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The city that floats
Udaipur · Lake Pichola
A palace of white marble that looks as though it was poured onto the lake.
Udaipur · Lake Pichola
A palace of white marble that looks as though it was poured onto the lake.
Udaipur · Pichola West Bank
Restored royal hunting ground — 50 acres of it, folded around a mile of lakefront.
Udaipur · Pichola West Bank
Restored royal hunting ground — 50 acres of it, folded around a mile of lakefront.
Udaipur · Delwara
An 18th-century fort above Delwara village, emptied out and rebuilt in white marble — 39 suites, no rooms.
Udaipur · Lake Pichola
Purpose-built on the western shore of Pichola, facing the City Palace across the water.
Udaipur · Udai Sagar
A Palladian country house on its own 21-acre island in Udai Sagar, with Baroque gardens and a boat to reach it.
Udaipur · The City Palace Complex
A wing of the City Palace, still the royal family's own address — 65 rooms on Pichola, and a hall of crystal.
Udaipur · Sisarma, Aravalli Hills
A hilltop palace above Udaipur, entered through a fort gate into a crystal-lit dome — 327 rooms in the Aravalli Hills, where leopards are said to still move.
Udaipur · Raya, Aravalli Hills
A hillside resort above Udaipur, 117 suites and villas built into the Aravalli hills around a private lake, with an infinity pool set at the highest point on the property.
Udaipur · The City Palace Complex
The City Palace's own guest wing on Lake Pichola — 36 rooms and suites where the Mewar court once housed its own visitors.
Udaipur · Naharmagra, Aravalli Hills
A 200-year-old estate at Naharmagra, 10 kilometres from the airport — 155 rooms and suites around pleasure gardens, courtyards and a stepwell that still holds water.
The heavens, given a floor plan
Jaipur · Bhawani Singh Road
The former residence of the Maharaja of Jaipur, and it has never once forgotten it.
Jaipur · Jacob Road, Civil Lines
A small ochre palace that keeps its pleasures behind its own walls.
Jaipur · Kunda, below Amer
A new house on high ground, built to look straight at an old one.
Jaipur · Natata, below Amer
A polo family's haveli on a farm below Amer, with the stables at the end of the lawn.
Jaipur · Goner Road
A fort of pink sandstone and reflection pools on 32 acres at the edge of Jaipur, with peacocks in the gardens and a 308-year-old temple inside the walls.
Jaipur · Bishangarh
A former royal fortress off NH-8 near Bishangarh, with 87 rooms and suites and 5 dining venues run under chef Ranveer Brar.
The blue city under the fort
Jodhpur · Chittar Hill
The last of the great palaces, finished in 1943, and the family has never moved out.
Jodhpur · The Walled City
An 18th-century haveli in Jodhpur's walled city, red sandstone rooms under Mehrangarh Fort and a courtyard pool at its centre.
Jodhpur · Mandore Road
A red sandstone palace on the bank of a 12th-century lake, 5 kilometres outside Jodhpur, built as the royal family's own retreat from the monsoon.
Four hundred and fifty years of somewhere else
Goa · Mobor, Cavelossim
The end of the peninsula, all 49 acres of it, with the sea on one side and the river on the other.
Goa · Calwaddo, Benaulim
A beachfront resort at Benaulim, South Goa, on 56 acres between the Arabian Sea and a village of garden villas — 19 room grades, 5 restaurants and a helipad on its own stretch of sand.
The coffee cup of India
Coorg · Chikkana Halli Estate, Siddapura
A working coffee and spice estate of 300 acres on the Cauvery, with 59 villas hidden in it.
Coorg · Monnangeri, Galibeedu
A rainforest resort at 1,200 metres in Coorg, 63 rooms and villas across 180 acres, with a spa built around 5 elements.
Coorg · Modur, Madikeri
A 76-acre forest estate above Madikeri, with 71 villas built around a 7-acre lake at its centre.
A city that decided to exist
Dubai · Palm Jumeirah
A tower of 90 concrete blocks, 43 storeys over the Gulf, with a swimming pool on the roof.
