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The Grand Hotels
Where the world's most discerning travellers stay: this year's most celebrated addresses, mapped, and the grand dames that invented the art of the hotel.
Ranking: The World's 50 Best Hotels 2025
Select a pin or a name to see the hotel.
The top twenty
The World's 50 Best Hotels 2025, voted by an academy of hoteliers, writers and travellers. Six of the top ten are in East and South-East Asia.
Source: The World's 50 Best Hotels 2025
The grand dames
The hotels that wrote the rules. Turn a label over to read its story.
In pictures
Four of the grand dames as they stand today.
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