The 100 Best Resorts in the World

A 17th-century convent on the Cimiez hillside above Nice's old town, converted into an 88-room hotel where the nuns' cells now come with lime-plaster walls and Italian antiques, and occasionally a La Cornue range cooker. The cloister gardens slope toward a lap pool with Med views, and the subterranean spa draws on Roman bath logic. The restaurant leans into Riviera produce with minimal drama. Ranked 27th on the World's 50 Best Hotels list and holding a Michelin Key.

1. The 50 #27 · The World's 50 Best Hotels
2. Michelin Guide 1 Key
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The facade is wrapped in over a million hand-pressed Balinese temple bricks, which sets the tone for what Desa Potato Head actually is: a resort that treats sustainability as a design brief, not a footnote. Six restaurants, a beach club built from reclaimed window shutters, sound stages, and art installations fill the grounds. It holds a spot on the World's 50 Best Hotels list, and the globetrotting creatives who fill it look exactly like you'd expect.

1. The 50 #18 · The World's 50 Best Hotels
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Every room in this yacht-shaped Dubai resort faces the sea, which is either a design statement or a flex, depending on your mood. Part of Jumeirah's oceanfront trilogy alongside the Burj Al Arab, it ranks at number 20 on the World's 50 Best Hotels list. Corridors curve like a superyacht's, restaurants run small and characterful, and the valet queue of G-Wagons has become its own arrival ritual. The Talise Spa, four pools, and an 82-berth marina complete the picture.

1. The 50 #20 · The World's 50 Best Hotels
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A Roman-style bathhouse on an 85-acre Oxfordshire estate is the kind of detail that stops you mid-sentence. Estelle Manor is a country-house hotel designed by Roman and Williams, the New York studio behind some of America's most talked-about interiors, and the result is less heritage pastiche than something stranger and more alive. Rooms range from the main house to cottages scattered across the grounds. It holds a Michelin Key and ranks on the World's 50 Best Hotels list.

1. The 50 #47 · The World's 50 Best Hotels
2. Michelin Guide 1 Key

Megève was designed from scratch as the quieter alternative to the busier Alpine circus, and this 55-room Four Seasons fits the brief: polished pine interiors, marble bathrooms with heated floors, and a Roman-style spa with an indoor-outdoor pool. Ski concierges, a kids' club, and restaurants running from Savoyard classics to Japanese keep things humming. The Michelin Guide awarded it 3 Keys.

1. Michelin Guide 3 Keys
2. The 50 2025 · Most Admired Hotel Group Award

A 50-metre infinity pool cantilevered over the Adriatic sets the tone at this waterfront luxury hotel in Rovinj, where Piero Lissoni's interiors lean into stone, wood, and the kind of minimalism that somehow feels warm rather than cold. Six cascading floors face the old town and St. Catherine's Island, with a spa, seven restaurants, and enough breathing room to make Croatia's busier coastline feel like someone else's problem. It holds a Michelin Key and a spot on the World's 50 Best Hotels list.

1. The 50 #48 · The World's 50 Best Hotels
2. Michelin Guide 1 Key

A 17th-century Provençal farmhouse that somehow also has architecture by Frank Gehry, Tadao Ando, and Oscar Niemeyer on the grounds, plus an outdoor art collection featuring Richard Serra and Ai Weiwei. The 28 suites at this hyper-luxe resort read more like private villas, furnished with art books and original works by artists whose names appear elsewhere on the property. Francis Mallmann runs the restaurant. The Michelin Guide awarded it 3 Keys.

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A vast private garden and a sweep of unspoiled forest inside city limits, at the foot of a wild mountain, set the stage for this Aman resort. The late Kerry Hill's spare, precise buildings sit within the landscape rather than over it. Rooms run from Western to tatami configurations, all with hinoki baths; the pavilions claim the highest ground. Spring-fed onsen, mindfulness sessions, and an Italian kitchen round out a property that never quite needs the outside world.

1. Michelin Guide 2 Keys
2. The 50 The 50 Discovery

The midnight-blue, 27-meter pool alone has converted more than a few people into Aman devotees, which is probably the point. This flagship Aman resort occupies a lush peninsula on Pansea Beach, its pavilions and private villas descending a hillside that was once a coconut plantation. The architecture draws on Ayutthaya-period Thai tradition, the villas come with private pools and live-in staff, and the Michelin Guide awarded it 3 Keys.

1. Michelin Guide 3 Keys
2. The 50 The 50 Discovery

The "no news, no shoes" policy is literal: shoes are collected at arrival and returned only at departure. This private-island resort in the Maldives' Baa Atoll is accessible only by seaplane, and once you land, bicycles are the transport and outdoor bathrooms are standard. Villas disappear into dense jungle, butlers are around the clock, and the organic gardens feed restaurants scattered across the island. It holds a spot on the World's 50 Best Hotels list.

1. Michelin Guide 3 Keys
2. Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Four Star
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Farmhouses draped in wisteria and wild roses, some dating back to the sixteenth century, make up this Provençal resort tucked beneath the limestone cliffs of Les Baux. Rooms keep a spare, modern hand against flagstone floors and old fireplaces. Open the windows in the morning and the herbs outside do the rest. The restaurant, trained Wolfgang Puck among others, sits below cathedral ceilings with the cliff face framing every window, turning gold at dusk.

1. Michelin Guide 3 Keys

You can reach this lakeside resort by car, boat, or funicular, which sets the tone before you've even checked in. The suites look out over Lake Lucerne, the spa runs to 10,000 square metres with indoor and outdoor pools, and the whole place has the faded-glamour bones of somewhere Audrey Hepburn once stayed, thoroughly modernised. The Michelin Guide awarded it 3 Keys.

