A curated register of extraordinary stays
The World's Coolest Hotels
Ice suites that melt every spring. A bedroom beneath the Indian Ocean. Giraffes at the breakfast table. Hotels where the stay is the destination.
The Shortlist
The Icons
Seven stays that define what a hotel can be.
Jukkasjärvi, Sweden
Icehotel
The original hotel built from ice — rebuilt from the Torne River every winter.
Tetiaroa, French Polynesia
The Brando
Marlon Brando's private atoll, reborn as a carbon-neutral hideaway.
Rangali Island, Maldives
The Muraka, Conrad Maldives
The world's first underwater hotel villa, five meters below the surface.
Harads, Sweden
Treehotel
Mirrored cubes and UFOs suspended in a Lapland pine forest.
Fogo Island, Newfoundland, Canada
Fogo Island Inn
A world-class inn on stilts at the edge of the North Atlantic.
Canyon Point, Utah, United States
Amangiri
Concrete minimalism dissolved into 600 acres of Utah desert.
The Register
Keep Exploring
Saariselkä, Finland
Kakslauttanen Arctic Resort
Glass igloos built for watching the aurora from bed.
Qualicum Beach, Vancouver Island, Canada
Free Spirit Spheres
Handcrafted wooden spheres hanging in a British Columbia rainforest.
Sacred Valley, Peru
Skylodge Adventure Suites
Transparent capsules bolted to a cliff face 400 meters above the valley.
Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica
Hotel Costa Verde 727 Fuselage Suite
A refitted Boeing 727 perched in the Costa Rican jungle canopy.
Matera, Italy
Sextantio Le Grotte della Civita
Candlelit cave rooms in 9,000-year-old Matera.
Uluru-Kata Tjuta, Australia
Longitude 131°
Luxury tented pavilions facing Uluru across the red desert.
Valldal, Norway
Juvet Landscape Hotel
The glass cabins from Ex Machina, dissolved into a Norwegian river valley.
Soufrière, St. Lucia
Ladera Resort
Open-wall suites staring straight at the Pitons.
Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia
Palacio de Sal
A hotel built entirely of salt on the world's largest salt flat.
Huilo-Huilo Reserve, Chile
Montaña Mágica Lodge
A moss-covered volcano-shaped lodge that spouts water from its peak.
Allauch, Provence, France
Attrap'Rêves Bubble Hotel
Transparent bubble suites for stargazing in the Provençal forest.