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

Fresh from a second recent renovation, The Berkeley is a sophisticated stay with ‘touch me’ bedrooms, a rooftop pool, access to London’s most exclusive wellness club, an impossibly chic bar and world-famous afternoon tea experience

What Not Café is quietly staking a claim as one of the city’s most design-led spaces, with interiors furnished end-to-end by homegrown brand, Klekktic

Built in 1896, Badrutt’s Palace still sets the tempo of St Moritz, architecturally, socially and seasonally

The definitive winter address book for the modern traveller – revealing St Moritz’s heritage hotels, frozen-lake rituals and old-world Alpine glamour

A visit to Cheval Blanc Courchevel, LVMH’s 36-room alpine maison on the Jardin Alpin, which began life as Bernard Arnault’s private ski retreat

The ultimate address book for the stylish, discerning and independent modern traveller – intent on exploring Austria’s capital the right way