Gold List 2021 hotels

It may be a top-dollar booking, but the service alone is value enough at this hotel with stellar views.

A bigger, brighter, and bolder expansion of the famed Marrakech hotel.

One of the best places in Africa to see leopards in the wild.

An icon for all the right reasons, this Faubourg Saint-Honoré stalwart earns regulars who eventually feel like family.

Storied Caribbean resort back and better than ever (yet unchanged in all the right ways).

Champagne in bed? Breakfast aboard a luxury yacht? An impromptu swim with manta rays? It's all possible here.

Combining an old-school Hong Kong feel with contemporary comfort, The Peninsula specializes in world-class service—whether your mission is business or pleasure.

COMO's first Aussie outpost is our new base on the west coast.

A hushed private space that’s upped the city’s design game and champions the country’s contemporary art scene—the Shanghai debut from the group behind Hong Kong’s Upper House.

Hawaii’s first high-end destination wellness retreat set on 24 acres of pure pikake-scented paradise.

A romantic fantasy of a hotel—newly revamped but keeping the elements that draw loyalists back year after year—which creates its own narrative on the best beach in the Caribbean.

High up on an escarpment that overlooks the Mara Triangle, you'll have insane, 180-views of the savannah, whether you're lying in bed or taking a shower.

The iconic pink walls and lush gardens of Beverly Hills.

This five-star landmark hotel delivers old world elegance right in the historical heart of the city.

Luxury minimalism at its best. This is Hoshinoya's first property outside of Japan, and the rooms are larger while the room count is smaller (30 villas total) than most of their properties.

Safariing—and supporting a community—in classic Singita style.

While Siem Reap traditionally attracted tourists for short, intense tours of nearby Angkor Wat, Phum Baitang has helped to change it from mad-dash cultural destination into somewhere well worth lingering (its name translates to “green village”). An eight-acre sprawl of lush jungle, lemongrass, and paddy fields hidden in the sleepy Cambodian countryside, Phum Baitang is a mere 20 minutes from the 300-plus Buddhist and Hindu ruins of Angkor Archaeological Park. If you don’t feel like venturing outside of the resort, however, that wouldn’t be totally unforgivable: there’s a 100-year-old Khmer farmhouse turned cocktail lounge, a jaw-dropping 50-meter infinity pool, and 45 stilted villas inspired by traditional Cambodian rice farmer houses built of thatch, rattan, and clay tiles. Each has sizable deck, and twenty of them have private plunge pools for cooling off in the late afternoon heat.