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Dreamy Suites: 11 Favorite Luxury And Design Hotels From 2023
20.12.2023 - 09:11 / forbes.com / Winter Olympics
Most Decembers, I take an admittedly self-indulgent look back at my favorite new and new-to-me hotels. As travelers continued to make up for lost time (even as staffing remained a challenge and the world became an ever more confusing place), hotels continued to dazzle. My hat is off to the places that opened. And my heart is filled with love for those places that have held strong, raised the bar and innovated.
My favorite hotels (here in alphabetical order) are not only pleasant enclaves for their guests—though they are that, for sure—but also passion projects for their creators and good workplaces for their teams. They’re places where history unfolded, where sustainability counts and where dreams take flight.
The intimate Borgo Santo Pietro is the passion project of Jeanette Thottrup, a former fashion designer, and her husband, Claus, who made his name in real estate. When they bought it, in 2001, it was in ruins. Since then, they’ve put their hands on every inch of it, turning it into a place where each detail is fully realized, from the furnishings in then 22 rooms, villas and suites, to the 13 acres of manicured gardens, to the “fermentation corner” on the breakfast buffet that’s laden with superfoods and the sustainably sourced caviar service that can be added to the tasting menu at the Michelin-star restaurant. Thottrup found her passion for botanicals while working at Neil’s Yard in London, and here she has partnered with cosmetic chemist Anna Buonocore to create a luxurious, plant-based and science-powered skincare line.
Thirty years ago, at the dawn of Asia’s super-luxury resorts, it was all about the beach—waterfront bungalows and ocean views were prime amenities. The developers and designers of the Datai thought differently. While there’s a perfectly lovely sliver of beach, the 121-room hotel is integrated thoroughly into one of the world’s oldest rain forests; its freestanding villas are surrounded by towering trees and soundtracked by crickets and birds. Three decades, countless awards and a recent renovation later, it’s still an intimate connection with nature that drives the Datai. In some ways, it’s an old-school resort, with a weekly printed newsletter and activities calendar. In others, it’s quite forward-thinking, particularly where genuine sustainability is concerned—seriously trained scientists are on staff as naturalists and advisers, and nothing from the resort ends up in a landfill.
The most Italian-feeling of the cities and towns of the Dolomites, Cortina d’Ampezzo has its share of big-name development underway in advance of the 2026 Winter Olympics. But it’s still home to independent, soulful projects like Hotel de Len. (It’s managed by San Domenico Hotels, the brand behind
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