Aerial view of a whitewashed clifftop hotel above a curving sandy beach in Hermanus, South Africa, at golden hour

Stays we'd actually book.

Short lists of stays we would book ourselves, not every hotel in town.

773 stays

Santorini · Amalfi Coast · Tulum · Bali

Beach and coastal hotels

Hotels where you wake up to the sea, from Santorini and the Amalfi Coast to Tulum and Bali. Most open onto a beach. The rest trade it for a cliff or a harbour.

Ornate green cast-iron veranda on the yellow facade of a palace hotel in Granada, Spain, with palms and a fountain in the garden below

242 stays

Paris · Barcelona · Marrakech · Porto

Boutique hotels

Hotels picked for character rather than size, from Paris and Barcelona to Marrakech and Porto. Riads and old châteaux, farmhouses, and townhouses on quiet streets.

Aerial view of a medieval Spanish castle on a rocky spur above a river gorge, with a white village beside it in low golden light

96 stays

Scotland · Salzburg · Tuscany · Andalusia

Castle and manor hotels

Castle hotels, manor houses and old monasteries, from Scotland to Tuscany and Andalusia.

Cinderella Castle at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom, its blue turrets against a clear sky, seen head-on from Main Street

60 stays

Orlando · Paris · Anaheim · Tokyo

Disney hotels

Disney-owned hotels, official park hotels and a few nearby family resorts at all six Disney resorts, from Walt Disney World to Hong Kong Disneyland.

The white wooden Stanley Hotel in Colorado at night under heavy storm clouds, with flags along its long porch and dark bushes in front

43 stays

California · New Orleans · Boston · Scotland

Haunted hotels

Hotels with a ghost story or a dark past, from Victorian resorts and castles to former jails.

Aerial view over golden tussock hills and the turquoise water of Lake Pukaki, with the Southern Alps beyond, New Zealand

181 stays

The Alps · UK national parks · Amalfi Coast · Japan

Hiking hotels

Hiking, year round. The Alps and the Norwegian fjords in summer, Japan in autumn, the Amalfi Coast and the Atlantic islands in spring, and Patagonia when Europe is under snow.

Alpenglow on a snow-covered Alpine ridge at first light, with an empty chairlift crossing the dark conifers below

170 stays

Courchevel · Zermatt · Cortina d'Ampezzo · Vail

Ski hotels

Ski hotels from Megève and Courchevel to Cortina d'Ampezzo, Vail and Niseko. Grand resort hotels, small valley houses, and lodges you can ski back to.

Fairmont Le Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City lit at dusk, its green copper roofs and turrets rising above the trees on the cliff

294 stays

Lyon · Singapore · Istanbul · Quebec

Accor hotels

Raffles, Fairmont and Sofitel Legend, then MGallery, Emblems and Handwritten, across more than sixty countries. Accor's one-offs, where no two hotels are alike.

Lit stone and timber porte-cochere entrance of a lodge hotel near Mount Hood, Oregon, framed by conifers under a pink sunset sky

246 stays

Milan · Stockholm · the Riviera · Seoul

Best Western hotels

Best Western Premier, the BW Premier and Signature Collections, and WorldHotels. Best Western's four and five star hotels, not the roadside ones.

The white timber facade and red conical turrets of Hotel del Coronado in San Diego, with palms around a fountain in the circular driveway

526 stays

New York · Doha · Bangkok · Amsterdam

Hilton hotels

Waldorf Astoria, Conrad and LXR, then Curio Collection and Tapestry Collection, across more than sixty countries. Hilton's luxury and lifestyle brands, not the standard ones.

Boardwalk beside the Park Hyatt Sydney at sunrise, with the Sydney Opera House and a harbour ferry across the water

273 stays

Austin · Shanghai · Chicago · Sydney

Hyatt hotels

Park Hyatt, Alila and Miraval, then Andaz, Thompson and The Standard, across nearly fifty countries. Hyatt's top end, where half the hotels keep their own name.

The illuminated courtyard of Regent Porto Montenegro at night, a long reflecting pool flanked by clipped topiary below a yellow palazzo facade

411 stays

Miami · Rome · Hong Kong · the Maldives

IHG hotels

Six Senses, Regent and InterContinental, then Vignette Collection, Kimpton and Hotel Indigo, across almost eighty countries. IHG's luxury and lifestyle hotels, not the Holiday Inns.

The grand tiled staircase of Hotel Alfonso XIII in Seville, with painted azulejo panels, marble columns and a carved coffered wooden ceiling

560 stays

London · Dubai · Athens · Venice

Marriott hotels

The Luxury Collection, Autograph Collection, Tribute Portfolio and Design Hotels, across more than seventy countries. The Marriott brands where the hotel stays itself.

The pink facade and red tile roofs of Hotel Galvez in Galveston, Texas, with palm-lined lawns leading to the entrance

240 stays

Buenos Aires · Prague · Phuket · Tbilisi

Wyndham hotels

Wyndham Grand, Trademark Collection and Vienna House, across more than fifty countries. Wyndham's four and five star hotels, not the roadside brands.

Good to know

Quick answers about hotel collections on trip1.

A short list of hotels for one kind of trip: boutique hotels, ski hotels, coastal hotels, or castle hotels. Not every property in a city. Each list is bookable on trip1.

By hand. A hotel is on a list because we would stay there, not because it paid for a slot or ranked well in a feed.

Yes. Open a stay to see live rates and availability on trip1, then book it in the same place you found it.

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Featured hotels is the wide grid of stays you can book on trip1. A collection is a shorter list for one kind of trip: boutique, ski, coast, or a castle.

Four to start: boutique hotels, ski hotels, coastal hotels, and castle and manor hotels. More lists will show up here as we publish them.

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