Perchance to dream
"What are we buying – fame? Art? Junk? I looked up. On the walls in front of me hung eight Warhols"
Ridiculously heavy doors and a fabulously heavyweight restaurant anchor the most lavish and visually pleasing new hotel to open in Amsterdam in living memory - right opposite the revamped Stedelijk Museum
“In my country, if I saw a camel I would run away,” laughs Shahzab. Tahir looks like he still might
"I was genuinely shocked to learn that it only came into existence in the late 1920s, and is in fact a totally (albeit lovingly and meticulously) reconstructed medieval-style homestead with about as much history as your local boozer"
This high-gloss new hotel in Westminster, converted by Dexter Moren Associates from a former government building, houses a confident, handsome grill room and some surprisingly subversive contemporary art
There are countless new ways to get there, and – 25 years after the opening of the first Aman – the levels of luxury are rising faster than ever before. Kate Deerfield reports on the best luxury hotels in Phuket
"Skip the hot food, which is not what Italy does in the morning, and instead slice yourself some prosciutto off the bone, grab some of the excellent bread and order a thick, black espresso"
Towers and turrets, ramparts and romance at this historic castle property in Powys
"Stylish, swanky, sybaritic, with a sharp edge and a slightly naughty side" – Tatty Good on a distinctly Stockholm high style hotel, created by photographer Pelle Lydmar
Private pools, Carita spa treatments and Masai warriors are all part of the First World luxury at a picture perfect resort in an otherwise troubled, developing country
