King Street Townhouse

Manchester

The clock strikes five. The bell rings out over the rooftops of downtown Manchester from the Town Hall, audible in the attic room at King Street Townhouse, one of the city’s more upmarket boutique hotel offerings. For a bird’s-eye view of the bell tower itself, you can take a dip...read more

Sant Francesc

Mallorca

There are few better places to embrace summer on the Mediterranean than the balmy Balearics. And this converted 19th-century mansion in the beating heart of Palma is our top pick for a trip this month. You’ll find it in an atmospheric square in the old town, where apricot-hued houses come...read more

Nobu Hotel

Ibiza

In one of the most unlikely successful pairings since we were introduced to truffle custard, Robert De Niro and Nobu Matsuhisa have joined forces to bring the world a new breed of hotel. Nobu Hotel Ibiza Bay is one of nine Nobu outposts launched in the past 18 months, with...read more

17 Farrier Street

Deal

When the weather is fair, there’s no finer place to appreciate Britain’s bucolic beauty than on the south coast. Many of the old port towns here are in the grip of gentrification, and its subsequent influx of excellent restaurants and bars. Hotels, however, are slow to catch up, so we’re...read more

Castello di Casole

A short drive from Siena and the thundering hooves of the famous biannual Palio horse race is the pin-drop peace and quiet of this luxurious Tuscan retreat. Set within 40ha of vineyards and olive groves, it was home to a string of movie stars and Italian nobility in the Sixties...read more

Watergate Bay Hotel

Newquay

The surf's up. Sea birds swoop across the crests of waves tumbling onto a flat crescent of a beach. It could be Australia, yet this is England – a wild part of the South West where steep, craggy cliffs plunge into the sapphire seas of the Cornwall Coast. Guests of...read more

The Three Daggers

Wiltshire

Set on the northern escarpment of Salisbury Plain, the idyllic village of Edington was made famous in the Domesday Book as the place where Alfred the Great forced back a marauding Danish army. If that isn’t enough to get you feeling patriotic, The Three Daggers’ menu of modern British plates...read more

The Churchill Arms

Paxford

Charactersied by caramel-coloured villages nestling in the cleft of voluptuous hills and well-heeled residents, there’s no doubt that The Cotswolds is idyllic. This can have drawbacks. Pubs in the area often become interchangable in their adoration of Farrow and Ball paints and desire to serve food on slates. With its...read more

Amandari

Ubud, Bali

The 'Island of the Gods' is evocative at the best of times, but a visit to Ubud’s Amandari – one of the first luxury hotels to perch itself over the now-saturated stretch of Ayung River – is to journey to an atmospheric haven of Elysian proportions. It’s utterly tranquil, beautiful...read more