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40 hotels
Vals · Alps
A five-star-superior retreat beside Peter Zumthor's quartzite Therme, with Kengo Kuma penthouses and every room facing the mountains.
Swedish Lapland · Scandinavia
A floating spa hotel on the Lule River, built for the Northern Lights and the midnight sun.
Sacred Valley · South America
A riverside garden hideaway on the Urubamba, with 21 rooms, two villas, a riverfront spa and its own station for the train to Machu Picchu.
Walland, Tennessee · Appalachians
A 5,200-acre Smoky Mountains retreat of stone cottages and treehouses, built around trails, recovery and a summit restaurant in a restored fire tower.
Queenstown · New Zealand
Browns Boutique Hotel is a small, stylish bed and breakfast in the centre of Queenstown, on a quiet street just two minutes' walk from the town's shops, restaurants and nightlife. With just 10 rooms, each opening onto a Juliet balcony with views across Lake Wakatipu to the Remarkables, it offers a warm, personal and affordable base in New Zealand's adventure capital.
Gatlinburg · Appalachians
Buckhorn Inn is East Tennessee's oldest inn, a peaceful country retreat on 25 acres of woodland and meadow on the edge of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the most visited national park in the United States. Founded in 1938, it offers a quiet, gracious alternative to the bustle of nearby Gatlinburg, with cottages and guest houses among the trees, sweeping mountain views and dinners that draw guests back year after year.
near Telluride · Colorado
A restored 19th-century ghost town with natural hot springs and timber cabins.
Yoho National Park · Canadian Rockies
Emerald Lake Lodge sits on a peninsula in the most aptly named lake in the Canadian Rockies, its waters a startling jade green beneath the peaks of the President Range. Hidden in Yoho National Park, just over the Continental Divide from Banff, it offers a quieter, more intimate alternative to the grand railway hotels of Lake Louise, with fireplaces in every room, canoes at the shore and trails leading straight from the door.
Lake Louise · Canadian Rockies
Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise stands on the shore of the most photographed lake in the Canadian Rockies, and few hotel views anywhere are as instantly recognisable. In front of it, the water glows an impossible turquoise; at the far end, the Victoria Glacier hangs between the peaks like a frozen waterfall. The Canadian Pacific Railway built a simple log chalet here in 1890, and over the following decades it grew into the grand, château-style hotel that now anchors one of North America's great mountain landscapes.
Hakone · Japan
Gora Kadan is one of Japan's most celebrated luxury ryokan, set on the wooded slopes of Hakone, the hot-spring mountain resort south-west of Tokyo. It occupies the grounds of a former summer villa of the Kan'in-no-miya, a branch of the Imperial family, and it blends the serenity of a traditional Japanese inn with contemporary elegance, natural hot-spring baths and some of the finest kaiseki cuisine in the country.
Hallstatt · Alps
Heritage Hotel Hallstatt puts you in the heart of one of the most photographed villages on Earth. Hallstatt clings to a narrow ledge between a steep mountainside and a deep, dark lake in Austria's Salzkammergut, its pastel houses and slender church spire reflected in the water. By day it is crowded with visitors; at dusk, when the coaches leave, it becomes the quiet, magical place that made it famous, and staying overnight is the only way to experience that.
Lake Kawaguchi · Japan
Hoshinoya Fuji is Japan's first luxury glamping resort, a cluster of minimalist cabins on a forested hillside above Lake Kawaguchi, each with a huge picture window framing Mount Fuji. Created by Hoshino Resorts, it reimagines camping as something calm, stylish and deeply connected to nature, with a terrace among the trees, crackling campfires and a sense of adventure, all within easy reach of Tokyo.
Torres del Paine · South America
A simple hotel on its own little island, reached by footbridge, with one of the most famous views in Patagonia. The rooms are basic; the setting is unforgettable.
