Ten Of Our Favourite Hotels To Book In 2025

Experience Parisian elegance at Hôtel Balzac, a hidden gem just steps from the Champs-Élysées. Festen Architecture's renovation has created an intimate and romantic setting where you can craft your own unforgettable story.

Discover the ultimate mountain escape at Airelles Val d'Isère. Located in the heart of Savoie, on the doorstep of Vanoise National Park, this exceptional family hotel offers a refined and authentic alpine experience.

The Bull, now run by the team behind Notting Hill’s The Pelican, has an exceptional menu with meat cooked over the fire, whole market fish, and top notch veg, alongside a dynamic wine list featuring skin-contacts and Pet Nat. There are pared back, beautiful bedrooms, with elegant four posters, moss green curtains and generous bathtubs.

South of Lisbon, Portugal’s Alentejo region is becoming a go-to haunt for those lured by rhythms of slow travel. Comporta has long attracted surfers and the stylish set, but now its neighbour, low-key Melides, is the rising star. Tranquil and untouched, it combines sandy Atlantic coastline with vineyards, rice fields and forest. This spotlight is in part thanks to the opening of Vermelho, the first hotel project from Christian Louboutin — a longterm fan of the region.

In the heart of the Camargue Regional Nature Park, Les Bains Gardians is set in a 4-hectare estate, between the characteristic landscapes of this wild region and the infinite blue of the Mediterranean Sea just a few hundred meters away.

La Ponche is a new boutique hotel with a restaurant and cool-designed rooms right in the heart of the old port of Saint-Tropez. A small Piaggio takes you one minute away to the cove that the hotel overlooks. At the piano bar, where Boris Vian's trumpet and Bardot's laughter resounded, people dance to the rhythm of French songs.

A high-end country house encircled by natural beauty awaits in the Val d’Orcia: Welcome to Casa Newton. The design-led country house is a stylish home away from home in a scenic and commanding position near Pienza, between Montalcino and Montepulciano.

Housed within the historic Palazzo Galli Tassi from 1510, Numeroventi is a modern design-driven artist residence and boutique hotel located in the heart of Florence.

Still relatively under the radar, Patmos has long been a low-key favourite with the art and fashion set. With a rich Byzantine heritage that has shaped its architectural vernacular, this Dodecanese Island is all about the scene in its whitewashed Chora. Perched on a hill with cobbled lanes and energetic squares for morning coffees and pre-dinner drinks, it is the place to see and be seen on Patmos. Stay at Pagostas, a diminutive guesthouse in the Chora’s citadel that dates back to the 16th century — we love its roof terrace overlooking the sea.

Housed in an iconic Lower East Side landmark, Nine Orchard has meticulously restored and reimagined the century-old Jarmulowsky Bank into an elegant hotel and culinary destination.