Interesting hotels, curated
For the love of a good hotel.
A fire in the courtyard after dark. A record player in the room. A roof that holds the sun in January. Hotels chosen by people obsessed with them, for grown-ups and for families, with no compromise on design, great architecture or atmosphere for either.
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Grown-up & familyCasa Mae
£££Algarve, Portugal
A nineteenth-century estate house in old-town Lagos that still keeps a vegetable garden and two hundred chickens, with cocktails in a courtyard ringed by birds of paradise.
Grown-up & familyColony Club Hotel
£££Barbados, Barbados
Turtles in the aquamarine water off the beach, and behind it a 1930 seaside house that became Barbados' first residential club.
Grown-upHotel Boutique Plácido y Grata
££Seville, Spain
A Seville manor house where Scandinavian furniture sits under the old beams, and the plunge pool on the roof comes into its own at aperitif time on a sunny winter's day.
Grown-up & familyHotel Xereca
£££Ibiza, Spain
A nineteenth-century windmill by the pool, now a shower and a treatment room, on a citrus estate five minutes' drive from the restaurants of Ibiza Town.
Grown-upLikya Gardens
£Kalkan, Türkiye
A private cabana on the waterfront below the hotel, drinks brought down to it, and Kalkan's town centre under ten minutes away on foot.
Grown-upMemmo Alfama
££Lisbon, Portugal
A nineteenth-century shoe-polish factory in the lanes of Alfama, with a red-tiled pool on the roof meant to disappear into the terracotta that falls away below it to the Tagus.
Grown-upSea Five, Camps Bay
££Cape Town and the Winelands, South Africa
A white timber beach house of seven rooms just above Camps Bay, where the small bar mixes a cocktail the way a very sophisticated friend would at home.
Grown-up & familyTaru Villas Mawella
££Sri Lanka, south coast, Sri Lanka
Lawns run from a white colonial house to an almost deserted beach on Mawella Bay, and dinner was the best Sri Lankan cooking we have eaten.
Grown-up & familyVilla Uranos di Gioia
£££Zakynthos, Greece
A three-bedroom villa in the hills of northern Zakynthos, with a swing chair under a pergola of rough timber and an 18-metre infinity pool pointed at the sunrise.