Dubai · Crescent Road, Palm Jumeirah
The pink arch at the end of the Palm, with an aquarium underneath it and 3 Michelin-starred restaurants inside.
Dubai · Za'abeel 1, at the Trade Centre crossing
Two towers over Sheikh Zayed Road, joined 100 metres up by a beam with a swimming pool inside it.
Dubai · Al Sufouh, on the beach
A walled garden of 65 acres on Al Sufouh, with a kilometre of private sand in front of it.
Dubai · Jumeira Bay Island
An island of its own 300 metres off the Jumeira shore, with a marina for 46 boats and Dubai across the water.
Dubai · Jaddaf Waterfront, on the Creek
A neo-classical palazzo along the south bank of Dubai Creek, furnished throughout in Versace Home.
Dubai · The West Crescent, on the sand
An Andalusian village of terracotta roofs and palm gardens, 2 or 3 storeys high, where the island road ends.
Dubai · Madinat Jumeirah, on the waterways
Sandstone wings and wind towers around two kilometres of beach, with the Burj Al Arab standing offshore at the end of it.
Dubai · Jumeirah Beach Road, Jumeirah 2
A resort on Jumeirah Beach Road that opened in 2014, with 13 room grades and 6 independent restaurants.
Dubai · Jumeira 1
A beachfront resort on Jumeira Beach Road, 15 minutes from Downtown Dubai, with 251 rooms and suites and a Michelin star of its own.
Dubai · East Crescent Road, Palm Jumeirah
A curved white resort on Palm Jumeirah's East Crescent, 312 rooms and suites around 2 pools and a 200-metre private beach.
Dubai · Port Saeed, on Dubai Creek
A low white resort on Dubai Creek, next to its own golf and yacht club, with 223 rooms and suites built around a private lagoon beach.
Dubai · Madinat Jumeirah, among the summerhouses
Low Arabian summerhouses strung along Madinat Jumeirah's gardens and waterways, each with its own courtyard, and 3 private villas with plunge pools of their own.
Dubai · Umm Suqeim, between Jumeirah Beach Hotel and Burj Al Arab
A tiered wave of a building on Dubai's private beachfront, with a superyacht marina built into its own edge.
A capital with the Empty Quarter behind it
Abu Dhabi · Ras Al Akhdar, West Corniche
A palace built for heads of state, opened as a hotel, with a kilometre and a half of its own beach in front of it.
Abu Dhabi · Liwa, the Empty Quarter
A fort of turrets and courtyards on a ridge in the Rub' al Khali, two hours past the last roundabout.
Abu Dhabi · Saadiyat Island
Saadiyat's own protected beach runs 9 kilometres past the resort's front door.
Abu Dhabi · Saadiyat Island
306 rooms, suites and villas on Saadiyat Island, and a private pool on several of them.
Where one blue becomes another
Maldives · Randheli Island
A private island in the Noonu atoll, run with the precision of a Paris atelier.
Maldives · Ithaafushi Island, South Malé Atoll
A Waldorf Astoria private island in the South Malé Atoll, 20 overwater, reef and beach villas around 10 restaurants.
Eight cities stacked on one plain
Delhi NCR · Mansingh Road, Lutyens' Delhi
One Mansingh Road — a cream tower behind old trees, 10 minutes' walk from India Gate.
Delhi NCR · Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Road, Lutyens' Delhi
Low, white and built round a lawn — the capital before it started building upward.
Delhi NCR · Lodhi Road
A Kerry Hill building on Lodhi Road, screened in carved stone. In 11 of its 14 rooms the swimming pool is indoors, set into the floor.
Delhi NCR · Dr Zakir Hussain Marg
Humayun's Tomb on one side, the Delhi Golf Course on the other. The hotel was taken apart and rebuilt in 2018.
Delhi NCR · Connaught Place
New Delhi's grand dame, on Janpath since 1936, with more than 5,000 works of art through its corridors.
Seven islands that refused to stay separate
Mumbai · Apollo Bunder, Colaba
On Apollo Bunder since 1903, with the Gateway of India across the road.
Mumbai · Nariman Point
At the end of Marine Drive, where the promenade runs out. Every window in the building is the whole wall.
