Rough Luxe Hotel - The Thinking Man’s Boutique Hotel

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, …

Maison Mystique does not announce itself. It accumulates - vine-draped archways, a hidden whisky lounge behind a door that gives nothing away, glass domes of preserved butterflies frozen mid-flutter - until the place stops feeling like a hotel and starts feeling like a house that has been quietly waiting for …

Sea Containers London isn't trying to be your typical boutique hotel. Housed in what looks like an unremarkable 1970s office block on the South Bank, this 359-room property goes all-in on its transatlantic cruise liner theme, complete with copper-plated walls that curve like a vintage ship's hull and four new …

In the 1890s, this building on Robertson Quay was ground zero for Singapore's red-light district, a hub for opium dens, gambling houses, and Chinese secret societies who demanded 36 sacred oaths from new recruits. The street was known in Hokkien as "Chiu Long Lo" – Spirits Shed Street – after …

Before you even unpack, two things will stop you in your tracks: the color of the water - a cerulean so intense it looks digitally enhanced - and the absolute quiet. Just the warm Red Sea breeze and the low hum of a place that has been deliberately designed to …

Most hotels describe themselves as historic. Palacio del Inka was a palace, then a Spanish colonial mansion, then a museum, and is now asking if you'd like a pisco sour. The stones - massive, fitted without mortar with an Incan precision that has outlasted earthquakes - belonged to Qorikancha, the …

At 1,550 meters (5,085 feet) above sea level, perched on an Alpine meadow near the Austrian-Bavarian border, there is a small hotel that can only be reached by cable car. No road leads to it. No taxi will drop you there. The nine-suite retreat called Eriro sits on the Ehrwalder …

Bawah Reserve sits in a corner of the Anambas Archipelago so remote that the only way in is by seaplane, which lands directly in a turquoise lagoon. There are no televisions. WiFi is real but limited. There are no cars, no roads, and no reminders that the rest of the …