1. Michelin Guide 3 Keys

Rice paddies wrap the grounds on all sides, which tells you immediately what kind of resort this is: the kind that makes you forget a city exists nearby. Pavilions connect to shaded terraces overlooking the paddies, while villas get a private sala and pool deck. The spa sits in its own jungle pavilion, and the infinity pool is exactly as ridiculous as it sounds. The Michelin Guide awarded three Keys, and the service has a reputation for being the thing guests keep coming back to describe.

1. Michelin Guide 3 Keys
2. The 50 2025 · Most Admired Hotel Group Award

The ornate bathing hall fed by a natural hot spring tells you everything about what kind of place this is: a grand Swiss resort built around the old tradition of taking the waters in style. Rooms range from antique formal to sharply contemporary, and the wellness program runs from thermal baths to full medical consultations. A Michelin Guide 3 Keys property, with several starred restaurants on site.

1. Michelin Guide 3 Keys

A working cyder cellar, a replica Roman villa, and a honeybee colony grand enough to earn its own name, Beezantium, and that's before you've unpacked. The Newt is a Michelin three-key country-house hotel in Somerset, with forty rooms split between a limestone manor and Farmyard outbuildings, a spa with an indoor-outdoor pool, and three restaurants drawing heavily on the estate's own gardens. Serious gardens, by the way.

1. Michelin Guide 3 Keys
2. The 50 The 50 Discovery

The spa is built around a cenote, a natural underground pool the ancient Maya considered sacred, which sets the tone for this wellness resort buried in the Yucatán jungle about 25 minutes from Mérida. The 40 casitas each come with a private pool; the restored hacienda villa adds its own spa suite and gym. Jorge Vallejo of Quintonil oversees the restaurants. One of the World's 50 Best Hotels, and holds two Michelin Keys.

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The turreted silhouette glows against the Alpine night like something out of a fairy tale, which is more or less the point. This grand resort hotel sits on a hilltop above Gstaad, open only through ski season and midsummer, which says something about the clientele. Wood-vaulted ceilings, chandeliers, champagne by the fire, and a spa built around fifty tons of local granite. The Michelin Guide awarded it 2 Keys.

1. Michelin Guide 2 Keys
2. The 50 The 50 Discovery

1. Michelin Guide 3 Keys

A clifftop resort perched above Port de Sóller, where the Tramuntana mountains drop into the Mediterranean and every room is angled to make sure you notice. Five restaurants, an infinity pool, and a spa keep things busy enough that you don't have to feel guilty about spending three days just staring at the view. The old town of Sóller is a ten-minute walk for when you do surface. Forbes Four Star.

1. Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Four Star
2. Michelin Guide Selected Hotels

A thermal spring sits beneath the Château Smith Haut-Lafitte vineyard, which is either a happy coincidence or the most on-brand thing that has ever happened. This luxury vineyard resort outside Bordeaux built a spa around it, running grape-seed treatments alongside the more traditional option of working through the 15,000-bottle cellar. The Michelin Guide awarded it 3 Keys. Rooms are individually decorated, and two restaurants handle the French country cooking side of things.

1. Michelin Guide 3 Keys

Philippe Starck designed the interiors, which tells you something about who this wellness resort near Saint-Tropez is for, and what they expect to spend. Twenty minutes from the circus of the port, Lily of the Valley sits on a hillside above Gigaro Beach with a spa, a 25-meter outdoor pool, and a restaurant angled toward the bay. The menu leans heavily vegetarian and vegan, which fits the self-improvement brief. The Michelin Guide awarded it 2 Keys.

1. Michelin Guide 2 Keys
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A Palladian mansion six miles from Bath, set on 500 acres of private parkland with its own equestrian center, spa, indoor and outdoor pools, and a fine-dining restaurant. The 42 rooms and nine cottages lean into antiques and four-poster beds high enough to need a footstool, though comfort wins out over museum-piece restraint. It holds three Michelin Keys. Mr. Darcy cosplay is optional but the grounds will not discourage it.

1. Michelin Guide 3 Keys

Occy's Left, the surf break that made this corner of Sumba famous, still draws wave-chasers to what is now a full-scale luxury resort sitting between a private beach and untamed jungle. Private infinity pools, butler service, open-air spa pavilions, and three restaurants have replaced the surf-shack origins, though something unhurried in the atmosphere suggests they were never entirely erased. The Michelin Guide awarded it 3 Keys.

1. Michelin Guide 3 Keys
2. The 50 #56 · The World's 50 Best Hotels

Villas sit either in the treetops or on coastal cliffs above the Pacific, each with a private plunge pool and round-the-clock butler service, which tells you exactly what kind of resort this is. It holds a Michelin 3 Keys and ranks among the World's 50 Best Hotels. Enrique Olvera runs the clifftop restaurant. The spa brings in traditional healers for indigenous ceremonies, because a plunge pool apparently isn't enough.

1. Michelin Guide 3 Keys
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2. Michelin Guide 2 Keys

1. AAA Three Diamonds

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1. AAA Three Diamonds

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1. AAA Three Diamonds

1. AAA Three Diamonds

1. AAA Three Diamonds

1. AAA Three Diamonds

A chandelier made of 10,000 globes hangs over a wine cellar encased in floor-to-ceiling glass, which tells you everything about the register this Mornington Peninsula vineyard hotel is playing in. The rooms lean into the surreal with Japanese soaking tubs, heated floors, and views straight into the vines. It holds two Michelin Keys. The mythical horned jackrabbit lends the place its name, and the designers clearly took the brief personally.