A garden that took up engineering
Bengaluru · MG Road
A rain tree older than the hotel, and a balcony on every room that looks at it.
Bengaluru · Race Course Road
A 10-room inn from 1887, grown into 117 rooms and suites across 20 acres of garden in the middle of Bengaluru.
The city the diamonds paid for
Hyderabad · Falaknuma
The Nizam's own palace on a rock above the old city, and a table that seats 101.
Hyderabad · Madhapur, HITEC City
A curved glass tower on Durgam Cheruvu Lake, in the HITEC City business district, with 8 dining rooms, two rooftop bars and a spa spread across 3 floors.
Loud in the middle, silent at both ends
Phuket · Pansea Beach
Aman began here. Teak pavilions in a working coconut plantation, and a black pool with nothing at the far end but the Andaman.
Phuket · Kamala Hills
A clay cone, a canvas tent, a nest on the ridge: 38 villas on a rainforest hillside, and no two the same.
Phuket · Emerald Bay, Patong
600 metres of white sand at the quiet end of Patong, and a hillside of pavilions above it.
Phuket · Cape Yamu
A headland on the wrong side of Phuket — which is to say the quiet side — looking out at Phang Nga Bay.
Phuket · Pansea Beach
A bay reached by one lane, cedar roofs stepped through the coconut palms, and a black hexagonal pool where the grass ends.
Phuket · Nai Thon
A wooded headland above a bay nobody else can reach, with 61 villas down its slope, every one of them with its own pool.
Phuket · Laguna Phuket, Bang Tao
A chain of lagoons behind Bang Tao beach holds 217 villas, and every one has a pool of its own.
Phuket · Nai Harn Bay, Rawai
On the cliff above Nai Harn Bay, at the quiet south tip of Phuket, with the Andaman filling every window that faces it.
Phuket · Naka Yai Island, off Ao Po
On Naka Yai, a small island off Phuket's east coast, reached only by a 5-minute speedboat from Ao Po Grand Marina.
A city with no ground under it
Venice · San Polo, on the Grand Canal
A 16th-century palazzo on the Grand Canal, with 2 private gardens rare in the floating city.
Venice · Giudecca
On the tip of Giudecca, across the water from St Mark's Square and reached only by boat, with gardens, a vineyard and a pool that was only ever meant to be half this size.
Venice · San Marco, on the Grand Canal
On the Grand Canal at San Marco, where a saber opens the champagne at 5 every evening.
Venice · Riva degli Schiavoni, by Piazza San Marco
Danieli's 3 linked palaces line the Riva degli Schiavoni, reopened in 2026 with the golden staircase still rising through the lobby.
Deep water with the Alps standing in it
Lake Como · Moltrasio, on the water
An 18th-century villa above Moltrasio, its gardens stepping down through 7 acres to a private jetty on Lake Como.
Lake Como · Cernobbio
A cardinal's villa on Lake Como since 1568, its 10-hectare park running down through mosaic gardens to a floating pool moored on the water.
A capital that started over
Bangkok · Charoenkrung Road, Yannawa, Sathorn
A low-rise sanctuary on a bend of the Chao Phraya, where the river fills almost every window in the house.
Bangkok · Charoen Krung Road, Sathorn
A private pier on the Chao Phraya, and 2 low wings around a landscaped courtyard rather than a single tower.
Bangkok · Bang Rak, on the Chao Phraya
A hotel on the Chao Phraya since 1876, its first building now the Authors' Wing, and a spa reached by boat across the river.
A city with nowhere to go but up
Hong Kong · Victoria Dockside, Tsim Sha Tsui
A glass tower on Victoria Dockside, with Hong Kong's own art world two floors below it and 11 kitchens above.
Hong Kong · Pacific Place, Admiralty
André Fu designed all 117 rooms here, on the upper floors of a tower over Pacific Place, connected directly to the Admiralty MTR.
A city built on tidal water
London · Mayfair
Brook Street since 1856, black-and-white marble underfoot, and afternoon tea under the Chihuly chandelier in the Foyer.
