Places to Stay

The tricky part? Choosing. Switzerland’s grandest hotels are no strangers to small guests, and between lakeside palaces, ski-in chalets and city hideaways, it’s easy to get lost in the brochures.

The crowds have gone home, the sea is still warm and the light has turned to gold. Here are the grand Mediterranean hotels worth catching in their final days before …

From a converted Victorian firehouse to a Saarinen-designed embassy, these are the central London hotels worth booking for Frieze London and Frieze Masters, 14 to 18 October.

This is our edit of the ski hotels worth the flight, the transfer and the inevitable bruised ego on the red run. Pour yourself a mulled wine and settle in.

From garden hideaways in Brera to palazzi a heel’s click from the Quadrilatero, these are the rooms worth fighting for.

An hour into the High Atlas Mountains, Olinto proves a mountain retreat doesn’t need more than nine rooms to get absolutely everything right, and I’m still thinking about it weeks …

Because apparently “holiday” and “personal best” aren’t mutually exclusive anymore, and these five properties have built their entire identity around proving it.

Nine addresses the industry actually checks into, from SoHo screening rooms to a Tribeca spa built by Robert De Niro.

From a floating spa on a private Thames island to a Bromley members’ club throwing a burlesque dinner show every Saturday, this is where you disappear to when the group …

Courtyards, cedar ceilings, rooftop pools and the kind of service that remembers how you take your mint tea. Nobody arrives at a riad. You disappear into one. That’s the whole …