1. Michelin Guide 2 Keys
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A Caudalie spa, a pool, bikes waiting by the door, and a wine bar that makes it genuinely hard to leave, all inside a Loire Valley château converted into a small, quietly luxurious hotel. The rooms mix antique bones with contemporary furniture without making a fuss about it. Forests and vineyards surround the estate, so the countryside is right there whenever you need an excuse to skip the spa. Michelin gives it two Keys.

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Twenty-four white-sand beaches and no one on most of them: that's the pitch for this remote luxury resort on the Great Barrier Reef, a Michelin 3 Keys property that takes commitment to reach and none whatsoever once you're there. Villas lean into the landscape with bleached timber and open layouts, and the resort runs on a notably lock-free, schedule-free philosophy. Morning dives, long seafood lunches, empty beaches in the afternoon.

1. Michelin Guide 3 Keys
2. Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Recommended

1. AAA Three Diamonds

The Bavarian Alps resort that holds a Michelin Guide 3 Keys distinction doubles as a working cultural institution, with a concert hall, two libraries, and a ballroom that regularly host jazz, classical music, and author readings. Four separate spas, including an adults-only Badehaus with a rooftop heated pool, handle the relaxation side. The castle exterior promises old-world grandeur; the rooms inside deliver contemporary five-star comfort. Children are welcome at most of it, which either helps or doesn't.

1. Michelin Guide 3 Keys

An old red-brick power plant on the Västerås lakeside has been stretched into an 18-story, 227-room luxury hotel, and the interiors lean hard into what the team calls "industrial-romantic." There's an upscale steakhouse, a rooftop bar, a lounge with an indoor pool heated by one of the original turbines, and an eight-floor indoor water park with waterslides, which is not a sentence you often write about a design hotel.

1. White Guide Very Fine Level · White Guide
2. Michelin Guide Selected Hotels

1. AAA Three Diamonds

A 12th-century abbey turned luxury wine-country hotel in the Valladolid countryside, awarded three Michelin Keys. The estate runs to 500 acres of vineyards, best seen by guided Jeep tour ending in the barrel rooms. Rooms have oak floors and French doors opening onto the vines; suites add Carrara marble tubs and wood-beamed ceilings. The spa blends wine-country ingredients with Tibetan medicine, which sounds improbable and probably works beautifully.

1. Michelin Guide 3 Keys

A ring of timber suspended over a frozen river in a village most maps don't bother with, Arctic Bath is a design hotel and spa in Swedish Lapland where the plunge pool in the central courtyard is kept, deliberately, at ice-cold. Cabins sit among the pines or out on the ice itself. The days go to dog sledding and snowshoeing, the evenings to sauna ritual and long dinners built on local game. It holds a Michelin Key.

1. White Guide Global Exceptional Level · White Guide
2. Michelin Guide 1 Key
3. White Guide Very Fine Level · White Guide

A Victorian Neoclassical mansion on 400 Surrey acres, once the estate of press baron Lord Beaverbrook, now a country-house hotel with interiors by Soho House designer Susie Atkinson. Modern art sits alongside antique furniture without either side winning, which is the point. Four restaurants, two cocktail bars, a spa, a cinema, and a Bear Grylls Survival Academy ensure you never have to leave, which most guests don't. The Michelin Guide awarded it 2 Keys.

1. Michelin Guide 2 Keys
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A bell tower, a piazza, a fortified perimeter, an actual church: Borgo Egnazia was built from nothing and looks like it has been there for centuries, which is either charming or slightly uncanny depending on your mood. It's a luxury resort in Puglia, and the fantasy of a sun-bleached Italian village is the whole point. On the World's 50 Best Hotels list, it draws guests who are happy to settle into that fiction completely.

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A 140-hectare private estate on the shores of Lake Maggiore, with its own vineyard producing wine under the Cantina alla Maggia label, sets the tone for this Ticino resort. The Michelin Guide awarded it 2 Keys. Rooms spread across manicured grounds, a 2,500-square-meter spa handles the restorative work, and a private beach keeps things unhurried. The cooking leans on what the estate and the surrounding Mediterranean larder produce.

1. Michelin Guide 2 Keys

A Bavarian design studio built CERVO's 54 rooms and lodges to hold their own against the Matterhorn, which is setting the bar in the most literal way possible. This resort in the car-free heart of Zermatt leans into wellness via the Atman Mountain Spa, with yoga, meditation, and Japanese-style onsen baths. Dining runs from Middle Eastern to Italian to traditional Valaisian, so nobody has to agree on a cuisine. The Michelin Guide awards it 2 Keys.

1. Michelin Guide 2 Keys

A sycamore-lined lane off the main road opens onto a small cluster of historic buildings, a medieval farmhouse, a manor, a chapel, and a stone cottage, all arranged around a park of old cypress trees. The 21 rooms vary wildly by building: grand fireplaces and period drapes in the manor, exposed beams and separate living rooms in the farmhouse. Crystal chandeliers and Belle Époque decor fill the bar, and lunch drifts poolside when the weather cooperates.

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2. Michelin Guide Selected Hotels

Rowboats left untethered beside the estate's lakes set the tone here: this is a château resort that seems genuinely unbothered by its own grandeur. The stone castle has the fortified towers and serious art collection, but rooms spread across former servants' quarters and outlying farmhouses rather than cramming guests into arrow-slit windows. A spa, pool, tennis, and a Michelin-starred restaurant round things out. Two Michelin Keys.

