Boutique Hotel Club

16/08/2026

Five hundred metres above Lake Garda, Villa Sostaga began life as a 19th-century hunting villa.

The Seresina family found the house in 2004 and brought it back to life. Today, Francesco runs the property and its 700-label cellar, while the kitchen still draws on recipes passed down through the family.

Beyond the villa, 40 hectares of woodland lead down towards Gargnano. Inside, antique furniture, frescoed ceilings and the lake beyond the terraces keep the house feeling like what it once was: a private home above the water.

VILLA SOSTAGA | Boutique Hotel

11/08/2026

Some of Ubud’s most memorable stays begin with a rather unlikely story.

In 2002, Otto Syrowatka arrived in Bali for only his second visit, bought a plot above the Petanu River gorge and began building a hotel despite having no background in hospitality. Two decades later, Viceroy Bali remains family-run, its 40 villas descending into the Valley of the Kings, each with a private heated pool and views down the gorge.

There is a serious dining story here, too: Apéritif occupies its own 1920s-style manor, with an organic greenhouse supplying the kitchen, while CasCades looks out across the valley and Pinstripe takes its cue from the speakeasy.

A resort that began with a hunch, and still feels shaped by it.

Viceroy Bali

09/08/2026

Eden Roc Cap Cana — where privacy is the whole point. Every suite with its own pool, a private beach club on Juanillo Beach, and service that reads your mind before you’ve made it up!

Eden Roc Cap Cana

05/08/2026

Four very different reasons to fall for South Africa from the Boutique Hotel Club collection: a centuries-old wine estate, a private game reserve, a Cape Dutch manor in Franschhoek, and an exclusive safari house in the Waterberg Mountains. One country, four completely different stays.

30/07/2026

Homer’s The Odyssey has inspired travellers for centuries. Christopher Nolan’s latest adaptation brings that journey back into focus through landscapes chosen as carefully as the story itself.

A closer look at the real locations behind the film, and the stays that make exploring them all the more memorable.

30/07/2026