The Best Hotels and Resorts in the World: The 2021 Gold List -Top 10
Selecting the perfect hotel for your next vacation is about so much more than a place to sleep. The best hotels and resorts offer a variety of amenities, activities and dining options to ensure you have a relaxing stay.
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In its current incarnation, it sprawls across 12 riads and reveals a new rooftop pool. Mingling with scents of jasmine in summer and olive-wood smoke in winter, a whiff of insouciance fills the pulse-slowing spa, courtyards of bougainvillea and orange trees, and the 31 head-turning rooms—midcentury modern goes to Morocco—finessed by local craftspeople. It feels like the home of a philanthropic collector, which Branson is, thrown open for rock stars in retreat. On the vast roof at the violet hour, the bartender stirs preserved-lemon gin martinis as the sky darkens over a cityscape spiked with minarets. While Marrakech gathers more big-brand hotels, reassuringly, El Fenn pursues its rebel-chic streak. It’s only Moroc ’n’ roll—but we like it.
Boasting a swimming pool and an outdoor pool, Singita Pamushana Lodge is located in Chiredzi and provides comfortable accommodation. It also offers luggage storage, room service and massage services. There are a range of amenities available to guests of the hotel, such as a wake-up service, laundry facilities and a safe. Wireless internet is also provided. Singita Pamushana Lodge offers cozy rooms, furnished to suit the needs of any guest.
Singita has rightfully earned its stellar reputation for running the slickest safari properties in Africa, and Pamushana is no exception. Insiders choose the untrammeled, biologically diverse reaches of Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve’s 321,000 acres over and over again for long, immersive stays and private animal sightings.
Situated within 6 million acres of pristine wilderness, Londolozi has been owned and run by the Varty family for over 90 years. The word londolozi comes from the Zulu language and means “protector of all living things.” Once endorsed by Nelson Mandela, who described it as “a dream I cherish for a model of nature preservation in our country,” it’s one of the best places in the world to see leopards in the wild. Some of Londolozi’s most popular features are its state-of-the-art photographic studio and its Healing House.
Londolozi Private Game Reserve provides a comfortable setting while in Johannesburg. The hotel has 12 rooms, all of which are filled with a variety of amenities to ensure a comfortable stay. OR Tambo International Airport is a 90-minute drive from Londolozi Private Game Reserve.
When you stay at Angama Mara in Maasai Mara, you'll be in a national park and within a 5-minute drive of Maasai Mara National Reserve. Featured amenities include dry cleaning/laundry services, a 24-hour front desk, and a library. A roundtrip airport shuttle is complimentary (available 24 hours).
It’s hard to imagine how heady the views here are until you flop into one of the Fermob metal armchairs with a medicinal Dawa (a Kenyan Caipirinha) in hand. This unique location, 985 feet above the Maasai Mara’s plains, is so extraordinary it brought owner Nicky Fitzgerald and her late husband Steve out of retirement after decades spent running many of Africa’s most talked-about camps. This place will leave you speechless, just like the views.
The Bazaruto islands represent the African coast as it once was—authentic, low key, and empty. Relative inaccessibility until as recently as five years ago prevented a luxury-hotel scene from springing up. These days, you can fly out of Johannesburg in the morning and be here in time for lunch. There’s only a handful of lodges, all of which remain modestly below the tree line, including this long-time favorite on a sheltered stretch of the north-western shore of Benguerra, the second largest isle in the archipelago. 
With a stay at Anantara Bazaruto Island Resort in Bazaruto Island, you'll be near the bay and within the region of Bazaruto Island Beach and Santa Carolina Beach. Featured amenities include a 24-hour business center, express check-in, and express check-out. Event facilities at this resort consist of conference space and a meeting room. A roundtrip airport shuttle is available for a surcharge.
Along with a restaurant, this hotel has an outdoor pool and a bar/lounge. Additionally, WiFi in public areas, valet parking, and express check-out are onsite. This hotel has 74 rooms.
