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These are the most recent arrivals on the list, and not one of them is like another.

They have nothing in common with one another. A former royal palace on a Paris square; a Mayfair corner that has been open since 1856; a colonnade that opened on Beach Road in 1887 and grew wing by wing for 17 years after that; a marina cut into a Dubai beach in 2025; a Hong Kong tower where André Fu drew every room; and 2 colonial bungalows on Sentosa with a resort grown out of them.

No two of these are the same decision. Ask the concierge if the choice does not make itself.

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The Neoclassical facade of Hôtel de Crillon on Place de la Concorde, its Corinthian colonnade and roofline statues lit gold in the afternoon sun, with a square lamppost and a stone monument in the foreground.
The Corinthian colonnade on Place de la Concorde, lit gold in the afternoon.Pictured · Hôtel de Crillon, A Rosewood Hotel
The spa's pool lit low at each edge, columns down both sides and a curtained lounge area at the far end reflected in the still water.

London

Claridge's

The corner of Brook Street and Davies Street, and the marble begins inside the door.

The building began life in 1856 and became an art deco landmark through the 1920s, and the entrance still opens onto a black-and-white chequered marble floor, classical columns and crystal chandeliers. Dante Mayfair, run by the New York restaurateurs behind the original Dante in Greenwich Village, serves Italian food from breakfast into the evening. Bryan O'Sullivan's interiors run to European antiques and rugs drawn from Christian Bérard. The Observatory suite keeps an antique telescope on the London skyline, and a steam room of its own over the cobbles of Brook's Mews.

The draw
Afternoon tea under the Chihuly chandelier in the Foyer, served here for more than a century.
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The painted sky ceiling of Bar Les Ambassadeurs, gilt cornicing and a crystal chandelier hung the length of the marbled room.

Paris

Hôtel de Crillon, A Rosewood Hotel

Number 10 on the Place de la Concorde, with the courtyards behind it turned away from the square.

It began as a royal palace, from the vision of Louis XV, and it has watched Place de la Concorde ever since. The courtyards behind it are tucked away from the city, so the address is loud and the stay is not. One suite here was the Crillon family's private chapel, and the woodwork it lost is at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. On the seventh floor, under the mansard roof, Ateliers d'Artistes - Le Poète has a terrace and a balcony, and the Eiffel Tower is in both.

The draw
Paul Pairet cooks at Nonos, and L'Herbier Secret seats 4 to 6 once in the evening.
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Raffles Singapore's white neoclassical facade, RAFFLES HOTEL lettered above the portico, a Singapore flag flying from the roofline, palms either side and a red-uniformed doorman standing under the porte-cochere.

Singapore

Raffles Singapore

A red carpet under a white iron porch, and a doorman in a red coat at the top of it.

It opened on 1 December 1887 with 10 rooms, built by the Armenian Sarkies brothers, and grew wing by wing for 17 years after that. The building is white on every side, 3 storeys of arched colonnades under a red tile roof, with RAFFLES HOTEL set into the pediment over the front door. Inside, a reception hall of dark lacquered timber and gilt lattice opens straight through to the Grand Lobby, where a skylight and the original Victorian pillars run the length of the room. Every suite is made up with one king bed under 14-foot ceilings, a four-poster under a canopy frame, with louvred timber shutters folded back from the windows.

The draw
The Long Bar has mixed the Singapore Sling since 1915, and the peanut shells still go on the floor.
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A steakhouse dining room styled as a private library, floor-to-ceiling bookshelves behind a marble bar, a sculptural copper-and-blue ribbon installation overhead.

Dubai

Jumeirah Marsa Al Arab

A wave of a building on Umm Suqeim, with a working marina cut into its own edge.

Shaun Killa drew it — the architect behind the Museum of the Future and, with Tom Wright, Burj Al Arab's own silhouette — and the building steps down toward the sea in tiers, the way a wave steps down a beach after it has broken. It opened in 2025. Every room faces the marina or the open Gulf, and the balcony or terrace is what separates one room from the next. In front of all of it is 2 kilometres of private beach.

The draw
A marina of 82 berths along the quay, with a lit promenade running past it.
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The Sky Lounge on level 49: a double-height room with an open fire set in a tall limestone chimney breast, tweed sofas and green velvet armchairs on either side of the aisle, and the wooded hillside through glass on both sides.

Hong Kong

Upper House Hong Kong

André Fu drew all 117 rooms, and the building begins where the shopping stops.

Upper House takes the upper floors of a tower that rises straight out of Pacific Place, in bamboo, limestone and pale timber, with the feel of a private residence. The tower opens into the Admiralty MTR interchange, with Hong Kong Park at the door. Every room has a freestanding limestone bathtub, and high in the building it stands at the glass, facing the same view as the bed. Level 49 holds 3 of the 5 places to eat and drink, one of them a 10-seat marble counter set inside Salisterra's private dining room.

The draw
Book an Upper Suite and check-in happens in the room itself.
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Fiamma's own name lit in script neon against a textured tile wall at the restaurant's entrance, an olive tree framing the sign.

Singapore

Capella Singapore

On Sentosa, 2 bungalows from the 1880s with 30 acres of gardens and rainforest around them.

The bungalows stand on ground known as Tanah Merah, Malay for red earth, and Foster + Partners designed the resort to grow out from them into gardens framed by the sea. It holds 113 rooms, suites, villas and manors, just over 10 minutes from the centre of the city. Each of the 38 villas has its own terrace and a plunge pool 3 metres by 3. A Capella Culturist is assigned to every stay, and plans anything from a Mahjong lesson to the evening's dinner reservation.

The draw
The Living Room is in its own 1880s bungalow, where British officers of the Royal Artillery once held their balls.
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Tell the concierge which of these you are drawn to, and they will tell you what the stay actually involves.

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