A selection of exceptional hotels and homes · France and worldwide
Places worth
the journey.
Little-known hotels, villas with private pools, guesthouses and design cabins. We visit many, we keep few.
Little-known hotels, villas with private pools, guesthouses and design cabins. We visit many, we keep few.
A whole place with the keys to yourself, or a room in a property. It is not the same trip, so these are not the same pages.
You book the whole place. A kitchen, private outdoor space, no one else but you.
There is a front desk, breakfast, often a spa. Far from the large chains.
Nine rooms with your feet in the sand, a freestanding bath facing the sunrise.
A staircase leading straight down into the lagoon, and nothing else on the horizon.
A bed carved into the rock, a terrace facing the Aegean, private access to the water.
Boho chic on the Red Sea, with private-pool villas at the far end of the garden.
A fisherman's house cut into the white cliff, alone on its cove.
An infinity pool, a bed outdoors, a bath facing the open sea. If there is nothing to photograph, there is nothing to tell.
Owners, an architecture, a point of view. Large faceless properties do not make the selection.
Every entry carries one. The road is long, the beach is public, the walls are thin. That is what makes the rest credible.
A lagoon on one side, an active volcano on the other, and three listed cirques in between. Our entries from Saint-Gilles to Cilaos, from the sea-view villa to the lodge up in the hills.
We look for rare places.
The destination comes second.
