The Collection

Every Hotel, Reviewed

The complete index of stays worth crossing the world for, from a silent tower above Tokyo to a palazzo hung over the Amalfi Coast.

Urban Sanctuary

Tokyo, Japan★★★★★4.9

Aman Tokyo

Thirty-three floors above Otemachi, Aman took the top of a corporate tower and made it the calmest room in Tokyo. It works because of everything it leaves out.

From $1,150 / night

Grande Dame

Paris, France★★★★★4.8

The Ritz Paris

After a four-year restoration, the address on Place Vendôme is once again the most romantic (and most photographed) hotel in France.

From $1,400 / night

Icon

Singapore, Singapore★★★★★4.5

Marina Bay Sands

Three towers, a ship balanced on top, and the most famous rooftop pool on earth. It's a spectacle, and it earns the hype.

From $520 / night

Statement

Dubai, United Arab Emirates★★★★★4.4

Burj Al Arab

It calls itself seven stars. It isn't (there's no such thing), but the sheer gold-leafed audacity of the place is a destination in its own right.

From $1,600 / night

Palace Hotel

Marrakech, Morocco★★★★★4.7

La Mamounia

Behind the ramparts of the medina sits a 200-year-old garden and a hotel that has hosted everyone from Winston Churchill to the entire fashion set.

From $750 / night

Grande Dame

New York, United States★★★★★4.3

The Plaza

A French Renaissance landmark at Fifth and 59th: equal parts fairy tale, film set, and living piece of New York mythology.

From $895 / night

Cliffside Retreat

Ravello, Italy★★★★★4.9

Belmond Hotel Caruso

A thousand feet above the Tyrrhenian Sea, a former bishop's palace holds the most photographed infinity pool in Italy, and a view that ruins you for anywhere else.

From $1,300 / night

Safari Lodge

Kruger, South Africa★★★★★4.9

Singita Sabi Sand

Conservation-first safari at its most refined: glass-walled suites, a private reserve full of leopard, and service that feels almost telepathic.

From $2,100 / night

Island Retreat

Venice, Italy★★★★★4.8

Belmond Hotel Cipriani

On the tip of Giudecca, the Cipriani offers the one thing Venice never can: space. An Olympic-length pool, Casanova's old garden, and no crowds at breakfast.

From $1,450 / night

Grande Dame

London, United Kingdom★★★★★4.8

Claridge's

Royalty checks in under pseudonyms, the foyer pours the best afternoon tea in London, and the service runs like a Swiss watch in white gloves.

From $990 / night

Riviera Legend

Antibes, France★★★★★4.7

Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc

Twenty-two acres of pine and palm on the tip of Cap d'Antibes, a seawater pool blasted into the rock, and a cash-only history of impossible glamour.

From $1,800 / night

Alpine Grande Dame

St. Moritz, Switzerland★★★★★4.6

Badrutt's Palace

A fairy-tale silhouette above a frozen lake, where the Engadine light, the Cresta Run and 130 years of aristocratic après-ski all still hold court.

From $1,250 / night

Grande Dame

Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR★★★★★4.7

The Peninsula Hong Kong

Since 1928 the Peninsula has been Kowloon's answer to the grand hotels of Europe: a colonnaded lobby, harbour views, and a helipad on the roof.

From $780 / night

Barefoot Luxury

Baa Atoll, Maldives★★★★★4.9

Soneva Fushi

The resort that taught the Maldives that barefoot could mean luxurious. Vast Robinson Crusoe villas, an open-air cinema, and some of the best diving in the Indian Ocean.

From $2,200 / night

Palace Hotel

Udaipur, India★★★★★4.9

The Oberoi Udaivilas

Built the way a maharana's residence would have been, with domes, courtyards and reflecting pools mirrored in the lake. Regularly voted among the finest hotels on earth.

From $900 / night

Urban Retreat

Tokyo, Japan★★★★★4.6

Park Hyatt Tokyo

Fifty-two floors up, the New York Bar still swings, the pool still floats under a glass vault, and the whole place still hums with cinematic melancholy.

From $720 / night

Desert Retreat

Canyon Point, United States★★★★★4.9

Amangiri

Aman built into the raw geology of the Colorado Plateau: a minimalist compound where a central pool curls around a 165-million-year-old rock.

From $3,400 / night

Hollywood Legend

Los Angeles, United States★★★★★4.4

The Beverly Hills Hotel

Bungalows, banana-leaf wallpaper, and a poolside where studio history was written. A touch faded now, but the myth is fully intact.

From $850 / night

Design Outpost

Fogo Island, Canada★★★★★4.8

Fogo Island Inn

On stilts at the far edge of Newfoundland, a social-enterprise hotel where every dollar goes back into the community and every window frames raw, roaring ocean.

From $1,975 / night

Wilderness Lodge

Torres del Paine, Chile★★★★★4.7

Explora Patagonia

Inside Torres del Paine National Park, an all-inclusive base camp for serious hikers, with guided treks by day and a spa over the water by night.

From $2,600 / night

Urban Resort

Cape Town, South Africa★★★★★4.6

One&Only Cape Town

A polished marina resort at the foot of Table Mountain, with island spa suites, a serious wine list, and one of the best views of any city on earth.

From $640 / night

Boutique Manor

Nairobi, Kenya★★★★★4.7

Giraffe Manor

A creeper-clad country house on the edge of Nairobi where a herd of endangered Rothschild's giraffes pokes its heads through the windows at breakfast.

From $1,450 / night