The iconic French fashion house has taken over a Berkeley Square townhouse to celebrate 130 years of its monogram, and the result is exactly as good as you’d expect.

We have identified ten properties across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East where the experience of traveling as a solo woman has been most consistently thought through at the level that matters: not the brochure, but the actual stay.

The Vinothérapie Spa belongs to Les Sources de Caudalie, which sits on the 78-hectare grounds of a Grand Cru Classé estate whose vines run almost to the spa building itself.

Everyone has the overnight train fantasy. The window steaming up as the countryside darkens, a glass of something decent on a small table, the particular quality of sleep that only motion seems to produce, waking somewhere new to pale morning light and the sensation that travel has actually happened rather than merely been endured. It is a good fantasy. The question is whether it survives contact with the booking process, the actual rolling stock, and the man in the corridor who wants to discuss his journey at eleven-thirty at night.

Bill & Coo has spent two decades quietly making the case that Mykonos was always better at dawn than midnight. There’s a version of Mykonos that involves sparkler bottles and …

Ibiza has been quietly (and sometimes not so quietly) reinventing itself for years now. The clubs are still there, obviously, and the sunsets remain as aggressively beautiful as ever. But the hotel scene? It’s undergone something of a revolution. A new wave of architects, hoteliers and wellness visionaries have descended on the White Isle and the result is a luxury hotel offering that rivals anywhere in the Mediterranean, from clifftop Six Senses retreats in the wild north to razor-sharp design hotels overlooking the marina.