Small cabins in south Iceland, each with a glass roof over the bed for watching the aurora.
Go: September to April.
Fall & Winter 2026
13 real hotels, reviewed without sponsors: art houses, Arctic cabins, capsule pods and resort casinos — what they are, how they feel and when to go.
Townhouses and palaces where art and craft shape every room.
Read →3 reviewsGlass-roofed cabins, glacier country and a Rocky Mountain lodge on a frozen lake.
Read →3 reviewsClean, quiet pods in old Tokyo and Singapore’s Chinatown.
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New York, United States
A Tribeca hotel co-owned by Robert De Niro, where paintings by his father, the artist Robert De Niro Sr., hang alongside hand-made furniture and antique rugs.
No two rooms are alike; many have reclaimed wood and tiles, and guests share a lantern-lit pool beneath a pavilion brought from Japan.
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Small cabins in south Iceland, each with a glass roof over the bed for watching the aurora.
Go: September to April.
A pod hostel in Chinatown's Ann Siang Hill area, with private sleeping pods instead of open bunks.
Go: All year; February to April is drier.
A nineteenth-century palace on a hill above the Tagus, classed as a national monument, with painted ceilings, gilded salons and period art.
Go: March to June and September to October.
A lakeside lodge in Jasper National Park, where winter brings skating on Lac Beauvert and walks into the frozen Maligne Canyon.
Go: December to March for ice; summer for hiking.
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