Jaca · Pyrenees
Hotel Barosse is a small, adults-only boutique hotel in a quiet village just outside Jaca, the historic gateway to the Aragonese Pyrenees. With tasteful, cosy interiors, a library lounge with an honesty bar, a sauna and highly praised breakfasts and dinners, it offers a peaceful, romantic base for exploring the mountains, monasteries and valleys of one of Spain's least-known mountain regions.
Lago di Braies (Pragser Wildsee) · Dolomites
Hotel Lago di Braies is the only hotel on the shore of Lago di Braies, the emerald lake that has become one of the most photographed places in the Dolomites and one of the most Instagrammed lakes in the world. Its wooden rowing boats, its glassy green water and the sheer wall of the Seekofel rising behind it have made the lake an icon. The hotel, owned by the same family since 1899, lets you experience it at dawn and dusk, when the crowds have gone.
Lake Bled · Alps
Hotel Triglav Bled is a charming boutique hotel on the hillside above Lake Bled, one of the most photographed lakes in Europe. From its terraces, the view takes in the lake's tiny island with its church spire, the medieval castle on its cliff and the peaks of the Julian Alps beyond. Built in 1906 and lovingly restored, the hotel offers a personal, characterful base in Slovenia's mountain playground at a price far below that of the big lakeside hotels.
Jukkasjärvi · Scandinavia
Icehotel in Jukkasjärvi is the original ice hotel, and one of the most extraordinary places to sleep anywhere. Every winter since 1989, artists from around the world have carved a new hotel from blocks of ice harvested from the frozen Torne River, creating suites that are part bedroom, part sculpture. In spring the building melts back into the river, and the cycle begins again. Alongside it, Icehotel 365 keeps a collection of ice art suites frozen all year round.
near Geiranger · Scandinavia
Minimalist glass-walled rooms set in a gorge near Geiranger.
Saariselkä · Scandinavia
Kakslauttanen Arctic Resort is the hotel that made the glass igloo famous. Deep in the snowy forests of Finnish Lapland, well north of the Arctic Circle, its domed glass rooms let you lie in a warm bed and watch the Northern Lights dance across the sky overhead. It has become one of the most searched-for winter stays in the world, and it remains one of the most magical ways to experience the Arctic.
Ourika Valley · Atlas Mountains
Kasbah Bab Ourika stands alone on its own hilltop at the entrance to the Ourika Valley, with a 360-degree panorama of the snow-capped High Atlas, the valley's red-earth villages and the river winding below. Built in the traditional Berber style, with gardens, a large pool and a restaurant fed by its own kitchen gardens, it offers a peaceful, beautiful retreat just 45 minutes from the souks of Marrakech.
Asni · Atlas Mountains
A Moroccan retreat above a High Atlas valley, where antique-filled rooms, Berber Tents and private Riads meet mountain views, an infinity pool and warm local hospitality.
Shirakawa-go · Japan
Koemon is a family-run minshuku, or guesthouse, in a centuries-old thatched farmhouse in Shirakawa-go, the fairytale village in the mountains of central Japan. Its steep straw roof, built in the gassho-zukuri style, said to resemble hands joined in prayer, is designed to shed the region's heavy winter snow. Staying overnight in one of these houses, eating dinner around a sunken hearth, is one of the most memorable experiences in rural Japan.
Monachil · Sierra Nevada
La Almunia del Valle is a charming, owner-run boutique hotel on a historic country estate in the hills above Granada, on the road to the Sierra Nevada, the highest mountains in mainland Spain. With just 15 rooms, a garden and pool, a fireside library and a daily set dinner, it offers the rare chance to ski in the morning, wander the Alhambra in the afternoon and return to a peaceful rural retreat in the evening.
Olot, Garrotxa · Pyrenees
Glass pavilions by Pritzker Prize-winning RCR Arquitectes, set in the secluded grounds of a Garrotxa farmhouse — an adults-only stay where architecture is the experience.
Megève · Alps
A hamlet of old Savoyard farmhouses gathered into a cosy chalet hotel.
