Discover 20 of the best hotels in the world
If you’re seeking a yoga retreat that transcends anything remotely considered “ordinary,” Palmaïa – The House of AïA in Mexico’s Riviera Maya offers a truly transformative experience.
Rolling Stone, June 2025The RS team of editors pick the hotels they love for the year.
Best Yoga Retreat
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All in all, it’s almost too good to be true, the kind of place you’ll go home raving about — and if you’re in a sharing mood, when you return, you can book the whole town for yourself and thirty-five of your closest friends.
Guide Michelin, September 2023Luxurious rough-hewn cabins with mountain views are set deep within the wilderness, while outdoor activities such as horseback riding and fly-fishing keep guests returning to the homespun American West year after year.
Travel + Leisure, July 2018For all of Dunton's rough-and-ready mining bones and the fact that, not so long ago, it housed a biker gang whose names are carved with knives into the bar, it has the most sophisticated swagger.
Condé Nast Traveller (UK), January 2017Located in an old mining town in the Colorado Rockies, Dunton Hot Springs combines the rustic feel of log cabin-living with the modern comforts of a resort.
Condé Nast Traveler (US), December 2016The RS team of editors pick the hotels they love for the year.
Best U.S. Hotel for Families
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A yearly list of favourites from the editors of Condé Nast Traveller, UK edition.
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Condé Nast Traveler's annual collection of their editors' absolute favourite hotels across the world (US edition).
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Eat and drink like a local on the Taco Tour with beer and mezcal pairings.
Mexico’s decorated Paradero is a superb stay for anyone, but it’s especially fantastic if you’re looking to surf. The hotel offers surf instructors and access to nearby world-class breaks, making it an ideal home base for both seasoned surfers and beginners.
Rolling Stone, June 2025Its raw concrete exteriors blend into the desert, and in its interiors provides a counterpoint to the soft luxury of its rooms and suites.
Guide Michelin, September 2024The RS team of editors pick the hotels they love for the year.
Best Surf Resort
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Inside, you’ll find a surprisingly warm and welcoming ambiance that feels more like a country retreat than a chain hotel, with roaring fireplaces, rustic wooden accents, and a truly excellent spa.
Rolling Stone, June 2025Fairmont Chateau Whistler echoes the style of Canada’s grand railway hotels, offering classic luxury for a mountain getaway. Outside the bustle of Whistler’s main village, the property is a short walk from the slopes on the Blackcomb side of Whistler Blackcomb resort.
Forbes, January 2025At the foot of Blackcomb mountain you’ll find what many rate as the finest ski hotel in North America, The Fairmont Chateau Whistler. This massive ski-in ski-out castle is, on the inside, surprisingly warm and inviting, more like a traditional country retreat than a big-time corporate chain hotel, with rustic wooden beams supporting the lobby’s ceiling, and an elegant, traditional look to the guest rooms, far from the utilitarian anti-style of many ski hotels.
Guide Michelin, September 2022The RS team of editors pick the hotels they love for the year.
Best Ski Resort
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The readers of Travel + Leisure vote for their favourite hotels and resorts in the world.
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Condé Nast Traveler's annual collection of their editors' absolute favourite hotels across the world (US edition).
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Situated directly next to Coors Field, Denver’s Rally Hotel offers a rare mix of sports excitement and luxury amenities. Besides quick access to Rockies games, the hotel includes a rooftop deck and pool, a cocktail lounge, and stylish, upscale rooms.
Rolling Stone, June 2025The RS team of editors pick the hotels they love for the year.
Best Hotel for Sport Fans
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In a neighborhood renowned for fabulous food and drink, Elysian Bar stands out with its stylish setting and flawless execution.
Food & Wine, May 2025Peter & Paul is something of a hotspot unto itself; the Elysian Bar is both a bar and a restaurant, and it promises to be a fixture on the Marigny nightlife scene.
Guide Michelin, May 2024The RS team of editors pick the hotels they love for the year.
Best Hotel Bar
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Over 400 chefs, travel experts, food and travel writers, and wine pros from across the globe pick their top Hotels for food & drinks.
Top 10 hotel bars in the US: 2nd place
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Readers of Conde Nast Traveller (UK edition) vote for their top hotels and resorts worldwide.
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Nestled just off of the Pacific Coast Highway sits one of the world’s most beautiful stays: the Rosewood Miramar Beach Hotel.
Rolling Stone, June 2025The hotel’s beach club is another highlight: it lies on a pristine stretch of sand where surfers shimmy over sea. Sit and mull over life, smoothie in hand and organic burrata on fork.
