The 114-room Kempinski Hotel Ishtar sits more than 1,400 feet below sea level on the otherwordly shores of the Dead Sea. Built with the pale stone...

The award-winning Ananda in the Himalayas spa resort ("Hot List," May 2001) has opened a new outpost, Shanti Ananda Maurice, on 35 tropical-garden...

After weaving down a narrow alley in the medina, guests enter Riad Privilege through an unmarked doorway and encounter a sun-filled courtyard worthy...

The latest luxe resort off Mozambique's northern coast, Vamizi is arguably the most stunning in the Quirimbas, and the only occupant (apart from...

Reached via a 2.5-mile access road so far off the beaten path that it was literally blasted into the hillside, the 124-acre Barr Al Jissah resort...

Designed by the firm behind Dubai's Burj Al Arab and managed by the new Waldorf-Astoria Collection hotel chain, the all-suite Qasr Al Sharq...

At this 112-room property on Silhouette Island, a 15-minute helicopter ride from Mahé, the focus is less on interior design than on ecology,...

Located in the remote Great Karoo, Samara Private Game Reserve comprises 69,000 dramatic acres, much of it reclaimed farmland that's been...

American billionaire Paul Tudor Jones II has established three splendid lodgings—Sasakwa, Sabora, and Faru Faru—within his 340,000-acre...

The first privately owned lodge in this 556-square-mile park in Uganda's dry northeastern corner, Apoka Safari Lodge overlooks the Narus River...