Today the whitewashed hangout is a magnet for Istanbul’s soigné night-owls and well-heeled Europeans—you can see why the buzzing peninsula is often labelled the St.-Tropez of Turkey. Breakfast (pillow-soft sesame pide slathered with honeycomb) is taken late.
It has all the signatures you would expect from a cool independent hotel: a boutique stocking local designers (the Mae Zae bashed-gold earrings are hard to resist), a Bodyism gym and its own wonderful boat, Halas 71, a converted 1914 steam liner. Yet more than that, Maçakizi is simply a club you want to be part of. Doubles from about $350
The goldness of the Gold List can be translated in many ways, from remote, rustic ranches to small but perfectly formed city hideaways. And, of course, the hotels that fall into the realm of “anything is possible.” The Nautilus is one of the latter: a no-expense-spared, what-you-want, when-you-want-it retreat.
A full-blown escape from reality, where exquisite dinners of Peruvian-and Mexican-flecked teppanyaki can be eaten on the beach; where baths infused with petals, American Beauty–style, are drawn for you; where a private butler works like the very best Hollywood booker to fill days with nonstop delights, or leave them totally unscripted with nothing to distract from the jade of the water.
Privately owned by a Maldivian entrepreneur, The Nautilus was created to become ONE of the leading luxury resorts in the world. A bohemian hideaway set in the beauty of a UNESCO biosphere reserve, this is an immensely private resort of 26 beach and ocean houses where every experience is tailored to the guest, who should feel more as if staying with a friend than in a hotel. Encircled by a coral reef, this is a natural island with true butler service, private pools and all-suite villas. Three restaurants and 2 bars, spa, outstanding snorkeling, diving and water sports.
With a stay at Bujera Fort in Udaipur, you'll be within a 10-minute drive of Sunset Park and Lake Pichola. Featured amenities include a 24-hour front desk, luggage storage, and laundry facilities. Free self parking is available onsite.
A magical toy fort for grown-ups to play in, Bujera is a pure evocation of a story from One Thousand and One Nights, but with better plumbing. And what a story this is. Not a thousand years old, as one might think on arrival at the Elephant Gate, before turning into the serene green courtyard, but a true labor of love by Brits Richard Hanlon and Trish McFarlane, who previously worked as an interior designer and a diamond broker, respectively.
When you stay at Raya Heritage in Mae Rim, you'll be on a river, within a 10-minute drive of 700th Anniversary Stadium and Chiang Mai Rajabhat University. Featured amenities include dry cleaning/laundry services, a 24-hour front desk, and luggage storage. A roundtrip airport shuttle is provided for a surcharge during limited hours, and free self parking is available onsite.
There are no ornate rooftops at this hotel along the Ping river. It’s unlikely that sai oua sausage or khao soi soup, two beloved staples of local cooking, will appear on the menu. Time-worn Buddha statues? Virtually none. Yet no other hangout feels more rooted in place than Raya Heritage, where the typical temple-inspired teak-and-gold look has been eschewed for a straight-lined approach to let crafts take center stage. Terracotta brickwork. Woven reed baskets.
Bali has more than its fair share of next-level places to stay—from destination spas to dreamy beach hangouts and cliff top architectural wonders—by every big name in the business. So when Japan-based hotel group Hoshino Resorts splashed onto the scene in 2017, it knew it would have to do something different. It couldn’t have picked a more suitable plot, a 25-minute drive from the clutter of Ubud, on a hilltop amid rice fields and dense jungle.
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With a stay at Hoshinoya Bali in Ubud, you'll be 5 mi (8 km) from Tirta Empul Temple and 6.3 mi (10.1 km) from Ubud Traditional Art Market. Featured amenities include a 24-hour front desk, multilingual staff, and luggage storage. A roundtrip airport shuttle is provided for a surcharge (available 24 hours), and free self parking is available onsite.
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