In the city

Palace · 5★

Aman New York

The Crown Building on Fifth and 57th, eighty-three suites, the Aman Club above — the most considered new opening in the city in a decade.

5★ · Upper East Side

The Mark

The Upper East Side address with the Jean-Georges restaurant on the ground floor and the penthouse the magazines won't stop writing about.

5★ · Midtown West

Baccarat Hotel

The 28 West 53rd Street tower — the Baccarat crystal everywhere, the Grand Salon for the afternoon tea, the most considered midtown opening of the last decade.

5★ · Upper East Side

The Carlyle

Madison Avenue since 1930, Bemelmans downstairs, Café Carlyle next door — the New York hotel that has refused to update itself, on purpose.

5★ · Members hotel · Battery Park

Casa Cipriani New York

Forty-seven rooms inside the Battery Maritime Building, the Cipriani members' club above — the downtown answer to the uptown houses.

5★ · Tribeca

Four Seasons New York Downtown

The Tribeca Four Seasons — the limestone tower at 30 Park Place, CUT by Wolfgang Puck on the ground floor, the most considered downtown five-star.

4★ · Lower East Side

Public Hotel

Ian Schrager's downtown statement — the escalator entry, the rooftop at the top, the city's most considered affordable-luxury hotel.

4★ · Meatpacking

The Standard High Line

André Balazs's straddle over the High Line — the cantilever, the Boom Boom Room above, the most photographed hotel in the West Side.

5★ · Midtown

Lotte New York Palace

The Villard Mansion's 1882 courtyard hotel — the Gossip Girl shot, the Madison Avenue address, the most theatrical lobby in midtown.

5★ · Tribeca

The Greenwich Hotel

Robert De Niro's house on North Moore, the Shibui Spa under the lantern roof — the Tribeca address for the long downtown stay.

Palace · 5★

Le Bristol Paris

The Oetker palace on Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré — Eric Frechon's three-star kitchen, the rooftop pool, and the city's most consistent service.

Palace · 5★

Cheval Blanc Paris

LVMH's flagship inside the restored Samaritaine, with the city's only true Seine-facing palace pool.

Palace · 5★

Hôtel Plaza Athénée

The Dorchester palace on Avenue Montaigne — geraniums on the façade, Alain Ducasse upstairs, and the most cinematic courtyard in the city.

Palace · 5★

Ritz Paris

Place Vendôme, the renovated bar, the Chanel suite, and the address that no other city has.

Palace · 5★

Le Royal Monceau – Raffles Paris

The Philippe Starck palace on avenue Hoche — the Cinéma room, Il Carpaccio, Matsuhisa Paris, and the most cinematic late dinner of the 8e palaces.

Boutique · 4★

Le Pigalle

The Experimental Group's neighbourhood hotel on Rue Frochot — quiet, design-aware, and a credible counterpoint to the 8e.

Palace · 5★

The Peninsula Paris

The Peninsula on the avenue Kléber — the rooftop with the Eiffel Tower view, the LiLi cantonese dining room, the most ambitious technology specification of any Paris palace.

Palace · 5★ GL

Four Seasons Hotel Madrid

The seven-building Canalejas restoration, opened 2020 — Four Seasons' Spanish debut and the brand's most ambitious European project of the decade.

Palace · 5★ GL

Mandarin Oriental Ritz, Madrid

The Belle Époque icon on Plaza de la Lealtad, restored by Mandarin in 2021 — the most polished room in the capital.

Luxury · 5★ GL

Rosewood Villa Magna

The Salamanca address that re-opened under Rosewood in October 2021 — the residential five-star with the longest reception desk in the city.

Lifestyle · 5★ GL

Bless Hotel Madrid

The Palladium Group's lifestyle five-star on Velázquez — the rooftop pool that the rest of Salamanca uses for the long summer lunch.

Boutique · 5★

URSO Hotel & Spa

Small Luxury Hotels' Madrid address — a 78-room palace conversion at the quiet edge of Chamberí, the under-the-radar five-star.

Palace · 5★

Aman Tokyo

The Otemachi Tower address — eighty-four suites at altitude, the largest spa in the city, and the most considered service in Tokyo.

Icon · 5★

Park Hyatt Tokyo

The Lost in Translation tower, reopened December 2025 after a nineteen-month renewal — restored, not replaced.

Palace · 5★

The Peninsula Tokyo

Marunouchi facing the Imperial Palace, Forbes Five-Star for the ninth consecutive year — the steady palace in the city.

Design · 5★

The Tokyo EDITION, Toranomon

Kengo Kuma for Ian Schrager, 206 rooms with Tokyo Tower views — the design hotel for the design-led week.

Ryokan · 5★

Hoshinoya Tokyo

The vertical ryokan in Otemachi — tatami floors, the shoeless rule, and a private onsen on the seventeenth.

Palace · 5★

Beau-Rivage Geneva

Family-owned since 1865, still the address on the Quai du Mont-Blanc and still the one the old Geneva houses choose.

