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Residenza Del Moro

Nowhere else but Florence could you hope to find a meticulously restored Renaissance-era villa turned, with a minimum of modern interference, into a small and swanky boutique hotel. The Residenza del Moro is central, on the west side of the city center, minutes from the Ponte Vecchio and everythi...

Riva Hotel

Riva Hotel, on the Croatian island of Hvar, is something of a time capsule — the sort of place that just might take you back to the days when this whole design boutique thing started. For any number of world-historical reasons that don’t really bear examination here, Croatia is, as a tourist dest...

Room Mate Alicia

At last count, the Room Mate chain of budget boutique hotels comprises some ten hotels all across Spain, four in Madrid alone. All have their own personalities, but show a certain family resemblance, a certain breezy lightness in design, a whimsical and unpretentious approach. This one, Room Mate...

Room Mate Laura

As a sequel, or sister, or something, to the original Mario, Room Mate Laura has some big shoes to fill. The idea is that each Room Mate hotel will have a distinct personality, as well as a certain family resemblance. This one, like its brother, is stylish, minimalist, somewhat whimsical — we&#82...

Room Mate Marina

This member of the Room Mate family is named not just for a fictional character (Marina, loves sailing, her dog Gretel, and the music of Kruder and Dorfmeister) but for a literal marina as well. It’s located by the port of Valencia, near the old shipyards, and not far from the beach at Malv...

Room Mate Mario Hotel

Any hotel worth staying at has a personality of its own, almost by definition — avoiding the bland and the soulless is, after all, the reason you’re here in the first place. Some one-off hotels, literally unique, can’t help but have a personality; meanwhile some chains develop somethi...

Room Mate Migueletes

There’s not much more to say that we haven’t already said about Spain’s Room Mate hotels. It’s hard to go wrong with a low-cost, high-design concept, and the central conceit of inventing a character and personality for each hotel — well, either you love it, or you ignore i...

Royal Windsor Hotel Grand Place

If the thought of an old-world grand hotel in Brussels doesn’t exactly get your heart racing, you’re not alone. This town’s hotels, even the best ones, are a notoriously sober lot, especially at the high end. But overlook the Royal Windsor Hotel Grand Place and you’ll miss out on a hidden cache o...

Sanderson

Though a rated historical building, the sixties office block that housed the Sanderson fabrics company is not the most elegant facade for a stylish boutique hotel. Fortunately the interiors find Starck and Schrager in rare form, raising their game a bit to stand out in this most competitive of ho...

Sant Cugat H&R

Sant Cugat, the town, is an upscale suburb a few miles north and west of Barcelona proper; here, in a curvaceous modern building, is where you’ll find the Sant Cugat Hotel & Restaurant. Located adjacent to the cathedral, overlooking a park in the heart of the town, it’s in truth m...

Santa Teresa Resort

Located on Pantelleria, a tiny Mediterranean island closer to Tunisia than it is to Sicily, the Santa Teresa Resort blends Italian and African styles. Sprawled out over a hundred-acre farm and vineyard, the Santa Teresa encompasses 18 bungalows, grouped in four small “villages,” each with its own...

Scandic Front Hotel

This newly renovated boutique hotel on the Copenhagen waterfront promenade is modern and classic at the same time; with a view of the Amalienborg Castle and a location close to the picturesque Nyhavn Canal, it’s a part of the old Copenhagen — inside, though, it looks like today, a mix of modernis...

Schloss Velden, A Capella Hotel

It sounds hopelessly old-fashioned, the idea of a 17th-century castle turned luxury hotel, alongside a placid Alpine lake in southern Austria. Indeed Velden am Wörthersee has centuries of resort-town history behind it, and the distinctive goldenrod-hued castle, Schloss Velden, has stood here on t...

Schlosshotel Buhlerhohe

Does anybody really go to Baden-Baden anymore? The answer is a resounding yes — it’s not just for heads of state or 19th-century literary figures anymore. While the rest of the travel world was scurrying about trying to find the next big European resort destination, the town has been sprucing its...

Schlosshotel Im Grunewald

Located on a verdant, tree-lined suburban street, the only thing that distinguishes the Schlosshotel from the other mansions in the neighborhood is a small sign lit subtly in white lights. Not surprisingly, it started out as a private residence. Walther von Pannwitz, the original owner, was a per...

Selenza Madrid

By now the idea that Barcelona is the fun one and Madrid is the serious one is simply a long-dead stereotype. But there is something to be said for the way that Madrid’s gems often lie hidden beneath a stately and sober exterior. The Selenza Hotel is a case in point: behind an elegant 19th-centur...