A city arranged in one long spiral
Paris · Place de la Concorde
A former royal palace on Place de la Concorde, with courtyards turned away from the square and the Eiffel Tower from the seventh-floor terraces.
A trading post that became a nation
Singapore · 1 Beach Road, Civic District
A white colonial hotel from 1887 on Beach Road, with a butler for every suite and the Singapore Sling, first mixed here in 1915.
Singapore · 1 The Knolls, Sentosa Island
A resort on Sentosa Island, built around 2 colonial bungalows from the 1880s, with 30 acres of rainforest framed by the sea and a plunge pool in every villa.
Singapore · Marina Bay, opposite the Esplanade
On Marina Bay, opposite the Esplanade, with a 25-metre pool on the 5th floor and a club lounge on the 21st.
Singapore · 80 Collyer Quay, Marina Bay
A hotel of 100 rooms on the Marina Bay waterfront, beside the 1933 Clifford Pier.
Singapore · 10 Bayfront Avenue, Marina Bay
A 150-metre rooftop pool joins 3 towers, 57 floors above Marina Bay.
Singapore · Two Temasek Boulevard, Marina Bay
A 31-floor tower over Marina Bay, with 3,400 pieces of Asian art on its walls and a 20-metre pool looking out at the Singapore Flyer.
Singapore · Orchard
A building of 12 floors around John Portman's skylit atrium, with 10 restaurants and bars, one block from Orchard Road.
A city you cross on foot
Florence · Borgo Pinti, Santa Croce
Two Renaissance palazzos, a courtyard for a lobby, and 4.45 hectares of private garden, a 15-minute walk from the Duomo.
Fountains in the street, and the old city underneath
Rome · Campo Marzio
A 1930s building of Roman stone on Piazza Augusto Imperatore, with the Mausoleum of Augustus across the square and a garden on the roof.
Lanterns, ginkgo and the eastern capital
Tokyo · Yaesu, at Tokyo Station
The Roman jeweller's hotel on floors 40 to 45 of a tower at Tokyo Station, looking out to the Imperial Palace and Mount Fuji.
The Red City below the High Atlas
Marrakech · Medina
A 1923 palace inside the ramparts of Marrakech, in the orchard a sultan gave his son as a wedding gift, with the Koutoubia minaret in view.
Marrakech · The Medina, 5 minutes' walk from Jemaa el-Fnaa
A medina of its own inside the old city walls, with 53 riads behind their own doors and a pool in every one.
A city between the Acropolis and the sea
Athens · Vouliagmeni
A pine-clad peninsula on the Athens Riviera, with 3 places to stay: Arion, Nafsika and the Bungalows.
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Udaipur · Delwara
An 18th-century fort above Delwara village, emptied out and rebuilt in white marble — 39 suites, no rooms.
Udaipur · Lake Pichola
Purpose-built on the western shore of Pichola, facing the City Palace across the water.
Udaipur · Udai Sagar
A Palladian country house on its own 21-acre island in Udai Sagar, with Baroque gardens and a boat to reach it.
Udaipur · The City Palace Complex
A wing of the City Palace, still the royal family's own address — 65 rooms on Pichola, and a hall of crystal.
Udaipur · Sisarma, Aravalli Hills
A hilltop palace above Udaipur, entered through a fort gate into a crystal-lit dome — 327 rooms in the Aravalli Hills, where leopards are said to still move.
Udaipur · Raya, Aravalli Hills
A hillside resort above Udaipur, 117 suites and villas built into the Aravalli hills around a private lake, with an infinity pool set at the highest point on the property.
Udaipur · The City Palace Complex
The City Palace's own guest wing on Lake Pichola — 36 rooms and suites where the Mewar court once housed its own visitors.
Udaipur · Naharmagra, Aravalli Hills
A 200-year-old estate at Naharmagra, 10 kilometres from the airport — 155 rooms and suites around pleasure gardens, courtyards and a stepwell that still holds water.
Jaipur · Bhawani Singh Road
The former residence of the Maharaja of Jaipur, and it has never once forgotten it.
