Travel + Leisure scored one hotel 100 out of 100 in its 2026 World’s Best Awards and named it the best hotel in the world. It wasn’t in Paris, Bangkok or the...
馃殏 Trains, 馃嚡馃嚨 Japan
Supreme Class on Japan鈥檚 Shinkansen: private cabins, real fares and how to book
The Tokaido Shinkansen opened on 1 October 1964, just in time for the Tokyo Olympics. On 1 October 2026, its 62nd birthday, JR Central and JR West added something the...
馃彴 Places, 馃彥 Hotels & Resorts, 馃嚠馃嚬 Italy
A day in Milan, Italy – Duomo rooftops, Navigli canals and the world鈥檚 prettiest Starbucks
Milan doesn’t usually get the “romantic Italy” treatment – that’s reserved for Rome and Florence – but spend a full day moving from...
馃彥 Hotels & Resorts, 馃嚫馃嚘 Saudi Arabia
The Ritz-Carlton, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia – a royal guest house turned hotel
Before it ever took a paying guest, this building was a royal guest house, physically fused to a convention center built to host heads of state. The Ritz-Carlton, Jeddah...
馃彥 Hotels & Resorts, 馃嚚馃嚟 Switzerland
The Chedi Andermatt, Switzerland – alpine design meets two Michelin stars
Coco Chanel had a favorite hotel in Paris. Andermatt has The Chedi Andermatt – a place where you can ski down a 2,400-meter mountain, sit down for a two-Michelin...
Coco Chanel lived here for more than 30 years. Hemingway had a bar named after him before he’d even finished drinking there. Proust wrote by candlelight in a suite...
馃殺 Cruises, 馃嚡馃嚨 Japan, 馃嚨馃嚟 Philippines, 馃嚫馃嚞 Singapore
MSC World Asia – a mega-ship named for a continent it won’t sail to
Here’s the twist nobody sees coming: every deck on MSC World Asia is named after an Asian city – Tokyo, Seoul, Dubai, Singapore, Manila, all 22 of them...
The Louvre is the world’s largest art museum, and that scale is exactly what trips people up. Walk in without a plan and you’ll spend half your visit lost in...
Dubai has plenty of hotels chasing “futuristic,” but most of them are just tall and shiny. ME Dubai by Meli谩 is something else – it’s built...
馃殏 Trains, 馃嚚馃嚟 Switzerland
Glacier Express St. Moritz to Andermatt in 1st Class – Switzerland’s slowest scenic train
Most trains are built to get somewhere fast. The Glacier Express was built to do the opposite – it’s been called the world’s slowest express train, and...
