Rosewood Hong Kong occupies a 65-storey tower on the Kowloon waterfront, the centrepiece of the Victoria Dockside arts and…
The hotels ranked in the 2026 list of The World’s 50 Best Hotels and its published 51 to 100 extension, in ranking order. The Luminari Collection holds 47 of the top 50 and 90 of the 100. Booked through Luminari at the hotel's own rate, most stays include breakfast for two, a hotel credit and an upgrade when available, with no fee. Ranking: The World's 50 Best Hotels 2026.
By country: Italy (13), Japan (10), France (8), Mexico (7), China (6), United Kingdom (6), Thailand (5), United States (5), Brazil (3), Indonesia (3), Australia (2), India (2), Morocco (2), Singapore (2), Turkey (2), United Arab Emirates (2), Austria (1), Greece (1), Hong Kong (1), Maldives (1), Monaco (1), New Zealand (1), Panama (1), Peru (1), South Africa (1), Sri Lanka (1), Switzerland (1), Vietnam (1)
Rosewood Hong Kong occupies a 65-storey tower on the Kowloon waterfront, the centrepiece of the Victoria Dockside arts and…
Capella Bangkok sits directly on the Chao Phraya River along Charoenkrung Road, a riverside retreat of 101 suites and villas…
The Four Seasons Hotel Bangkok, positioned elegantly on the Chao Phraya riverfront, presents a sophisticated contemporary…
Atlantis The Royal stands on the crescent of Palm Jumeirah, a resort of 43 storeys built around a central void that frames the…
Passalacqua occupies an 18th-century villa on the southwestern shore of Lake Como, near Moltrasio, once the private estate of…
Rosewood São Paulo opened in January 2022 within the historic Cidade Matarazzo complex near Avenida Paulista, combining a…
Mandarin Oriental Qianmen, Beijing occupies just 42 restored courtyard houses within a working hutong neighbourhood on the…
Upper House occupies the top floors of Pacific Place in Admiralty, a boutique hotel of 117 studios and suites designed by Andre…
Chablé Yucatán is a restored nineteenth-century hacienda set on 750 acres of jungle outside Mérida, built around Mayan ruins and…
Mandarin Oriental, Bangkok traces its history to 1876, making it the country's first full service hotel and one of the oldest…
Aman Tokyo occupies the top floors of Otemachi Tower, entered by an escalator that rises to a soaring 33rd floor lobby with a…
The Four Seasons Hotel Firenze is an exquisite urban resort, occupying two Renaissance palaces and an expansive private garden…
Claridge’s is a landmark London hotel whose story begins in 1812 and whose present life belongs to Maybourne.
Hôtel de Crillon occupies one of two identical neoclassical palaces on the Place de la Concorde, built in 1758 to a design by…
Jumeirah Marsa Al Arab opened in 2025 on Jumeirah Beach, completing a waterfront trilogy alongside Burj Al Arab and Jumeirah…
Capella Sydney occupies a former Department of Education and Department of Agriculture building in the CBD, its two Edwardian…
Raffles Singapore has stood since 1887, founded by the Sarkies brothers and named for the colonial official who founded modern…
Le Bristol opened in 1925 in a mansion once owned by the dandy Jules de Castellane, taking its name from the Earl of Bristol, an…
Cheval Blanc Paris occupies a reimagined wing of La Samaritaine, the Art Deco department store on the right bank of the Seine,…
Desa Potato Head Bali is a creative village on Petitenget Beach in Seminyak, grown from a beach club into a resort with two…
San Ysidro Ranch traces its origins to a 1769 Spanish land grant and operated as a citrus ranch before welcoming its first…
One&Only Mandarina sits within 80 acres of jungle canopy on Mexico's Riviera Nayarit, a stretch of Pacific coast that has stayed…
Bvlgari Hotel Tokyo opened in April 2023 across the fortieth to forty fifth floors of Tokyo Midtown Yaesu, facing the Imperial…
Las Ventanas al Paraiso is an all-suite Rosewood resort on the Sea of Cortez, its white stucco suites and villas arranged around…
Royal Mansour Marrakech was commissioned by King Mohammed VI and built by more than 1,200 Moroccan artisans, opening in 2010 as…
The Four Seasons Astir Palace Hotel Athens stands as a beacon of refined luxury on the scenic Athenian Riviera.
