How about an additional question, while we're at it: what is the best hotel (or top three) that you have always wanted / been curious to stay in, but have never managed to yet?
Mine are:
1) Hotel Riffelalp, Zermatt. It sits halfway up mountain with its own railway stop, it has a perfect terrace overlooking the Zermatt and the Matterhorn where you can sit with a rug over your knees and drink hot chocolate and it just looks like a precision Swiss watch. Every time I skied past it badly, I wished I was staying there rather than down in the town.
2) Hotel Cipriani, Venice. It has a lot of scathing reviews for being tired and over-priced but what a location!
3) The hotel in Morocco where Churchill like to paint the view of the High Atlas. I can't remember its name, though!