Hot List Hotels 2009
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From the waterways that flow throughout the grounds (representations of water are the Khmer symbol for woman) to the white sandstone sculpture of a...
Amanresorts has converted a collection of dwellings adjacent to the UNESCO World Heritage Summer Palace into 51 dramatic guest rooms spread across...
The 110-room Hotel G, with its beaconlike, multi-hued windows, makes no bones about its flashy nature: The bordello meets boardroom interiors feature...
Upon entering the high-ceilinged lobby, you are greeted by an eager polyglot staff and ushered onto an ottoman for check-in by tablet computer....
Its Shanghai sibling may be higher and flashier, but this hotel soars to notable heights of its own, quite literally, with a lobby on the sixty-third...
If there was any doubt that Hainan has shed its unsavory reputation—originally as a place of exile and more recently as a magnet for Chinese mass...
At this 30-acre resort, the beautifully landscaped grounds with whimsical stone statues and the range of on-site activities (including a rock-climbing...
This Ritz-Carlton makes the most of its greatest asset: its setting along a stretch of white-sand Yalong Bay, backed by green mountains. A vast...
This 393-room high-rise is like a fun-loving younger sister to Kowloon grandes dames the InterContinental and The Peninsula. It's home to the city's...
This refined sanctuary trumps the city's gilded competition: Indo-Portuguese furniture and original Chinese paintings plus two grand staircases in the...
Years in the making and set amid the tropical forests and bamboo groves of the Nankun Nature Reserve in Guangdong Province, Crosswaters Ecolodge is a...
Asia's most vertiginous hotel is on floors 79 through 93 of the Shanghai World Financial Center, in the Pudong district. All 174 generous-sized rooms...
Complementing the unspoiled beauty of Kerala, these 16 traditional thatched-roof cottages with verandas are dispersed like a fishing village along a...
The first Four Seasons in India is also, at 33 stories, the tallest hotel in the country. Its location in the up-and-coming Worli section, halfway...
Pashan Garh extends the tiger reserve circuit created by &Beyond (formerly CC Africa) and Taj Safaris, joining the two supremely comfortable lodges in...
Until now the best places to stay in Udaipur have been the princely piles on Lake Pichola's shores or its fairy-tale island palace. Fateh Garh offers...
You're given a royal welcome at the Nadesar Palace with garlands and a delicious thandai drink. It's a greeting befitting the magnificently porticoed,...
Occupying a prime tranche of sea coast in the resort enclave of Nusa Dua, the 120-room St. Regis brings Fifth Avenue smarts to the tropics without...
The lobby of this intimate resort is a 100-year-old carved wooden house incorporating Malay, Chinese, and colonial influences and stocked with funky...
The sweet-natured staff seem accustomed to seeing guests' jaws drop upon arrival at this contemporary resort a five-minute drive from central Ubud....
"Summer camp for everyone" best describes this island retreat inside the Tunku Abdul Rahman Marine Park. Enthusiastic staff lead guests on kayak tours...
Langkawi's popular Bon Ton resort has added a magical collection of nine antique houses from Malaysia's ethnically diverse regions, arranging them in...
Watch for dolphins and flying fish in the lavender waters of South Malé Atoll as you arrive at this festive 160-villa island resort that offers...
Set along the Terelj River, a 90-minute drive from Ulaanbaatar, this 52-room property was built in the nineteenth century for Russian vacationers and...
This nine-room hideaway feels like a chic beach house, thanks to its intimate scale and stylish decor. All six standard suites, housed in the main...
This striking 320-room eco-chic airport hotel provides stylish shelter around Singapore's busy airport. The carbon-fiber-mesh exterior, which...
Colombo trendsetter Shanth Fernando brings the same masculine yet playful aesthetic that defines his nearby Paradise Road lifestyle emporium to this...
Le Méridien's recent efforts to integrate culture into its urban hotels proved worthwhile at this tower in Bangkok's Silom neighborhood. One...
This breathtaking compound of timber and concrete structures scattered across a valley dense with rice paddies, wildflowers, and tropical greenery is...
The staff at Chiang Rai's spiffiest new accommodations are eager to make visitors feel at home. Greenery permeates this 159-room resort along North...
This beautifully renovated Ottoman palace—sister property to the Four Seasons in historic Sultanahmet—is on the teeming-with-life Bosphorus,...
An advantage of staying at the Witt Istanbul Suites, besides its location in the literati-filled neighborhood of Cihangir, is that everything in it is...
Istanbul's Old City certainly has its charms, but you'll find no more glamorous neighborhood than Nisantasi, with its Parisian-style cafés,...
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