Raffles London at The OWO is the first UK Raffles hotel, opened in 2023 within the Grade II* Edwardian Baroque former Old War…
Opened in 1923 to house dignitaries for Brazil's independence centenary celebrations, the Copacabana Palace is the grande dame…
The Taj Mahal Palace, Mumbai has stood opposite the Gateway of India since 1903, commissioned by Jamsetji Tata and now one of…
The Peninsula Istanbul opened in early 2023 on the Karaköy waterfront, spread across four buildings of which three are restored…
Bvlgari Hotel Roma opened in 2023 on Piazza Augusto Imperatore, overlooking the Mausoleum of Augustus and set just steps from…
Patina Osaka occupies a site looking directly over Osaka Castle and its surrounding park, the ultra-luxury hotel group's first…
Known locally as the Nellie, Mount Nelson has stood at the foot of Table Mountain since 1899, its walls painted the pink for…
NIHI Sumba is a 27-villa resort on the island of Sumba, fifty minutes by air from Bali, built around a 2.5-kilometre stretch of…
Badrutt's Palace Hotel opened in 1896, built by Caspar Badrutt after he purchased and transformed the Hotel Beau Rivage in St…
Park Hyatt Kyoto sits in the Higashiyama district a fifteen minute walk below Kiyomizu-dera, positioned so guests can step…
Hôtel du Couvent, a Luxury Collection Hotel, offers a serene sanctuary in the vibrant city of Nice.
Occupies one of Europe's oldest seminaries, a building dating to 1565, reworked by the Lungarno Collection into 73 rooms and…
Hotel de Paris Monte-Carlo stands as an enduring emblem of Belle Époque grandeur, commanding an unrivalled position in the heart…
Hotel Sacher was founded in 1876 by Eduard Sacher, son of the confectioner Franz Sacher who created the Sachertorte for Prince…
Estelle Manor occupies an Elizabethan-style mansion built in 1908 outside North Leigh in Oxfordshire, reopened as a country…
Amangiri sits on nine hundred acres of red-rock desert in southern Utah, its low concrete forms built directly into a mesa in…
The Peninsula Hong Kong opened in 1928 at the tip of Kowloon, built by the Kadoorie family with the intention of being the…
Maroma began life as an architect's private house on Punta Maroma in the early 1980s and has grown into a 72 room hotel set…
Aman Nai Lert Bangkok occupies a 36-storey tower rising within the seven acre grounds of Nai Lert Park, a private green enclave…
The Connaught is a five-star Mayfair hotel on Carlos Place, close to Mount Street.
San Domenico Palace began as a Dominican convent founded in 1374, later converted into one of Europe's first grand hotels in…
This nineteenth-century townhouse was built in 1854 for the Duc de Morny, half-brother of Napoleon III, and reopened as a hotel…
Janu Tokyo opened in March 2024 as the debut property for Janu, Aman's sister brand, set within Azabudai Hills, the Mori…
Park Hyatt Tokyo opened in 1994 at the apex of Kenzo Tange's Shinjuku Park Tower, one of the earliest hotels to make a…
Palacio Nazarenas occupies a former convent built over Inca stone walls, a step from Cusco's Plaza de Armas and cathedral.
Soneva Fushi is the original Soneva resort, set on a jungle island in the Baa Atoll UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in the Maldives,…
Rosewood London is a five-star hotel in a restored 1914 Edwardian, Grade II-listed building on High Holborn.
Il San Pietro di Positano is built into a cliffside east of the town, designed and opened by Carlo Cinque in 1970 and still run…
Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong opened in 1963 on the Central waterfront, the tallest building on the island at the time and the…
Splendido occupies the site of a former Benedictine monastery on the hillside above Portofino, converted into a hotel in 1901 by…
Mandapa, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve sits on the banks of the Ayung River outside Ubud, its villas and suites set among lush gardens…
Castiglion del Bosco is a Rosewood-run estate on 5,000 acres within the Val d'Orcia, built around a restored medieval borgo in…
Sofitel Legend Casco Viejo occupies the former Club Union, a social club founded in 1871 that once hosted Panama's aristocracy…
Hotel Esencia, once a private estate for an Italian duchess, is a discreet beachfront haven on Mexico's Riviera Maya.
