14 unique categories worldwide

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We've scoured the globe to find the most remarkable accommodation types. Each category is a gateway to experiences that will stay with you forever.

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Treehouse Hotels

Treehouse Hotels

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42 stays

Suspended high above the forest floor, treehouse hotels transform a childhood dream into sophisticated adult luxury. From Scandinavia's minimalist glass-and-timber retreats to tropical jungle platforms in Costa Rica and Bali, these canopy-level escapes deliver an unmatched connection with nature wrapped in genuine comfort.

42
Stays
$320
Avg/Night
Sweden
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Cave Hotels

Cave Hotels

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42 stays

Carved from volcanic tufa, soft sandstone, and ancient limestone, cave hotels place you inside the earth itself. Turkey's legendary Cappadocia leads the world in cave hotel excellence, but extraordinary rock-hewn retreats also await in Greece, Spain, Tunisia, and the American Southwest.

42
Stays
$260
Avg/Night
Cappadocia
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Underwater Rooms

Underwater Rooms

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18 stays

The rarest accommodation experience on earth, underwater hotel rooms place you in a world of coral reefs, tropical fish, and luminous blue water. With fewer than twenty true underwater suites worldwide, these extraordinary rooms in the Maldives and beyond represent the absolute frontier of niche travel.

18
Stays
$850
Avg/Night
Maldives
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Castle Hotels

Castle Hotels

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156 stays

Imagine sleeping within walls that have withstood sieges, hosted monarchs, and witnessed centuries of history. Castle hotels across Ireland, Scotland, France, and Central Europe offer the rare opportunity to inhabit genuine historic fortresses transformed into grand, atmospheric luxury hotels.

156
Stays
$580
Avg/Night
Ireland
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Bubble Hotels

Bubble Hotels

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28 stays

Sleep under the stars in transparent bubble domes that offer panoramic views of the night sky. Finland's aurora-watching bubbles are legendary, but this innovative accommodation style is spreading from Lapland to Provence.

28
Stays
$380
Avg/Night
Finland
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Cliffside Hotels

Cliffside Hotels

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67 stays

Suspended above sheer drops to sea, river, or valley, cliffside hotels occupy some of the most dramatic positions on earth. From Santorini's iconic caldera-edge infinity pools to Peru's via-ferrata-access sky lodges and Oman's gorge-perched mountain retreats, these properties redefine what a room with a view means.

67
Stays
$680
Avg/Night
Santorini
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Ice Hotels

Ice Hotels

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12 stays

Rebuilt entirely from scratch each winter using thousands of tonnes of Arctic snow and river ice, ice hotels are the world's most ephemeral luxury. Sculpted by international artists, maintained at sub-zero temperatures, and open for just a few months before returning poetically to the river, these frozen palaces are unlike anything else that exists.

12
Stays
$490
Avg/Night
Jukkasjärvi
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Safari Lodges

Safari Lodges

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89 stays

Fall asleep to lion roars and wake to elephant sightings from your private deck. Africa's finest safari lodges combine extraordinary, unfiltered wildlife access with levels of luxury that rival the world's great city hotels, candlelit bush dinners, private game drives, and the vast, humbling silence of the African night.

89
Stays
$680
Avg/Night
Serengeti
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Overwater Bungalows

Overwater Bungalows

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74 stays

Step directly from your bedroom into a warm turquoise lagoon. Overwater bungalows, born in French Polynesia and now found across the tropical world, are the gold standard of island luxury. Glass floors revealing the reef below, private sun decks above flawless water, and the ocean as your constant, immersive companion.

74
Stays
$720
Avg/Night
Maldives
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Floating Hotels

Floating Hotels

34 stays

Glide through the world's most beautiful waterways aboard luxury floating hotels, or moor alongside historic city waterfronts in architect-designed houseboats. From Maldivian overwater structures to Norway's fjord boats and Vietnam's Ha Long Bay junks, aquatic retreats offer a perspective on travel that land can never match.

34
Stays
$420
Avg/Night
Maldives
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Desert Camps

Desert Camps

89 stays

From Morocco's rolling Sahara dunes to Jordan's red-rock Wadi Rum and India's Thar Desert, luxury desert camps transform the world's most extreme landscapes into intimate, starlit sanctuaries. These are places of extraordinary silence, impossible skies, and a profound simplicity that reshapes your relationship with the modern world.

89
Stays
$320
Avg/Night
Morocco
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Jungle Lodges

Jungle Lodges

113 stays

From Costa Rica's cloud forest canopy lodges to Borneo's orangutan-adjacent river camps and the deep Amazon basin retreats of Peru and Brazil, jungle lodges offer an immersion in biodiversity that no other accommodation category can approach. Extraordinary wildlife, primordial soundscapes, and genuine luxury make these forest stays among the most memorable in the world.

113
Stays
$380
Avg/Night
Costa Rica
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Lighthouse Hotels

8 stays

Converted working lighthouses and lighthouse-inspired hotels perched on dramatic coastlines around the world. Wake to sweeping ocean panoramas, the distant sound of foghorns, and sunrises that emerge from the sea itself, in some of the world's most storied and romantically isolated maritime locations.

8
Stays
$280
Avg/Night
Maine
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Train Hotels

6 stays

Luxury sleeper trains and converted railway carriages that make the journey itself the destination. From the legendary Venice Simplon-Orient-Express crossing Europe to private rail journeys through the Scottish Highlands and the maharaja trains of Rajasthan, these rolling hotels represent the golden age of travel, beautifully reimagined.

6
Stays
$450
Avg/Night
Europe
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