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Villa San Michele, A Belmond Hotel Florence review: The best seat in the city

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

30 June 2026

Hotel Reviews, Italy

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La Dolce Villa: Florence’s most beautiful view is back

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.

18 June 2026

Hotels and Resorts, Italy, News + Tips

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Meliá Desert Palm, Dubai: Dubai’s closest thing to a countryside hotel

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

13 June 2026

Dubai, Hotel Reviews

Mandarin Oriental Downtown, Dubai: the City hotel Dubai has been waiting for

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

14 April 2026

Dubai, Hotel Reviews

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Morea House, Camps Bay, Cape Town review

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

13 April 2026

Hotel Reviews, South Africa

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The most exciting hotel suite in the world has just opened in Cape Town

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

9 April 2026

Hotels and Resorts, Interiors, South Africa

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Our Editor’s 20 Best Restaurants in Dubai: tried and tested, from timeless to new

Near+Far’s editor Isabella Craddock’s personal favourite restaurants in Dubai for every occasion, from a laid-back Lebanese to the city’s own Chiltern Firehouse

8 April 2026

Dubai, Food+Drink

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Insider Guide: Athens – Europe’s most enduring city

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

3 April 2026

Greece, Insider Guide

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Near+Far’s unmissable Greece itinerary, from Athens, for summer 2026

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

2 April 2026

Greece, Inspiration, Where To Stay

Four Seasons San Domenico Palace review

Four Seasons San Domenico Palace, Taormina: before it was famous, it was magnificent. It still is.

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

25 March 2026

Hotel Reviews, Italy

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The Berkeley hotel review: quiet and contemporary luxury in London’s peaceful urban village

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

4 February 2026

Europe, Hotel Reviews

What Not Café in Abu Dhabi – A homegrown interior statement

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

26 January 2026

Abu Dhabi, Interiors