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42 The Calls

It may seem a perplexing name for a hotel, but The Calls is the name of an old cobbled street down by Leeds' waterfront, and 42 is, true to current style, merely the street address. The building was once home to a corn mill, and the city's riverfront area, though resurgent, bears strong remnants ...

Hotel Ormelune

Please note: this hotel is seasonal, and is open from December until the end of April. Our Tablet Spy program offers the chance to get early looks at the most promising new hotels. If you’re interested in staying in a hotel that’s just been opened, then you’ll be rewarded with ...

Carlton Intercontinental

The Carlton is the undisputed star of the French Riviera. Massive, white and marble, it sits on the famous La Croisette seafront in Cannes. And in a town where everyone is finely tanned, rail-thin, and wears jewels to breakfast, the Carlton clientele are the most dazzling. It has the best parties...

Standard Design Hotel Paris

The budget boutique has come to Paris. As improbable as it may seem in a city where high prices and high opulence rule the day, the Standard Design Hotel is a pared-down contemporary-design boutique hotel — in fact it’s reminiscent in terms of aesthetics and atmosphere of the similarly-named (but...

Alvear Palace Hotel

Truly, this is the high-society heart of Buenos Aires. Each of the pale-veined stones of its ornate, Beaux Arts facade was shipped from Paris. Outside lingers the unmistakable Buenos Aires scent. Teardrop chandeliers beckon from cathedral ceilings, floors gleam black and white, and Persian rugs a...

Sagamore Hotel

The Sagamore bridges the gap between the ultra-chic boutique and the more stately, upmarket luxury hotel. It's not easy to define the Sagamore — is the hotel within the art gallery or the art gallery within the hotel? This old-fashioned insistence on real luxury at the expense of cheap ...

St. George Roma

Rome offers up so much history that it’s sometimes hard for the traveler to remember that, antiquity aside, Rome is a completely current and connected city too. It’s a cosmopolitan town fueled more by academia and the film business than by industry, and top-rate hotels usually aim for grandiloque...

Park Hyatt Goa Resort And Spa

It’s probably not, at first glance, what you’d expect a Park Hyatt to be. But then again Goa is probably not quite what you’d expect it to be. This hippie hideaway went mass tourism for a bit, but is now being rediscovered by a totally different breed of traveler, one that appreciates the idyllic...

Sydney Hilton

Yes, Hilton — but gone (or at least all but unrecognizable) is the dismal Seventies tower that once went by that name. Today’s Sydney Hilton, fresh off a A$200m makeover, is a revelation, a modern business hotel done the way they all ought to be: prime central location, swanky modernist guest roo...

Viceroy Palm Springs

It seems everything old becomes new again someday; who’d have thought geriatric Palm Springs could relive its glamorous glory days? Yet that’s just what’s happening, as a new generation of Angelenos skips out on Beverly Hills and heads inland to this desert oasis hideaway. And in Palm Springs, it...

The Dorchester

Since it opened in 1931, The Dorchester maintained its high-class standards and is now one of the best hotels in London.

Mamaison Le Regina Hotel

Not to be confused with the British Malmaison chain — MaMaison, no L, is an Eastern European phenomenon, specializing in converting historical buildings to high-end boutique hotels. The markets they’re in are under-served in that particular category, to put it mildly; there’s nothing else in Wars...

The Ritz-Carlton New Orleans

In a city filled with opulent manors and gleaming white columns, the Ritz-Carlton has found the ideal setting for its own tried-and-true formula for classic luxury. Don’t expect any funky twists on the chain’s standards, like the black terrazzo floors at the South Beach branch or the ...

Hotel Villa Real

Madrid’s Hotel Villa Real may be a bit more traditional in style than its sister, Barcelona’s Claris—but that’s to be expected, given the stylistic differences between the two cities. The Villa Real may not be an ultra-modern design showcase, but for conservative Madrid, it’s downright striking, ...

Klaus K

For a city with such a rich modern design heritage, Helsinki has precious little in the way of flashy contemporary hotels. This regrettable state of affairs is now one step closer to being remedied, however, with the re-opening of the Klaus K, in the design district at the top of the Esplanade, i...

Hotel Mayet

At this late date the mere fact of a contemporary-style hotel in Paris may not be enough to raise eyebrows. But add to that the fact that Hotel Mayet manages to come in at a starting rate of under €120 per night, and you’ve got yourself a story. In this case we’re not talking about the...