Matakauri Lodge is one of New Zealand's finest luxury lodges, set on the shore of Lake Wakatipu just outside Queenstown, with postcard views across the water to the jagged Remarkables range. Sister to the celebrated Kauri Cliffs and Cape Kidnappers lodges, it combines intimate, beautifully designed suites, an infinity pool, a spa and outstanding food in a peaceful setting, minutes from New Zealand's adventure capital.
Moraine Lake · Canadian Rockies
Moraine Lake Lodge is the only hotel on the shore of Moraine Lake, the glacier-fed jewel of Banff National Park and one of the most famous views in North America. Its brilliant blue water, set beneath the jagged wall of the Valley of the Ten Peaks, once appeared on the back of the Canadian twenty-dollar bill. Every summer day, thousands of visitors arrive by shuttle; but when the last bus leaves, the lake belongs to a few dozen lodge guests, and that is the whole point of staying here.
Meadows of Dan, Virginia · Appalachians
A 12,000-acre Blue Ridge estate with a domed observatory, cedar tree houses above the Dan River Gorge and a Donald Steel golf course.
Zermatt · Alps
High above Zermatt with views of the Matterhorn, reached by its own mountain tram.
Stepantsminda (Kazbegi) · Caucasus
A stylish, design-led hotel in the Caucasus with floor-to-ceiling views of Mount Kazbek and the hilltop Gergeti church. One of the best-value design hotels anywhere.
Bolvir, La Cerdanya · Pyrenees
A restored 1910 modernist mansion in La Cerdanya, pairing contemporary interiors with Catalan gastronomy and gardens of century-old sequoias.
Sundance · Utah
Sundance Mountain Resort is a small, soulful mountain retreat beneath the towering summit of Mount Timpanogos, in Utah's Wasatch Mountains. Created by Robert Redford, who bought the land in the late 1960s and named it after his role in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, it has long been dedicated to the arts, nature and conservation, and it gave its name to the famous Sundance Film Festival.
Svolvær, Lofoten · Scandinavia
Restored fishermen's cabins on the water, with dramatic peaks rising behind. Good for the Northern Lights and the midnight sun.
Minakami, Gunma · Japan
A traditional ryokan known for its huge outdoor hot-spring baths along a mountain river, beautiful in autumn colour or under snow.
Mammoth Lakes · California
Tamarack Lodge & Resort is a historic mountain lodge on the shore of Twin Lakes, in the beautiful Mammoth Lakes Basin of California's Eastern Sierra. Built in 1924, it has the cosy, timeless charm of an old-fashioned mountain retreat, with rustic cabins among the pines, a lakefront restaurant and trails leading straight into the high country, at prices well below most mountain resorts in California.
The Omnia is Zermatt's most striking design hotel, perched on a rocky outcrop high above the car-free village, with views across the rooftops to the Matterhorn. Guests enter through a tunnel at street level and ride a lift up through the rock to the lobby, an arrival that sets the tone for a hotel that feels both hidden and spectacular. Inside, the style is calm, modern and warm, inspired by European and American mountain lodges.
Pokhara · Himalayas
Stone cottages on a ridge facing the Annapurna range, with a pool and a strong sustainability focus.
Harads · Scandinavia
Treehotel in Harads, Swedish Lapland, is one of the most famous design hotels in the world: eight extraordinary rooms suspended high in a pine forest, each created by a different leading Scandinavian architect. A mirrored cube that reflects the trees around it, a giant bird's nest, a UFO and a cluster of bird boxes are just some of the rooms that have made this small village near the Arctic Circle a place of pilgrimage for design lovers.
Millahue Valley · South America
A hilltop hotel beneath a titanium-and-bronze roof, set in a 4,400-hectare vineyard reserve facing the Andes, with art, a Wine Spa and an infinity pool.
Niseko, Hokkaido · Japan
An intimate ryokan where every villa has its own indoor and outdoor onsen.
