Worth the table

Palace · 5★

Cheval Blanc Courchevel

The first Cheval Blanc, opened in 2006, and still the only true ski-in ski-out palace in 1850.

Palace · 5★

Les Airelles

The original Airelles on the front-de-neige — the Tyrolean fantasy palace, Pierre Gagnaire upstairs, Le Sarkara two stars, the most theatrical alpine hospitality of the resort.

5★ · 1850

Hôtel Le Chabichou

The Rochedy family hotel — the two-star dining room downstairs, the village location, the alpine palace at a more familial scale.

The small private hotel in the village — Sylvestre Wahid two stars in-house, the discreet entrance, the alpine palace at a more intimate scale.

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.

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.

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

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.

Five-Star · 5★

The Little Nell

Aspen's only Five-Star, Five-Diamond, ski-in/ski-out hotel — 92 rooms at the base of the gondola, opened 1989.

Historic · 5★

Hotel Jerome, Auberge Collection

The 1889 silver-mining-era landmark on Main Street, run by Auberge, with the J-Bar that has been the town's living room for a hundred and thirty-five years.

The Antibes institution that has set the rules for Riviera summers since 1870 — still cash only at the bar, still the most discreet park on the coast.

The Art Deco grande dame of the Croisette, now Hyatt Unbound, and the chosen set for The White Lotus season four.

Beachfront resort · 5★

Anantara Lawana Koh Samui Resort

The Anantara on Chaweng Beach — relaunched November 2024, MICHELIN Guide One Key, the Sino-Thai design.

The eighty-eight-villa Banyan Tree on Lamai Bay — Best Spa Resort Thailand 2026, the Banyan Tree Connections wellbeing programme.

Thirty-seven thousand acres in the Blackfoot Valley — the all-inclusive Montana ranch that defined modern glamping.

The 25-cabin Relais & Châteaux ranch in the Bitterroot — adults-only (16+), all-inclusive, and once Travel + Leisure's number-one hotel in the world.

Palace · 5★

Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat, A Four Seasons Hotel

The Four Seasons palace at the tip of Cap-Ferrat — seventy-one rooms, an Olympic infinity pool, and the Riviera's most secluded peninsula.

Palace · 5★

Hôtel de Paris Monte-Carlo

The Société des Bains de Mer flagship on Place du Casino — the address Monaco was built around, fully reborn after the 2014-2019 renovation.

Palace · 5★

Cheval Blanc Saint-Tropez

The LVMH operation on the quai, now in its seventh year and the most polished room in the village.

5★ · Design

Hôtel Sezz Saint-Tropez

The Christophe Pillet design hotel on Route des Salins, with Colette (1★ Michelin) and a long pool in the pines.

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

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.

The Four Seasons over the Ayung River near Ubud — the lotus-pond rooftop arrival, the seven-suite refresh launching July 2026.

The Anacapri property with the only serious medical spa on the island and the gallery of contemporary art Tonino Cacace built over forty years.

Resort · 5★

One&Only The Palm

The 92-room Andalusian-style resort on the western tip of the Palm, the quietest credible beach hotel in the city.

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 · 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.

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.

The Sireh family palace on the cliff of Gordes — the long pool with the Luberon valley in the front, the Tigrr restaurant, the most ambitious Provence palace of the last decade.

The Matthews family hotel on the volcanic rock at the centre of Saint-Jean bay — the social hub of the island since 1953.

Palace · Four Seasons · Taormina, Sicily

San Domenico Palace, Taormina

A 14th-century Dominican convent, a Four Seasons since 2021, and the most structurally honest luxury conversion in the Mediterranean — the bones refused to be made generic.

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