Small and new. Two of your favorite things collide in this list with fourteen of the tiniest hotels added to our selection in 2024.

Small and new. Two of your favorite things collide in this list with fourteen of the tiniest hotels added to our selection in 2024.
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 were the loftiest of 2024.
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.
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.
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.