Hot List Hotels 2006
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The 78-room Style Hotel has a lot to recommend it, from an exceptionally well-drilled staff to an excellent Italian restaurant (in case you get...
Until recently a quiet little village of stone houses and mehanas (low-roofed taverns), Bansko is currently the Continent's hot ski destination, and...
They don't make hotels like this one anymore, but they can renovate them. Built in 1895 just outside the old city walls, the Imperial entertained...
At the end of the nineteenth century, the pretty resort town of Opatija, with its elegant parks and cafés, drew a titled crowd from all corners...
With a superb location five minutes from Old Town Square, the renovated 71-room Maximilian is all about smart design. Czech-born architect Eva Jiricna...
The street and the building are quintessentially Georgian, but this 29-room hotel with bold retro-modern decor almost completely obliterates the...
Gracious English country house living as redefined at this Four Seasons has been achieved through the graceful expansion of an eighteenth-century...
With the latest branch of the Hotel du Vin chain, this genteel riverside town, famous for its regatta, can claim one of the most alluring long-weekend...
How do you respect the beloved Victorian backbone of this historic landmark while updating it for the twenty-first century? In short, spend $33...
When you arrive at the Riverbank Park Plaza, the engaged hum rising from the young business crowd in the foyer bar affirms that Vauxhall—with its...
This 16-room property, a reincarnation of the former Sloane Hotel on Draycott Place, is ideally situated for exploring Chelsea's history and...
Simultaneously cozy and edgy, this 30-room property is a clever conversion of an old redbrick schoolhouse. The Boy's Staircase and the...
The British boutique hotel chain has contrived the United Kingdom's first prison-into-hotel conversion as part of an urban renewal project taking...
At last, an English country house hotel for people who loathe traditional English country house hotels for their whispery dining rooms, dusty chintz,...
Once a drab business hotel, this reborn property near the Esplanade now has a snappy name, friendly staff, and a chic late-night bar. The 137 rooms...
Designer Christophe Pillet has taken a former Best Western in the sleepy sixteenth arrondissement and turned it into a style-monger's address....
At the 11-room Auberge de Chavannes, a welcome addition to eastern France's hilly Jura region, chef-owner Nicolas Pourcheresse has updated the...
Arnaud and Véronique Daguin, who previously ran Biarritz's one-Michelin-star Les Platanes restaurant, converted a 1746 stone farmhouse in...
As the name suggests, the 79-room Citadelle occupies a thick-walled former military arsenal and barracks in the heart of this charming eastern city....
Breaking away from the stone cottage idiom that has been the prevailing look of Perros-Guirec, L'Agapa, a winsome 1950s-style beach resort on...
The Riviera benefits from a charming hotel like Le Mas de Pierre, just outside terrifyingly popular St-Paul-de-Vence. Views of the distant countryside...
In the pretty port of St-Martin, on the French equivalent of Martha's Vineyard, the Hôtel de Toiras, a cluster of beautifully decorated...
Created from four former apartment buildings, this 72-room property is a cut above the city's other recent high-design openings in large part...
Fans of austere contemporary design will love this 50-room newcomer near Frankfurt's main train station. As at many design hotels, the place is...
Sometimes a hotel tells the story of a city's evolution better than any palace or public monument. This is surely the case with The G, a surprise...
This eighteenth-century residence in Florence's trendy Santa Croce neighborhood has been deftly converted into an upscale 24-room hotel with a...
Staying at this sixteenth-century palazzo, meticulously restored by modern-day art patrons Maria Rosa and Gilberto Sandretto, is like being a...
A thousand-year-old monastery on 2,000 acres of Tuscan countryside, La Badia di Coltibuono recently opened its eight guest rooms to the public...
This 25-acre resort smack-dab in Sicily's western countryside has grounds worthy of Las Vegas: three pools, gardens with gazebos and fountains, a...
Once a fisherman's home, Ca' P'a, the restored dream house of a family of architects, doubles as a six-room inn saturated with...
A five-year restoration by Orient-Express Hotels has transformed this eleventh-century Moorish-influenced palazzo into a property as dazzling as its...
Salina's first top-shelf accommodation is the creation of Sicilian wine producer Count Tasca D'Almerita, who built seven cottages while...
An offshoot of the venerable Bauer Hotel and Il Palazzo on the Grand Canal, Casa Nova, in a sixteenth-century building, offers a taste of living like...
Dino Facchini, owner of the Byblos fashion label and a passionate contemporary art collector, teamed up with Milan architect and designer Alessandro...
Everything at this 334-room hotel is larger than life, from the cybernetic lobby fountain to the huge interconnected indoor-outdoor pool (with...
The Kruisherenhotel, whose 60 rooms are in a former fifteenth-century church and cloister, caters to a highbrow crowd drawn to Maastricht for its...
The Hotel des Indes has undergone a shrewd and sexy makeover that doesn't compromise the old-world atmosphere which has long been the source of...
The walled city of Évora, a World Heritage Site in the Alentejo region, is a great destination for its whitewashed Baroque churches; gentle...
Hotelier Grace Leo-Andrieu has a talent for turning sows' ears into silk purses. The latest proof is this slick revamp of a formerly frumpy hotel...
The French hotel chain has redone its Lisbon property top to bottom, and the result is a hybrid of Gallic savoir faire and Portuguese flavor. The...
The 197-room Kempinski occupies the best spot on a picturesque canal, overlooking the Winter Palace and its sprawling Palace Square. The elegant 1853...
Taking inspiration from the Hotel du Vin and Malmaison hotel chains, West Country chef Michael Caines has launched a new hotel chain, and the former...
With a relaxed atmosphere, this 147-room hotel in the heart of Barcelona—everything seems a ten-minute walk from the front door—is hip...
Perched on the edge of rutilant cliffs and surrounded by 600 acres of farmland and pine forest, this small seaside hotel consists of Can Nofre, an old...
This winsome turn-of-the-century villa with a contemporary annex is for those seeking a departure from Alhambra aesthetics. The signature of the rooms...
Any hotel designed by a posse of world-famous architects and interior designers will be either brilliant or cringingly gimmicky. Happily, the 342-room...
Like San Sebastiàn itself, the 1898 Villa Soro is elegant yet relaxed. In contrast to the more formal lounge, winter garden, and bar, the 25...
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