True Love Ways

The Highest-Rated Hotels in Italy

If we’ve learned anything after 25 years in the biz, it’s that you really love Italy; no country’s hotels receive loftier praise from Tablet guests. These are the hotels with the highest guest ratings in 2024.

Immaculate Collection 2024

Hotels With the Most Flawless Guest Feedback

The hardest thing for any hotel to achieve is consistently perfect post-stay ratings from our guests. At the end of each year, we assemble the fourteen hotels that have done it the most. These are those.

Great Escape

The Wilmina Breaks Out of a Prison in Berlin

Political prisoners, mostly women, were housed in what would become the Wilmina, a new hotel that’s traded internment for tranquility in a surprising section of Berlin.

The Rock

Cashel Palace Is a Reliable Repose in Tipperary

“It’s a long way to Tipperary”, the old song goes, but travelers have always made the journey to this delightful county in Ireland, mostly to see the historic Rock of Cashel. These days, they’re also coming for the new Palace of Cashel.

End of the Line

The Romance of Rail Travel at Khao Yai Resort

InterContinental Khao Yai Resort is the likely last stop for 19 heritage rail cars that were saved from scrap heaps around Thailand and turned into truly first-class accommodations.

Local Knowledge

Hotel Palafitte’s Prehistoric Overwater Pavilions

Five thousand years ago farmers built stilted houses above the waters of — not a Maldivian atoll — but Switzerland’s Lake Neuchâtel. Far more recently, under the eye of the Alps, Hotel Palafitte has done the same.

Big Chill

The Coolest Hotels With Two MICHELIN Keys (U.S.A.)

It’s been said that restaurants with two Michelin Stars are the ones most worth looking out for. What about hotels with two Michelin Keys? We pay tribute to our parent company by picking the coolest Two Key hotels in the USA.

Ice Picks

The Coolest Hotels With Two MICHELIN Keys (Europe)

It’s been said that restaurants with two MICHELIN Stars are the ones most worth looking out for. What about hotels with two MICHELIN Keys? We pay tribute to our parent company by picking the coolest Two Key hotels in Europe.

Zero Tolerance

Solo Palacio Has No Patience for Perfect

In the mountains of northern Spain, Solo Palacio is a celebration of wabi-sabi, a condemnation of the pursuit of perfection, a steward of its surroundings, and a thoroughly singular hotel.

Unholy Obsession

Hotels and Horror in Old Religious Buildings

Hoteliers are almost as obsessed with putting hotels into religious structures as Hollywood is with setting its horror films in them. For your Halloween enjoyment, here are thirteen examples of the former, and absolutely no opinion on the latter.

Fireworks Night

13 of the Least Traditional Hotels in London

London is no stranger to tradition, from afternoon tea to the monarchy. But rebellion, from Guy Fawkes to the Sex Pistols to these nonconformist hotels, is never far behind.

Dreams Deferred

Sea Ranch, the Sixties, and Hunter S. Thompson

Before the dream of the ’60s died, it produced The Sea Ranch, an attempt at utopia on California’s northern coast. It also produced the newly renovated Sea Ranch Lodge, which now once again reflects the idealism and design this community is famous for.

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