Tatler, January 2024Rooms and suites, whether in the gardens or on the beach, are stylish, spacious, and exceedingly well-equipped, and the facilities are exhaustive: a Sense spa, a fitness studio with a variety of classes, a pair of swimming pools, and even some retail shops, including one from Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop brand. Two restaurants, three bars, and an ice cream shop complete the package; if you can’t find relaxation here, it’s not the Rosewood’s fault.
Guide Michelin, January 2023The RS team of editors pick the hotels they love for the year.
Best West Coast Hotel
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The Harper Bazar team's favourite hotels around the globe.
Editors' Picks
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With 9 restaurants to chose from, The Clipper Lounge is still the favorite.
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The legendary first hotel from the now world spanning luxury brand Mandarin Oriental. As their flagship hotel everything is done to uphold the iconic status in the city. For example you will find 9 restaurants and bars, 2 of which holds a Michelin star.
StayGrandHighlights include the Michelin-starred Cantonese dim sum spot Man Wah and European-style Mandarin Grill + Bar, with a crustacean bar that runs the length of the restaurant. For the famous Hainanese chicken rice and Mandarin cheesecake, head to the Clipper Lounge buffet.
Food & Wine, May 2025The location alone is reason enough to book this historic Hong Kong hotel, but the luxurious spa, excellent restaurants, and cool Captain’s Bar keep guests coming back.
Condé Nast Traveler, January 2024The sexy rooftop-level M Bar is one of the city's most stylish places to take in a cocktail and a view, and the onsite The Mandarin Spa delivers some of the most over-the-top indulgent treatments anywhere.
Forbes, July 2018Hong Kong's most famous hotel has lost none of its opulence, colonial charm, and shine over the past 50 years and is still known for spacious and luxurious accommodations and impeccable service.
Fodor's, September 2017Combining modern design with its oriental heritage and views over Victoria Harbour and the city's skyline, the Mandarin Suite continually attracts royalty and celebrities from across the globe.
Elite Traveler, April 2017The RS team of editors pick the hotels they love for the year.
Best Hotel in Asia
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Over 400 chefs, travel experts, food and travel writers, and wine pros from across the globe pick their top Hotels for food & drinks.
Top 10 international hotel bars: 3rd place
Food & Wine Magazine
Over 400 chefs, travel experts, food and travel writers, and wine pros from across the globe pick their top Hotels for food & drinks.
Top 15 international hotels: 9th place
Food & Wine Magazine
A global panel of food and travel experts name their top hotels for food and top hotel bars for drinks.
Top 20 international hotel bars: 18th place
Food & Wine Magazine
Readers of Conde Nast Traveller (UK edition) vote for their top hotels and resorts worldwide.
Conde Nast Traveller (UK)
A global panel of food and travel experts name their top hotels for food and top hotel bars for drinks.
18 Top International Hotels for Food and Drinks - 17th place
Food & Wine Magazine
Condé Nast Traveller
Elite Travelers’ list of Top 100 Suites picks out the world’s most iconic rooms to stay in this year, recognising where hotels have created something extraordinary.
The Mandarin Suite
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Condé Nast Traveler's annual collection of their editors' absolute favourite hotels across the world (US edition).
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Apache, the hotel's rooftop burger bar is the place for a bite and panoramic views.
Expect to see Bogota’s coolest socialites in the sleek common spaces before retiring to equally tasteful rooms. And, like most other things in Bogota, expect to be pleasantly surprised by the price for such a high-quality stay.
Rolling Stone, June 2025Come to party, stay for the sleek-chic decor, and leave satisfied-but-exhausted with a clutch of fuzzy memories.
Guide Michelin, June 2024The RS team of editors pick the hotels they love for the year.
Best Hotel in South America
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As the name suggests, the luxury all-inclusive is situated on its own island, accessible by seaplane or helicopter. Once on the island, you’ll have access to white-sand beaches in all directions from your private villa, plus tons of activities from diving and fishing to yoga to tours of nearby villages.
Rolling Stone, June 2025Kokomo sits amid one of the world’s most exquisite reefs with some of Fiji’s best diving and snorkelling sites on the doorstep – rare fish, dolphins, pilot whales, turtles and manta rays are regular sights.
50 Best, September 2024All of it—the delicious food, the manicured grounds, the tranquil spa, the choice between doing as much or as little as one pleases—is, of course, the product of careful consideration and constant labor.
Conde Nast Traveler, January 2024The RS team of editors pick the hotels they love for the year.
Best Hotel in South Asia & Australia
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600 travel journalists, hoteliers and travel experts vote for their favourite hotels worldwide.