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Each villa comes with a private pool, a personal butler who doubles as your buggy driver, and a soaking tub with both indoor and outdoor showers, so the boundary between inside and outside dissolves almost immediately. This clifftop resort on the Bukit Peninsula watches over Jimbaran Bay, its villas stepping down through tropical gardens toward a beachfront infinity pool. The house cocktail swaps gin for arak in a Bali Sling, which feels like the right local edit. The Michelin Guide awarded it 2 Keys.

1. Michelin Guide 2 Keys
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The private ski lift says everything about this grand alpine hotel just outside St. Moritz. Inside, the old-world atmosphere holds firm: wood beams, coffered ceilings, an oak-paneled bar, a billiards room, and a dining room where children are required to dress for dinner. Rooms are classic and quietly luxurious. Breakfast is a lavish Swiss spread, and an indoor pool faces the mountains. The Michelin Guide awarded it two Keys.

1. Michelin Guide 2 Keys

The three-tiered pool facing the Indian Ocean is the social heart of this Seminyak beach resort, and that word "social" is doing real work here. Where most Balinese resorts retreat into private villas and enforced serenity, The Legian leans into shared space: pool decks, lounges, a busy restaurant. Suites run minimalist and parquet-floored. For actual solitude, eleven villas with private pools and butler service are available, should the experiment in community prove too much.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Key
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Perched on a forested hillside above Vinh Hy Bay inside a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, this Aman resort earns its Michelin 3 Keys by making seclusion feel like an event. Villas with private pools and open-plan spa bathrooms face the water, the grounds stay mostly wild, and the architecture splits the difference between contemporary minimalism and local materials. Fresh Vietnamese food, a serious wellness complex, and easy access to the national park fill out the rest.

1. Michelin Guide 3 Keys
2. The 50 The 50 Discovery

A thirty-foot beam ceiling and a fireplace you could park a car in anchor the Great Room of this remote lodge hotel on Lake Wakatipu, with the Humboldt mountains filling the windows behind it. An Idaho architect built it as a love letter to the lodges of the American West, which makes it slightly absurd and completely comfortable. Eight rooms, plus suites and private chalets. The Michelin Guide awarded it 2 Keys. No children under 13, which tells you the clientele.

1. Michelin Guide 2 Keys
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The villas at this Banyan Tree retreat in the Balinese jungle north of Ubud skip the doors and walls, opening straight onto forest canopy and distant mountain ridges. It's a resort, and a luxurious one, but wilder and less polished than the flagship properties. Sixteen villas, a spa, an infinity pool, and a small restaurant round things out. The Michelin Guide awarded it 2 Keys.

1. Michelin Guide 2 Keys
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Four colonial plantation bungalows scattered across a valley at four thousand feet, each bookable by the suite or taken whole, make up this all-inclusive resort deep in Sri Lanka's tea country. Food, drink, and "bed tea" at dawn are all covered, which sounds like a cruise ship until you see the landscape. Tours of the tea fields, kayaking, and mountain climbing can be arranged, though the suites make a compelling argument for doing absolutely none of that. Michelin awarded it 3 Keys.

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A lovingly restored country estate outside Montpellier, spread across 120-odd acres of meadows, vineyards, and old-growth trees that take the concept of a garden quite seriously. The Michelin Guide awarded it 2 Keys. Rooms differ wildly, from Belle Époque reds and lavenders to grayscale rooms furnished with accordion lamps, which is a choice. Freestanding tubs, hidden doors, and private terraces appear throughout, and the on-site restaurant leans hard into Slow Food principles.

1. Michelin Guide 2 Keys

1. AAA Five Diamonds

The Bay Bay Pool Club spans 1,750 square meters of sunbeds, firepits, and bass you can feel through the tiles, which sets the tone for this country club resort tucked into Sweden's lake country just outside Gothenburg. The pitch is sociable weekends outdoors, lakeside rides, lobby bar games, and Spanish bites in the sun. It's a place people arrive to unwind and somehow end up with a story about it.

1. White Guide Exceptional Level · White Guide
2. Michelin Guide Selected Hotels

Four acres of parkland just below Saint-Paul-de-Vence, with stone farmhouses, olive trees, and 76 rooms dressed in antiques and soft southern colors. The Michelin Guide awarded it 2 Keys. It's an old-school resort that leans hard into the fantasy of the private Provençal estate, marble baths and all, while staying close enough to the Côte d'Azur that a beach day is easy and far enough that the Riviera crowds feel like someone else's problem.

1. Michelin Guide 2 Keys

Eighteen stilted lodges sit among oaks and Douglas firs in a 750-acre forest, with a jacuzzi on each terrace and, notably, no wi-fi or TV. Loire Valley Lodges is a forest retreat that skips the château playbook entirely, leaning into Nordic-modernist calm instead. An old stone barn handles reception and a restaurant serving upscale French cooking. It holds a Michelin Key.

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A health resort in the Black Forest, Luisenhöhe holds a Michelin 2 Keys distinction and earns it with floor-to-ceiling views of Rhine foothills that genuinely look painted. Rooms lean into natural wood and mid-century modern furniture with eco-conscious credentials, bold textiles keeping things from going too earnest. The wellness complex runs to a 25-meter heated pool and enough terraces that picking a favorite becomes a small daily project.

1. Michelin Guide 2 Keys

The bar runs a DJ most nights, because Turks take nightlife seriously and nobody told the Aegean to slow down. Maçakizi is a boutique-style luxury hotel on Turkbuku bay, eighty-odd rooms done in breezy minimalism that feels more like a well-connected friend's summer house than a resort. Istanbul's beautiful people fill the beach club decks. Named 96th on the World's 50 Best Hotels list, it's seasonal, open roughly late April through October.

