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Byblos

20 AVENUE PAUL SIGNAC SAINT-TROPEZ

Legends circle the Hotel Byblos like the superyachts laying siege to the town’s powder-soft beaches. Built in 1967 by a Lebanese billionaire to seduce Brigitte Bardot, it was where Mick and Bianca Jagger spent their honeymoon, and where scores of A-listers seek refuge from prying paparazzi in high summer. Sunloungers...read more

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Trujillo Villas

Trujillo, Spain

The shadow of the conquistadors looms large in Trujillo, despite its inland location in Extremadura. The mansions that they triumphantly built with South American gold flank the town square, though the curlicues on the facades are now blurred and storks nurse their chicks in the chimney pots. Villa Martires and...read more

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The Ram Inn

The Ram Inn, The Street, Firle, Nr. Lewes, East Sussex

This one-time coaching inn at Firle has long had a following in literary circles, once a regular haunt of Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Set. Stay in the namesake Bloomsbury Room, with oak panels and a roll-top bath in the window looking over the South Downs. An evening begins with...read more

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The Rookery

12 Peter’s Lane, Cowcross Street, London

To go from the cobbled Farringdon streets into this peaceful 18th-century, 33-room boutique hotel is to step back in time. Rich antique furnishings provide a decadent but homely feel: think heavy silk, deep red-hued Persian rugs, Georgian four-poster beds alongside roll-top baths, beautiful bathrooms with REN toiletries. All furniture is...read more

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Principal

Marqués de Valdeiglesias, 1 (corner of Gran Via 2), Madrid

Genuine style abounds in Madrid with Design Hotels’ latest addition. Just off the central Gran Via, the Principal is perfectly located for a city break to the Spanish capital. Head up to the sixth-floor reception (a nice individual touch), where the light-filled space extends through into the stylish breakfast room...read more

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Sunborn

Ocean Village, Gibraltar

This may look like a cruise ship. It may float like a cruise ship and have all the luxury amenities of a cruise ship, but it’s a fraud; it’s a permanently moored hotel and doesn’t even have an engine. Bespoke built and then shipped across from Malaysia to be docked...read more

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Romanos, Costa Navarino

Navarino Dunes, Costa Navarino, Messinia

The west coast of the Peloponnese is chokka neither with sunburned tourists or rip-off package resorts. Instead, Messinia seduces with its kalamata olive groves and swathes of beautiful emerald ruggedness. It has genuine history, too – the perfectly preserved stadiums and ruins of ancient Messene are here, as well as...read more

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No. 131

131 The Promenade, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

Steaks. Serious steaks. Steaks including a 36oz T-bone Ruby Red Devon (for sharing, unless you’re from America’s Midwest) are the heart of 131’s splendid menu. With chefs from Michelin-starred Chez Bruce and the Square, it delivers quality English seasonal produce in a coolly eclectic restaurant, blending chandeliers and huge Georgian...read more

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Becker’s

Olewiger Straße 206 D 54295 Trier, Germany

You will be in a state of constant confusion at Becker’s. One half – the Weinhaus – is a Hansel and Gretel gingerbread house, and the other is Trier’s answer to an austere Berlin art gallery. It works surprisingly well, and allows you to choose between minimal, monochrome rooms or...read more

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