Summer Palace, Beijing

The only hotel with a private gate to the Summer Palace — Beijing's most extraordinary address.

Antibes, French Riviera

The French Riviera's most legendary palace since 1870 — a white clifftop estate above the Mediterranean where Fitzgerald and Picasso once summered.

Kenmare, Ireland

Oh, to have been the Marquis of Landsdowne — what’s now one of Ireland’s finest country house hotels was once his summer home, just a place to disappear to for a bit of hunting and fishing, alongside...

Biarritz, France

Biarritz’s grande dame is the Hotel du Palais, the summer residence of Napoleon and Eugenie, an ostentatious brick-red and beige palace standing at the water’s edge, offering incomparable views up...