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1. AAA Five Diamonds

Liz Taylor honeymooned here four times, which says something about either the hotel or her taste in husbands. Splendido is a coastal resort above Portofino's harbour, terraced Ligurian gardens framing views that haven't changed much since the place was a monastery. Bow-tied bartenders, a resident pianist, and tomato spaghetti that's been on the menu long enough to become legend. A recent renovation updated the rooms; the views stayed exactly as they were. It holds a spot on the World's 50 Best Hotels list.

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A medieval abbey turned country-house hotel about an hour from Paris, where the Rothschild family's old hunting lodge is now one of several restaurants, because the group behind this place made its name feeding people before it ever put anyone to bed. Rooms spread across the original abbey, reconditioned stables, and freestanding pavilions. There's a spa, a cinema, tennis courts, boats on the lake, and enough parkland to get genuinely lost in.

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1. Michelin Guide 2 Keys

Every suite at this Aman resort in central Java is oriented toward Borobudur, the ancient Buddhist monument rising from the forested valley below, which makes the architecture feel less like clever placement and more like devotion. Stone walkways, private pools, four-poster beds, outdoor soaking tubs, the full Aman treatment, all framed by that view. Hotel guests get exclusive dawn access to the monument, which is arguably the whole point. The Michelin Guide awarded it 3 Keys.

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Thick walls and enclosed courtyards modeled on dzong architecture give this pine-forest lodge its quiet gravity, and the capital's monasteries and government sites are close enough to fill a day without rushing. Amankora Thimphu is the cultural anchor of Aman's five-lodge Bhutan circuit, a luxury retreat where guided mornings in temples give way to unhurried afternoons, and the service runs to fluent explanations of local customs. Forbes Four Star.

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1. AAA Four Diamonds

Peter Bohlin, the architect behind a string of Apple stores, turns out to have a convincing rustic side. This five-star ski resort in Åre sits at the base of Mount Åreskutan, all soaring timber forms, rough-hewn stone, and classic furs where you might have expected glass and steel. Heated bathroom floors, kitchenettes, a spa, and a dedicated gondola for guests round out the picture. There's fine dining, a lounge bar, and a slopeside outpost for when you can't be bothered to ski all the way back.

1. White Guide Very Fine Level · White Guide
2. Michelin Guide Selected Hotels

1. AAA Four Diamonds

A boutique eco-hotel two hundred meters from the Baltic on the island of Öland, StrandNara keeps things crisp and Scandinavian without going cold. The rooms run toward a disciplined palette, and breakfast comes with the stay. Dinner is a three-course modern Nordic affair worth staying in for. Beijershamn nature reserve is a short drive when you do venture out, and the beach is essentially at the door.

1. White Guide Very Fine Level · White Guide
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1. AAA Three Diamonds

1. AAA Four Diamonds

1. AAA Four Diamonds

The central pavilion rises like a Buddhist temple, which is more or less the point: this beachfront resort on Kamala Beach is making a deliberate argument about what Thai paradise looks like, and it commits hard. Rooms pull back toward the classic and let the Andaman Sea do the work. Beyond that: a Thai spa, several restaurants, a generous pool, and the sand a short walk from all of it. Michelin awarded it 2 Keys.

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1. AAA Four Diamonds

1. AAA Four Diamonds

1. Michelin Guide 2 Keys

A former equestrian estate about an hour from Paris, redesigned by a cutting-edge Parisian firm into something that reads as neither farmhouse chic nor boutique-hotel template. The buildings keep their agricultural bones while the interiors go clean and minimal, warm tones and natural textures doing the heavy lifting. Every room has a private terrace. Outside: cycling, lawn games, and horseback riding, which feels like a fair tribute to the estate's past life.

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Fifteen tented villas spread across 48 acres of Pacific-facing jungle make the pitch here: total seclusion, no itinerary, no dress code for dinner. This adults-only, all-inclusive glamping resort sits beside a Four Seasons but deliberately leaves that world behind. A personal guide helps fill the days with snorkel safaris or agave tastings, and the tents themselves come with plunge pools and soaking tubs, which softens the roughing-it premise considerably. Forbes Four Star.

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2. The 50 2025 · Most Admired Hotel Group Award

1. AAA Four Diamonds

A 1,500-hectare Umbrian estate where the rooms used to be farm ruins and oak woodlands, restored over decades by one family with an evident allergy to cutting corners. Reschio is a countryside hotel that lands somewhere between working estate and fever dream: stone, hills, biodiversity, and the particular quiet that only comes with that much land around you. It ranked on The World's 50 Best Hotels list.

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Fifty-five private villas strung along a crescent of white sand on Miyako-jima's remote northwest coast, each with its own pool and a Ryukyu stone bath. This is Rosewood's first Japanese property, and the design takes its cues from the Ryukyu archipelago: pale woods, soft textiles, salt air, and a silence that feels deliberately engineered. The Michelin Guide awarded it 2 Keys. Pack light and plan to do very little, efficiently.

1. Michelin Guide 2 Keys
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1. AAA Four Diamonds

Treehouse-style rooms hang over the Mossman River where the Daintree Rainforest meets the Great Barrier Reef, and the staff handle everything from guided reef dives to rainforest picnics before you've finished your coffee. Silky Oaks is an ecolodge built for people who want the wilderness but aren't interested in roughing it. The Michelin Guide awarded it 2 Keys. Bring good walking shoes and a slightly loose schedule, because the team here will fill it.

1. Michelin Guide 2 Keys
2. The 50 The 50 Discovery

Cantilevered suites hang above the N'wanetsi River on a hillside inside Kruger National Park, close enough to the bush that the lodge practically fades into it. This all-inclusive safari resort covers everything: meals, drinks, and twice-daily game drives or bush walks. The design has been widely copied and never quite matched. It holds a spot on the World's 50 Best Hotels list, and the scale stays small enough that it never feels like a crowd.

