Gold Stay 2026
Aman Venice
Venice, Italy · Aman
The rare Venice hotel that feels like being lent a palazzo rather than sold a room.
The Collection
Design & Architecture
Hotels where the building is half the reason to book.
Editors Pick
Amangalla
Galle, Sri Lanka · Aman
Sri Lanka's most atmospheric address: a living piece of Galle Fort run with Aman precision and worn like old linen.
Fairmont Peace Hotel
Shanghai, China · Fairmont
Shanghai's most storied address still earns the legend nightly, in the Jazz Bar.
Editors Pick
Bulgari Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan · Bulgari
Proof a fashion-house hotel can be serious: Milanese polish, Japanese precision and Tokyo arranged at your feet.
Bulgari Hotel Roma
Rome, Italy · Bulgari
Rome's most assured new grand hotel: jeweller's polish applied to a rationalist palazzo, with the Mausoleum of Augustus as the front garden.
Rosewood San Miguel de Allende
San Miguel de Allende, Mexico · Rosewood
The most complete hotel in Mexico's most romantic town, and the rooftop at sunset is worth the rate on its own.
Amanyara
Providenciales, Turks and Caicos · Aman
The Caribbean pared back to sand, reef and silence, executed with a precision few resorts anywhere can match.
Rosewood Miramar Beach
Montecito, United States · Rosewood
Rick Caruso's beachfront fantasy of old-money Montecito, anchored by a Michelin star at Caruso's.
Hilton Molino Stucky Venice
Venice, Italy · Hilton
A Victorian flour mill reborn with Venice's only rooftop pool and the lagoon's best sunset bar.
Amanzoe
Porto Heli, Greece · Aman
A modern Greek temple that delivers on the metaphor, with the Peloponnese's best beach club below.
Rosewood Sao Paulo
Sao Paulo, Brazil · Rosewood
Jean Nouvel's vertical forest over Philippe Starck interiors, the boldest luxury hotel in Sao Paulo.
Hotel Phillips Kansas City
Kansas City, United States · Hilton
Kansas City's art deco landmark, polished by Curio into the most characterful stay downtown.
Radisson Collection Palazzo Nani
Venice, Italy · Radisson
A proper palazzo conversion in the Venice neighbourhood you actually want to sleep in.
Rosewood Munich
Munich, Germany · Rosewood
Rosewood's 2023 debut, stitched into a former royal bank and a Preysing palais a block from the Frauenkirche.
Waldorf Astoria New York
New York City, United States · Waldorf Astoria
New York's grande dame has come back smaller, calmer and considerably better than the legend it left behind.
Fairmont Doha
Doha, Qatar · Fairmont
The architecture does the marketing; the butlers, the hammam and Masala Library's tasting menus do the convincing.
Rosewood Vienna
Vienna, Austria · Rosewood
A former imperial bank on Petersplatz turned into Rosewood's polished, coffeehouse-literate take on old Vienna.
Amanruya
Bodrum, Turkey · Aman
Bodrum with the volume turned right down: private pools, olive groves and barely another guest in sight.
The Foundry Hotel Asheville
Asheville, United States · Hilton
Asheville's old steel foundry reborn as an 87-room design hotel, with Benne on Eagle putting real Appalachian cooking on the plate.
The Dorian
Calgary, Canada · Autograph Collection
A witty, literary-themed boutique tower that gives downtown Calgary a proper design hotel and a genuinely good rooftop.
Arizona Biltmore
Phoenix, United States · Waldorf Astoria
Phoenix's grande dame still trades on 1929 glamour, and after the Waldorf Astoria polish it mostly earns it.
Radisson Lackawanna Station
Scranton, United States · Radisson
Worth booking for the building alone: a French Renaissance railway station of 1908 whose stained-glass concourse is now the finest hotel lobby in Scranton.
Radisson Blu Aqua
Chicago, United States · Radisson
Sleep inside a Chicago architectural landmark for four-star money, a ten-minute walk from Millennium Park.
Joinery Hotel Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, United States · Hilton
A characterful Curio conversion in the middle of Downtown Pittsburgh, strong on design and service, honest about being a compact city hotel rather than a resort.