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.
The Collection
Wellness & Spa
Hotels where the spa programme leads the stay.
Nayara Gardens
La Fortuna, Costa Rica
A rare Costa Rica resort that earns its 'best in the country' billing, immersive in the rainforest without sacrificing comfort.
Four Seasons Resort Maui
Maui, United States · Four Seasons
Hawaii's benchmark resort: 15 beachfront acres run with a precision that makes the nightly rate feel almost defensible.
Gold Stay 2026
Amanpulo
Palawan, Philippines · Aman
The full private-island fantasy executed with Aman discipline, priced accordingly.
The Dolder Grand
Zurich, Switzerland
A genuine city resort: Alpine views, museum-grade art and Zurich's best spa, ten minutes above the Bahnhofstrasse.
Waldorf Astoria Punta Cacique
Guanacaste, Costa Rica · Waldorf Astoria
A brand-new Guanacaste cliff-hanger built so completely around slowing down that you may never leave the property.
Rosewood Baha Mar
Nassau, Bahamas · Rosewood
Rosewood calm on Cable Beach with the run of a vast resort campus next door, a rare balance of intimacy and scale done with real polish.
Aman Le Melezin
Courchevel, France · Aman
The quietest address in a loud resort, and the only one in Courchevel where the piste starts at the boot room door.
Rosewood Le Guanahani
Saint Barthelemy · Rosewood
The island's most complete resort: an eighteen-acre peninsula between two beaches, barefoot in feel and polished in execution, at full St. Barth prices.
Four Seasons The Nam Hai
Hoi An, Vietnam · Four Seasons
Vietnam's definitive beach resort, with a spa that has become the destination in its own right.
Amanyara
Providenciales, Turks and Caicos · Aman
The Caribbean pared back to sand, reef and silence, executed with a precision few resorts anywhere can match.
Amanzoe
Porto Heli, Greece · Aman
A modern Greek temple that delivers on the metaphor, with the Peloponnese's best beach club below.
Fairmont Mayakoba
Riviera Maya, Mexico · Fairmont
The mangrove boat ride to breakfast is a trick that never gets old, and the rest of the estate keeps up with it.
Four Seasons Hotel Osaka
Osaka, Japan · Four Seasons
Osaka's new benchmark: a serene tower hotel with a genuine modern ryokan hidden on the 28th floor.
Amanoi
Ninh Thuan, Vietnam · Aman
Vietnam's most complete coastal retreat, provided you treat isolation as a feature rather than a flaw.
Rosewood Sao Paulo
Sao Paulo, Brazil · Rosewood
Jean Nouvel's vertical forest over Philippe Starck interiors, the boldest luxury hotel in Sao Paulo.
Amanbagh
Rajasthan, India · Aman
Rural Rajasthan distilled: a walled garden palace where the excursions matter as much as the marble.
Amankora Thimphu
Thimphu, Bhutan · Aman
A monastic, beautifully judged first move in the best hotel circuit in the Himalayas.
Fairmont Udaipur Palace
Udaipur, India · Fairmont
A brand-new palace built at Rajput scale above Udaisagar Lake: theatrical, enormous and already the wedding stage of choice east of Udaipur.
Fairmont Orchid
Big Island, United States · Fairmont
The calm, turtle-visited lagoon does more for this resort than any renovation ever could.
Rosewood Little Dix Bay
Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands · Rosewood
Laurance Rockefeller's 1964 original, rebuilt with restraint after Irma into the calmest aristocrat in the British Virgin Islands.
Rosewood Munich
Munich, Germany · Rosewood
Rosewood's 2023 debut, stitched into a former royal bank and a Preysing palais a block from the Frauenkirche.
Fairmont St Andrews
St Andrews, United Kingdom · Fairmont
A cliff-top golf estate with the North Sea for a moat: grand, windswept and far better run than its conference-scale bones suggest.
Amankora Gangtey
Gangtey, Bhutan · Aman
The smallest Amankora lodge is the one we would plan an entire Bhutan winter around.