Jaipur · Jacob Road, Civil Lines
A small ochre palace that keeps its pleasures behind its own walls.
Jaipur · Kunda, below Amer
A new house on high ground, built to look straight at an old one.
Jaipur · Natata, below Amer
A polo family's haveli on a farm below Amer, with the stables at the end of the lawn.
Jaipur · Goner Road
A fort of pink sandstone and reflection pools on 32 acres at the edge of Jaipur, with peacocks in the gardens and a 308-year-old temple inside the walls.
Jaipur · Bishangarh
A former royal fortress off NH-8 near Bishangarh, with 87 rooms and suites and 5 dining venues run under chef Ranveer Brar.
Jodhpur · Chittar Hill
The last of the great palaces, finished in 1943, and the family has never moved out.
Jodhpur · The Walled City
An 18th-century haveli in Jodhpur's walled city, red sandstone rooms under Mehrangarh Fort and a courtyard pool at its centre.
Jodhpur · Mandore Road
A red sandstone palace on the bank of a 12th-century lake, 5 kilometres outside Jodhpur, built as the royal family's own retreat from the monsoon.
Goa · Mobor, Cavelossim
The end of the peninsula, all 49 acres of it, with the sea on one side and the river on the other.
Goa · Calwaddo, Benaulim
A beachfront resort at Benaulim, South Goa, on 56 acres between the Arabian Sea and a village of garden villas — 19 room grades, 5 restaurants and a helipad on its own stretch of sand.
Coorg · Chikkana Halli Estate, Siddapura
A working coffee and spice estate of 300 acres on the Cauvery, with 59 villas hidden in it.
Coorg · Monnangeri, Galibeedu
A rainforest resort at 1,200 metres in Coorg, 63 rooms and villas across 180 acres, with a spa built around 5 elements.
Coorg · Modur, Madikeri
A 76-acre forest estate above Madikeri, with 71 villas built around a 7-acre lake at its centre.
Dubai · Palm Jumeirah
A tower of 90 concrete blocks, 43 storeys over the Gulf, with a swimming pool on the roof.
Dubai · Crescent Road, Palm Jumeirah
The pink arch at the end of the Palm, with an aquarium underneath it and 3 Michelin-starred restaurants inside.
Dubai · Za'abeel 1, at the Trade Centre crossing
Two towers over Sheikh Zayed Road, joined 100 metres up by a beam with a swimming pool inside it.
Dubai · Al Sufouh, on the beach
A walled garden of 65 acres on Al Sufouh, with a kilometre of private sand in front of it.
Dubai · Jumeira Bay Island
An island of its own 300 metres off the Jumeira shore, with a marina for 46 boats and Dubai across the water.
Dubai · Jaddaf Waterfront, on the Creek
A neo-classical palazzo along the south bank of Dubai Creek, furnished throughout in Versace Home.
Dubai · The West Crescent, on the sand
An Andalusian village of terracotta roofs and palm gardens, 2 or 3 storeys high, where the island road ends.
Dubai · Madinat Jumeirah, on the waterways
Sandstone wings and wind towers around two kilometres of beach, with the Burj Al Arab standing offshore at the end of it.
Dubai · Jumeirah Beach Road, Jumeirah 2
A resort on Jumeirah Beach Road that opened in 2014, with 13 room grades and 6 independent restaurants.
Dubai · Jumeira 1
A beachfront resort on Jumeira Beach Road, 15 minutes from Downtown Dubai, with 251 rooms and suites and a Michelin star of its own.
Dubai · East Crescent Road, Palm Jumeirah
A curved white resort on Palm Jumeirah's East Crescent, 312 rooms and suites around 2 pools and a 200-metre private beach.
Dubai · Port Saeed, on Dubai Creek
A low white resort on Dubai Creek, next to its own golf and yacht club, with 223 rooms and suites built around a private lagoon beach.
Dubai · Madinat Jumeirah, among the summerhouses
Low Arabian summerhouses strung along Madinat Jumeirah's gardens and waterways, each with its own courtyard, and 3 private villas with plunge pools of their own.