Orient Express La Minerva opened in April 2025 on Piazza della Minerva, a three minute walk from the Pantheon, as the first…
Montage Los Cabos spans 39 acres along Santa Maria Bay, one of the few protected, genuinely swimmable coves on the Los Cabos…
The Okura Tokyo traces to the original Hotel Okura, opened in 1962 ahead of the Tokyo Olympics and long regarded as a…
Rosewood Bangkok stands 30 storeys over Ploenchit Road, its silhouette drawn from the wai, the Thai gesture of greeting, and…
Amangalla occupies a colonial-era building inside Galle Fort, the Dutch fortification on Sri Lanka's south coast that is now a…
The Ritz was founded in 1898 by Swiss hotelier César Ritz with chef Auguste Escoffier, built behind the facade of an…
Palace Hotel Tokyo stands at 1-1-1 Marunouchi across from the Otemon Gate of the Imperial Palace, on a site that has held a…
The Four Seasons Resort Tamarindo, nestled on Mexico's Pacific coast, offers a serene escape where contemporary design meets the…
La Mamounia has stood on its thirteen hectare garden estate in Marrakech since 1923, when French architects Henri Prost and…
Founded in 1977 by Ayla Emiroğlu on Bodrum's Turkbuku peninsula, Macakizi grew from a modest sixteen-room retreat into a…
Hotel das Cataratas, A Belmond Hotel, offers a unique opportunity to experience the awe-inspiring Iguaçu Falls from within the…
The Fifth Avenue Hotel is an independent 153-room hotel at 1 West 28th Street in NoMad, set across a restored McKim, Mead &…
HOTEL THE MITSUI KYOTO stands on a two hundred and fifty year old site once home to the Mitsui family, directly adjacent to the…
The Carlton Cannes has stood on La Croisette since 1911, its twin cupolas among the most photographed silhouettes on the French…
Capella Hanoi is a 47-room hotel designed by Bill Bensley around an operatic theme, its art nouveau and art deco facade standing…
Huka Lodge began in 1924 as a fisherman's camp of white canvas tents along the Waikato River, growing over a century into one of…
The Calile occupies a purpose-built site on James Street in Fortitude Valley, one of Brisbane's leading fashion and dining…
Borgo Santandrea sits on the cliffs between Amalfi and Conca dei Marini, ninety metres above the Mediterranean and looking along…
Rising above Victoria Harbour in Central, Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong provides a refined waterfront stay within the…
Aman New York is an 83-suite urban Aman in the restored Crown Building at 730 Fifth Avenue, designed by Jean-Michel Gathy.
Borgo Egnazia is a purpose-built village on Puglia's Adriatic coast between Bari and Brindisi, opened in 2010 but designed to…
Waldorf Astoria Osaka occupies the top floors of the South Park Tower at Grand Green Osaka, adjacent to Osaka Station in the…
Villa Treville occupies the former summer residence of director Franco Zeffirelli, set across four independent houses on the…
The Greenwich Hotel is an 86-room Tribeca hotel where no two guest rooms or suites are alike.
The Maybourne Riviera is perched on a rocky peninsula above Roquebrune Cap Martin, looking out over Monaco and the Mediterranean…
Reschio Hotel occupies a thousand-year-old castle at the heart of a 1,500-hectare private estate in the Umbrian countryside, its…
Capella Singapore sits on Sentosa Island, built around two restored colonial bungalows dating to the 1880s and set in gardens…
The Oberoi Udaivilas sits on the banks of Lake Pichola, its domed pavilions and extensive gardens designed in the manner of an…
The Peninsula Shanghai opened in 2009 on part of the former British Consulate grounds, giving it a rare direct address on the…
Gleneagles is a magnificent country estate in the heart of Perthshire, offering a quintessential Scottish experience.
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