On the ground
Founders' Verdicts
Hotels we've stayed in personally. Each verdict is a first-hand account — the bits the scored review can't cover, the texture of an actual stay. How we stayed is always disclosed, and no stay ever moves a Fat Score.
Hof bei Salzburg, Austria
Rosewood Schloss Fuschl
I proposed to my fiancée here. At the pier, late afternoon, the two of us looking out over the lake. The staff knew — they helped set the whole thing up — and that evening at turndown, our proposal photo was waiting in a frame on the nightstand. I am not someone who gets…
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Fat LegendChampillon, France
Royal Champagne Hotel & Spa
One night. That is all we had, and I want to be upfront about it — a single night is not enough to write the kind of verdict this place probably deserves.
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Booked next
Where we're headed
The next stays, in the order they'll happen — we keep the dates to ourselves. Each becomes a verdict here once we've been.
- 01Rosewood Amsterdam — Amsterdam
- 02Four Seasons Hotel London at Tower Bridge — London
- 03Château la Commaraine — Burgundy (Royal Champagne's sister house)
- 04Amanzoe — Porto Heli