Domes, turrets and thousands of glowing bulbs: Nimb is a 1909 Moorish palace hidden inside Tivoli Gardens, where every guest gets the run of the park, and one of the most enchanting hotels in Europe

The definitive address book to India’s Pink City – palace hotels, polo-season glamour, jewel bazaars and royal kitchens

Four signature golf courses, Europe’s first Mouratoglou tennis centre, Homer’s Pylos on the doorstep and four very different five-star hotels. Our guide to Greece’s leading (nearly) year-round golf and lifestyle destination.

There are hotels, and then there are hotels that have become part of the language. César Ritz’s original palace on Place Vendôme is the latter – and more than a century on, the most famous hotel name in the world still lives up to it

We have never been to Aleppo. After 90 minutes at Orfali Bros, we’re pricing flights. There’s no menu and there are no choices, just three brothers from Syria cooking their childhood at full volume. It’s the boldest modern expression of Middle Eastern cuisine in the Gulf

Ennismore has signed with Select Group to open The Hoxton, Dubai Media City: the open-house brand’s Middle East debut, with 230 rooms by AIME Studios, four Paris Society restaurants and a first-of-its-kind wellness club.

The largest of the Balearics has quietly become the Mediterranean’s most interesting hotel island – and with Etihad now flying direct from Abu Dhabi until 18 October, it has never been easier to reach from the Gulf. These are the stays we would book.

It says Shangri-La above the door, but this is the most Parisian palace stay in Paris – the former home of Prince Roland Bonaparte, grand-nephew of Napoleon, where imperial bees still decorate the ironwork and the Tower fills the window

Sixty-three years after it opened as the Athens Hilton and gave post-war Greece its glamorous coming-out, the city’s great modernist landmark returns as the anchor of a new hotel era for the Greek capital

From bright and beachy hangouts serving oat milk flat whites and design-led warehouses to late-night haunts with indulgent menus

Scandinavian calm, a serious sustainability model and possibly London’s best breakfast – we check into the 1 Hotels brand’s European flagship on Berkeley Street

Freddy Heineken loved De L’Europe so much that, as the hotel tells it, he wrote into his will that it could never be sold. We spent a late summer weekend at Amsterdam’s grande dame, where Dutch Golden Age elegance meets the city’s creative streak – and the best seats are always by the water.