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Six suites perched above the Sweni River in a private concession inside Kruger National Park, each walled almost entirely in glass so the forest and water come right to your pillow. This is a small, intimate safari lodge where the rate covers everything: twice-daily Land Rover game drives, guided walks, meals, and the wine. It holds a spot on the World's 50 Best Hotels list. Pack light and bring the binoculars.

1. The 50 #40 · The World's 50 Best Hotels
2. The 50 Johnnie Walker Art of Design Award 2025 · The World's 50 Best Hotels
3. Michelin Guide Selected Hotels

Sitting at nearly 9,000 feet above sea level, this lodge holds the Thimphu Valley below like a painting, with the great sitting Buddha of Kuensel Phodrang visible from the windows. Part of the larger Six Senses Bhutan collection, it earns a Forbes Four Star and leans hard into Bhutanese wellness: a spa, a prayer pavilion, and meditation sessions come standard. Suites and villas keep the scale intimate, which helps the place feel like a retreat rather than a spectacle.

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2. Michelin Guide 1 Key
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Phang Nga Bay places the limestone karsts right outside your villa, which helps explain why fifty-six thatched-roof bungalows on Yao Noi fill up faster than the more obvious choices nearby. This luxury resort pairs the traditional exterior with contemporary interiors and private infinity pools, and the Six Senses Spa runs with the quiet efficiency of a place that knows its therapists matter more than its philosophy. Getting here involves a boat, which is the point. Michelin awarded it 2 Keys.

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1. AAA Three Diamonds

From the right angle, this UFO-shaped hotel reads as a crease in the earth, which is either modest architecture or very confident architecture, depending on how you look at it. It's a full-board luxury resort inside Torres del Paine National Park, holding a Michelin 3 Keys, with all meals, an open bar, guided excursions, and transfers folded into the rate. Forty rooms face Lago Sarmiento and the Paine Massif through floor-to-ceiling glass, and sheepskins are piled onto everything.

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Eight treehouses, each designed by a different Swedish architecture firm, perched in the pines just south of the Arctic Circle. The Mirrorcube disappears into the forest; the UFO looks like a prop from a 1970s Scandinavian sci-fi film. A restaurant serves locally inspired food, and there's a sauna and riverside hot tub, but services are otherwise kept intentionally spare. The point, clearly, is the trees.

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Every suite and villa at this high-end Phuket resort comes with its own private infinity pool overlooking the sea. The property sits on a rare private beach along the northwestern coast, with pavilion-style accommodations tucked into tropical foliage and spaced far enough apart that you'd never guess anyone else was staying there. A saltwater pool, spa, yacht charters, and a Michelin-starred restaurant round things out for guests who never quite get around to leaving.

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Getting here takes real commitment: Alila Jabal Akhdar sits deep in Oman's Al Hajar mountains, and the drive alone feels like a plot twist. This LEED-certified luxury resort is built from local stone, dressed in copper fixtures and hand-painted juniper murals, and anchored by an infinity pool that makes the stark mountain drop feel theatrical. No alcohol, but the spa more than covers the indulgence. The Michelin Guide awarded it 2 Keys.

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Freestanding pavilions with private pools instead of ordinary hotel rooms, all of them pointed at the Aegean from a hillside above Porto Heli. Amanzoe is an Aman resort built around classical Greek columns, polished stone, and a reflecting pool that makes the whole arrangement feel like a ruin that upgraded itself. The Michelin Guide awarded it 2 Keys. Villas run to nine bedrooms and emerald-lined pools, for when regular opulence feels a little crowded.

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Ten floating lodges sit out on the lake, reached by electric boat from the shore, which tells you most of what you need to know about this luxury hotel just inland from Biarritz. The château itself dates from the 1930s, all canopied beds and garden views. Back on land there's a spa, a pool, a chocolaterie, and a cocktail bar glittering with chandeliers. The pontoon bar with its white umbrellas handles the daytime.

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A decommissioned military fortress overlooking the Bay of Palma, Cap Rocat spent its first life keeping watch and its second life doing the same, only now guests are doing the watching. The boutique hotel holds the Michelin Guide's 2 Keys. Suites carved from boxy utilitarian spaces land somewhere between austere and genuinely luxurious, the design restrained enough to stay out of the Mediterranean views' way. No one under 15, and closed through winter.

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A 19th-century chateau in the Gard that had the good sense to renovate without pretending the 21st century hadn't happened, so antique stone archways now frame very modern furniture. This Michelin two-key luxury boutique hotel has two restaurants, a pool, a grass tennis court, and, if you're feeling baronial, helicopter tours over the countryside. Even the standard rooms are generously sized, which is one of the genuine advantages of staying somewhere built before room rates were invented.

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Thirteen suites inside a Sauternes premier cru estate, dressed in Lalique crystal down to details you wouldn't think to look for. The collaboration between the glassmaker and the winery produces rooms individually designed and fussed over to a degree that includes asking your mattress preference before arrival. The restaurant pairs an inventive menu to the estate's own sweet wine, and the cellar runs to over 300,000 bottles. The Michelin Guide awarded it 2 Keys.

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A 15th-century monastery converted into a 114-room countryside luxury hotel, sitting at the edge of the Ingendael Nature Preserve outside Maastricht. The original farmhouse, convent, and grain lofts are now country-chic guestrooms, which is either charming or a lot to explain at breakfast. A Roman-style pool, sauna, and Turkish bath handle the spa brief. Contemporary French classics go out at Les Salons; Burgemeester Quicx keeps the coffee running. The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key.

