Boca de Agua | Jungle Treehouses on the Lagoon of Seven Colors, Bacalar

Bacalar has been quietly earning a reputation as the place that travellers who have already done Tulum tell each other about. The Lagoon of Seven Colors, a 42-kilometre freshwater lake in the southern Yucatan with an extraordinary layered palette of blues and greens, is the reason. Boca de Agua is where to stay while you […]

Longitude 131° | Luxury Tented Camp Facing Uluru, Northern Territory

There is no gentle way to prepare someone for Uluru. You can describe the scale, the colour, the way it rises from the flat desert floor with the improbable authority of something placed rather than formed. None of it lands until you are standing in front of it. Longitude 131° understands this, and has arranged […]

Fogo Island Inn | Oceanfront Inn in Iceberg Alley, Newfoundland

Some hotels have a story. Fogo Island Inn is a story that happens to have a hotel in it. Zita Cobb grew up on Fogo Island as the daughter of a fisherman, an eighth-generation islander in a place where the economy had been built on cod for centuries. She left at 16, eventually became CFO […]

Papaya Playa Project | Barefoot Luxury on the Tulum Coast

There is a version of Tulum that existed before it became a reference point for a certain kind of aspirational travel. Papaya Playa Project has been here long enough to remember it, and has held on to enough of its spirit to make that relevant. Set on a 900-metre stretch of private Caribbean beach just […]

Treehotel | Architect-Designed Treerooms in Swedish Lapland

It started around a campfire. A group of Swedish architects on a fishing trip, a documentary about a man who built a treehouse by the Lule River, and a question: what if we each designed one? Kent Lindvall, who with his wife Britta ran a guesthouse in the small northern village of Harads, bought the […]

Sextantio Le Grotte della Civita | Cave Hotel in the Sassi of Matera

There are hotels with interesting design, and then there are places where the building itself is the oldest thing you have ever slept inside. Sextantio Le Grotte della Civita is the latter, by several thousand years. Matera is one of the world’s continuously inhabited settlements, its cave dwellings carved into the tufa rock of a […]

Vora Villas | Cave Villas on the Santorini Caldera

There are places in Santorini that have the view, and then there is Vora: a place where the architecture and the landscape have reached a quiet agreement, and the result feels less like a hotel and more like a secret. Perched on the caldera rim at Imerovigli, the highest point of the ridge and the […]

Paradero Todos Santos | Desert Sanctuary in Baja California Sur

There is a version of Mexico that the package resorts have spent decades obscuring. Paradero is its antidote. Sitting on five and a half acres of high desert on the Pacific side of the Baja California Sur peninsula, just south of the Pueblo Magico town of Todos Santos, this adults-only retreat is one of those […]

Cap Rocat | Military Fortress Hotel on Mallorca’s Coast

Cap Rocat: A 19th-century fortress on Mallorca where military history meets Mediterranean luxury, and your room might just be carved into limestone cliffs.

Tierra Patagonia | Luxury Lodge at the Edge of Torres del Paine

The drive from Punta Arenas takes five hours. Five hours north through Southern Patagonia, past estancias where guanacos outnumber people by several orders of magnitude, along roads that sometimes feel more like suggestions than infrastructure, until you finally reach the edge of Torres del Paine National Park. Then you see it: a low, curving structure […]