Yes, it’s small. Yes, it’s famous. No, it isn’t overrated. Where to stay, when to swim and how to have Italy’s most photographed harbour almost to yourself

An hour and a half from the Côte d’Azur bustle, hidden at the top of a 200-hectare art-strewn wine estate, sits the passion project of the man who built modern Maybourne – and quite possibly the most quietly perfect hotel in France

Clinging to the cliffs 333 metres above Monaco, Maybourne’s mesmerising French outpost returns for the 2026 season

Belmond’s Super Tuscan Is Back. Following an 18-month restoration, Villa San Michele enters a new Renaissance with reimagined suites, flourishing gardens, a Guerlain spa and La DoubleJ-led wellness experiences

High above Florence, Villa San Michele reopens after an ambitious restoration, proving that the city’s finest view now comes with a hotel worthy of it.

An Emirati businessman and polo player built his 160-acre polo estate for the love of a sport. Three decades on, it remains the only place in Dubai where peacocks roam the grounds, horses work the fields at dawn, and the city feels – genuinely, remarkably – far away

Dubai finally has the sleek, design-led city hotel it has long deserved. We checked in for a mid-week staycation and barely felt like we left the country

Camp’s Bay has long been Cape Town’s most glamorous address. It finally has the hotel to match

Fashion, heritage, identity and an entirely new idea of what a hotel experience can be: the Thebe Magugu Suite at Mount Nelson is unlike anything that has come before it

The ultimate address book – Athens’s best hotels, cafés, restaurants and views, shaped by one of the world’s oldest and most influential cities

The itinerary to save for fuss-free hopping around Greece – from the Athens Riviera to the Saronic islands and Peloponnese 

Six centuries of history, one very famous pool, and a Sicilian season that runs longer than anyone tells you. This is San Domenico Palace without the hype. It’s even better