors since 1915. When a forest fire roared down the mountain in 1936, employees fought flaming debris with fire …

When Belmond throws open the doors to a century-old villa that once hosted the Agnelli family and Vespa inventor Enrico Piaggio, you know it's going to be special. Villa Beatrice, which opened in July 2025, marks Belmond's first private villa offering, and it's genuinely unlike anything else on the Italian …

Suspended 170 meters above Norway's Lysefjord, The Bolder lodges look like they might drift away at any moment. This is architecture that refuses to play it safe – six cabins scattered across 170 hectares of wilderness, each one appearing to hover over one of the country's most dramatic fjords. The …

On Cerro Mariposa in Chile's bohemian port city, WineBox Valparaíso is a hotel that stopped caring what traditional hospitality thinks. Built from 25 repurposed shipping containers stacked like an architectural experiment gone wonderfully right, this place opened in February 2018 as something between a boutique hotel and a statement about …

In a city where colorful row houses cling to steep hills and the Atlantic crashes against rocky shores, St. John's has found its groove with the JAG Hotel. This isn't your typical boutique property – it's what happens when a music-obsessed hotelier decides to turn his passion into a 169-room …

At the edge of the world, where ancient cedars meet crashing Pacific waves, sits a hotel that makes no apologies for its dramatic setting. The Wickaninnish Inn perches on a rocky headland at Chesterman Beach, five kilometers from the surfing town of Tofino on Vancouver Island's wild west coast. This …