50th place (new).
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The Esplanade delivers the kind of perfectly old-school experience we envision when we think of a classic European hotel. The beautiful old building, which dates back to the Twenties, houses a stunning Art Deco lobby, an award-winning bar, and two restaurants.
Rolling Stone, June 2025The lobby is stylish, in the same gorgeous and impeccably maintained Art Deco style as the rest of the hotel, and the cocktail lounge and the French bistro have atmosphere to spare.
Guide Michelin, July 2024The RS team of editors pick the hotels they love for the year.
Best Hotel in Europe & UK
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Located on the side of a cliff in Santorini and carved into an ancient Greek cave, Dana Villas & Infinity Suites will take your breath away. This stunning resort has sweeping views of the Aegean Sea, and select suites come complete with a private infinity pool, so you can soak in the scenery while immersed in your own oasis.
Rolling Stone, June 2025The RS team of editors pick the hotels they love for the year.
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Ten suites are spread across a serene property that offers awe-inspiring views of the nearby river, forest, and savanna plains. Each suite is well-appointed and impeccably designed to offer a camping-style experience with modern luxuries.
Rolling Stone, June 2025The RS team of editors pick the hotels they love for the year.
Best Safari Camp
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This thoughtfully designed eco-lodge, which recently opened in South Africa’s Vhembe Biosphere Reserve, is not only redefining what a safari can be, but also seamlessly blends luxury with sustainability.
Rolling Stone, June 2025The resort’s showstopper is a solar-powered cable car—with an onboard bar. The game drives are also spectacular.
Travel + Leisure, April 2025Soaring over the Soutpansberg Mountains in a solar-powered aerial tram, tracking elusive leopards on foot, sleeping under the stars on a mountainside platform, and driving through a flutter of electric blue large striped swordtail butterflies en route to a hot bush breakfast—these are some of the incredible experiences guests can look forward to at the new six-suite Few & Far Luvhondo.
Time Magazine, March 2025A design-forward eco-lodge redefining the South African safari with immersive, conservation-driven adventures
Conde Nast Traveler, February 2025The RS team of editors pick the hotels they love for the year.
Best Eco-friendly Hotel
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The best new hotels around the world, all vetted and reviewed by Travel + Leisure's expert editors and reporters.
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The editors of Time pick 50 extraordinary destinations to visit and stay this year. We include the hotels and lodges on the list.
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The perfect weekend getaway: 66 rooms and suites, a spa, a working farm, a cooking school, a pool, and tennis courts, all set against a breathtaking backdrop.
Town & Country, April 2025Pendry Natirar is a revelation for New Yorkers: a genuine luxury resort just an hour’s drive from midtown Manhattan. The stately manor, once owned by King Hassan II of Morocco, sits on a 90-acre parcel, to which Pendry has added an organic farm, a complex with two pools and a hot tub, tennis courts, and an event space.
Travel + Leisure, April 2025Perched on top of a towering hill, the hotel grounds boast a gorgeous wellness spa, a cozy restaurant, and a lobby that looks like it belongs somewhere in the Biltmore.
Esquire, April 2025In the old carriage house, the restaurant, Ninety Acres, and attached cooking school are a highlight for any home chef.
Time Magazine, March 2025The early 1900s mansion, 10-acre farm, and acclaimed farm-to-table restaurant alongside it have been beautifully transformed into a full-on luxury resort by Pendry Hotels and it’s bound to be the East Coast’s hottest weekend getaway.
Conde Nast Traveler, November 2024The RS team of editors pick the hotels they love for the year.
Best East Coast Hotel
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Luxury experts at Robb Report pick a handful of new (or upgraded) hotels that truly represent the best of the best in hospitality.
Robb Report
47 winners, the best new hotels in the world (which also includes old classics recently reborn).
Town & Country
The best new hotels around the world, all vetted and reviewed by Travel + Leisure's expert editors and reporters.
Travel + Leisure
The editors of Time pick 50 extraordinary destinations to visit and stay this year. We include the hotels and lodges on the list.
Time Magazine
Dreaming of a Palm Beach getaway that feels straight out of a Wes Anderson film? The Colony Hotel is your perfect match. Known as the “Pink Paradise,” this boutique hotel charms with whimsical, vintage decor and a prime location, steps from the beach and the upscale shops of Worth Avenue.
Rolling Stone, June 2025Stepping inside the Colony Hotel is like entering a scene from a storybook or a Wes Anderson film, a whimsical balance of the vintage and in vogue. Within its pink stucco walls, reality transforms into the glamorous yet laid-back Palm Beach of days gone by.