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A wooded hillside property in the Perche, run as a country retreat by the team behind Paris's Septime. Fruit trees, beehives, and a sauna looking out over the landscape give it the feel of somewhere genuinely off the clock. The cooking pulls from nearby Norman and Sarthe markets and whatever the kitchen garden is offering, so the menu moves with the season rather than against it. A handful of guest rooms mean you can stay long enough to actually decompress.

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Tucked between the Chiemsee and the Kampenwand peaks in Upper Bavaria, Das Achental is a resort that threads the needle between rustic Bavarian charm and genuinely modern comfort, exposed timber and stone on the outside, sleek bathrooms and contemporary design within. The spa is expansive, there's an 18-hole golf course, and the dining runs from beer garden classics to a serious gastronomic restaurant. The Michelin Guide awarded it 2 Keys.

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Every room faces the mountain, and the windows run floor to ceiling so nothing gets in the way. Das Edelweiss is a ski-in, ski-out alpine resort in the Großarl valley, the kind where après-ski feels like a second career, the infinity pool frames a snowcap sunset, and the interiors lean hard on warm natural wood. The Michelin Guide awarded it 2 Keys.

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An English country manor dropped into the Bavarian Alps by a young British aristocrat, which explains why the architecture still stops guests mid-stride. This four-season wellness resort an hour from Munich holds a Michelin 2 Keys distinction, five pools, and more saunas than most people knew they needed. Rooms split between mod-decorated manor suites and a wood-and-glass annex, and meals run from breakfast through a five-course dinner, with afternoon cake filling in the gaps.

1. Michelin Guide 2 Keys

1. Michelin Guide 2 Keys

A 39-room luxury hotel less than an hour west of Paris, housed in an 18th-century Directoire château that was a private home until recently, which explains why it doesn't feel like a hotel. The estate straddles the Eure river, grows produce for its own gastronomic restaurant, and holds France's first Susanne Kaufmann spa. A bistro on a terrace among fruit trees handles the lighter end. Horseback riding, hiking, and a nearby golf course fill the rest. The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key.

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Ninety villas and pavilions scattered across one of the Andaman Sea's better-looking stretches of beach, many of them open to the sea air on at least one side. This is a Five Star resort in the barefoot-luxury mode, where "barefoot" is doing some heavy lifting, given the hockey-rink pool and the sprawling spa. The restaurant pulls Indian, Italian, and Japanese into the same open-air room, which sounds chaotic and somehow isn't. The Michelin Guide awarded it 2 Keys.

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The exterior looks like a marzipan model of an Engadine farmhouse, all painted stucco and shutters, giving nothing away. Inside, this design hotel in Champfèr near St. Moritz earns its Michelin Key with timbered ceilings updated by a palette of pale wood, cream, and bursts of fuchsia or lime. Two bars, three restaurants, and a spa handle most excuses to leave, which in St. Moritz winters is exactly the point.

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A German count bought an aging Bavarian Alps hotel and turned it into a mountain retreat, which sounds like the opening of a fairy tale, mostly because it is. Gut Steinbach is a resort on a high plateau with an organic farm, alpine chalets around a natural pond, and a spa with mirrored ceilings and a large indoor pool. The main lodge runs to native wood and glass, with rooms that lean into a hunting-lodge aesthetic without going full taxidermy. The Michelin Guide awarded it 2 Keys.

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You arrive by wooden boat, which tells you immediately what kind of place this is. Hoshinoya Kyoto is a 25-room luxury ryokan set up the Oi River, away from the city proper, and the cypress soaking tubs in each room make a strong case for never leaving. The architecture is modern Japanese, the interiors quietly graphic, and the kitchen pulls from hyper-local ingredients. A Michelin one-key property.

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Rooms built from ice cut out of the Torne River, sleeping around four degrees below zero, and yet somehow the place is always booked. This Lapland hotel runs year-round: winter brings seasonal ice rooms and artist-carved Art Suites, while the solar-powered Icehotel 365 keeps permanent ice suites cold through summer. Warm chalets are available for guests who prefer a bed that won't slowly melt, along with three restaurants drawing on the traditional flavors of Jukkasjärvi.

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Richard Branson's mother spotted this estate while her son was off planning a balloon expedition, which tells you everything about the kind of people who end up here. A luxury hotel at the foot of the Atlas Mountains, about forty-five minutes from Marrakech, it holds an antiques dealer's old collection inside traditional Moorish walls, a deep-blue reflecting pool in the courtyard, and ten Berber tent suites with Jacuzzis for the glampers among us. The Michelin Guide awarded it 3 Keys.

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Every villa at this Phuket hillside resort comes with its own private pool, which makes the name "all pool villa wonderland" less marketing copy than a straightforward description. The designs lean into fantasy: Bird's Nest Villas are woven-wood birdcages cantilevered over the rainforest canopy, while Tent Pool Villas have domed roofs and soaking tubs hovering above the green. Mala serves Thai food when you do eventually come down. Michelin awarded it 2 Keys.

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A palazzo-style grand hotel in St. Moritz, turrets and blue shutters and all, built over a mineral spring that still feeds the spa's pools and baths below. Chandelier dining, high tea with Swiss patisserie, and a gondola station directly across the street for the slopes. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Key. It's the kind of place where "popping out for a ski" feels like a completely reasonable sentence.

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A treehouse cabin perched on stilts beside an old cypress is the headline room at this eco-minded boutique hotel on a forested hilltop near La Gacilly. The whole place leans into its Yves Rocher roots: organic gardens feed the on-site restaurant, and the spa's flower baths pull blooms from the surrounding fields. Guest rooms open onto private patios; the spa has a hammam and a light-filled indoor pool. It holds a Michelin Key.