Dubai · Umm Suqeim, between Jumeirah Beach Hotel and Burj Al Arab
A tiered wave of a building on Dubai's private beachfront, with a superyacht marina built into its own edge.
Abu Dhabi · Ras Al Akhdar, West Corniche
A palace built for heads of state, opened as a hotel, with a kilometre and a half of its own beach in front of it.
Abu Dhabi · Liwa, the Empty Quarter
A fort of turrets and courtyards on a ridge in the Rub' al Khali, two hours past the last roundabout.
Abu Dhabi · Saadiyat Island
Saadiyat's own protected beach runs 9 kilometres past the resort's front door.
Abu Dhabi · Saadiyat Island
306 rooms, suites and villas on Saadiyat Island, and a private pool on several of them.
Maldives · Randheli Island
A private island in the Noonu atoll, run with the precision of a Paris atelier.
Maldives · Ithaafushi Island, South Malé Atoll
A Waldorf Astoria private island in the South Malé Atoll, 20 overwater, reef and beach villas around 10 restaurants.
Delhi NCR · Mansingh Road, Lutyens' Delhi
One Mansingh Road — a cream tower behind old trees, 10 minutes' walk from India Gate.
Delhi NCR · Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Road, Lutyens' Delhi
Low, white and built round a lawn — the capital before it started building upward.
Delhi NCR · Lodhi Road
A Kerry Hill building on Lodhi Road, screened in carved stone. In 11 of its 14 rooms the swimming pool is indoors, set into the floor.
Delhi NCR · Dr Zakir Hussain Marg
Humayun's Tomb on one side, the Delhi Golf Course on the other. The hotel was taken apart and rebuilt in 2018.
Delhi NCR · Connaught Place
New Delhi's grand dame, on Janpath since 1936, with more than 5,000 works of art through its corridors.
Mumbai · Apollo Bunder, Colaba
On Apollo Bunder since 1903, with the Gateway of India across the road.
Mumbai · Nariman Point
At the end of Marine Drive, where the promenade runs out. Every window in the building is the whole wall.
Bengaluru · MG Road
A rain tree older than the hotel, and a balcony on every room that looks at it.
Bengaluru · Race Course Road
A 10-room inn from 1887, grown into 117 rooms and suites across 20 acres of garden in the middle of Bengaluru.
Hyderabad · Falaknuma
The Nizam's own palace on a rock above the old city, and a table that seats 101.
Hyderabad · Madhapur, HITEC City
A curved glass tower on Durgam Cheruvu Lake, in the HITEC City business district, with 8 dining rooms, two rooftop bars and a spa spread across 3 floors.
Phuket · Pansea Beach
Aman began here. Teak pavilions in a working coconut plantation, and a black pool with nothing at the far end but the Andaman.
Phuket · Kamala Hills
A clay cone, a canvas tent, a nest on the ridge: 38 villas on a rainforest hillside, and no two the same.
Phuket · Emerald Bay, Patong
600 metres of white sand at the quiet end of Patong, and a hillside of pavilions above it.
Phuket · Cape Yamu
A headland on the wrong side of Phuket — which is to say the quiet side — looking out at Phang Nga Bay.
Phuket · Pansea Beach
A bay reached by one lane, cedar roofs stepped through the coconut palms, and a black hexagonal pool where the grass ends.
Phuket · Nai Thon
A wooded headland above a bay nobody else can reach, with 61 villas down its slope, every one of them with its own pool.
Phuket · Laguna Phuket, Bang Tao
A chain of lagoons behind Bang Tao beach holds 217 villas, and every one has a pool of its own.
Phuket · Nai Harn Bay, Rawai
On the cliff above Nai Harn Bay, at the quiet south tip of Phuket, with the Andaman filling every window that faces it.
Phuket · Naka Yai Island, off Ao Po
On Naka Yai, a small island off Phuket's east coast, reached only by a 5-minute speedboat from Ao Po Grand Marina.
Venice · San Polo, on the Grand Canal
A 16th-century palazzo on the Grand Canal, with 2 private gardens rare in the floating city.
Venice · Giudecca
On the tip of Giudecca, across the water from St Mark's Square and reached only by boat, with gardens, a vineyard and a pool that was only ever meant to be half this size.