Conde Nast Traveler, January 2025This exuberant and undeniably charming British-colonial-style hotel has spacious suites and chic decor and sits in a particularly convenient location, just one block from Worth Avenue and one block from a pretty beach on the Atlantic Ocean.
Fodor's, September 2023The RS team of editors pick the hotels they love for the year.
Best Southern Hotel
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The editors across the globe share their favourite places to stay.
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Tatler, experts on all things luxury, pick their top hotels, resorts and lodges.
Tatler Magazine
Set inside a restored 1880s Queen Anne mansion in Capitol Hill, this hotel expertly blends historic charm — think gargoyle-carved staircases and stained glass — with bold, Western-inspired design (including hand-hammered copper tubs in every room).
Rolling Stone, June 2025The RS team of editors pick the hotels they love for the year.
Best Southwest Hotel
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It’s hard to still find such a pristinely captured aesthetic of old-school Hollywood glamour in modern hotels.
Rolling Stone, June 2025It feels less like a traditional resort and more like a retail complex open to the public, with shops, restaurants, walking paths, and an ice skating rink during the holidays (in addition to its guest rooms).
Conde Nast Traveler, July 2022The RS team of editors pick the hotels they love for the year.
Best U.S. Hotel
Rolling Stone
47 winners, the best new hotels in the world (which also includes old classics recently reborn).
Town & Country
February 2023
The newest and most luxurious lodgings are at the Esencia Mansion, a four-bedroom villa with three swimming pools, a 20-seat screening room, subterranean speakeasy and nearby cenote where guests can paddleboard among the resident manatees.
Conde Nast TravelerThere’s paradise — and then there’s Hotel Esencia. The stunning 50-acre property set just outside of Tulum, Mexico, is the ultimate luxury-hotel destination thanks to its jaw-dropping beachfront and jungle views, delicious restaurants, a freshly renovated spa, and gorgeous interiors alike.
Rolling Stone, June 2025Barefoot luxury of the highest order.
50 Best, September 2024Magazine-worthy interiors mix mid-century treasures with Mexican antiques; three restaurants include an excellent Japanese omakase; and service is pitch-perfect, with spoiling extras.
The Telegraph, September 2024In-the-know travelers—like Uma Thurman and Bella Hadid—adore this elegant collection of ocean-facing or jungle suites and villas with walk-in showers, walk-in closets, and standout art from Picasso and Botero.
Fodor's Travel, January 2024This former villa of an Italian duchess is now your private jungle getaway, 30 minutes from hip Tulum.
Condé Nast Travaler, December 2018Hard to improve upon, but they've done it. Stay in a new two-storey beach suite and you can fall straight out of bed and onto the icing-sugar sand, or gaze over the water from your terrace.
Tatler Magazine, June 2018If there is a lovelier spot in the Caribbean, it is hard to think where.
Conde Nast Traveller (UK), March 2018Prepare to be thoroughly spoiled at this relaxed retreat, beloved of Hollywood A-listers for its privacy.
The Telegraph, March 2018Originally an Italian duchess's holiday home, it became a hotel in 2005 then was transformed to its current splendour in 2014
Condé Nast Travaller, January 2018Not a single detail has been overlooked, so expect everything from double rain-shower heads and Molton Brown bath products to 600-thread-count Egyptian cotton sheets. The service is exceptional, as is the food.
Fodor's, November 2017Esencia takes pride in being a bit hard to find, a getaway solely for those in the know.
Condé Nast Traveler (US), December 2016The RS team of editors pick the hotels they love for the year.
Best Hotel
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The travel experts at Fodor's nominate their 60 Most Incredible Hotels in the World.
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600 travel journalists, hoteliers and travel experts vote for their favourite hotels worldwide.
48th place (last year: 19th)
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The world’s 50 greatest hotels, ranked and rated by the experts at The Telegraph.
34th place.
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These are the Condé Naste Travaller's all-time favourite hotels.
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October 2025
This property opened as the Tribeca Grand in 2000 and transitioned to the Roxy name in 2015.
StayGrandToday, the hotel is a hub for live jazz, with musicians performing seven days a week at the lobby-level Roxy Bar, and downstairs at the not-so-secret subterranean jazz club, the Django, which is modeled after the boîtes of Paris.
Rolling Stone, June 2025Downtown funk comes in the form of the brick and iron facade, and that natural light can’t fail to penetrate the wide glass roof of the eight-story atrium, making most other New York hotels feel gloomy and claustrophobic by comparison.
Guide Michelin, May 2024The RS team of editors pick the hotels they love for the year.
Best Hotel For Music Fans
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