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Ten acres of parkland between Geneva and the airport, right on the lake, make this design hotel feel more like a private resort than a city stop. Jacques Garcia, the man behind Hôtel Costes, handled the interiors: leather desks, oiled hardwood floors, velvet bedspreads in deep reds and violets. The spa takes up an entire floor. A Michelin Guide Key recognizes it among Switzerland's notable places to stay.

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A 16th-century villa folded into the Tramuntana foothills above Deià, this Belmond resort holds a Michelin Two Keys distinction and the kind of grounds that make guests forget Palma exists. Whitewashed walls, beamed ceilings, and Mallorquin furnishings fill the rooms; the higher suites add private pools and mountain panoramas. Literary types once came for the village below; the current crowd is, by most accounts, considerably more photogenic.

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A former 17th-century convent in a Provençal village, now a 49-room luxury hotel and spa carrying two Michelin Keys. The stone walls and cloistered calm survive intact; the interiors went quietly minimalist. The L'Occitane spa sprawls across 2,500 square meters with an indoor pool, yoga room, and treatment suites, and the on-site restaurant Le Feuillée holds a Michelin star if the tranquility alone leaves you hungry for more.

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Every one of the 53 rooms, suites, and villas at this Michelin Key resort faces the water, and the interiors are deliberately restrained so the bay does the decorating. It sits just outside Stari Grad on the island of Hvar, far enough from the summer crush that seclusion feels designed in. Nordic minimalism meets Mediterranean warmth throughout, a Buddhist-inspired spa anchors the wellness side, and the kitchen leans on its own organic garden.

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Menus are vegan by default at this all-inclusive wellness resort in Playa del Carmen, though the kitchen adapts without fuss. The 234 suites lean contemporary-indigenous, most with ocean views or swim-out pool access, and adults-only facilities are kept separate from the family wing. Between the Atlantis Spa's Ayurvedic and Maya treatments and the optional shamanic rituals and astrology sessions, the itinerary can get ambitious. The Michelin Guide awarded it 2 Keys.

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Qualia occupies its own private peninsula at the northern tip of Hamilton Island, with coast on three sides and the Great Barrier Reef doing the heavy lifting outside every window. It's a luxury resort holding a Michelin Key, with villas ranging from sprawling great rooms with verandahs to windward suites with plunge pools, and a Beach House for groups. The buildings are low, wooden, and tucked into jungle foliage, and someone made the brave call to skip the beige.

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Eighty-seven villas folded into the hills of Jiuzhaigou, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, each angled toward the Minshan mountains as if the views were part of the room service. This Ritz-Carlton Reserve leans hard into its setting, with Tibetan art and design throughout, a spa drawing on local tradition, and three restaurants cycling through Sichuan, Chinese, and Mediterranean menus. The Michelin Guide awarded it 3 Keys.

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Seventy-one freestanding pavilions and villas, each with a plunge pool at minimum, sit just steps from Emerald Bay at this Michelin two-key resort. Floor-to-ceiling windows open onto garden terraces, and the design stays quiet enough to let the jungle and sea do the talking. Four pools, a full spa and wellness center, and a bar that runs day into night round out a property that makes Patong's chaos feel like someone else's problem.

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Each villa at this private island resort comes with its own team of three, a guardian, an assistant, and a personal chef, which is either deeply relaxing or mildly unsettling depending on your relationship with solitude. Overwater and shoreside villas face a clear blue lagoon in a remote northern atoll. Diving, spa, wine tasting, or a curated "Secret Day" fill the hours. It holds a spot on the World's 50 Best Hotels.

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A four-season Alpine resort that has been in the same family forever, spread across the hills of Ofterschwang in the Allgäu. Rooms run from standard to private chalet, and the dining spans hearty breakfasts through multiple fine-dining rooms. The wellness complex alone covers 20,000 square meters, which is a lot of square meters to be serene in. Golf, tennis, horse riding, and every winter sport round out the offer. The Michelin Guide awarded it 2 Keys.

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The jungle is so dense here that you can lose sight of the resort from inside the resort, which tells you most of what you need to know about the Datai. This luxury beach resort on Langkawi sits on the Andaman Sea, a short walk uphill from a white-sand beach into untouched rainforest. Rooms in the main building reach above the canopy for sea views; outlying villas go deeper into the trees. Monkeys and lemurs occasionally patrol the poolside. It holds a spot on the World's 50 Best Hotels list.

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Natural stone walls and exposed beams run through the guest rooms at this countryside retreat outside Maastricht, a Michelin Key holder where the spa pointedly ignores every anti-aging gadget in favor of straightforward rest. Two restaurants cover both farmhouse and fine-dining registers, and the cooking classes led by Michelin-experienced chefs give guests something to do besides feel guilty about skipping the gym.

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The kangaroos that hop past your window aren't a marketing promise; they're just Tuesday. This eco-lodge sits inside Taronga Zoo Sydney, so the native animal sanctuary outside is literally part of the grounds, and every stay includes two days of zoo admission and a guided tour. Floor-to-ceiling windows frame either the wildlife habitat or a postcard shot of the Opera House and Harbour Bridge. The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key.

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Twelve miles down the coast from Puerto Vallarta and only reachable by boat, this eco-resort holds a Michelin 3 Keys designation and a serious commitment to making you put your phone down. The 33 open-air cabins have three walls by design, so the jungle and Banderas Bay fill the fourth. It bills itself as a yoga retreat, but the sweat lodge, spa, and beach club mean you can fill a week without ever attempting a Warrior pose.

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