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1 Hotel Hanalei Bay offers a sophisticated contemporary retreat nestled on the stunning north shore of Kauai.

From $1,700 a night

1 Hotel South Beach offers a refined take on beachfront luxury in Miami Beach, Florida.

From $1,100 a night

Acqualina Resort & Residences on the Beach offers a sophisticated oceanfront retreat in Miami Beach.

From $1,300 a night

Amangalla occupies a colonial-era building inside Galle Fort, the Dutch fortification on Sri Lanka's south coast that is now a…

From $1,200 a night

Amanpulo occupies the whole of Pamalican Island in the Cuyo Archipelago off northern Palawan, reached only by the resort's own…

From $1,900 a night

Amanpuri was the first Aman resort to open and remains the brand's flagship, set on a private headland on Phuket's west coast…

From $2,700 a night

Amanwana is the only resort on Moyo Island, a protected nature and marine reserve in the Flores Sea off Sumbawa.

$$$ typical night

Amanwella sits on Sri Lanka's south coast near Tangalle, its thirty freestanding suites designed by Kerry Hill in the tropical…

From $1,400 a night

Amanyara sits beside the Northwest Point Marine National Park on Providenciales, reached along a single track through an…

From $3,100 a night

Ambergris Cay is a private, eleven-hundred-acre island off the southeast tip of Turks and Caicos, run as an all-inclusive resort…

$$$$ typical night

Anantara Bazaruto Island Resort sits within Bazaruto National Park, on the largest island of the Bazaruto Archipelago off…

From $2,000 a night

This resort, the first Anantara property in Malaysia, sits along a seventeen kilometre stretch of beach on the South China Sea,…

From $350 a night

Set on Kihavah Huravalhi Island within the Baa Atoll UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, this resort offers private pool villas on the…

From $2,200 a night

Anantara Koh Yao Yai Resort & Villas sits on the quieter island of Koh Yao Yai between Phuket and Krabi, facing the Andaman Sea.

From $450 a night

Set on the quieter northern end of Chaweng Beach, close to Samui airport, this resort holds a Michelin Guide One Key and was…

From $300 a night

Set on Layan Beach on Phuket's quieter northwest coast, this resort combines suites and private pool villas with Layan Life, an…

From $750 a night

Set on Mai Khao Beach at Phuket's northern tip, bordered by a national park, this resort offers pool villas, pavilions and…

From $850 a night

Set on a private peninsula in Ras Al Khaimah, this resort looks out over a tidal lagoon and the Arabian Gulf, with the Hajar…

From $350 a night

Set on a rocky outcrop above Sri Lanka's southern coast within a 42 acre former coconut plantation, this resort pairs rooms with…

From $600 a night

Set in a secluded cove on Vietnam's central coast, this resort of twenty five pool villas sits across seven acres of landscaped…

From $650 a night

Set on Thong Nai Pan Noi, a secluded white sand beach on Koh Phangan's northeast coast, this resort holds a single Michelin Key…

From $400 a night

Set on fifteen acres with direct access to Mokapu Beach, this Wailea resort pairs farm to table dining with cascading infinity…

From $1,200 a night

Set within a 1,400 acre private peninsula on Costa Rica's northwest coast, this resort's villas take their curved forms from…

From $850 a night

Atlantis The Royal stands on the crescent of Palm Jumeirah, a resort of 43 storeys built around a central void that frames the…

From $850 a night

Aurora Anguilla spans 300 acres across Rendezvous Bay and Merrywing Bay, with 178 accommodations ranging from rooms to estate…

From $1,100 a night

Awasi Santa Catarina occupies a secluded peninsula on Brazil's southern coast, its twenty-five villas set in rustic-chic style…

From $700 a night

Banwa Private Island occupies six hectares in Palawan's Sulu Sea, reached by seaplane, private jet or helicopter rather than by…

$$ typical night

Banyan Tree Cabo Marqués sits on the cliffs of Acapulco's Diamond Zone, its forty-five private pool villas blending Thai design…

From $500 a night

Banyan Tree Mayakoba sits within the gated Mayakoba development on the Riviera Maya, its all villa layout threaded through…

From $700 a night

Banyan Tree Phuket opened in 1994 on the site of a former tin mine, restored over a decade by founders Ho Kwon Ping and Claire…

From $1,100 a night

Banyan Tree Samui sits within a private bay in Lamai, on Koh Samui's Gulf of Thailand coastline.

