92/ 100
Lupaia
Tuscany, Italy
Ten rooms in a restored 1622 farm hamlet on a lonely hilltop above the Val d'Orcia. Vineyards and woodland on every side, a garden-to-table dinner each evening, and very little reason to leave.
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90/ 100
Castelfalfi
Tuscany, Italy
A restored medieval hamlet in the hills near Montaione, between Florence and Pisa, at the centre of a 1,100-hectare private estate of vineyards, olive groves and woodland. The borgo holds the hotel, an 800-year-old castle, a church, a spa and the largest golf course in Tuscany.
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80/ 100
Four Seasons Hotel Hampshire
Hampshire, United Kingdom
A Georgian red-brick manor on the 500-acre Dogmersfield Park estate in Hampshire, with an 18th-century stable block turned 27,000-square-foot spa, an 11th-century lake, and miles of parkland walking within about an hour of London.
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96/ 100
Eleven Deplar Farm
Skagafjörður, Iceland
An Eleven Experience adventure lodge in the remote Fljot Valley on Iceland's Troll Peninsula, a former sheep farm rebuilt with turf roofs and floor-to-ceiling glass. Thirteen rooms, a 5,000-square-foot spa with a geothermal indoor-outdoor pool, and an all-inclusive programme that runs from heli-skiing in spring to salmon fishing and riding in summer.
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95/ 100
Zaborin
Hokkaido, Japan
A contemporary ryokan hidden in birch forest at Hanazono in Niseko, Hokkaido, with Mount Yotei filling the view. Fifteen freestanding villas, each around 100 square metres, and every one with its own indoor and open-air hot-spring bath fed by natural volcanic water.
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93/ 100
Amangiri
Utah, United States
A 34-suite Aman resort in a private desert valley at Canyon Point, southern Utah, close to the Arizona border and about 25 minutes from Page. Concrete buildings dyed to match the sandstone, a pool wrapped around a rock escarpment, and a large spa drawing on Navajo healing traditions.
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93/ 100
Six Senses Ninh Van Bay
Ninh Van Bay, Vietnam
A boat-only resort of around 60 pool villas on a remote crescent of coast on the Ninh Van peninsula, reached by a 20-minute speedboat from Nha Trang. Timber villas built into the rocks, the hillside and the beach, each with a private pool, plus a spa and organic gardens.
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93/ 100
The Retreat at Blue Lagoon Iceland
Grindavik, Iceland
A small hotel of just over 60 suites built into an 800-year-old lava field on Iceland's Reykjanes peninsula, with its own quiet arm of the Blue Lagoon reserved for guests, a subterranean spa carved into the rock, and the Michelin-starred Moss restaurant. About 20 minutes from Keflavik airport and 45 from Reykjavik.
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92/ 100
Amanemu
Ise-Shima, Japan
An Aman onsen retreat in the wooded hills of Ise-Shima National Park, looking down over the still, pearl-farming waters of Ago Bay. Twenty-four suites and eight villas by Kerry Hill, in a pared-back modern take on the Japanese ryokan, each suite with its own hot-spring bath.
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