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Most people who write about the Caruso end up talking about the pool and then, almost despite themselves, about a specific person: Giovanni running the Grill, Donatella pulling off a wedding, Carmine…
Sixty-seven keys, and it behaves like a house with sixty-seven keys: staff learn your name by the first night, and the small gestures pile up fast. One couple mentioned an Arsenal game in passing at…
The case for the Cipriani starts with the pool. It's the largest in Venice, set inside gardens people describe as immaculate, and it turns a city built entirely of stone and canals into somewhere you…
A restored fifteenth-century monastery on a hill above Florence, its facade traditionally attributed to Michelangelo, is not a normal hotel pitch, and the reviews back it up: people describe walking…
The pink Cape Dutch buildings and gardens under Table Mountain are what people picture, but the reason people keep coming back is afternoon tea. Sommeliers like Zodwa and Craig walk guests through…
The case for booking the Copacabana Palace hasn't changed since 1923: Joseph Gire's Art Deco building, a private stretch of Copacabana Beach, and a pool team that keeps its head at full Carnival…
This is a hillside hotel in the middle of Deia, not a beach resort, and that single fact decides who should book it. What arrives for it: two converted manor houses wrapped in olive groves, a pool…