The Best Hotels Near Madeleine, by the Record

Rooms named after galaxies and constellations make sense here, because La Mongie sits in a low-light zone where the night sky earns it. This luxury boutique hotel sits directly across from the ski lift, with oversized windows, private balconies over the slopes, and a wellness area with Nordic baths and a sauna. The look is alpine lodge with a vintage lean: pale wood, midnight blue walls, retro armchairs, and tiled bathrooms with round mirrors.

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Pau sits at the foot of the Pyrenees, where European nobility once came to take the mountain air, and this luxury hotel plays that geography shamelessly well, with a rose-filled park on one side and the Pyrenees on the other. Bright, modern rooms face one or the other, some with private balconies. There's a brasserie with a terrace, a light-flooded indoor pool, and a spa with a Turkish bath, all a short walk from the old château where Henry IV was born.

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