Palace · 5★

Mandarin Oriental Geneva

The riverside house on the Quai Turrettini, the most polished room on the Rhône side of town.

Palace · 5★

Four Seasons Hotel des Bergues Geneva

The oldest grand hotel in the city, on the Rhône since 1834, now run by Four Seasons with the lake at the doorstep.

5★

Hôtel d'Angleterre Geneva

The smaller, more personal address on the Quai du Mont-Blanc, with the bar that holds the local crowd at six.

Luxury Collection · 5★

Bellagio · Fountain View Suites

The 1,020-square-foot Fountain View Suite at Bellagio — the only room in Las Vegas where the show happens at the window every fifteen minutes.

Design · 5★

The Cosmopolitan · Wraparound Terrace Suite

The 1,200-square-foot suite with the 410-square-foot wraparound terrace — the only proper outdoor balcony on the Strip.

LXR · 5★

Crockfords Las Vegas · Resorts World

The 332-room LXR enclave inside Resorts World — Crockfords' first North American outpost and the newest top-tier hotel on the Strip.

Suite-only · 5★

The Venetian · Prestige Club Lounge

The Venetian is suite-only — every room is a suite — and the Prestige Club tier adds private check-in, the dedicated lounge, and breakfast in the salon.

Palace · 53 riads

Royal Mansour Marrakech

The King of Morocco's private hotel — 53 individual riads behind the medina walls, each with a plunge pool, a butler and a roof terrace.

Resort · Palmeraie

Palais Namaskar

Twelve acres of garden and water mirrors in the Palmeraie — a Stark-cool palace twenty-five minutes from the medina.

Palace · since 1923

La Mamounia

The 1923 hotel set inside a seventeen-acre walled garden five minutes from Jemaa el-Fna — the most photographed address in Marrakech.

Palace · Arabian horses

Palais Selman

Jacques Garcia's Atlas-facing palace built around a haras of purebred Arabian horses — 80-metre pool, signature dinners in the stables.

Palace · 5★

Raffles Singapore

The 1887 colonial palace at Beach Road — 115 all-suite, the only hotel marked a National Monument in the country.

Suite · skyline

Marina Bay Sands · Paiza Sky Suite

The Paiza Collection at the top of the Marina Bay Sands towers — butler service, the infinity pool on the 57th, and the most photographed skyline view in Asia.

Heritage · 5★

The Capitol Kempinski Hotel Singapore

The Capitol Building and Stamford House restored as a Kempinski — heritage architecture in the civic quarter, the alternative to Raffles.

Waterfront · 5★

The Fullerton Bay Hotel

The 100-room waterfront jewel at Collyer Quay — 360-degree Marina Bay views and the Lantern rooftop bar.

Hotel · 5★ Superior

Hotel Sacher Wien

The Philharmonikerstraße institution behind the State Opera — 151 rooms, the original Sachertorte, the café that has run since 1876.

Hotel · 5★ · Anantara

Hotel Imperial Vienna

The Kärntner Ring palace built for the Prince of Württemberg in 1863 — the Ringstrasse address that hosted every state visit of the 20th century.

Hotel · 5★

Park Hyatt Vienna

The Am Hof former bank building in the Goldenes Quartier — 143 rooms in vaults and marble halls, the indoor pool in the original bank vault.

Hotel · 5★ · Le Loft rooftop

Sofitel Vienna Stephansdom

Jean Nouvel's glass tower on Praterstraße — 182 rooms, Le Loft restaurant on the 18th floor with the city's most cinematic Stephansdom view.

Hotel · Restaurant

Chiltern Firehouse

André Balazs' Marylebone room — the hotel-restaurant that has remained the single most photographed door in central London for a decade.

Firmdale · Soho

Ham Yard Hotel

Kit Kemp's Soho courtyard hotel — the Firmdale colour palette at its loudest, the bowling alley downstairs, the rooftop garden at the top.

5★ · Mid-Beach

Faena Hotel Miami Beach

The Alan Faena operation on Mid-Beach — Baz Luhrmann interiors, the gilded Damien Hirst mammoth, the most theatrical hotel in the city.

South Beach · Icon · Ennismore

Delano Miami Beach

Six years of silence, one full renovation. The Starck building on Collins is back — and Paris Society just made it the most interesting hotel dining stack in South Beach.

Hotel · 5★

Bulgari Hotel Milano

The Bulgari flagship on Via Privata Fratelli Gabba — 58 rooms behind the Pinacoteca di Brera, the garden the size of a small piazza.

Hotel · 5★ · Rooftop

ME Milan Il Duca

The Meliá group's Piazza della Repubblica address — 132 rooms, Radio Rooftop Bar on the top floor, the aperitivo crowd at sunset.

Resort · 5★

Atlantis The Royal

The 2023 Atlantis sibling on the Palm crescent — Nobu, Hakkasan, Heston, Estiatorio Milos in a single block.