Venice · San Marco, on the Grand Canal
On the Grand Canal at San Marco, where a saber opens the champagne at 5 every evening.
Venice · Riva degli Schiavoni, by Piazza San Marco
Danieli's 3 linked palaces line the Riva degli Schiavoni, reopened in 2026 with the golden staircase still rising through the lobby.
Lake Como · Moltrasio, on the water
An 18th-century villa above Moltrasio, its gardens stepping down through 7 acres to a private jetty on Lake Como.
Lake Como · Cernobbio
A cardinal's villa on Lake Como since 1568, its 10-hectare park running down through mosaic gardens to a floating pool moored on the water.
Bangkok · Charoenkrung Road, Yannawa, Sathorn
A low-rise sanctuary on a bend of the Chao Phraya, where the river fills almost every window in the house.
Bangkok · Charoen Krung Road, Sathorn
A private pier on the Chao Phraya, and 2 low wings around a landscaped courtyard rather than a single tower.
Bangkok · Bang Rak, on the Chao Phraya
A hotel on the Chao Phraya since 1876, its first building now the Authors' Wing, and a spa reached by boat across the river.
Hong Kong · Victoria Dockside, Tsim Sha Tsui
A glass tower on Victoria Dockside, with Hong Kong's own art world two floors below it and 11 kitchens above.
Hong Kong · Pacific Place, Admiralty
André Fu designed all 117 rooms here, on the upper floors of a tower over Pacific Place, connected directly to the Admiralty MTR.
London · Mayfair
Brook Street since 1856, black-and-white marble underfoot, and afternoon tea under the Chihuly chandelier in the Foyer.
Paris · Place de la Concorde
A former royal palace on Place de la Concorde, with courtyards turned away from the square and the Eiffel Tower from the seventh-floor terraces.
Singapore · 1 Beach Road, Civic District
A white colonial hotel from 1887 on Beach Road, with a butler for every suite and the Singapore Sling, first mixed here in 1915.
Singapore · 1 The Knolls, Sentosa Island
A resort on Sentosa Island, built around 2 colonial bungalows from the 1880s, with 30 acres of rainforest framed by the sea and a plunge pool in every villa.
Singapore · Marina Bay, opposite the Esplanade
On Marina Bay, opposite the Esplanade, with a 25-metre pool on the 5th floor and a club lounge on the 21st.
Singapore · 80 Collyer Quay, Marina Bay
A hotel of 100 rooms on the Marina Bay waterfront, beside the 1933 Clifford Pier.
Singapore · 10 Bayfront Avenue, Marina Bay
A 150-metre rooftop pool joins 3 towers, 57 floors above Marina Bay.
Singapore · Two Temasek Boulevard, Marina Bay
A 31-floor tower over Marina Bay, with 3,400 pieces of Asian art on its walls and a 20-metre pool looking out at the Singapore Flyer.
Singapore · Orchard
A building of 12 floors around John Portman's skylit atrium, with 10 restaurants and bars, one block from Orchard Road.
Florence · Borgo Pinti, Santa Croce
Two Renaissance palazzos, a courtyard for a lobby, and 4.45 hectares of private garden, a 15-minute walk from the Duomo.
Rome · Campo Marzio
A 1930s building of Roman stone on Piazza Augusto Imperatore, with the Mausoleum of Augustus across the square and a garden on the roof.
Tokyo · Yaesu, at Tokyo Station
The Roman jeweller's hotel on floors 40 to 45 of a tower at Tokyo Station, looking out to the Imperial Palace and Mount Fuji.
Marrakech · Medina
A 1923 palace inside the ramparts of Marrakech, in the orchard a sultan gave his son as a wedding gift, with the Koutoubia minaret in view.
Marrakech · The Medina, 5 minutes' walk from Jemaa el-Fnaa
A medina of its own inside the old city walls, with 53 riads behind their own doors and a pool in every one.
Athens · Vouliagmeni
A pine-clad peninsula on the Athens Riviera, with 3 places to stay: Arion, Nafsika and the Bungalows.
