top-of-the-range hotels

Give back to your city what it has given you. After rehabilitating the old port of Genoa to mark the 500th anniversary of the discovery of America by another famous Genoese, Christopher Columbus, in 1992, architect Renzo Piano is continuing to redesign the seafront of his native city through a...

Ready just in time for the Women's World Cup Final. On 27 September, the "temple of rugby" - London's Twickenham Stadium, now named the Allianz Stadium - will see the two best teams enter this legendary venue. While the match could break a record...

All 73 rooms at the Hotel Belinda are beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, with balconies overlooking a quiet street in the 16th arrondissement. Particularly the Magnolias suite, perched at the top of the hotel, with its 30m² private terrace, deckchairs, Nordic bath and view of the Eiffel Tower. Add to that the name of the...

To you, to me. While the Crowne Plaza Corum in Montpellier has recently been rebranded as a Radisson Blu, the Radisson Blu in Marne-la-Vallée is about to experience the opposite fate. The IHG group has just announced that it is to take over the hotel, in partnership with Danish property company Proark, and transform it into the Crowne Plaza...

To celebrate the 35th anniversary of its world headquarters in Brussels, the Radisson group is adding a choice address in the Belgian capital: the Radisson Collection The National Hotel. Succeeding the Radisson Collection Grand Place Brussels, due to open in 2020, this second hotel from the luxury brand is moving away from the city centre...

The golden eagle is still enthroned at the very top of the façade, dominating this large modernist building that stands in stark contrast to the Georgian mansions surrounding Grosvenor Square. Restored and made of aluminium from a B-52 bomber by Theodore Roszak, the sculpture is a reminder that, from 1960 to 2017, the building was the American representation in London before it was moved...

With the reopening of the Cour des Loges in Lyon as the Radisson Collection, new hotels in Montpellier and Reims, and the addition of the Relais de la Malmaison in the Paris region, the Radisson group has already expanded its portfolio of hotels in France in recent months. This expansion will continue in the coming years...

"We never imagined that the brand would travel so far". When he opened the first Mama Shelter in Paris in 2008, Serge Trigano, the co-founder of the brand, probably never imagined that his lifestyle and offbeat brand would expand to such an extent. Twenty or so hotels later - as well as becoming part of the...

A gentle wake-up call for a venerable centenarian. A century after the opening of the first Hilton in Dallas in 1925, following Conrad Hilton's career debut six years earlier with the purchase of a hotel in Cusco, Texas, this most famous brand in the world of travel intends to give itself a new lease of life....

Lifestyle hotels: a buoyant segment in the eyes of travellers... but also investors? Accor could one day prove the point by listing its nugget Ennismore, the parent company of brands such as Mama Shelter, The Hoxton, 25Hours and Mondrian, as well as the hotel chain..., on the New York stock exchange.

The Park Hyatt brand is taking a more elevated position in the world of luxury hotels by passing the 50-hotel mark worldwide. Its latest hotel, which opened at the beginning of August, dominates the whole of Kuala Lumpur, housed in the tallest skyscraper in the whole of the city.

Is it the new voco Malta hotel in the seaside resort of St. Julian's, or the luxurious Kimpton Mas Olas resort in Mexico, recently opened just outside Los Cabos? Or how about the Holiday Inn Kyoto Gojo, marking the return of one of IHG's flagship brands to this historic city? The 183-room Holiday Inn Kyoto Gojo...

Dusit International, probably Thailand's largest hotel group with global operations, has signed a strategic partnership agreement with SYDEL, a French property investment company. The agreement covers the creation of Dusit France, a joint venture that will launch the Dusit brand in France. It will focus on identifying opportunities for Dusit Hotels and...

From the very top of the range to the more festive: Budapest is welcoming two new hotels with opposite positioning. On the one hand, there is a Radisson Collection and a new Jo&Joe, the Accor brand inspired by new generation youth hostels. On the luxury side, the long-awaited Radisson Collection Hotel, Basilica Budapest, has taken up residence...

Business is still buoyant, with results boosted by the lifestyle and luxury segment, but revenues have been penalised by sharp fluctuations in the US and Australian dollars and the Brazilian real in particular: the Accor group's first-half performance is showing good momentum "despite a complex geopolitical context and the impact...

Nearly 3,000 rooms. The Accor group has just found its largest establishment in the world, in a city where mega hotels are the norm: Las Vegas. Its Handwritten Collection brand will soon be operating, through a franchise agreement, the Treasure Island - TI Las Vegas Hotel & Casino, for its second...

Even before making its Asian debut in Singapore next September, Mama Shelter is looking to the Orient with a second address in mind. By 2029, the lifestyle brand will be bringing its fun, offbeat spirit to Bangkok. For what will be one of the biggest, if not the biggest hotel in the...

A three-star acquisition. The Logis Hotels Group has announced an important addition to its portfolio with the integration, currently under discussion, of the Teritoria chain, backed by Alain Ducasse and founded in 1975. Previously known as Les Collectionneurs, Teritoria boasts 316 upmarket hotels and restaurants in Europe, notably in France and Italy,...

After Brittany and the Liziec estate near Vannes, opened at the end of last year, the MGallery Collection of hotels is heading further south along the Atlantic coast this summer, to the Basque Country. The Accor Group's intimate luxury brand has just set up shop in Biarritz, just a stone's throw from the ocean and...

The Thai group Dusit International, one of the three major hotel players originating from Thailand, is expanding its global portfolio with the launch of Dusit Hotels, its ninth brand. The new brand incorporates brand consistency with upmarket, four-star hotels that reflect the cultural specificities of each market, primarily in the...