Hotels

The Hanok Heritage in Yeongwol, Gangwon Province, is the largest hanok hotel in Korea. It is not a collection of restored old houses. Every building was newly constructed to reinterpret the 1,000-year-old hanok for modern use. Its founder, an IT entrepreneur, developed a microwave method that shortens timber drying from …

When Sallie Zimmerhackel asked a Danish tourism office in the 1950s for a room with a bath and space for her car, she was told that such a place did not exist in Denmark, even though she had already opened one with Oscar Wittrup. Today Wittrup Motel in Albertslund is …

Mayfair House Hotel & Garden occupies two entire city blocks in the center of Coconut Grove, Miami. Architect Kenneth Treister, who worked with Frank Lloyd Wright, designed it in 1985, with floral ironwork and white organic columns that seem to grow rather than stand. A vertical garden runs through the …

Kurro Nature Spa opened on August 17, 2026, in northeastern Estonia, and it already has some unusual numbers. There are 96 rooms and one 200 m² (2,153 sq ft) suite that takes up the entire top floor, with its own private sauna and steam area. The spa covers about 1,500 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

In September 1958, Queen Juliana swung a silver axe to launch a ship built as the flagship of Holland America Line's transatlantic fleet: a 228-meter (748-foot) liner with an engineering choice that startled shipbuilders at the time – twin exhaust uptakes in place of a single funnel, which freed up …

For 114 years, the only way through these doors was as a member – and only if you were male, wealthy, and vouched for by someone already inside. Today anyone can walk into the Chicago Athletic Association, order a drink in a room where Prohibition-era police once looked the other …

On a hill overlooking downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan, sits an actual castle – turrets, sandstone walls, stained glass and all. It was built in 1895 by a local uniform manufacturer as a family home, and today it operates as a bed and breakfast run by a French-trained chef who describes himself …

On a low stretch of coral sand off the eastern coast of Taha'a, five wooden bungalows sit at the edge of a reef, running on solar power and drawing their own water and electricity from the island beneath them. Eden Taha'a occupies a private motu of 5,000 square meters (about …

Only two hotels sit close enough to hear Iguassu Falls roar: a Sheraton on the Argentine side, and Hotel das Cataratas on the Brazilian side, inside the boundaries of Iguaçu National Park. Day-trippers file out at dusk, but you get to stay - watching 275 waterfalls catch the last light, …

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 – …

A wheat mill built to feed a medieval garrison, a wedding gift that became a haven for three generations of painters and filmmakers, and a manuscript with no letter E written entirely under its roof. Few properties on the Seine carry this much accumulated history, and fewer still are still …

Lie in the bathtub at this Shanghai hotel and you can watch a plane take off. Not a distant view of a plane, half-glimpsed between buildings, but the whole show: taxiing, throttling up, lifting off, disappearing into the haze over the Yangtze Delta. The Hilton Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport, which …

Icebergs the size of buses break off an ice cap in southeast Iceland, drift across a lagoon, wash out to sea, and land back on a black sand beach as scattered blocks of ice. Hótel Jökulsárlón - Glacier Lagoon Hotel, which opened in 2024, sits a short drive from that …