HOTELS

Perchance to dream

Surface tension | Suzanne Moore feels the fear and does it anyway, at the Gainsborough Bath spa

Surface tension | Suzanne Moore feels the fear and does it anyway, at the Gainsborough Bath spa

by Suzanne Moore

"A tiny lady dislocated my toe in Kerala, a big woman triggered my sciatic nerve in the Gambia, a harpy in Greece told me to get to a doctor immediately as I probably did not have long left"

The rooms with all the views | The Oberoi Amarvilas, Agra

The rooms with all the views | The Oberoi Amarvilas, Agra

by Mark C. O'Flaherty

"I don’t think the Taj Mahal is all that. I don’t know how else to put it …"

Across the water and into the future, in the Maldives

Across the water and into the future, in the Maldives

by Neil D.A. Stewart

"As a design destination, it’s already moving at warp speed"

Can you say … Ynyshir?

Can you say … Ynyshir?

by Karen Krizanovich

"Unrivalled as a host, her death a week afterwards was unreasonably and irrationally upsetting to me: I’d only known her for a few hours"

The unbearable upgrade of being | Palácio Tangará, São Paulo

The unbearable upgrade of being | Palácio Tangará, São Paulo

by Victoria Gill

"No nation makes decadence so de rigueur as the Brazilians, and no one aces resigned hauteur quite like a Paulista"

Santiago gets an upgrade | The Mandarin Oriental comes to town

Santiago gets an upgrade | The Mandarin Oriental comes to town

by Kate Deerfield

"It’s quite subtle, but the effect reminded us of a Carsten Höller installation"

Living for Le Collectionneur

Living for Le Collectionneur

by Civilian Paris

"Le Collectionneur takes the art deco tropes of swooping curves and elegant machine-age lines and does something bright and modern with them"

Yabu Pushelberg’s Bangkok masterpiece | Park Hyatt Bangkok

Yabu Pushelberg’s Bangkok masterpiece | Park Hyatt Bangkok

by Kate Deerfield

New York's most dynamic design duo have created one of the best hotels in Asia

A weekend away in Copenhagen’s coolest neighbourhood

A weekend away in Copenhagen’s coolest neighbourhood

by Karen Krizanovich

Karen Krizanovich heads to Copenhagen to reaffirm – for 48 hours at least – that being a grown up can be fun

In the eye of the super typhoon | The Murray, Hong Kong

In the eye of the super typhoon | The Murray, Hong Kong

by Mia Pollak

"The excitement of a super typhoon and the 2% of you that fears the windows might get blown-in doesn’t make for a sound night’s sleep"