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

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