Singapore Airlines Suites - Flying Apartment

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 …

There's a hill in the middle of Finnish farmland where, if you weren't told otherwise, you'd assume a plane had crash-landed. It hasn't. A decommissioned Saab 340B passenger aircraft sits there deliberately, wingless, fitted out with beds, a sauna, and a working set of cockpit controls you're actually allowed to …

Most hotels put considerable energy into helping you sleep. Blackout curtains, pillow menus, turndown service - the whole apparatus of hospitality exists, in large part, to knock you unconscious as efficiently as possible. Manga Art Hotel Tokyo has a different ambition. Located on the upper floors of a building in …

The reception desk at ZERO Box Lodge in Coimbra is a motorbike. The check-in process involves a cold beer, handed to you on arrival, and the quiet suggestion that the best thing you can do now is go outside. The rooms are stripped back by design - no windows, no …

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 …

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 …