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

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.

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

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.

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