From $800 a night

Baoase is a private, adults-oriented beachfront resort on the southern coast of Curacao, built stone by stone by owners Ad van…

From $1,500 a night

Beach Club is the beachfront wing of The Boca Raton, a storied Florida resort reopened after a substantial redesign and set on…

From $900 a night

Beach Enclave is a trio of small, residential-style villa enclaves on Providenciales, spread across North Shore, Grace Bay and…

$$$$ typical night

Birkenhead House is an eleven-room clifftop house above Walker Bay in Hermanus, run by The Royal Portfolio and set roughly two…

From $1,100 a night

Black Urchin is a small oceanfront resort on Grand Cayman's quieter south coast, in the Bodden Town area away from the island's…

From $2,300 a night

BodyHoliday is an all-inclusive wellness resort at Cap Estate, on Saint Lucia's northern tip, built on a crescent beach and into…

From $1,100 a night

The Bungalows is a residential enclave within The Boca Raton resort, a quiet corner of the property set apart from the main…

From $2,000 a night

Buoy Haus Beach Resort sits directly on Morningstar Beach in St Thomas, a boutique-scaled property within the Autograph…

From $800 a night

Bvlgari Resort Dubai occupies a low-slung, private site on Jumeira Bay, a man-made island shaped like a seahorse and reached by…

From $1,600 a night

Calabash is a family-run, all-suite hotel on Grenada's south coast at Lance aux Epines, a Relais and Chateaux member since…

From $900 a night

Cap Juluca is a Belmond-run resort on Maunday's Bay, widely considered Anguilla's finest beach.

From $1,700 a night

Cap Maison Resort & Spa is a Relais & Châteaux property set on a bluff above a secluded beach in Saint Lucia's Cap Estate.

From $1,400 a night

Capella Singapore sits on Sentosa Island, built around two restored colonial bungalows dating to the 1880s and set in gardens…

From $1,300 a night

Carillon Miami Wellness Resort occupies a broad stretch of Miami's North Beach, built around a 75,000-square-foot spa that…

From $700 a night

Carlisle Bay sits on a secluded horseshoe bay on Antigua's south shore, a half-hour drive from English Harbour and the…

From $800 a night

Casa San Agustín is built from three restored seventeenth-century colonial houses within the walled city of Cartagena, one of…

From $800 a night

Casas Brancas has stood above Armação dos Búzios since 1974, one of the longer-established hotels in a town that grew from…

From $500 a night

Cayo Espanto is a four-acre private island three miles off the coast of San Pedro in Belize, built around a handful of villas…

$$$$ typical night

Chablé Maroma is a jungle-set beach resort on Mexico's Riviera Maya, part of the Chablé Hotels group and built around seventy…

From $1,300 a night

Cheval Blanc Randheli occupies a private island north of Malé in the Maldives, reached by seaplane, with forty-six villas…

From $3,700 a night

Cheval Blanc St-Barth occupies Flamands Beach on the island's northwest coast, a colonial style hotel that opened in 1991 as…

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Chileno Bay Resort & Residences occupies one of the few genuinely swimmable, protected coves in Los Cabos, with a coral reef…

From $1,500 a night

Chiva-Som is a seven-acre beachfront wellness resort in Hua Hin, Thailand, whose name translates as haven of life and which has…

From $2,500 a night

Cloister is the original 1926 hotel at the heart of The Boca Raton, a Mediterranean Revival building that gave the wider…

From $850 a night

Cobblers Cove began as a private weekend beach retreat on Barbados's west coast and has operated as a hotel for more than fifty…

From $950 a night

COMO Maalifushi is the only resort on the southerly Thaa Atoll in the Maldives, reached by a scenic sixty-minute seaplane…

From $1,200 a night

COMO Parrot Cay occupies its own 1,000-acre private island in the Turks and Caicos, reached by a fifteen-minute drive from…

From $1,800 a night

Condado Vanderbilt Hotel opened in 1919 as Puerto Rico's first luxury hotel, built on prime oceanfront land in San Juan's…

From $550 a night

Conrad Fort Lauderdale Beach is a 24-storey all-suite condo-resort directly on the Atlantic, with studios from 480 square feet…

From $450 a night