Minos Beach Art Hotel
Low bungalows and pool villas along 2 km of Cretan shoreline, with a sculpture garden and a short walk into Agios Nikolaos.
Places to stay we know well
76 hotels, camps, villas and ships, each described by the specialist who recommends it, including who it does not suit.
76 places to stay.
The Dolli at Acropolis
A small hotel in a restored early 20th-century building, with a rooftop pool and restaurant looking straight at the Parthenon.
The Romanos, a Luxury Collection Resort, Costa Navarino
A large seafront resort among Messinian olive groves, with golf, tennis, a 4,000 square metre spa and a kilometre of beach.
Borgo Santo Pietro
A 22-room villa hotel on a 300-acre organic farm in southern Tuscany, where the sheep, kitchen gardens and vineyards feed two restaurants.
Castello di Reschio
A thousand-year-old castle hotel on a 3,700-acre private estate in the Umbrian hills, with horses, a candlelit bathhouse and two restaurants.
Hotel de Russie
A classic Rome hotel between Piazza del Popolo and the Spanish Steps, built around a terraced Secret Garden at the foot of the Pincio.
Il San Pietro di Positano
A family-run hotel built down the cliff east of Positano, where every room has a sea-view terrace and a lift runs through the rock to a private cove.
Passalacqua
An 18th-century villa above Lake Como with 24 rooms spread across the Villa, the Palazz and a house on the water, and terraced gardens down to the shore.
Verdura Resort
A seafront resort on 230 hectares of Sicily's south-west coast, with 45 holes of golf, a large thalassotherapy spa and sea-view rooms.
Aman Tokyo
Large, calm suites on the top floors of an Otemachi tower, a short walk from Tokyo Station and the Imperial Palace Gardens.
Amanemu
Hot spring suites and villas above Ago Bay in Ise-Shima National Park, close to the Ise Grand Shrine.
Beniya Mukayu
A 16-room ryokan in the Yamashiro Onsen hot spring town, where every room has its own open-air bath facing the garden.