City guides
Not a directory — a real plan for a fat city trip. For the cities we cover deeply, a proper guide: where to stay by trip type, by neighbourhood, and what the most active luxury travel communities actually say. Everywhere else, an honest ranked shortlist. Always independently scored, never paid placements.
66 cities covered · 2 in-depth guides
In-depth guides
Paris has eleven hotels worth your serious money, and they are genuinely different from each other in ways that matter. The right one depends on whether you care more about food, design, location, service culture, or whether you want the full gilded-palace experience or something quieter and more residential. Get this choice right and Paris will wreck you for other cities.
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London's top-tier hotel scene is genuinely competitive right now, with five very different properties each making a real case for your money. The honest answer: your choice comes down to whether you want the city's finest service (The Lanesborough), an Art Deco institution you can walk everywhere from (Claridge's), a dramatic new design statement in a converted embassy (The Chancery Rosewood), Mayfair's most quietly confident address (The Connaught), or Belle Époque grandeur at a slight remove from the action (Rosewood London).
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Every other city we cover, by region. A full guide gets written once a city passes 5 curated hotels — until then, here's the honest shortlist.
Maldives
Baa Atoll 3 · Noonu Atoll 2 · Hadahaa · North Malé Atoll
India
Udaipur 2 · Ranthambore · Sawai Madhopur
Cambodia
Laos
Singapore
UAE
Dubai 2
Mexico
St Kitts & Nevis
Turks & Caicos
Brazil
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